Grandma Kandell and Lovells Visit

The week of May 2- 10, 2006 Adyson’s Grandma Sue Kandell came to visit all the way from Ohio and had a blast with all of us. Even Aunt Lisa and Uncle Steve and Ady’s cousin Easton Lovell were in town to join in the fun. It was great to watch Adyson and Easton learn to play together. The first of the week it seemed every time Ady had something whether it was a toy, food or just junk, then Easton would come over and take it from her and her face turned a bright red and she started screaming! Well after the week progressed they were best friends and Ady was chasing Easton all around the house and couldn’t get enough of him.

Hailey and I were supposed to have been in New York this weekend to celebrate Hailey’s birthday, but there were mechanical issues with the plane and the short story is that we did not go to New York. We did take advantage of Grandma Kandell and Lisa being in town so Hailey and I spent the weekend at the Stein Lodge in Park City. It was awesome. We got to sleep in, get room service and just relax! As parents this relaxation is something that is priceless. We went to an amazing restaraunt for Hailey’s birthday called Chimayo and loved it. Eventhough our weekend in Park City was not as quite as fun as New York would have been, we sure had a good time.

We are looking forward to Adyson’s 1 yr birthday party in July. Both Grandma and Grandpa Kandell will be in town and the Lovells are coming too. Of course the Smoot Grandparents will be at the big party too! We are going to be celebrating her birthday on july 1 eventhough her actual birthday in July 7. Ady is so close to walking that we can’t believe it. Oh that reminds me, she really started to get some good practice with a box that Aunt Lisa put taped together for her. It is a great tool and she just stands behind it and pushes it across the carpet. Ady took her first step by herself on the May 18th, 2006. Well before long we will be writing all about the fun time at her birthday.

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Daddy's Weekend with Adyson

Last weekend Hailey took a long needed short break to go visit some of her friends from school. I had the wonderful experience of staying at home with Adyson and man did WE HAVE A BLAST! She is such a wonderful baby. We took walks, ate junk food (not much), bought her a new walker and even stayed up late. I am so amazed at how much I love my little baby Ady and it is crazy how much she is growing every single day. It is good to have Hailey back with us now, but I really did enjoy taking care of Ady all by myself.

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Hailey and Ady go to California with Smoots

Hailey and Adyson had a wonderful time last week in Palo Alto, California. Eric was not able to go unfortunately due to work but promises to make the next Smoot trip for sure! The girls (Hailey and Ady) had a blast doing all sorts of fun stuff with the Smoots. They went into San Francisco one day, went to the beach, went to the salt water aquarium (like a zoo of fish), ate at every tasty restaraunt you can name and just simply had lots of fun. They were gone from Saturday the 8th to Thursday the 13th. Go see some of the awesome times they had in the gallery. To tell you the truth I didn’t think I would have that hard of a time without my girls but I missed them a ton as I realized how long they would be gone as I was walking to church ALONE Sunday morning. Needless to say they are back now and I cannot get enought of them. Today is Saturday the 15th and Hailey just put Ady down for a morning nap. Later today we are goint to go get lunch and run some errands. While we are out we are going to take Ady to play at Cabelas. This is a a large sportsman and hunting store that is located in Utah and there are lots of live fish swimming around and supposedly KIDS love it. We will go see if so. Hailey is really excited to be making a Herb Box for our back patio this spring/summer so we are also going to go get some supplies to do that today. Talk to you all later.

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