Of Good Report

So, every night when I listen to Emma say her prayers she always prays that we will not suffer from any "harm or wrecksion."  I wouldn't have even known how to spell this nonword until I finally decided to ask her what she meant by that.  After she told me I thought, "well, that makes perfect sense now."  She explained to me that means that we won't have anything get "wrecked."  Ok, now I know.

Fifteen years and two days ago I became a mother.  I could say so much about this child, but I will share the beginning of his life on this earth.  My pregnancy went well, I gained a lot of weight even though I threw up a lot.  I was tired and hot and very uncomfortable for the last six weeks and my labor was 24 hours long.  There have been so many ups and downs since then.   I was 28 years old when I got married.  I knew I wanted a family and I knew that was a later start than for most Mormon women and I didn't know how easy it would be for me to get pregnant, so we decided not to wait.  Three months after we were married we were expecting our first child, Spencer.  I remember the day I found out.  We went to the temple that day and I had been feeling very dizzy off and on (a symptom I learned to recognize for future pregnancies).  I had a feeling in the temple that I was pregnant and I knew that was the reason I had been dizzy and not feeling great.  So the pregnancy test was a

While I am not a fan of hashtags, I am a huge fan of summer, motherhood, and family time.  We have had a wonderful eventful summer.  Renee and her brood spent the month of June in Utah.  We had fun at parks, Thanksgiving Point, pedicures and just "hangin' out at the house."  We ate at Cafe Rio and JCW's, both were on Renee's "must-do list."  A highlight of their stay was the time we spent in a cabin in Bear Lake with the whole Smith Clan.  My mom payed for the cabin rental and we all pitched in on the food that Kevin and Christine so graciously bought and brought.  We went through a cave and spent a day at the beach paddling in paddle boats and a canoe.  We of course engaged in a water fight.  We had fun "Smith Family Olympics" thanks to David and Jessica with the Crumps and Erika performing a lip sink to a Taylor Swift song, "Trouble," for the opening ceremony.  The goat version.  I wish we would have had a camera on the audience whe