Here are a few more pics of Christmas! This is a pic of all the girl cousins (except for Makella, she was taking a nap)!


And here is a pic of the super long train that all the kids made. The adults (led by Ben) made the Engine (and Lacy made the sled at the very front). The kids did a great job making them(and eating them (for breakfast))!

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I spy a........ Fox!

On New Years Eve this beautiful animal appeared in our yard! Ben grabbed his camera and took a few pics! The fox really was beautiful, the picture doesn't quite capture it. In our 2 years living here I've heard that Fox live in the area but I have never seen one (not even on the side of the road)! So it really was strange that this one was wandering through our yard in the middle of town and in the middle of the day. It was a lot bigger than I thought a Red Fox would be too. It was about the size of a large, medium sized dog (if that makes any sense). It was pretty cool!

Merry Christmas & Happy New Year!

So, I am finally posting about Christmas! My comp. is being incredibly slow today so I only put one pic on but I will probably post more latter! We had the whole Smith clan here for Christmas (all 26 of us) and here's the pic to prove it! It hasn't happened for a long time but somehow we all managed to gather in one spot at the same time! Our gathering spot was Ken and Julie's new house (which is right next door to ours). We had a good Christmas with everyone. While we were opening our presents all the sudden we realized it was Snowing! It didn't stop snowing all day either. It didn't really stick to the ground at our house but it was sure fun to have a "white" Christmas.

Family Pics!

I've been meaning to take our family pictures for a month now, but it just hasn't ever worked out! Until today! The sun was shinning and everyone was home, so I asked Lacy to come over and take some pics of us! Of course the kids never cooperate perfectly, but I put our new pic on and here are some silly pics of the kids I took. If your wondering what Zach and Elora are doing, they are saying Cheeseburger. Not the best word to say while you are trying to take a picture! But at least Danika is smiling a little!





In this pic Danika is having lots of fun with Elora's Hair! Elora is getting away as fast as she can! It was soo funny!

From the last post Amy D. asked how far we live from Chehalis. To answer we live 20 miles from Chehalis. And a little update is that there really were over 3,000 volunteers from 16 surrounding Stakes that came to help flood victims today! It's so amazing that that many people came and that they were able to organize that many people (which they did beautifully)! Our church is Amazing!

Floods of Life!

So, we've been kind of busy lately. First, Pete's parents passed the final inspection on their house that they've been building next door!! So Ken and Julie and Ben and Lacy all moved into the new house!!Yippee!! (no offense ken, Julie, Ben and lacy:)) (In case you don't know. They have been living in our house for the last 2 years) It's so nice to have our own house and I know they feel the same. he he. So we've been moving all their stuff over and rearranging all of our stuff.

In the midst of moving we had this BIG HUGE storm up here in the NW! It dumped about 6 in of rain on us within 48 hours. And that was after we had already had 2 storms that had thoroughly drenched us. You probably saw it on the news. It was so crazy though because a landslide knocked out our Internet and that's where we get all our news from because we don't get any TV stations out here without a dish and we don't have a dish. So our family had no idea that half of our stake was being flooded out of their homes. We found out about a day later when Ken (who is the Bishop of our ward) got a call from our Stake President. It's just so amazing to me that we were so close to all the damage and had no idea what was going on. So, in our little town we only had a few problems with to much water coming down the river that goes through town. But they are nothing compared to the damage in Chehalis and Centraila. Here are some good pics I found in the news. This is the I 5 FWY in Centraila. The Goodwill Thrift Store is about 5 blocks down the street. (needless to say I've gotten off this exit many times). Oh, these pics were taken on Tuesday Dec 4th.

This is also the I 5 FWY a few miles South of the last pic. In this area the water was 10 ft deep on the FWY. you can see the water goes right up to the roof of the big buildings on the Left of the picture. In the upper left of the pic it's all residential. Crazy! The latest report is that there is only a few inches of water on the fwy now so they have it opened to one lane and they are only letting supply trucks through. So crazy! Can you tell I having a hard time believing all this has really happened! The good news is that our Stake was hoping for 1,000 volunteers from other stakes to come help tomorrow (sat) . But the recent report is that over 3,000 people are coming! Amazing!

Elfed!

Tara emailed this to me and I thought it was sooooo funny so I had to do it to. Click on the link to find out what I'm talking about! It does take a minute to load, but it's worth the wait!

http://www.elfyourself.com/?id=9611230831

The Big 6!

I just have to say that Pete is Awesome!! Pete made this cake for Zach! Since Zach has started school he has learned about Pokemon. He has never watched a Pokemon movie or show, but he loves them and he wanted a Pokemon cake for his b-day. So Pete came up with this! Zach loved it of course!

This is Zach opening a Pokemon movie from Matt and Mandy! He was quite excited!
Here is Elora, Lacy (behind the wrapping paper), Ben, Danika, Matt and Mandy enjoying the party.
When Zach opened this present Elora yelled out "You've got a new car!!!" It was a cool kit to build your own truck with wood pieces (that have pre-drilled holes) and screws! Soo perfect for Zach who is always trying to build things!
So, Zach had a good b-day party!