Our Week away...

Last sunday we recieved a call from Jeff's brother telling us that his mom had taken a fall. She was ok but we were concerned enough that we thought we'd drive up to Grand Junction and see what we could do to help out. It was a good trip and while we were there we decided to do somethings in Jeff's parents home to help eliminate the possiblity of his mom falling at home. One of the things we looked at was replacing their tub for a walk in shower. Jeff and his brothers got busy and took out the old bathtub, (which by the way you have to take a sledge hammer too). When I get a picture of the finished project I'll post it. It will be so nice when it's done.

We didn't stay to finish the job cause we wanted to beat the bad weather. Well we didn't beat it to far, we ended getting snowed in in Show Low for a day. We finally got home last night after being gone for 6 days... Kirsten stayed here with the kids which was nice but very chaotic and hard on everyone...How many Smith brothers does it take to take some tile off the walls...

Here we are in Show Low... I haven't seen snow like this in years.. Too bad my kids weren't with me they would have had so much fun.

Jeff's 50th!

Ok today was Jeff's big 50th Birthday... He really didn't want a party ( we still might pull one together...) so I emailed a bunch of friends and had everyone bring over 50 items of something. To surprise him, he didn't get it at first but after the third person dropped by, he finally got the theme... He got 50 payday's, 50 gold medals (pasta rings) on a necklace cause he's a gold medal dad, 50 onion rings, 50 M&M's, 50 sticky notes, 50 tic tacs, 50 york pepermint patties, 50 cans of soda, 50 rasins (cause he's all pruney) 50 bran flakes ( to keep him regular) 50 pieces of pop corn (cause he's peaked), 50 pieces of fruit... It's been a really fun day... I hope he's had a great day... 50... WOW... what a fun day!