THE GREINERS: 2011

Thursday, December 29, 2011

Austin @ Christmas

Christmas Day at the Smith's

Crawlin'

Blue Eyes!

I think this is my favorite one!

Crazy kid!

Can you see his teeth??

BLUE-EYED BOY!!!

Thursday, December 22, 2011

Tuesday, December 20, 2011

This is a little late, he's closer to eight months now than seven, but our boy is getting so big! The month of November was filled with a lot of fun activities, advancements, and happy times! November 2 was Austin's 7-month birthday and we celebrated by hanging out with family and friends. Austin is now "ghetto" crawling by being on one knee and one foot, he's actually very efficient with this method and is racing around our place on a daily basis! He is also walking along ALL the furniture, but his favorite are the fish tank stand and the TV table. He's a little unstable on his feet which has caused him a lot of crashes, most of which involved bumping his head on something, but our little trooper just shakes it off and moves onto the next thing. I'm so worried about having a girl in the future...sheesh, no crush/kill/destroy attitude? What will I do with myself? :)
We had a big month as a family. We got to spend time exploring outside, going for runs, swimming, playing, and learning. Gregor is doing great at work, he's now the retention manager at Bluehost and kicks butt at his job. I'm staying busy teaching violin and elementary strings along with trying to keep up with a VERY adventurous Hammer-baby. We spent November helping out my brother, Kyle, to get out on his mission to Ventura, California by taking him around shopping, helping him pack, going through the temple and psyching him up for the next two years. I know he's going to be a GREAT missionary and I couldn't be prouder of my lil' brudder.
Thanksgiving was wonderful and spent with my mom's family. We had a huge dinner at John and Shammah's with tons of food and FOOTBALL. Everyone took naps after dinner and on Friday we hit the stores! I'm not a big Black Friday person, so we skipped the crazy morning crap and went in the afternoon. Still able to catch some sweet deals, I took care of a lot of Christmas presents in one day. Pretty sweet!

Austin and Daddy chill-axin!

SO TRUE!

Candice and I doing an earring ad for my friend, Alicia. She rocks, no?

Large and in charge!

Let's just say we laugh A LOT in our house

Bath time with my little water-baby!

Ahh, I wanna cry with this one! Austin and Ky have a special bond.
They're two peas in a pod, I know they miss each other!

Cute!

Crazy kid!

Modeling his new Santa hat

My boys. Best friends. Love them!

I re-arranged the living room. It was driving me crazy! Ignore the nasty carpet, please.

Austin just LOVED Santa, can't you tell?

Well, even as I am writing, the boy just woke up and needs his mom...Joys of parenthood, huh? Life is great, we're happy, healthy, and looking forward to a wonderful Christmas!

Monday, November 28, 2011

Frank Fox and Mrs. Feathermaster's Pies

My Dad, Mark Smith, has written a childrens book entitled, Frank Fox and Mrs. Feathermaster's Pies. It's the story of Frank Fox, an inhabitant of Fromby Forest who loves mischeif and most of all PIE! Its a great children's story book that has been created from the childhood stories my dad would tell us when we were kids. After many years of all of his kids telling him to publish, he finally has! The book is beautiful and will be for sale on Amazon this coming January, but if you would like to get a copy through me earlier, let me know!!! The book is selling for $16.95 and I can get you as many copies as you want! It would make a great Christmas present and would also help us to get the book out to the public!

Tuesday, November 15, 2011

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Sunday, November 6, 2011

6 Months with the Hammer

November 2nd marks Hammer's 6 month birthday!!! As a celebration of being with us for 6 whole months, we decided it was time to introduce a couple new solid foods...Yea for sweet potato puffs and Arrowroot cookies! Its been fun to introduce Austin to new things and solid foods are a big one! This past month has been awesome. We've had a lot of fun experiences and learned a lot as a family. Here's a breakdown of a few of our October adventures:

At Thanksgiving Point

Sisters...sisters!

Austin loves playing the infant games on the Fisher-Price website

And playing the bongos...

At BYU on a lazy Saturday

BLUE eyes

We had a fun evening in my parents backyard. We made a big campfire, roasted marshmallows, and talked all night. So fun!

See? Our fire was nice and HOT!

I had to splurge when Candice, Kyle, Austin and I went to the Gateway in early October. Gotta make my baby a UTE!

I should have put this in the last post, but this is Kyle opening his mission call. Ventura, Baby!!!

My dad gave us some newborn pictures of Austin that we'd never seen. Made me cry!

My angel baby!

Gregor's grandparents were able to come out from Texas and spend a weekend with us. It was AWESOME! We had such a great time with them and Austin took to them so quickly! Especially Opa. Austin was sad to see them go so he held Opa's hand the whole way to the airport. So CUTE!

We had to show Gutti and Opa the Alpine Loop. They came at just the right time to see the beautiful leaves. All Opa could say was "beautiful!" It made my day!

Yeah, I took that...wat up?!

Me and my Honey...Love this Man!

Kyle was watching Austin for us one day and said he just kept trying and trying to get him to sleep. So he finally just laid down with him and then passed out himself! I had to take a picture, it was so cute!

Austin is a speed crawler and he LOVES textures. Grass, sand, carpet, fur, it's all good. Playing in the grass and Grandma and Papa's was a great time.

This face just screams trouble!

Playing in the grass.

Halloween was the best! Austin was Yoda...I haven't laughed that hard in a long time! He didn't like his costume too much, so I was grateful we at least got a couple pictures of him smiling!