Smith Family: The camera is back in business!!

Monday, October 13, 2008

The camera is back in business!!

I had a bit of inspiration today which led me to rummage through the diaper bag, and lo and behold, there was my camera! So I took a few pictures of the yard to show what I mean when I say there are a lot of leaves... We have never really had to rake much at any of our previous homes, but it looks like this one will more than make up for all those leaf-free years!

Note that half of the leaves are still on the trees! I am starting to feel glad that we don't have our lawn in yet!

It was too wet to play, but the front porch was dry...

Sorry, I don't know how to rotate these unless I do it in a separate program but I'm too lazy right now!

These pictures don't really do the colors justice either... they never do though, do they? It is kind of a dreary day today for pictures, too...

Last night as I was taking out the trash, I saw something move out of the corner of my eye... when I looked up, there was Bambi just a few yards in front of me, tip-toeing ever so daintily through the little creek bed that runs by the house. The deer appeared not to mind that I was there so I relished the moment until it disappeared into the trees. The neighbors mentioned we get all kinds of wildlife here, I guess they weren't kidding! We saw a bear crossing the road on our last trip back to Iowa, I just hope those don't come around here!

3 comments:

Dan, Pam and Family said...: Cindy I LOVE the pictures,
Have some leaves! Sheesh!
So-oo pretty.
Hope the kids get into the swing of school quickly.
:-); October 13, 2008 at 1:37 PM
Debbie Hadley said...: Wow! I want to come visit right now! I love the smell of fall leaves, and Bambi almost at your front door...sounds like the perfect house for you guys.; October 13, 2008 at 7:52 PM
Leslie said...: We really wish we were closer and could come help you unpack and enjoy the gorgeous scenery. Looks breathtaking! Not sure how fun the raking looks though.; October 14, 2008 at 12:19 PM

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The Mind of a Child...

When Solei was a toddler, she found some bark that was lying at the base of a tree and said in disgust, “Ooooooh! Tree poo-poo!”

When the girls were little, we were taking a walk with the dog who was bombarding Sierra with her friendly but slobbery kisses. Frustrated, our sweet little Sierra yelled out “NO KINA, I'M NOT YOUR ICE CREAM CONE!”

Telling Ella how to crawl, Caden explained “But I’m four, so I crawl standing up.”

I was sitting with Caden one day and I told him that the couch used to be a cow (it is leather), and I said (half jokingly) “did you know that cows turn into couches?” To which he replied, “No they don’t, they turn into pies!”

Watching the Tabernacle choir sing during conference, Solei (who was 8 yrs old at the time) said that they should sing “Do as I’m Doing” (with all the motions, I’m sure).

We put in an underground fence for the dog and Caden (age 5) saw us burying the wire. We then put up little white flags to mark where it was. A few days later he went outside and turned on the hose. When I saw him, I asked him to turn off the water. He looked at me questioningly and asked, “Until when? Until the fence grows?” He thought it needed watering!

Taron (2) looked at the varicose veins on grandmas legs and said, “owy... lightning!”

When Caden was 5, he would ask if he could go play with his friend in the morning, and I would sometimes reply, "No, it's too early". Well one day he finally asked me "can we not play on 'too early's? Can we play on 'one early'?"

Sierra told me one night that when she was little, she used to think the word “couch” came from the word “cow”, and that our couch had a cow inside (partially true since it is leather). She would try to sit down carefully so it would not run away. She thought the wood parts inside were it’s bones and the black pegs on the bottom were the feet.

Sometimes Taron (age 2) would find dog poop and say “Eew! Dog poop!” and then proceed to stomp on it as if it were a bug.

Caden (age 5) and I were talking about the sounds letters make and he asked if I knew what the sleepy letter was. I replied that I didn’t and he said, “It’s the Z... when you go to sleep then the Z’s come out of your head. And there’s a big round white thing too but it’s invisible. Maybe he had been reading too many comic books...

Sierra (age 8) made a Halloween card for her friend and wrote ENSTINE (meaning Einstein) on it, I thought it was an odd thing to put on a Halloween card so I asked if she knew who Einstein was and she said "Isn't he the guy who made Frankenstein?"

Caden (age 5) asked if it was a ghost who said the sacrament prayer because he couldn’t see anyone at the podium but he could hear the voice.

When Taron was 2 he would always respond to an “I love you” with “Much”.

Taron (3) woke up one morning, started to play and when I asked him if he wanted a pancake, he said, “Oh yeah, I was supposed to be hungry!”

Dad was singing “Jesus wants me for a sunbeam” and Taron said “Jesus likes sunbeans, they’re delicious!”

I was teaching Taron (5) how to read, and came upon the word "loose". I told him, "the two O's say "oo" and the E is silent. Slowly and deliberately, he sounded it out........"Loooosssilent".

Caden had been learning to tell time in school and was asking me about the big hand vs. the little hand on the clock. Apparently Taron was listening somewhat because he held up his right hand and asked "is this the big hand?"

Ella (4) came up to me with some of my reading glasses and said "Mom, when I put glasses on, I still don't know how to read!"

At a restaurant, Ella was impatiently waiting for her food and, looking for the waitress, she asked "when is the human coming back?"

One morning I said, "Ella, come look! There's a wild turkey in the backyard!"
Ella (excitedly): "Can we kill it?!?"
What kind of daughter am I raising???

Ella mistook another guy for Chris and was about to follow him to his car, but soon realized her mistake and said, "I was about to follow the 'not dad'".

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Monday, October 13, 2008

The camera is back in business!!

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