Just a quick post.

It was a busy weekend in the Smith house. We had Autumn and Summer Saturday night and since Jeff & Nay had Emma & Evan we all had a pizza party...7 kids and lots of pizza making. Then for breakfast Carli and Allison came over...7 kids and LOTS of french toast. It was fun though!

The new counter tops arrived yesterday so Jeff and I have lots of prepping to do. We need to clean the walls, spackle and paint before we can install them.

And Aunt Karen & Uncle Bill aare being wonderful and taking the kids to the Catskill Game Farm so we can get the counters done Saturday!!

Austin's 4th B-day

Mark your calendar
Friday Sept. 8th
5:30

pizza and cake

Cindy, Andy & baby Jessa will be here
RSVP (or leave a comment) please so I don't have too much pizza
all are welcome!

Connor update- he's doing great. We are getting a lot more vocalization from him. Also, I talked ot the genetics counselor yesterday. His chromosome stuidies came back normal...no Fragile X!!! His organic acid studies came back okay, but his amino acid studies had some abnormalities...specifically his lactate and pyruvate (and their ratio) was high. They are waiting on one more test result before they formulate a plan. First they will do a re-test. If they are still high then we will start looking into metabolic causes...whether it is diet related or something else.

I'll keep you all posted!

Many more pics going onto Kodak Gallery...if you want the link, let me know.

What a week! We spent the first part preparing to go camping, while Jeff was trying to finish his final project for school. It was all worth it though.

We left Friday mid day and camped with Jeff (aka yolk lentil spatula spank) and Nay (aka Where praytell might your keys be) and Ken (fire master), Mindy & Kaya. It was a great weekend...perfect weather...no mosquitos!

We got to Luzerne around 2pm to find Jeff and Nay trying to dry out from the previous night's rain. The sites are very wooded, not allowing for much sun. Jeff and I set up at the site next door, then he prepped the lantern. Jeff Layton was 'bright enough' to ask if Jeff was going to put new lentil's on the lantern...yeah, those would be MANTLES not lentils! Hence, part of his name. Nay earned her name by not once, but TWICE asking Jeff where his keys were...even though we were listening to his car stereo!

Ken, Mindy and Kaya arrived around 7:30 and the camping trip got under way. As I said the weather was perfect! It was a nice relaxing weekend...no kids to mind (well Kaya's ten, so it wasn't too much work), no clocks. We really did NOTHING. Wish we could do it more often! Here are some pictures.


Jeff, Nay, Ken, Mindy & Kaya's site
Below is the site Jeff and I stayed on










Below is the dinner Jeff and I cooked on Saturday night...chicken, pork and fried potatos...YUM! Jeff and Jeff even did the dishes...well no dishes, but all the pans and utensils, afterwards! What a treat!!


Below is our fire Saturday night. Ken is the fire master!











This would be the hammock that I spent my whole weekend in. It was nice and relaxing....hence my name Princess Penelope Bananahammock.











Packing to head home :(







Austin, Ben & Connor were VERY happy to have Mommy & Daddy home. Thank you everyone for watching our kids so we could enjoy a weekend away!

Wouldn't let me post the pictures yesterday...I'll try this again.




Austin & Ben on the trucks
Austin & Gramma Sandey on the roller coaster



Ben & Connor in the water fountains
The boys on the boats...the stupid worker took their seatbelts off and was going to let them climb out themselves!!!



Austin & Matthew on the trucks at Hoffman's