tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-15438992568277342502024-02-07T21:49:26.732-07:00SmithpixAaron Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00163750561791106677noreply@blogger.comBlogger315125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1543899256827734250.post-55139620101361888622015-01-26T20:26:00.000-07:002015-01-26T20:27:47.440-07:00Eagle of the Month<br />
Aimee and I got a call last Thursday to let us know Avyrlie was chosen as the Eagle of the Month for her class and there would an award ceremony the following Monday.<br />
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It is a bit sad that I have had kids at Silver Mesa for the past 10 years and had no idea what the Eagle of the Month is awarded for.<br />
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Turns out, it is an award for following the rules and being on time to school. Rule following is completely Avyrlie's wheelhouse, but she had never been nominated before because ONE of her parents doesn't do 'on time' at any location without fountain Diet Coke available.<br />
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Avyrlie really loves her teachers this year and loves excelling at school. She has had to work hard in school and this year she has started to see it pay off. It doesn't come as easy as it did for her brother, but unlike him, she cares about each missed point or percent and keeps track of every test and assignment due date. When Avyrlie shows up (on time or not), she shows up to win.<br />
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Probably due to his great love of table food, Sora is quite the ham carver and seems to know where all the best slices are.<br />
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Unfortunately, the excitement of glazed meat triggers another of his hidden talents: consistent urine aiming. He managed to hit my left big toe every time! Next visit we are planning to reenact the Karate Kid fly catching scene, just without the chopsticks :D<br />
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<br />Aaron Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00163750561791106677noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1543899256827734250.post-49525429817170752632013-12-21T12:00:00.000-07:002013-12-21T12:00:34.427-07:00We're on to you...So, it turns out that Kim, Matt, and likely even innocent little Stockton have been playing a rather elaborate prank on the rest of the clan.
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Sora.
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As if the gender confusion of the naming scheme wasn't quite enough for their personal amusement, they decided to take it to beyond the next level.
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They have trained Sora to whine the phrase "You are doing it wrong!" and abscond with random objects unless you scratch his crotch.
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How did I come to this realization? Well, I am generally not much of a social crotch scratcher (no, really, you're thinking of Aimee), so it took a happenstance occurrence for me to stumble across this diabolical punking.
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As per the usual routine, Sora bounded excitedly to me with a shoe/sock/pan/sink proudly displayed in his jowls and proceeded to incessantly whine his well-trained catch phrase. As I reached to give him his hard earned scratch on the ears, he executed a ninja jump-roll-double-A-button maneuver which somehow ended with me scratching his crotch.
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Magically, the dog was suddenly normal. Alas, as soon as the crotch scratching ended (which was immediately. Again you are thinking of my more disturbing half...) the poor pranked-out pooch returned to his anxiety ridden klepto self.
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We are now working on training Liza to play bagpipes until she gets her nightly enema.
