The Girls

These girls are definitely related. They both like making crazy (and maybe Abigail's is a little scary) faces for the camera.

And another Smith kid rite of passage....the bang trim that makes you look like a boy. Jeremy called Olivia 'sir' for most of the day yesterday. Ha ha. At least I haven't cut one of their ears yet, which is what another mom was telling me happened to her when she first tried to trim her kids bangs. I almost poked Abigail in the eye, but I digress.

We were supposed to be in Tahoe this weekend but the combination of a winter storm warning on Friday, the potential 6 hour drive with two kiddos, a 13 year old Saturn without 4-wheel drive, and remembering that we would all be sleeping in one room for maybe a few hours of sledding, we decided to stay put. We had a great weekend together - Friday we went to the Burtchs and let Abigail watch two movies so that we could play some games. Saturday morning we went to Digger's Diner (a family-friendly biker hangout nearby our place) for breakfast for an amazing caramel pecan waffle and a cinnamon roll that not only had frosting on top but also a huge glop of butter. Awesome! Since it was only 8:30am by that point we headed out to the Lafayette Reservoir. It was a beautiful day and Abigail loved playing at the playground at the end. Jeremy was so kind to let me run around it once too. His only complaint was that we were paying money to walk (which he said that we could have done at home - but not in the beautiful hills and on a paved trail with much of Walnut Creek's upper crust and their dogs). We even saw one dog being pushed around in it's own stroller. Yikes! That night we had some friends over for tri tip and the kids played outside for several hours.

One fun memory...Jeremy was asking Abigail what she wanted to do on Saturday and she said to have some family time together. There will come a time when I know this won't be her desire but it was fun to hear that now. We also learned Abigail's interpretation of what Passover was, which was fairly accurate. She said that the Israelites 'died' a lamb and had to put the blood (ie red sparkle glitter glue on her picture) over the door of their house so that that angel wouldn't get them. We are praying that one day she will come to know in a personal way the fullfillment of that picture, Jesus Christ!