Love from Nicaragua

Hey all! Mommy and I are alive and well in Nicaragua! We spent the majority of the week surfing with some local dudes that own a surf shop in town, listening to their stories and experiences and relating them to ours. Surfing is pretty common ground for most people here so it was a cool way to immerse ourselves in the culture...
It's been great seeing Mom after soo long and it has been rejuvinating for both of us to just CHILL!
Happy birthday to Roo! Mom and Dad, you have all teenagers now...wow!


Love you all and MISS YOU! Thought I'd send some pics :)


Emma

Heyro

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Check up on Emma on her adventures in Costa Rica!


Love you guyyys

Orcas Island 12 yr old scores hole-in-one

12 year old Orcas Island resident Roo Smith, a soon-to-be 7th grader at Orcas Christian School, secured his first hole-in-one at about 6:30PM on August 4th, 2009.

Hole Number 5 is a 153 yard downhill par 3, slanting right. Roo used his older sister's Callaway Big Bertha six iron, took his swing at his ball - a Nike Super Soft PD1. As Roo describes it, "it like went through two branches and then it landed and hit a pinecone or something - it had a pretty unnatural bounce - and then rolled down the hill near the green and slowed, then dropped in to the cup." Roo continues, "I felt really happy and sorta light headed." As luck would have it, the owner of Orcas Island Country Golf Club, Matt Taylor, was in a foursome on the next hole, when Roo calmly informed him, "Matt, I just got a hole in one". Taylor chuckled as if it were a joke, and then Roo walked over to the cup and pulled out the ball.
San Juan Islander link is here

http://www.pnwlocalnews.com/sanjuans/isj/sports/52528382.html

Emma Smith Live on WVEW 107.7 in VT

Emma will be playing live on WVEW 107.7 in Brattleboro VT at 9AM EST (6AM PST) on Tues, July 7th, 2009.

To listen online, go to the WVEW site - http://www.wvew.org/

and to hear a few of Emma's songs, go to www.thepacficnorthwest.org/music.html

Michael Jackson

Keeping with the spirit of random postings here:

The frenzy around Michael Jackson's memorial (1.2m tix) - reminds me of the great time Maddy and I had seeing "Thriller Live" - www.thrillerlive.com - when we were in London. Who would have guessed at that time? - but I'm really glad we got to go together.

I think we need to see a Roo and Gage Thriller video!

New Video :)

Adorable Chaos

Hey all! This may be a quick post because I'm on my iPod but WOAH my days have been busy! Tomorrow is the final performance and all of about three kids know their lines. Four if you count Sammi-Sammi is hard of hearing because of her Downsyndrome so her aid Shiela has a microphone that she wears, so everything Sammi hears is picked up in Shiela's microphone. Shiela often just whispers into it though, giving Sammi directions\her lines and calling herself "the voice in Sammi's head" :).
Everyone has an elaborate costume though and with all the lights, everything has really come alive. If there are 8 kids with Downs and 4 with autism wandering the stage at least it will be in style!
The town here is great, though it's been RAINING! After having dinner with Milton and Emma last night (they send TONS of love), Aunt Erin and I literally drove into a thunderstorm it was great!
Eeep we made pie and are diving in...

I love and miss you all!

Love
Emma

Not Smith's Blog

Here are a few blogs that are NOT this Smith family...

Down Economy affects Lemonade Stands
11 Smiths for Huckabee
Smith Family Space
Successful Smiles blog

Seriously, though - this is cool....

New Blog!

Well welcome to the official Smith family blog! Here we can all post stuff, like new movies, poems, pictures, etc. for everyone else to see!

So feel free to post anything, I emailed everyone the username and password.

-CB