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Delighted Diabolical Demon<BR>
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<b>Location Scouting</b><br />
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<b>Catching Insane Air (Ian would be jealous)</b><br />
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<b>Chilling with Dad. Obviously the best part :)</b><br />
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Aaron Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00163750561791106677noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1543899256827734250.post-21423960721397172722012-07-06T20:48:00.001-06:002012-07-06T20:48:47.324-06:00At the moviesAt the movies<div class="separator"style="clear: both; text-align: center;"><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7gxequ_JqbnrknLLQBX1M4jE9qWL4T7hyphenhyphenDigudd8-SKRB7KCEYBR-k0I-2kNzQ6L1boIJYePTWqTPPF3Yi5-PiTc74acpKFQZ93xNUy4I76xYctsPbZiT4hcMz8tMam3W5SrP4XELlgo/s640/blogger-image-196519151.jpg" imageanchor="1" style="margin-left: 1em; margin-right: 1em;"><img border="0" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEj7gxequ_JqbnrknLLQBX1M4jE9qWL4T7hyphenhyphenDigudd8-SKRB7KCEYBR-k0I-2kNzQ6L1boIJYePTWqTPPF3Yi5-PiTc74acpKFQZ93xNUy4I76xYctsPbZiT4hcMz8tMam3W5SrP4XELlgo/s640/blogger-image-196519151.jpg" /></a></div>Aaron Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00163750561791106677noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1543899256827734250.post-17055098047326367512011-12-10T16:58:00.001-07:002011-12-10T16:58:01.617-07:00Sparring Sweetie<div style="text-align: left; padding: 3px;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/eouio/6422854817/" title="photo sharing"><img src="http://farm8.staticflickr.com/7158/6422854817_55663003cc.jpg" style="border: solid 2px #000000;" alt="" /></a><br /><span style="font-size: 0.8em; margin-top: 0px;"><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/eouio/6422854817/">spix101124_25073</a>, originally uploaded by <a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/eouio/">eouio</a>.</span></div><p>My cute little Avyrlie gets to test for her orange belt next Saturday. If/when she passes, she gets to start gearing up a couple times a week for sparring. I'm hoping she has more fighting instinct than her brother did at 6...</p>Aaron Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00163750561791106677noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1543899256827734250.post-44720376181547168472011-11-20T21:28:00.001-07:002011-11-21T19:51:20.539-07:00From Avyrlie<div style="text-align: left;">
Avyrlie asked me to snap a couple pictures of her tonight. This is what she wanted to share with you:</div>
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<br />Aaron Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00163750561791106677noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1543899256827734250.post-83593046397963910252011-11-07T06:27:00.001-07:002011-11-07T06:49:50.850-07:00Epic HalloweenThis year the tide of Halloween seemed to ebb and flow during a week long battering from saves of candy. <br />
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Avyrlie had an event per day -<br />
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<li>Thursday: Church lot trunk-or-treat</li>
<li>Friday: Spooky Cubicles at Aimee's work</li>
<li>Saturday: Trick or Treating at Grandma's neighborhood party</li>
<li>Sunday: Sunday-School sweets</li>
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By Monday she was bit burned out on the whole candy thing and would probably have loved to get a couple toothbrushes and just hang out with friends rather than gather selections of sweets from the neighborhood.<br />
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She is way more into Halloween as a social event than as a crazed cavity convention, and her Bah-Humbug brother didn't manage to leave the X-Box to answer a single trick-or-treater! Truth be told, we only answered 8 candy requests at our place. Avyrlie's angry pumpkin must have scared them away ;)<br />
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I picked up Avyrlie this afternoon and this was our conversation on the way home.<br />
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Avyrlie - "Does anyone in the world die?"<br />
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Me - "Yes, everyone dies someday."<br />
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Avyrlie after bursting into tears - "But I don't want to ever die!"<br />
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Me - "Why not?"<br />
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Avyrlie between sobs - "Because I just like this world sooo much!"<br />
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Me - "It will be a long time before you will ever die."<br />
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Avyrlie now smiling again - "Yeah, and you will die way before me too."Aaron Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00163750561791106677noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1543899256827734250.post-78088275585884844812011-05-15T09:12:00.001-06:002011-05-15T09:12:48.609-06:00The Proof is in the Strawberry<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/eouio/5697888307/" title="First Strawberry by eouio, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm4.static.flickr.com/3275/5697888307_decee57c99_z.jpg" width="640" height="378" alt="First Strawberry"></a><br />
Avyrlie has been gathering evidence to make her case that summer will indeed arrive this year at some point. I'm not much of a summer fan and tease her quite a bit that summer is not happening this year, but maybe when she's 12.<br />
