3.28.13

 Wow it's been a LONG time since i've updated.  I miss it.  So i'm going to try and update more, even just for my journaling.  And a reason to sort through all my zillions of pictures.

 I am one very blessed mama to have these cute babies in my life!

Boston at age 5 is in preschool and loving it.  He is so loving and always knows how to make his momma feel like a princess by telling me how beautiful I am and how much he loves me everyday.  He is the world's best big brother.  Such a good helper and such a good example to his little brothers.  He is gaining a little testimony and it just melts my heart every time he tells me how much he loves Jesus.  He loves power rangers, playing soccer, tball, swimming, riding his bike and scooter and playing with his friends.Carter at age 3 is in sunbeams and loves being part of his very own class.  He wants to be just like his big brother and pretty much is.  He makes sure he's not left out of anything and makes sure to keep up with everything Boston does.  He loves playing power rangers by himself while laying in his bed (i'm not gonna lie, i like it too:), riding his bike, playing anything his brother plays, eating...especially treats, swimming, and playing with his friends.

 Dreyden at 9 months is the world's fastest crawler.  He figured out his independence once he started the army crawl at 5 months and took off from there.  He walks along furniture and has THE cutest smile and dimples.  Even though his stats don't show it, he loves to eat his baby food.  He will put anything that makes its way to his cute little fingers into his mouth.  He waves, gives high fives and tries his hardest to keep up with his brothers as well.   I'm really hoping he will walk before too long so he doesn't ruin his pants (and knees :) crawling around outside with all the warm weather.

I tried to pick out the highlights of us for the last little while so here we go!

 OUR SUMMERS:

Fireworks as always  Summer 2012

A trip to Green Canyon for a week full of camping and two a day swim lessons.  It was so much fun and Boston learned so much!  Can't wait to do it again this summer!

 I just love this picture.  Everything about it says summer.  Flip flops, popsicles, tanktops, shorts, barefeet, summer tans, and smiles filled with pure joy.  This was summer of 2011 and it was so fun for these kidlets.  Sad that Easton and Ellie moved...for the longest time, Boston was so sad about it.  Even to the point where he would wake up in the middle of the night      crying because one of his best friends moved.  Love these kiddos:)

                                

And the perfect end to our summers always with celebrating both their birthdays.  As sad I was the they had to share a birthday at first, I seriously wouldn't have it any other way.  They love it and so do I!  I swear these two were meant to be twins.  Heavenly Father just knew I needed them 2 years apart:)

Bost started preschool.  And seriously how cute is this picture??  Thank you pintrest!

Boston sang a solo at our ward christmas party this last christmas.  He did such an amazing job!  He has a natural talent for singing and glad he could share his talents with our ward.  Definitely a proud parents moment that day.

OUR VACATIONS:

Disneyland October 2012

 Carribean cruise with the Smith family May 2011

 South Dakota Randall Family Reunion June 2011

Cruise to the Bahamas with the Randall family December 2011

Hawaii with the Smith Family January 2012

OUR MISSIONAIRESThis cool kid came home from the New Dehli India Mission May 2012

And two weeks later this crazy kid left to the Bangalore India  Mission.  So proud of both of these cuties!

 OUR BABY:

About ready to pop! just waiting..

and waiting...the girls showed up one night to pretty me all up indian style complete with mehendi thinking our little man would show up soon....sadly all the mehendi faded because he decided he wasn't quite ready to come out yet:)

3 days after his due date, Dreyden Charles Smith came into our lives and has  forever changed us for the better.  It was like a happy reunion for these brothers see each other again!  I love watching how much they love this baby.

Daddy's loving building up his basketball and football teams.

And I was lucky enough to have this gorgeous be my nurse the first night.  Love my hospital stays so much for that reason!  I mean really...who gets a nurse that cute!

These amazing men helped bless our sweetheart.  Ryan gave the most beautiful blessing as he always does.  Words cannot express how grateful I am and how comforting it is to have the priesthood in my home.  So very grateful for my sweet husband I am!

Dreyden made his debut just before my mom's beautiful sister had to go back home to India.  So glad she got to meet him:)

Those are just SOME of our highlights of the last little while in our family..I really will try to keep this updated this time!

London

Well to start off, I first have to apologize for not posting for so long. But this time I really have good reason! Second, I have to apologize for the gazillion pictures I have and the bazillion new posts. It might be super long and boring for you or you might enjoy them but just so you know in advance! And you'll have to click on OLDER POSTS to see everything!

