Back to blogging

I didn't realize it had Bern so long since my last blog. A lot has happened. I won't bore you all with all of it so I will just tell what has recently happened.

So the girls and I had a fun 4th of July. We went and visited my best friend Samantha in Mankato.

Most of the summer the girls went to different countries and made crafts at this cool project thing they had at Michael's. They got to visit different countries like France, Russia, India and Canada.

We also visited the library a lot and read lots of books over the summer.

Abriana made a pet grasshopper which we kept maybe 4 hours before we let him go again.

The kids also enjoyed having a kool-aid stand. They made $11.00 and were so proud.

Abriana and Alexia both had their birthdays. Abriana turned 3 and Alexia turned 7. They are growing up so fast. I can't believe it.

After our fun filled summer we headed off to Utah to have tons of fun. We went to Temple Square and the Great Salt Lake. Utah is so beautiful. Everywhere we turned there were mountains. 

Well that is the summed up version of what's been going on. I will definitely be updating more very soon.

Halloween 2009

Halloween was so much fun this year. We invited the missionaries over the have dinner and to carve pumpkins. The girls were so excited.

Here Abriana is taking the seeds out of her pumpkin. She wasn't sure if she liked it or not. Her face made me think she didn't like it cause of the slimy feeling.

Here is Alexia digging in.

Reona loved getting all the guts out of her pumpkin.

Here are the elders hard at work on their pumpkins.

When carving pumpkins one must concentrate very hard.

Here is my Pooh pumpkin.

Elder Robinson's pumpkin of Frank from Donnie Darko.

One of Alexia's pumpkins

Elder Payne's Missionary Ghost

Alexia's kitty pumpkin

Chris' random pumpkin (he never does anything that make sense on his pumpkins)

Abriana's baby pumpkin

Reona's Pirate Pete pumpkin

Here are the kids all ready to go out trick or treating. The baby had no idea what trick or treating was until she got her first handful of candy. Once she saw the candy she was trying to eat it as fast as she was getting it. She thought it was great.

Here is our lady bug Abriana thinking she is going to get two buckets of candy.

Skeleton Alexia excited to get candy.

Cheerleader Reona said she was going to cheer to the people of all the houses we were going to visit that night. The girls had lots of fun visiting all of the people they saw at church that live right by us and enjoyed getting all the candy.

Apples, Apples, Apples

To get ready for the fall season we decided that we were going to make caramel apples. They were so GOOD!!! The girls had fun making them and eating them. The hardest part was waiting for them to cool in the refrigerator so we could eat them. I think we got a little impatient though because when we went to eat them after F.H.E. they stuck to the wax paper so they hadn't cooled enough. They were still good though.

Quilting Part 3

This first quilt is such a spectacular quilt. It was hand stitched by Emma and her daughter Elizabeth. Here is what the frame says.

In May 1871- Alexander & David Hyrem Smith left Nauvoo to go west to Salt Lake on to California on a mission trip for the RLDS Church. Elizabeth "Lizzie", Wife of Alexander was in the 9th Month of pregnancy with their 5th child. In their absence Elizabeth and her Mother in Law Emma made four quilts for the beds in their children's rooms. Two were blue/green and two were rose colored. My Grandfather; Don Alvin, was born on May 18th 1871 at the Mansion House and spent his childhood nights under this quilt. When he married my Grandmother; Susan Zeanette "Nettie", she used it as a bed cover on their bed until his death in 1904. After he died she never used it again, but it hung over the footboard of her bed until her death in 1957. It meant much to her as it represented the majority of the nights of her husband's life. My sister Carmen recieved it from my Grandmother Smith and kept until her passing in 2002. It then came into my possession. It is one of my most prized possessions as it was hand stitched by both my Great Great Grandmother (Emma) and my Great Grandmother (Lizzie) and a cherished possession of my Grandmother (Nettie) for 67 years.

Signed,

Robert W. Smith

Second Great Grandson

Here is the quilt plus a few others.

Quilting Part 2

Here are some more quilts from the quilt show.

This one is a yo-yo quilt.

This one is my favorite.

This watermelon one reminds me of summer.