Machine "Thing"

My mom got an email from a friend, and this was attached to it.


The machine was built by the effort between the Robert M. Trammell Music Conservatory and the Sharon Wick School of Engineering at the University of Iowa.

Amazingly, 97% of the machines components came from John Deere Industries and Irrigation Equipment of Bancroft, Iowa ... yes, farm equipment!

It took the team a combined 13,029 hours of set-up, alignment, calibration, and tuning before filming this video but as you can see it was WELL worth the effort. Enjoy!

It's My Turn!

I thought that I should put in my own two cents about the Smith family these days....

So far, the summer has flown by. Even though I was a lame mom and completely missed the lines to sign up for baseball, swimming lessons, and soccer camp etc. We still seem to be running around crazy taking care of business. I'm kind of glad that I haven't had those other obligations, and the boys seem to be just fine anyway. Nevertheless, Jamison is taking french horn lessons, Hannah has piano, and of course there's always lots of cub scouts and church activities. This last month for young women's we did a campout, a day hike to natural water slides, a temple trip to Denver, where we took everyone on the light rail downtown where we went on a field trip. My favorite part was seeing a guy with long black dreadlocks wearing a "matching" fuzzy tarantula on top of his head. Then we traveled 3 hours to and back from camp to give a young women's fireside. That's a long ways! Then of course David and I chaperoned the youth dance and hour away. (We snuck out and went out for dinner...now that was fun!) Next on the list, is a ward campout I'm in charge of. I think I could use a deep breath at this point.

In the mean time I've decided to train for a half-marathon. I'm pretty excited about it since my New Year's resolution was to run 1 mile around the loop of our house without stopping and yesterday I was able to go on a 9 mile run. David has also been working out, he looks great from the weightlifting and we try to run together, although, he runs way, way faster than me!

This week my sister LaDawn is coming to visit for the 4th, (Hurray), and so we'll be busy partying day and night! Hope is all well with you, I love reading your blogs and feeling "in touch".

Broom Trick

When my Uncle Stephen and his friend came to visit the family here in CO, they taught us kids this cool trick. Note: My mom told me to introduce what I was doing, and it was kind of lame, so just ignore it....any way, enjoy!

The heavy breathing in the background is Cedric. He is in love with cameras....

Swimming

Today, we went swimming, something new.(HA!) Spencer is always the adventurous child, so he figured out how to do a front flip of the unbouncable diving board. Hopefully the video will turn out.

Cool, huh!

Summer

I got back from Gir ls' Camp ( which was last week )on Friday, so then I had to prepare for a talk in Sacrament Meeting, on Sunday about my experiences at Gir ls' Camp. It was a blast going to camp! I learned to appreciate living with dirt, wearing it, and some what eating it.
Since then, life has been the same, like swimming almost everyday, hanging out with family, and enjoying the sun.

Fire Pit

On Sunday, we got a little bored! So we decided to set up a fire in our back yard fire pit.
LOL! I wonder what kind of face Kyle is showing?
Isn't it so pretty?

Cool Hair

Here is a shot of Cedric in a new style of hair!

As usual, Cedric and Spencer together. This time both with spiky hair.