Carter and I had the amazing opportunity to go on a trip with my family first to London to visit some family and then on to India for a wedding. Since Carter is still a lap child, his ticket was hardly anything compared to mine so we decided to take him and I'm so glad we did! He got a fever the night before we left and was sick and getting his molars for the first three days in London. But after that, he was happy and then in India he was SO much fun! I've broken up the trip into different posts.

So we'll start with London! While there, we saw as much as we possibly could. So we were go go go the whole time. But it was so worth it.

There are so many amazing buildings and so much history. This is St. Paul's Cathedral

Inside the London Tower

My dad was calling this the London Bridge so we all thought this was the real London Bridge. And thought it was so cool...but after walking through it we found out that it is in fact the Tower Bridge and the real London Bridge really has fallen down and I guess is somewhere in Arizona?...not quite sure on the whole story, but it was still a cool bridge:)

One of the buildings in the London Tower is filled with all the crowns and jewels that all the past kings and queens have worn. They wouldn't let us take pictures inside so this is the best we got. But that was awesome seeing all the beautiful crowned jewels!

Ashlie's new boyfriend....:) This was a manikin on an old warship...I guess I didn't get a picture of the actual ship.

Big Ben...

Ok so i'll have to get other pictures from my brother and sister and repost, but Westminster Abbey was a beautiful building also.

This was my favorite. The Windsor Palace is a working palace and it is where the queen comes on the weekends.

She was there the day we were there and this is where she was staying. Too bad she never came out!

This is the view from the palace.

One building of the palace. We got to walk around a part of the palace and it was really cool because they still use most every room in the palace for functions and invite all kinds of royalty. It was amazingly beautiful inside. My favorite thing inside the palace was the queen's doll house. I'm not sure which queen it was, but she had a doll house made of the exact replica of the castle. The rooms were just as they were. Even the beds, the chairs, the plates and silverware were even real gold. Then she had all her dolls and their beautiful dresses.

I just love all the architecture. It was so beautiful!

The gang on a bus:)

Buckingham Palace. They only give tours during certain times of the year, and we missed it so we just walked around the outside.

These are the light posts surrounding the palace.

I bet the street is gorgeous in the spring and summertime!

Hampton Court. This is an old palace where King Henry VII lived.

So they let you take pictures and more so have an experience there. So we all got dressed up in these AWESOME cloaks!

King Henry liked to entertain the people who came to visit. This was the first room they would walk in to. This room was solely made to impress his visitors. Everything on the walls is guns and swords. It really was amazing. The guide was telling us that every 25 years, they take every gun down and take it apart completely to clean it and then put them all back up. It is a huge job, but by doing that, they have been able to preserve the original guns which is what these are...

Cute street. We got in trouble for "trespassing" here. It was kind of funny cause the guard came up to us and asked why we were just standing on some random person's porch to take a picture. I had this cute idea to have everyone stand on a different staircase, so you can see Dustin walking to his, but we got in trouble before he got there lol.

Our last day in London we went to the natural history museum. That is one amazingly huge museum. Carter's favorite part was the dinosaur section. He had gotten over his fever by then too and was able to finally just have fun and see all the cool dinosaurs and animals and everything else they had there.

Me and Ashlie sat in front of these mirrors for seriously like a half hour just laughing at ourselves. People probably thought we were crazy but hey we were having fun!

Paris

From London, Paris was only about a 2 and a half hour train ride. So we took the earliest train there and the latest train ride back to London. It was FREEZING that day!! So Sunitha, Carter and I ran to the Notre Dame and then ran over to the Eiffel Tower and then Hailie and Ashlie decided they were too cold also, so we went to a huge mall and stayed inside.

The Notre Dame is an amazingly beautiful building inside and out.

The art and the stainglass inside is breathtaking.

Inside the Notre Dame, if your wish you can light a candle and offer a prayer. You also had to pay to light a candle...

Just one of the doors on the side of the Notre Dame.

We were all bundled up!! I didn't realize how big the Eiffel Tower really is. This picture puts it in pretty good perspective I think. This is just the bottom of the Eiffel Tower.

I was walking through Costco the other day and walked past the art gallery. They had this exact picture from this exact angle selling! Maybe I should try and sale my beauty :)

Ok the background in this picture makes it look like it was a beautiful day outside. But it really was miserably cold! My dad's favorite thing to do with his grandkids! Carter someday will love this picture I think!

London and Paris were amazing! Thank you to Sunitha and David and their cute family for showing us around and letting us stay with you. I want to come back someday with Ryan and Boston in the springtime because I hear it is beautiful! We miss you guys already!