okay, I know it's been a while.....

Okay, I know it's been a while since my last post, but I've been super busy. That's right. Not just busy, but Super busy! I've been taking a web class on how to design web pages and I didn't realize (nor did most of my class judging from our prof.'s e-mail) that it was a quick class lasting only half the semester. So...that mean I had to get my 5 page web site up and running much sooner than expected! The last week I've spent it fine tuning everything and posting it for my final You can check it out at: www.geocities.com/jmsnutmeg/Home.html. I'm kind of proud of my first real attempt. (the store one doesn't count) I actually learned html for this and since you all know how much I LOVE maths and sciences (they being tools of satan) you can imagine the tredipdation I had going into the class. But, for the most part and barring the days when I screamed and cried over my computer, most of it made sense and actually WORKED. Amazing. There's been lots of drama at work, at home, at school, etc. Stephen dropped a 10 pound weight on his foot yesterday morning at the gym so we were at the doctors yesterday making sure it wasn't broken. Luckily it isn't, but somehow I doubt he's going to rest it for the 6 weeks she suggested (especially with Ryan recommending he take some pain medication and suck it up!). Yes, miracles do happen and Mom actually wrote a blog. I'll get her back in here one of these days. And no Ryan, I seriously doubt she's ready to vote for Hilary. Espcecially not since she hisses every time Hilary comes on tv. Kiely your hair is too short!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Stop cutting it!!!!!!!! I was okay with the flapper look, but I'm not buying the 'I'm just going to shave it for the summer heat' excuse. Okay, Love you all-it's time for American Idol!
Megan

The New Look

Check out the new look for the day! Props to my roommate!

Random House!!

So, for those of you who don't know, the house I live in, my roommates and I named it The Random House. So, if you ever hear me say that or write it somewhere, that's what I'm referring to. So, we were having some fun here at the house today after stake conference. So we sat outside to relax and ended up playing around with the camera. Check 'em out!!
PS: I've fallen. I have a new hairstyle, and surprise surprise, I'm wearing make-up!! Aaaahhhhh!!! Scary!!!!! :)

Spiritual Insight

Oh man!! I love Elder Bednar! He's amazing! We had stake conference this weekend, and Elder Bednar of the Twelve Apostles was here and spoke to us. And, I got to shake his hand! It was so cool. But he's so funny and just sincere and has a way of really keeping his audience captivated by his comments. He's great.
So, he said something that led me to start thinking about various things, and then I happened to see a scripture that really made me think about our family. It's Luke 6:21, "Blessed are ye that weep now: for ya shall laugh." We have a lot that we've gone through together, a lot that we're going through now, and a lot that we will go through together. And there's going to be a lot of tears and sadness, but even though that's happening now, we will laugh in the future. That scripture just gave me a whole new outlook.
So think positive everyone, because soon enough, we will all be laughing our little heads off. ;)

I love you all!!!!
Kiely

Oh my goodness!!

The other half of the Smiths responded!!! The end is coming!! It's good to know you're still alive there Ry! :) And hey, everyone's got their talents and... addictions. With other people it's heroine, buying shoes, eating marshmallow concoctions: mine just happens to be blogging. So, respect the skill my friend! Don't be hatin'! And, Bets is close behind me in blogging time, so watch closely at home before you go abroad! :)
But isn't it a wonderful feeling to blog? It's relaxing, time consuming, addictive: I mean what else is better? :) But, maybe this summer I'll enter a program, if I do drop out...
Good luck at our luck. Remember though: hitchhiking is dangerous. Be careful. :)
80 degrees... pishposh. It got to 55 degrees today!!!! I went bike riding in shorts, which was amazing, and afterward layed out in the sun and read a book. It was the greatest feeling ever! Oh, and scary story! I was riding my bike, and this guy almost hit me! Luckily I saw him and swerved out of the way, and he stopped as I was swerving. So it was all good. But if we hadn't seen each other, he would have hit me straight on. Talk about fish food.
And, you should all know: I finished the fourth season of '24'!!! It was so good!! One more and I'll be on the current season!! I'm so excited!!

Love you all!
Thanks for the concern Ry... ;)
Kiely

You go, Smiths!

This is such a great Blog week for the Smiths. What we lack in luck we make up in for in Blogging ability. First Mom, now Ryan... almost brings a tear to my eye, oh wait...it's just an eyelash, but in any case I'm sure proud of us all! So let's not dwell on our bad luck, but revel in the true talents of our brood. Three cheers for the Smiths!!

Hip Hip Horay,

Hip, Hip Horay,

Hip Hip, oh DARN IT I just fell and broke my hip... off to the hospital.

Our luck stinks.

-Bets

Ryan In The House

Mom on the computer? The Apocalypse is upon us! This is my first time even reading any of these postings 'cause Bets has been picking up the slack for us. So Kiely hopes it's going to be 45, I hate to rub it in but we're looking at '80's next week. So if Mom can now use the computer does that means she's progressive enough to vote for Hillary? Just kidding, maybe.
I think we should all have an intervention with Kiely for her blog addiction. I could see her dropping out of school and just blogging for money. I'm scared for you sis. Stay strong.
Bets and I are going to Vegas in two weeks to try the Smith luck again. I'm sure we'll keep with tradition and hitchhike home.
Enough for now I have to watch college basketball to do some 'studying ' for the college basketball tournament.
Stay strong Kiely, start with one day at a time.

Ryan Out!

Mom used a computer!!!!

Mom used a computer to communicate with all of us!!! That was so exciting!! Hey, Mom has an e-mail address, so I can get her her own invitation to join so it uses her name and not Megan's. What do you think???