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One of the proof's she has been looking for is the first strawberry. Her and Aimee both make a very strong association between strawberries and summertime. Every time we arrive home the first thing she has done is check the strawberry patch for signs of summer's arrival, and the other day she finally found her proof: the very first strawberry starting to grow :)Aaron Smithhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00163750561791106677noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1543899256827734250.post-73204071933817014722011-05-15T09:06:00.001-06:002011-05-15T09:07:12.428-06:00Bird Murder aka Liza's Absolution<a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/eouio/5697888609/" title="Murder Scene by eouio, on Flickr"><img src="http://farm6.static.flickr.com/5109/5697888609_3fae46caa2_z.jpg" width="640" height="480" alt="Murder Scene"></a><br />
We have arrived home on several occasions to find the above pictured 'bird murder' scene in our front yard. For whatever reason, Aimee decided that Liza had acquired a taste for quail and was sneaking out of the back yard to pounce on unsuspecting quail.<br />
A couple problems with this theory are that quail are very suspicious little birds and Liza's stalking skills are something like a giraffe practicing yoga. Just not likely, but still the accusation stood. Until recently.<br />
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Avyrlie and I came home the other day just in time to see a hawk swoop into the front yard atop a herd of quail, land on its chosen victim, and squeeze it until it quit moving. Ian arrived home shortly after and saw the hawk take off with its meal to find a quiet place for dinner.<br />
Sadly for Liza, Aimee witnessed none of this and still harbors some suspicions ;)<br />
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During her first game we were still a bit unsure. She came off in tear once after getting kicked in the back of the knee and seemed to spend the rest of the game practicing her ballerina soccer dance. Very cute. Not competitive.<br />
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Today, for her second game she caught on to the whole scoring and teamwork concept. I don't try to push either kid to be overly competitive, but I do hope they at least catch on to the general point of the game. Today Avyrlie caught on that it is not actually ballerina soccer dancing ;)<br />
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After the tournament, we headed up to the red rocks just north of town to walk around a bit and see the sights. Also, I wanted to show the kids the cliff their mom jumped off on our first date. <br />
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Aimee and I went down to St. George with some friends to bum around and hike a bit. After several trips to Zions and some slight exaggerating, Aimee had me convinced that she liked the out of doors. She had not yet specified that her style of outdoors was hanging out in the backyard by the pool with an unlimited supply of Diet Coke, electrical outlets and enough artificial nighttime lighting to suntan under. Turns out, the lighting was an especially important detail...<br />
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Incorrectly assuming that Aimee was as happy to be out hiking the day away as I was, we ended up straggling behind and didn't get heading back to the car until dusk. I was now unaware of two important facts: Aimee is has no depth perception in anything less than full sunlight and after hiking around aimlessly for several hours she was more likely to leave me behind for dead than listen to anything I had to say.<br />
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The first drop-off we came to was about 4 feet. Angry Aimee was not excited about going around it and insisted we just slide down. I managed to talk her around it and in doing so, used up the last tiny shred of patience she didn't have in the first place. <br />
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The second drop off, in the pic below, was slightly higher than the first. I pointed out the fact that the car was parked way down below us and that the path forward meant certain death. All she heard was, "The car is right there and if you get to it first you can leave me for dead."<br />
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Thinking I had made clear the imminent peril before her, I turned to head around and down to the car. I will never forget the 'WHOOSH, THUD' sound I heard immediately after turning around, or the absence of Aimee when I turned back around.<br />
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After a minute's panic as I ran down the hill and found that she was still alive and mostly unbroken, I decided she was probably just entertaining enough to keep dating. <br />
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Ian played a great game and had one of the 9 try's. He plays an aggressive game and is really enjoying the sport. I love watching the matches and have maybe found a sport I can get into. I'm not much of a sports fanatic, but the fast paced intensity of rugby is pretty addicting. <br />
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Saturday's game was windy and cold but there were quite a few brave fans out to cheer including Grandma and Grandpa Sutliff. Next weekend they head down to St. George for some tournament play and warmer weather.<br />
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<span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: x-small;"><i>(Ian's try in Saturday's match. You can hear the cows cheering in the background ;)</i></span><br />
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It has been a steep learning curve for him and us with this being his first year playing. The rules and terminology take a bit of getting used to, but we are all liking the game the more he plays and learns. It is much more of a coordinated team effort than football and definitely more fast paced and action packed. <br />
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Thanks to everyone who came out to support Ian in spite of the last minute time schedule changes. He loves having fans, and all the more because it's family. He's spoiled with support and we love you all for it :)<br />
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