Ashley collects donations for Japan

Ashley learned about the disaster in Japan and decided that she wanted to help. She made a jar asking friends and family for their loose change to donate to help with whatever was needed.

She ended up collecting over $60! She is an amazing girl!

Ashley took the money to the LDS church so they could get it to where it needs to be. In primary the leaders had her stand up front and tell them what she had done and taught the kids where Japan was on a map and how even though they are kids they can make a difference.

Ashley is such a wonderful girl with a great big heart and I am so proud to be her mom!

Easter 2011

Grandma & Grandpa Smith invited us to come and spend Easter morning with them at the Scottish Rite Center with them to meet the Easter Bunny.

Happy Easter!

Life is a circle

Since summer is coming the kids and I went through thier closets and pulled out thier too small clothes to give to Kaylee & Stetson, there were 3 large bags (large black yard garbage bags) that we were able to weed out of thier closets. The very next day there were 3 bags of clothes on our front porch from the Buell's for my kids! I love the way our family shares!

I have the best family ever!

I walked out to my car and found this wicked cute note on my car! Thank you whoever did it!

Yum Yum Yum! our garden is producing!

We've eaten 2 artichokes already this year and cant wait till the next 10 are ready! The plant is very "happy" this year, it has grown taller than me!

There is no better strawberry than one from your own garden! We paired it with cool whip and ate them on top of pancakes. YUM!

Apparently we adopted a Kangaroo...

Princess Leia is so small she can walk through the baby gate that keeps the dogs in the kitchen. So we put a folding table on its side to cover the gate so she couldn't get through, she pushed the table over and walked through anyway. So we put the table back and braced it with her cage... thinking ourselves smart we patted ourselves on our backs.... Till she jumped over the whole darn thing and ate things in the family room while we were gone. So today we placed 2 tables the tall way in front of the gate and put the cage in front... Our fingers are crossed that it will work!

No worries that the dogs wont get along! No matter where Chu-wee is Leia will find him and take up half the space of whatever he is laying on (even if it is CJ!). He is a good sport and tolerates it well.

Our new family member

no im not pregnant! get your mind out of the gutter!

We got a new dog, her name is... Princess Leia!

Its from star wars... just like Chewie (Chewbacca)

We got her from the Stockton Shelter. She is about 1 year old, 9lbs, and is a tan Chihuahua. She looks almost exactly like Chewie. She is a very sweet little girl.

She was recently spayed and has stitches so i brought her to work with me so i could watch her to make sure she doesn't try and bite the stitches out. She slept almost the whole day, she is such a good girl!