Luck? What's that?

So, I give up on luck. I decided, I don't want any luck anymore. I'm going to make my own luck. I decided, if I want things to happen, I'm going to do what I have to and make them happen, because this whole luck thing just hasn't been working for our family. So let's do it everyone!! It's kind of like the show I'm in. At this point in the semester, I'm really tired, and our rehearsals are always really late, so by the time we meet, we're all dead with no energy to speak of. But this show is super high intensity energy level. But if I just expect energy to magically come to me, nothing happens and I have a horrible rehearsal. But if I eat the right things a little before, and if we do the proper warm up exercises, then I have excess energy, and rehearsal is fantastic!! So, no more waiting and counting on luck! I'm going full force after what I want!!!
So, rehearsal is going fantastic. I got a compliment from my director last night, which really made me happy, because I hadn't really been happy with my performance. She said I found a lot of really good physical positions and pointed it out to everyone. That boosted my confidence: hopefully it's there tonight as well. I love this show and am so excited to perform it in three weeks! It's going to be awesome!!!
The weather today was so nice too!! It reached like 45 degrees I think!!!!! It was great and I wanted to lay outside and have a picnic!! I didn't have time, but I did walk around with no gloves on, and I studied outside on a bench without a coat and it felt marvelous to know the sun still radiated heat!!!!
School is going great: I love school. Today in make-up, though, I almost died!! My skin felt like it was going to tear away! Literally!!! We were doing old age make-up, and so we used latex to create wrinkles on our faces. Do you know how you get latex off? You just tear it!! It's latched onto your precious sensitive skin, and you just rip it! I didn't have the courage to do it to myself and had to have a friend do it. That stuffed just grossed me out when it was on me. And I think I lost all the hair on my face when I ripped it off. The picture I posted here is like a week ago when we did middle aged: that was pretty fun.
Anyway, I'm neglecting homework that's due tomorrow morning, so I better get to it so I'm not up till 2 in the morning again! I'm so tired!! But oh, life is so good!
And I get to finish the fourth season of '24' this weekend!!!! ;)

I love you all!!!!!

Oh, and did you all know that this is a real saying: "Hell bent for leather"? My director said that the other night and we all looked at her like she was crazy!!!

Message from MOM

hi, It will take me too long to actually write something on this computer as I am doing one letter at a time! Yea........taking a senior class teaches you something. (not much but something) Well got to go watch American Idol. I am not sure why because we always get mad but we are addicted!!!! Loved all the pictures --- didn 't know Megan put that lovely picture of me in the shorts. Love you all
MOM


yea! yea! yea! yea! yea! yea! yea! yea! yea! yea! yea! yea! yea! yea!

If we changed our name, would the bad luck go away?????

Okay, not the most positive of titles, but....we've had a pretty hard week...month....year....decade? I'm not sure who won the megalotto (probably a CEO or someone who had already won) but it wasn't US-and we were so hoping for that money! As the rest of CA I"m sure. And then Christian wasn't feeling too good about his court appearance. And...well, you get the idea. Someday we're going to have some GOOD luck, right? As for me...there's lots of drama going on at work as we're discussing some changes for next year. Things we didn't want changed are going to be and things we DID want changed, aren't. They set up a last minute open house this saturday just for us in the ECE to try to fill up the spots and none of us were very happy about giving up another Saturday (four total, five counting our night meeting with Las Madres) especially as everyone has kids in sports, etc. Why do you suppose there's always drama? I'm in a 'designing a webpage' class which I"m actually having fun in. I just have a working webpage right now, but I'll let you know when I actually have some sort of site up so you can all ooohhh and aaaahhhh. It's an online class which I love, and the teacher seems really nice-actually more interested in having us getting it right as opposed to just giving out back grades. Live Oak baseball is in full swing and we've won our 3 games (knock on wood). Stephen made two of our four winning points yesterday so that was exciting. The weather has been BEAUTIFUL here and they say it might actually get up to 78 on Sunday. Very nice.

Hey Guys, I think that I finally figured out how to work this thingamajig. I recently paosted pics form a road trip that I took to the Grand Canyon with two of my best friends over President's Day weekend. Check them out on our family website. School and studying for the LSAT are killing me but I still love life. I'll post again soon and let's hope that we can get this site going.

Can You Find the Y?

Can you find the Y????? (There's a white Y painted on the side of the mountain!! It took me awhile to find it, and I look at it everyday!!)

Don't worry Bets, I think three inches of snow anywhere is too much!! We've been hit again here with snow, and it is soooooo cold!!!! I don't like it! I keep dreaming of California in the summer... even California in the winter with it's 6o degrees of "cold" weather. 60 degrees... whatever. That's sandals and shorts weather here! But, I would definitely go for any Cali weather, no matter what it is, any day of the week!!
But hey, Skylar's school got canceled with 3 inches of snow??!!?? That's amazing!! At BYU-Idaho, it had to reach -30 before they would cancel school! True story! It happened in January!! My poor friends...
Hey, no giggling about Kiely with glitter on: do you have any idea how long it takes to get that stupid stuff off???? Forever!!! I'm going to die in 60 years with glitter still on my face and hair! Annoying!! But, I figure, taking this class and suffering for a little, my kids are going to have the coolest face paint designs on Halloween!! :)
Bets, you, competitive???? What???? I never would have guessed!!!! ;) But keep it up, because it keeps us beating the boys in football every Thanksgiving!!

I miss you guys!!!!! Have a wonderful week! Megan, I want to hear from you too!! Since this seems to be just a couple of the Smith girls... Boys are stupid! Oh, sorry, a feeling of late... :p Girl Power!!!! Love you all!!