Words With Friends

Have you ever played Words With Friends on your phone?

It's a game similar to Scrabble that you can play against people you know - or people you don't know.

I usually don't do very well qt this game but tonight I made a word worth 102 points. Pretty sure that's the highest scoring word I have ever made.




Want to play? My username is Jsmith3100. I'd love to play a game or two with you.

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Oreooo

Oh, somebody's Daddy gave him an Oreo cookie tonight after supper.




Poor little guy was not feeling good, but he did enjoy his cookie.





Noah has had a fever most of the day today. We have been giving him baby Tylenol but we are going to gave to start alternating Tylenol and Motrin to keep his fever down better.

Hopefully tomorrow will be a better day.


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Our Sign

I think we have a vandal around here. Well vandal is really not the right word. Maybe it's more like a thief. But thief is really not right either. I guess it's more like a troublemaker.






We have a stone address sign at the end of our driveway. I took a picture of the back of it since it has our address on it. I bought this for Christmas and put it out by the driveway this past spring.

Well this evening when we got home, our sign had been pulled up and moved down by the mailboxes by the road. It was just resting against one of the other mailboxes down there.

This is actually the second time our address sign has been moved. It was also moved a couple weeks ago while we were at work. It was left in the same spot both times.

We don't know who is moving our sign or why. Mike thinks someone is messing with us for some unknown reason. We leave everyone out here alone so I don't know why they would do that.

If they are trying to give us hints about something, we're not getting it.



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Catching Up

The Smith family has been having a busy summer.  It seems like the weeks and weekends are going by really quickly.  First we had our trip to San Antonio.  Then we had Emily's 6th birthday party.  Then we had Father's Day weekend.  This week Noah has Vacation Bible School.  And next week Emily has Cousin's Week.

Father's Day

We had a good weekend last weekend as we celebrated Father's Day.  We decided to give Mike his Father's Day present on Friday night so that we could enjoy it during the weekend.  We got him an electric meat smoker.  Mike did a lot of research online on how to smoke meat and some good recipes for marinades and rubs and things.

We got some chicken breasts, some pork chops, and some hamburger meat for our first smoking challenge. It was actually not too bad.  It just took longer than we expected because I read in the instructions that we had to season the smoker by running it for like 3 hours before we started cooking anything.   

We liked everything that we cooked, but we decided that maybe the meat was over spiced.  Maybe next time we'll try it with a little less spice.  We have been eating smoked meat all week for supper.  Yum!

Vacation Bible School

This week, Noah is going Vacation Bible School for the first time.  He's going with Nanny and Poppa.  Nanny is working in the baby room with him along with Aunt Pat and Aunt Charlene.  They have 10 babies so they have their hands full!  Emily is not going to VBS this year since she's going to Summer Camp at a local church this summer.  

Crawling Before You Can Walk

Noah recently started crawling.  He just took off and now he goes everywhere.  We put the Pack 'n Play up in the living room as a playpen the other week and Noah loves to sit in there and play with his toys.  He can pull up on the side and look around.  Pretty soon he'll be walking.  He'll be walking!  Oh my!

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Catch Up - Vaca Stop at the Childrens Museum

On the way to San Antonio, we stopped by a childrens museum to play and check things out. Here are some pictures from our day.




































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Happy Birthday, Emily!

Happy Birthday to my sweet Emily!






Emily turned six years old yesterday. She had a fun birthday party at Hideaway Pizza. That was her choice. We offered a lot of other party options, but she really just wanted some pizza and family.

I think we had about 20 people at her party. Grandmother and Aunt Heather and Uncle Stephen came from out of town to be with us on Emily's special day.  We ate pizza then had some cake and then opened presents. Emily got a lot of really nice things. She has been playing with all her new toys since we got home from the party yesterday.

All About Emily

Emily just finished kindergarten and will be starting first grade in the fall. She already knows how to read and she loves books! She got several books for her birthday and she has already been busy reading them.

Emily is so sweet. She loves her family so much, including the grandparents, cousins, and extended family. She is willing to help with whatever is needed.

Emily loves her little brother. And he loves her too. Noah is always watching her to see what she is doing. And she is very patient with him. He might pull her hair or try to take her toys. But she doesn't mind. They are going to be good friends I know.

Emily is so funny. Sometimes she gets on s silly kick and you never know what she will say. She can make Noah laugh like no other. They will often both get to laughing in the backseat of the car. They are fun to watch together.

Happy Birthday, Emily. You changed our lives forever when you were born six years ago. You are such a sweet, smart, beautiful, special little girl. We love you with all our hearts!!!!!!!


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San Antonio - Part II

Another exciting part of our San Antonio trip was visiting The Alamo. We had been building up to this at home. Mike and Emily had been reading books and watching movies about the heroes of The Alamo like Davy Crockett.





Noah was fighting naptime most of this visit so I didn't get many pictures of The Alamo. There were a lot of places where they did not allow photos to be taken too.







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