my family

How can I catch up?  It has been months since I have posted anything about our summer.  I still have the images from India’s birthday and party that haven’t made it up.  Not to mention the kids’ last day of school.  Ugh.  Well, here’s the “best of” photographs from the summer months:

India’s birthday party at the Adam’s Mystery Playhouse.  The kids really enjoyed the show.  I highly recommend this type of a party.  We only invited 5 kids which made it very affordable.

On the right is India’s passport photo.  The kids got passports in anticipation of our trip to Sydney, Australia in September.

From the top right: Ezra and his pals on the last day of school.  India at the Childrens Museum.  We visited a few times thanks to Ken who worked there just before moving to San Fran.  The boys got hair cuts, there is Zed in a fire truck getting his cut.  Ezra showing off his do while eating a taco at Chipoltle.  Zed posing for the camera, almost a Spock thing going.  Zed helping Anson retro fit the bathroom vanity which I stripped and varnished myself, thank you very much.  Thanks to my dad’s input.  The tile Anson put together for the hall bath.  I must find the before shots for this bathroom.  Anyone who has been to our house knows it is a night and day transformation.

Ezra demonstrating the robot dance for the camera, after a week at hip hop camp.  India in her costume after performing her skit she made up with friends in the theater camp.

Grandma and Grandpa Smith’s weekend visit was a blast.  Too bad it was so short!

ok, now I just need to post some shots from our 4th of July trip to Virginia and I’ll be caught up!

This is India playing at Ezra’s preschool on his last day of school. Her’s was two days earlier. She is excited for the various adventures the summer will bring, but I know she can’t wait to get back to school with her classmates in the fall.
What are your kids up to these days? Are they out of school yet? We’ve already had three weeks of vacation… is that right?! Yes, I think it is. Unbelievable.
Hopefully I can keep this blog updated more frequently throughout the summer. I’ve been the house painter these past two weeks. Did you know it takes for-ev-er to paint doors? I have painted 7, with 3 more to go. I will never get those 12 hours back. But I must say everything is looking so beautiful. I wish I had before pictures so you could go through them and say “ewwww”… then “ahhhh”. When the rooms looked like crap, I didn’t have a need to photograph their unique brand of crappyness. Once I do get around to shooting what things look like now, you’ll just have to trust me when I say everything looks much better.

If any of you are my friend on Facebook (or in real life) you know we have had some major work going on at our house. New floors, new mahogany wall, and I finally refinished the bathroom cabinetry.
Here is Zed showing off the new wall. Anson took out the outlet and the light switch so I don’t have to digitally remove them anymore.

More images to come of the changes we’ve made to the house. Oh and another Arapahoe Acres home shoot coming up too.

The annual Easter egg hunt on our street. Can’t get much better than that!

FYI: Ezra made the cute basket in preschool. We are doing no projects these days at home… unless it has to do with homework… oh and there are BIG plans for India’s 9th coming up. We’ll see how (and if) it comes together.

Where have the Smith’s been? Here, there and wishing we were anywhere but home.
A couple months ago our sewer line backed up and now we need new floors. (Be careful what is flushed down the toilet!) We have been living with a half torn up floor for about a month and this week the rest has been torn out. We are currently without a kitchen. But I have the use of the computer; which keeps getting unplugged and moved so I’ve lost the habit of being on it.
So if you have been wondering what has been going on over here, that about sums it up. Here are some photos of what our house looked like earlier today. It is now much, much worse.

If you want the full effect, come and visit. It’s crazy.