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Saturday, 07 February 2009
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I'm Changing My Blog Account
Ok, I've decided to switch over to blogger from xanga. Sorry for the inconvenience, but if you would like to continue viewing my blog, here is the new link
http://brsmith2009.blogspot.com/
I'd love for you to join me there!
Rachael
Thursday, 01 January 2009
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Christmas!!
We had a great Christmas this year! It was really quiet since Brent was on call and we had to stay in Tucson, but it was really fun to get to celebrate at home with Caleb. He loved opening his presents....at least the first 2 and then he got a little overwhelmed. We had to take a break and eat breakfast and then come back and let him open more. It was really fun though! Later that night we had some friends over for Christmas dinner. We had smoked turkey and a Honey Baked ham! It was really yummy but I'm bummed because I forgot to take pictures:( Oh well...here are some other pictures for you!
Caleb and his new outside play gym!
He loves going down the slide!
Brent in front of some of the goodies Santa brought him. He is getting his own office since his partner is retiring so the picture in the background is to go over his desk. He took that picture of one of his trains and I blew it up and framed it.
Caleb....wiped out on the floor in the midst of all his toys. Christmas is exhausting!!
Brent and Rachael before his work Christmas party (a few weeks ago). It's the latest we've been out without Caleb in a really long time. We had so much fun!
We also had some friends from Memphis visit us (Lonnie and Megan) briefly this past weekend. It was really great to see them again. It's been TOO long!!
Lonnie and Caleb after lunch.
Megan, Caleb, Brent and Lonnie...we went to the Wildlife Desert Museum. It was pretty neat.
Me and Megan at the Desert Museum.
HAPPY NEW YEAR!!
Thursday, 04 December 2008
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December in Arizona
December in Arizona is very different from what I grew up with. Instead of singing "I'm Dreaming of a White Christmas", Caleb will be singing "I'm dreaming of ripe citrus fruit for Christmas". We have three citrus trees in our backyard (orange, lemon and grapefruit) and Caleb and I picked some fruit off them yesterday. It was pretty weird to be outside in sunny 70 degree weather picking fruit off our trees in December. It's really nice though and we're really enjoying Arizona in the winter!
Caleb helping mommy pick the oranges
Tasting a lemon...yuck!
Our lemon tree
Our grapefruit tree
Sunday, 16 November 2008
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Hot Air Balloon Ride!!
Brent and I had a lot of fun today! For his birthday (in September) I got him a hot air balloon ride. We went this morning and it was AWESOME! Arizona is a great place to fly over in a balloon. We had to get up really early (4:30am) and some friends of ours kept Caleb for us (which was REALLY nice considering how early we had to drop him off). It was beautiful!! We got to see the sun rise and rode for a little over an hour. When we were done we had a champagne brunch. It was so fun! Here are a few pictures of our little adventure.
Saturday, 15 November 2008
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Trip to Little Rock
Well, I made a last minute trip to Little Rock last week to do some work for my dad's company. Caleb got to stay with Granna all week! (Although I think she's glad she doesn't have a full time one-year-old anymore:) I got a chance to go to Mt. View, AR where my parents recently closed on a log cabin. It is really beautiful. We're spending Thanksgiving there with my extended family and I'm looking forward to being out there more! Here are a few pictures from my trip.























