New York Summer Vacation

We spent a week in New York for our summer vacation. My parents are serving a Temple mission in Palmyra New York so we took the kids back to see the pageant and all the church history sites. We started our trip with a few days in New York City. We had a great time and ran our legs off for one week.

We flew out of Salt Lake City on the red eye! It was a long night but most of the kids did sleep a little.

The place we had arranged to pick us up was a little confused and sent too small a car at first and the only other option to get 7 of us to our hotel was a limo. The kids thought this was great and loved it!

Central Park

The Natural History Museum

We met up with Jon's niece Niki and her two kids and they spent the afternoon with us.

The kids had to walk all over the museum to find this statue from the movie Night at the Museum!

We went over to Brooklyn to have dinner with Niki and Rick at a pizza place that was so good! Then we decided to walk across the Brooklyn Bridge.

Jack loved the subways. He usually didn't get a seat all to himself, but this was really late one night on the way back to our hotel.

We got pretty tired of McDonalds for breakfast. We ate here every morning!

Statue of Liberty

Ellis Island

This picture does not show how hard it is raining. We got done with Ellis Island and it started pouring down rain. We stopped and bought a few more umbrellas for us, although we were already drenched!

Empire State Building

M & M World

Times Square at Night

Our hotel was right on Times Square so each night we had fun walking back to the hotel and seeing all the people still out.

We were able to get tickets to Mary Poppins and we all loved it. It was amazing what they do with the stage for the performances.

We left New York City and drove to Niagra Falls. We spent one night in Canada and met up with my family the next day. Mom and Dad Smith were even able to come to Canada to go to the Falls with us.

The Sacred Grove

The cousins had a great time switching cars each place we went so they could all ride together.

Brianna, Heidi & Jon were able to go to the Palmyra Temple and do baptisms. I stayed out with the younger kids but did go in for a few minutes and watched the girls get baptized.

The Smith Home

Another one of the Smith's Homes

Peter Whitmer Home

Brianna checking out one of the out houses!

Hill Cumorah Pageant

This is how we all felt after a week of running. We had a great trip and were exhausted getting on the plane to go home. It was fun to spend some time with my family and get to see where Grandma & Grandpa Smith are living and serving right now.

Stadium Of Fire

The 4th of July this year we spent in Provo for the Carrie Underwood concert. We left Logan early Saturday morning and of course stopped to do some shopping at Gateway! That was Jon's favorite thing! Then we headed to BYU and walked around the campus. The kids shopped in the bookstore and then we had hamburgers for dinner from the Canon Center. The concert and fireworks were amazing. Brianna was with us but she had a ticket by

her friend Ashley for the concert.

EFY 2010

Brianna & Heidi were able to attend EFY here in Logan. They left each morning early and then came home at night. It was fun to hear all about their day and what they had learned or done when they got home. Their cousins Taylor & Brooklyn came and stayed with us for the week.

High Uinta Bike Race

This is Jon's 4th year doing this bike race. It starts in Kamas, UT and goes 80 miles over to Evanston, WY

Jon on the climb! It is pretty much 47 miles of climbing from the start and then the rest is downhill but you have to get to the top first!

Island Park

Jon took the kids on a mountain bike ride while we were in Island Park for the week. The kids said it was a hard ride! Jon said it was beautiful and easy!

West Yellowstone

We decided this trip to tryout fishing. We bought some poles and drove to Henry's Lake and fished for 3 hours. We didn't catch any fish and no bites!

We got home from the lake and Jack wanted to fish more so Jon took him down to the dock. Jack casted his little spiderman fishing pole and on the first cast he had a fish! It was a rainbow fish about 14 inches long! Unfortunately Jon didn't take the camera because he didn't think they would catch anything so we have no proof! But Jack was too excited to tell the rest of us for it to just be a story.

Caleb's Baptism

Caleb turned 8 in May and was baptized today. It was a very special day and he was so excited but very nervous also. We appreciate everyone who came and all the gifts and phone calls.

Grandma & Grandpa Robison were able to be here for the special day. Grandma & Grandpa Smith are serving a mission in Palmyra right now.

Caleb was able to have his own baptism so it was just our family that did the program. All the kids had a part and they did a great job preparing. It was great to just sit and be able to listen to ours kids do the music, prayers and talks. (The only decent family picture we got. As you can see Jack is his normal goofball self!)

Girls Camp

I had the opportunity to go to girls camp this year with Brianna and Heidi. We had a great week up Logan canyon at Camp Lomia. It was fun to get to know the girls and the other leaders a little better.

A few weeks before we left all the young women got together to tie dye our camp shirts. They all turned out so different!

Windcave Hike

Heidi, Jill Johnson & Brianna at Pickleville Playhouse for our service project

On our way to Bear Lake for the day

Here we go out on the canoe on Bear Lake!

Yard Work Again!

We spent one whole saturday working putting down new bark in the front of our house. It was a big job and the kids all had to help. We would fill home depot buckets and then it was their job to take it and spread it in the planters. It looks so nice, I just wish the bark would stay looking nice and not all faded from the sun.

After working in the yard all day Brianna took the boys to an air show at our airport. They had fun sitting and looking at all the planes.