Adyson is Coming!

This week was Amazing!!!

We got the most awesome 3D ULTRASOUND PHOTOS of BABY ADYSON.
You can go see them right now in our gallery

We just returned from a fun filled weekend at the Smoot Family cabin in Wyoming. It is only about a 2.5 hour drive from Provo and is well worth it! What is so great about the cabin is that you are very secluded. It sits on 35 acres, well that is what Hailey’s family owns; there are thousands of acres that you can explore. We got there late thursday night and then went to flaming Gorge most of the day Friday. You will have to look at the flaming gorge pictures also in our gallery. Anyways back to the cabin. There are four-wheelers which you can jump on and just cruise for miles; we went exploring and found one of many little lakes that surround the area. The girls (Hailey’s little sisters) even found a pound nearby and we spent the day building a fort! We did smores by the bom fire later that night. While Hailey and her mom were exploring on four wheelers, (dont worry they stayed on the paths and went slow because Hailey is almost ready to deliver) they found a fox den. There were little baby red foxes about the size of small dogs that were wrestling and rolling around near a huge pile of sticks and logs right off the dirt road. They came and got the girls and I from building our fort and when we got there the mom fox had shown up. It was awesome, she was a large fox with a big fluffy tail and she just stared at us from about 100 yds up on a big hill. Between the Kandell Family retreat(Jim and Sue’s home in Ohio)and the Smoot family cabin, our kids are going to have a blast!

Just a little more news while you are here. The St. George house that Hailey and I were buying with my parents, fell through due to a crazy seller! Anyways we are getting ready to put another offer on a house in the same area so check back for new pictures of that house soon.

Well it is less than a month to go and we will be PARENTS!

That is scary. I’ll tell you what though, as scary as it seems Hailey and are so excited we cannot wait.

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Mexico Trip, March 2005

We Just got back from MEXICO! Make sure you check it out in our gallery whenever you would like. Almost everyone we talked to lately, has told us to try and take one more RELAXING and exotic vacation before our first baby is born so we gladly took them up on it and planned a trip to MEXICO! Hailey pretty much planned the trip and got me committed to going and we decided to go to the Riviera Maya, which is about 1.5 hrs south of cancun. We stayed at two different resorts. They were all-inclusive resorts by PALACE RESORTS. The firt half of our week trip we stayed at the Aventura Spa Palace. This was an all adults resort that had 6 different restraunts, a HUGE HUGE Spa, many pools, a beach front lagoon and lots of cool activities. Hailey and I mostly enjoyed the relaxing atmosphere and SPA treatments we got here. In our pictures you can see one of the little bungalows on the ocean that we got a half hour couples massage in! The food was absolutely wonderful. We had our choice of T-bones, filets, sushi, salads, tropical fruits and I could go on and on. I think i might be bigger than Hailey now from all the food I ate. probably the best part was that we got a FREE UPGRADE to the PRESIDENTIAL SUITE. The suite was all the way on the beach front and was probably a good 800 to 1000 square feet. It was Awesome! I am trying to learn how to upload videos to this site so when I do you can get a private tour of our suite! Check back soon.

Our second part of the trip was at the XPU-HA palace. This was an awesome family type resort that we would love to go to sometime in the future with any of you family. The kids would love this place. Heck, we loved it! There were all sorts of exotic animals and fish with tons of jungly type atmosphere. We stayed in little bungalows right on the side of a freshwater river that ran the length of the resort. It really was like living in the jungle. This resort also had tons of beach front and pools etc. Well we absolutely loved the trip and hope you enjoy the pictures.

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Past Stories

We had a wonderful Christmas and Great New Year. Please feel free to check out our Christmas 2004 album in the gallery!

We spent our first Christmas morning down in Provo at our home and then went to Centerville to spend time with the Smoots. Perhaps the highligh of everyone’s day was speaking to Brady AKA Elder Smoot #1. It was so cool to hear all of his stories and especially his Testimony in Russian. We are so proud of him. There were many other highlights too. Eric would have to say playing with his new sisters was the BEST. We got to spend the day relaxing and eating!!!
For NEW YEARS we went to the Brand New Smoot cabin in Wyoming!!! Man this place is like something out of a old Christmas movie or something. It sits on about 35 acres and has so many trees it is amazing. We spent time snow mobiling and wrecking snow mobiles too! Luckily no one got hurt. It will be great to go up there in the spring and do some major exploring!

We are still anxiously awaiting to find out if we are having a boy or a girl. We seem to go back and forth all the time trying to determine what we will have. For now we are just happy that Hailey is finally overcoming her morning sickness and just pray for a healthy baby no matter what we have!

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