Long overdue....

I'll just start out with being honest.... Is anyone else sick of blogging? I pretty much never feel like it. I still like to look at other people's blogs, but to update my own is pure drudgery. I'm just sayin'.

Well, we are surviving the heat and loving summer. I have to say, Oklahoma is a pretty friendly place to live... everyone is SUPER nice, even perfect strangers everywhere I go. Maybe I was just used to East Coast folks being just a little more reserved and private. So far Oklahoma has been a pretty nice place to live. It is hot, humid and usually breezy all the time... the crazy, random, terrential rain and hail storms have been entertaining. We have lost some siding off the house acouple times (thank goodness we are renting so I just had to call up maitenance).

But despite the heat Ben LOVES to play outside. The poor kid sweats like crazy (got the sweaty Smith genes I think... yep that includes me, yuck). So, sweat, humidity, heat and all... he wants to go outside. Thank goodness we can come back inside to the air conditioning. How did people live here in the "olden days"... phew! Ben is learning to say all sorts of stuff... these are some of his words: Daddy! (his favorite person and word to say), car, wa-wa (water), sout-side (outside), soues (shoes), ca-ker (cracker), teesh (brush teeth), wow, uh-oh, versions of please and thank you and probably more that I can't think of at the moment.

He is a wild man and runs everywhere. He stumbles and falls all the time but doesn't seem to mind. He is still a pretty thick little kid so he sort of lumber-runs... its funny. He climbes up everything and gets into all sorts of stuff. Acouple weeks ago I called poision control for the first time... I found him with a stick of Kyle's deoderant and he had rubbed it all over him and there were some teeth marks in it... so I called P.C. to be sure he would be alright. It was fine... it turns out a little deoderant isn't posionous. :) He didn't miss a beat either... just smelled real sporty-like.

I have included some very RANDOM pics over the last few months... I really haven't taken any that are really worth sharing... just weird ones from around the house (I'm not good at getting the camera out very often). The pic at the top of the post is during our road-trip to Oklahoma. We stopped off for a break in St. Louis. So the pic is of us at the "Gateway to the West"... we walked under it to OFFICIALLY be moving back out west. :) Like I said, the rest of these are random and kind of dumb... but they were the best I had. Hope all-ya-all out there are well... Audios.

The Sorensen cousins, minus Will :( , swimming in UT.

We took a trip to the U of U bookstore, while in UT, to load up on Ute gear. Ben loved this stuffed Swoop. He was hugging him and giggling. Kyle was happy to see it. :) GO UTES!

Ben LOVES to swing. This is him swinging at a park in the OKC zoo. We also rode the train which he really loved too.

This is Kyle, asleep on the floor after a long night on-call in the Emergency Room. He was trying to play with Ben and fell asleep mid-play. Ben just sat there for a minute and stared at him, then decided daddy was a lost cause and got up and walked away. :)

Is it weird that I think Ben's crying face is so cute and funny. Yes, its werid, but it makes me laugh. I guess he's sad because his misses all of you!! "COME VISIT ME!!!" is what I think he is saying. :)