Peyton's Blessing

Sunday, December 20th was a big day for my sister and brother-in-law. They blessed their baby girl, Peyton Mae Smith. My brother-in-law did a great job! Peyton got a little fussy during the blessing but she was hungry and besides she is a baby and babies cry. We took some pictures in the foyer afterwards and they are found below. I can't believe that Peyton is already a month old, she just keeps getting bigger. She is a great baby and I love her so much!

Aunt Mikala holding Peyton after the baby blessing

Randy and I waiting in the foyer.

Four generation picture: Grandma Fairbanks, Megan Smith, Peyton Smith, and Great Grandma Earley.

The Smith Family

Jeff, Grandpa Fairbanks, Great Grandpa Earley, Megan, and Peyton.

The proud dad and his little girl!

This picture is of Peyton, Randy, myself, Mikala, and Brian.

Randy and I with baby Peyton.


The proud great grandparents. My grandma can't get enough of this cute little baby.

Snowmobiling in Paris

Today Randy, me, Jared, mom, and dad loaded up the pickup to drive to Paris, Idaho. We are trying to go snowmobiling as much as we can because Jared leaves for his mission on January 6th. It was a ton of fun and a very nice. We got all four snow machines for a ride and played around on Paris Flatts. Me and Diana got dumped off under a tree so the boys could go play out in the meadow. They were doing all sorts of tricks and having a blast. I drove one all by myself and I can't wait to do it again. We had a great time and cna't wait to go again.

I can't see!!!!

This past Saturday Randy, myself, Jared, Blake, and Danae decided to go snowmobiling up in Island Park. When we first were riding it was a lot of fun. It was really nice outside. After awhile of riding our goggles kept icing over from the freezing rain. We could only ride for two or three minutes at a time before we had to pull over to the side of the trail and de-ice our goggles using our bare hands. We stopped like 45 times and it was enough times that the next days our fingers and hands were sore from scraping the ice off of our goggles. Every time we stopped it seemed like it got colder and colder because of the humidity in the air. Our hands and feet were freezing and it was just miserable. We can't wait for our future snowmobiling trips and you will see posts about them as well but for now let's just say snowmobiling is not fun when you can only ride for two minutes at a time and you can't see worth beans!This is the windshield of the truck starting to get covered with ice from the freezing rain. We stopped twice just to get the ice off of the windshield in order to see to drive. It was cold enough too that we watched a crack in the window grow from one side to the other in like a minute or less.

This is me driving the snowmobile all by myself for the first time. It was a blast and I can't wait to do it again.

This is me again. I was having the time of my life! This occured before the icing of goggles and freezing rain.

Randy and I in the truck on the way to Island Park for snowmobiling.

This is what you get when you let your wife do your hair!

Courtney and I after she was all done messing with my hair.

Top view of the finished hairstyle.

I just have to say that this was all my wife's idea. She has been wanting to try and make my hair stand up for the longest time. It was finally long enough for her to try. I had to go to work one day and I finally gave in. She sat me down and put in gel, mousse, and hairspray. Let's just say I have never had so much crap in my hair. Of course Courtney wanted to take pictures so I gave into that too. I felt like the biggest goof but we had fun with it! I probably won't do this often but you never know with Courtney! I sure do love her!