August Adventures

Well it doesn't take much for my heart strings to be touched and after hearing this song and enjoying a extra long weekend with all of my family, except Shelli and Robert which was the only downer of the weekend! Family is the single most important thing in life, period! There is nothing that can make up for them and nothing that can replace them. Love you guys! You done good again George!

Dad

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South Africa Amazes Me

All,

Just some quick photos of my trip. I will be traveling home tomorrow and will post more pictures and a full story of my adventures here. All I can say, is it has been the most exciting and most trying time of my life. I would rank it second only to my mission! See ya'll soon!

Daddy's little helper

Saturday morning was a chore day for the Smith family. Fortunately all those times of lugging Garrett around in the kids carrier has paid off. Unfortunately, he isn't quite old enough to push the real one. LOVE YOU LITTLE MAN!

BLESS THIS MESS

So Sarah and I rock, paper, scissored for the clean up job of Lily tonight after dinner! She decided hot dogs and hamburgers was boring and that we needed after dinner entertainment. She put the hot dog down her shirt, make-up (ketchup) on and her hat (paperplate) on her head and proceeded to entertain us. THANK YOU LILY FOR THE LAUGH!!!

Being Self Reliant

Last year we had a nice little garden that wasn't much to look at, but this year I might have let my ambition take over! We have a wonderful garden with, zucchini, crook-neck and patti-pan squash, cucumbers, bell-peppers, honey-dew and seedless watermelon, Garrett's corn, 4 different types of tomatoes (6 plants), yellow baby bell-peppers, habanero and jalapeño peppers, sweet-butter lettuce, cilantro, chives and basil. WOW we are enjoying everything and are being blessed with a great harvest with allot more to come. Most importantly, Lily and Garrett really like the garden and go out every day to see if we have something new to pick, which has been a great lesson in self-reliance for them. We will keep you posted on how we finish the summer! Hope everyone is doing well!

Lake Naci

Thank you first to our good friends, Doug and Joddy, we were able to spend a beautiful out at Lake Nacimiento. It was Lily's first time on a boat but she was such a trooper.

Garrett loved the tube and most certainly his favorite part was when Doug let him drive the boat. That little guy is such a nut for motorize equipment!

We look forward to a few more trips out to the lake this summer!

Loughmiller Family

I was able to take some pictures of sweet family friends of our from church. Their son is leaving on a mission next week to Argentina, so they wanted to get a family photo. They are one of those families you just love. We had a lovely time heading out to Creston for a photo shoot!