Fun pics of SkotLynd

lot's of kisses

yes he loves her

this would be perfect if Rayney was in it!

SkotLynds Blessing

When I found my wedding dress their was only one thing I didn't like about it and it was that it had a train.  Call me crazy but I didn't want a train so to the horror of many I had it cut off!  But look at the beauty it has created now.  We made Skotlynds Blessing dress out of it and it was so beautiful.  It looked like a miniature wedding dress.

Yah, we had very little success with the kids picture this was the best one.
Daddy and his little lady bug!

my two little Princesses 

She's such a happy little Lady!

More family reunions

We had Two family reunions we went to one at Baumgartner, it's a really fun place to camp.  It has a natural hot spring and a beautiful river with a great jumping hole in it.  We stayed there Wednesday, Thurday and part of Friday.  Then we headed up to Lake Cleavland Friday, Saturday and Sunday.  Lake Cleavland is an old volcano, very pretty!  We tried fishing and Rayney caught a couple minnows off the rocks but no other success.

Our ride home after five days of camping, we were pooped and very dirty, but we had a blast and the kids didn't want to leave after meeting fun new cousins.

This is the jumping hole at Baumgartner. Dustin decided to take dagan off of it.  Dustin jumped first and then Dagan jumped after him.  I thought we would have to talk him into jumping since it was a 14 foot jump but he jumped off before we could even say ok jump.
This is his splash, he jumped so fast I missed him actually jumping.  I was so proud of him!!!

Bugs

Rayney has a fascination with bugs, I don't know where she came from.  Anyway I decided I needed to start taking pictures of her with her bug friends.  Ant's, roly-poly's, butterflies, it doesn't matter what they are she loves them, maybe at the exclusion of spiders.  I haven't seen her picking up many of them.  Oh and I threw in the frog picture again because it's cute.

Afro Baby

So I get home from the Hospital and decide it's time to wash Skotlynd's hair, well look what happened!  it turned into an Afro, believe me these pics don't even do it justice.  I do not know how they had it so tame in the hospital, I can't even get it in to a mohawk with out it curling up and out of wack.  Corban and rayney both have curly hair and I noticed it shortly after they were born, but it wasn't like this.  It's so curly everyone asks if she has black in her!  If it's this curly in Idaho I could  only imagine how crazy and tight it would have been in Georgia.  It will be interesting to see it grow out and what it does, hopefully it's not too scary!  I have to admit, I think it is so cute!!  But the only experience I have with curly  hair is Rayney's and Corban's and theirs is easy to take care of since it is the big softer ringlets.  If anyone has any advice for me on how to take care of my daughter's crazy afro, I would accept any advice you offer.  who knows though, hair is a funny thing, it could grow out straight for all I know.

Smith family reunion

This weekend we had our Smith family reunion.  This is by far my favorite reunion!!  We have the craziest, greatest, funnest family ever.  Not many of my first cousins ever show up, but I have always been very close to all my second cousins.  This year the reunion was here in Idaho, we had a pirate theme, thanks to Dustin, who spent hours upon hours working on a fun treasure hunt.  We had tons of fun, finding clues, a treasure map and finally a grand treasure.  My kids had a blast and have gotten so close to all their third cousins, which is great because saddly they don't have any first cousins their age.

The cousins all camp out in my parents yard when they come.

We had tons of fun finding clues and compleating tasks. This was a tug-a-war over the pond,  we also did things like walk the plank, pole valt over the ditch, bob for apples and many more crazy things that led us to the map.
Rayney eating a Sardine

Corban searching for Ducks in the muckDagan was not even going to touch the sardinesWe found the map

That led us to the treasure, it wasn't proving too easy to dig up but eventually we got it out.

The treasure was worth the effort!!




We also had a pirate pizza decorating contest, this was one of the pizzas.  We never actually judged them but had a blast making them and of course eating them.  We were sad when everyone had to leave, we will miss them and wait impatiently for next years grand adventure at the Smith Family Reunion.

Skotlynd Sky Makes Seven

Welcome  to the zoo!

Skotlynd Sky was born at 12:52 Am on June 12th.  I had a few contractions in the 9:00 hour of the eleventh, they started picking up at 10:00, (We were at my parents watching a movie)  I announced around this time that I was having pretty good contractions.  my dad said well get to the Hospital, NOW!  I said no, I'm not ready to say they are the real thing yet.  Finally I decided we could go, we got to the Hospital at 11:30, I was on the verge of being dilated to a six, I decided to try jumping in the jacuzzi tub (this was around 12:00) because i had never tried that before.   After 20 minuets or so of that I got out and said lets have this baby.  She was born at 12:52, Dustin was about right on the nose, he predicted 12:50, how much closer can you get?  it's was a nice fast delivery.  Skotlynd was 6 pounds 9 ounce, and beautiful of course!

My five little munchkins, they love their baby sister!  

Skotlynd with her daddy!

Skotlynd with her mommy.

We thought this was a fun picture, Lincoln seems so big now.  Oh DaLee, you have two forward facer's and ahhh, I have two now in infant car seats.  Hopefully Lincoln gains some weight soon, We have to stop the madness. 

She's an Angel!

some of our latest pics

First off I need to show off my dads latest toy.  He has an obsession with blow up toys and buys a new one every year.  I wish this was an obsession when I  was little but, we still have fun on them now and the kids love them.  This one is his newest and biggest.

Rayney found some new friends, we decided it would be best to let them live in the ditch so we let them go.

And Corban and Lincoln are learning to drive young as they take a ride in the little beetle.