Sacramento Trip

Ha....I love the picture of Tatum...I think I had scowls on my face in a few of my childhood photos!

All the grand kids...take 7!!!

Cute Tatum,Ryenn and Peyton

Very pregnant Shelly ( she lives in CA) and Pam

Jake, Nick and Eric being silly

Out of 5 pictures...THIS was the best one...SAD

Nick was the BBQ King!!!

So, this post is a little late...but we went to Sacramento CA for the 4th. I originally was not very excited to drive...but it ended up not being that bad! Maybe stopping at the Coach outlet mall in LA made it a little more bearable :).

We got there around 4 am and hit the bed! We were woken up with the quick little pitter patter of Ricky running across the hardwood floors. I love that sound!!! He is 4 and adorable. All of Nick's brothers and sisters were there besides Mandy who had to work! :(

It was really fun. Trey got the priesthood on Sunday the 5th and it was so special to be there for him, and to have ALL his family there too. Our nieces and nephews are just adorable. They are so sweet and huggy and just stinken cute! We also celebrated Tyler's 4 birthday. He was so patient ALL day on the 4th waiting for his party!!! All in all it was a fuuuuun trip!!!

We are so excited to see all of our niece's and nephews all together. We are driving to California ( please don't ask me what part...somewhere south of Sacramento), our nephew Trey, is getting the priesthood!!! Which is so exciting! So we are making the trek up there...Nick and I are pretty excited to take a road trip! Last time that happened...was when we went to Utah and got engaged!!! We are more flyer's than drivers. It is also neat because we get to see our other Smith family from Washington...which usually only happens once a year! So here are some of our cute people who we love so much!!!

Temple Day

So yesterday Scotty went through the temple for the first time. It was so neat. It was really awesome too cuz he had a lot of family and friends there. After much persuasion, "Scott" wanted to go to Cheesecake Factory for his after the temple lunch. It was really good and we met up with Katie,Eric and Paul. This morning I made Nick this really good recipe of french toast, turkey bacon and eggs....well...he decided that he wanted to spruce it up a bit and ended up putting chocolate syrup and gummy bears on top of it....GROSS. I just had to get a picture...he is not really the "sugar" type....well not THAT much! It was funny. I have been lazy today and catching up on all my Harry Potter movies....we are so excited the next one is coming out!!!!

The other pic is of Kaitlyn,Janessa and Megan. Janessa is getting married and it was her bridal shower. It was really really nice!!! Very fun to see everyone.

TWO YEARS!!!!

Wow, can you even believe it has been two whole years since my Nicholas and I have gotten married? Time seriously has flown by! Our anniversary was May 12, last Tuesday...we both had finals the next day so we went to dinner and then came home and had Red Velvet Cake from El Conquistador ( our wedding cake ). It was so nice to remember that special day! We went to Flemming's...SO good! We will definitely be going back someday. Then over the weekend we went to Hyatt Regency at Gainey Ranch in Scottsdale! It was SOOOO romantic and beautiful and FUN! We golfed ( well, I drove the cart while Nicky golfed), we laid out allll day, ate at REALLY good restaurants, went to the Landmark ( where our wedding luncheon was), watched Flamenco Dancers perform and watch a lot of movies!!! It was so nice with it just being the two of us. I am so excited to see where our lives will be at our 3 year anniversary. We have a lot of changes coming hopefully! Nick has 3 more classes this summer and he is DONE...until Law School starts the following Fall of 2010. We are excited for him to be taking the LSAT soon and excited to see where we will be going!

Happy Easter

This was a great Easter weekend! Nick played golf Saturday morning with Uncle Kenny, Eric and Scott....they didn't get to play the whole 18 holes because it started hailing on them! Poor Nick! He was soaked! Meanwhile I went to visit Susie, Rachel, Kate and Paully wogs! It was fun just to hang out and have YUMMMMMMMY Coffee Cake! I seriously had to restrain myself. Then we all went to La Encantada Mall where Kate and I got AMAZING Ann Taylor perfume ( PS....it is on sale right now for $10.00....STEAL), Rachel took some stuff back and Susie bought an adorable children's book with beautiful pictures. Saturday night Nick and I colored Easter Eggs which was really fun. We have never done that together so we are pretty sure this will be a new tradition! Today, Easter, we woke up to find that the Easter bunny had hidden all of our eggs and left TWO baskets! Nick got a new tie, a new BLUE golf shirt, and a bunch of fruity candies! I got my favorite " FUZE" drink....malt balls, granola, brown cow yogurt ( if you haven't tried this, it is AMAZING and the best yogurt out there for ya). Nick said the Easter bunny brought me a bunch of stuff from his organic farm too.....some trail mix and chocolate covered Almonds. We went to church with Nick's little brother Jake and his mom and her boyfriend Joe. After church we went home, got changed real quick and made the drive out to VAIL!!! We got there and had fun talking with family and laughing at our nephews. Kids sure are funny!

Now we are home watching a golf show and just relaxing. It was such a nice weekend and you couldn't help but feel the Saviors love all day from start to finish. I am so grateful to be a member of this gospel.

April 2009 Conference

So this post is kind of late...but I had a really good experience watching conference. I was invited to my Aunt Susie and Uncle Kenny's to watch Sunday morning. I got there and we had a REALLY yummy breakfast made by Aunt Susie and it was so nice to sit around the table and talk and laugh. The conference talks were really good and some of them seemed like they were written just for me. It is amazing how that happens. I loved being at the Shipley home and feeling the spirit with their family. Thanks Susie for always making Nick and I feel welcome!!!

We'll have to make a tradition out of this? !!!! Nick was at drill the whole weekend so he couldn't watch it...but he has been enjoying the wonderful world of lds.org!!!!

Update with the Smith's!

Well, well it has been a while since I have done the blog thing. I will update us all!

Nick and I MOVED!!! We moved to a place called the Golf Villas. It is way nice and on the golf course, which Nick LOVES! We are finally all settled in a everything is nice and clean.

Ummmm.....that's about it! haha....see why I haven't blogged? Other than moving we have been crazy busy with work and school! We look foward to the weekends to spend with each other tho.

I am going up to Phoenix this weekend while Nick is at drill, so I will post updated pictures later!!!