A dream come true

Since I have known Ron he has wanted a Toyota Land Cruiser. Over the years he would look at them online, drool over them when we saw them on the road, and dream of the day he would be a proud owner of one.  Recently Ron's DREAM came true! He purchased a 1970 Toyota Land Cruiser. His cousin Erick bought it several years ago, rebuilt it and made it into a pretty awesome truck. Erick recently decided to sell it and Ron JUMPED at the opportunity! Last month the truck arrived in all it's glory. It had a few hiccups along the way (ask Ron if you want the full story), but it got here and Ron has been beaming like a proud Papa over it ever since.

He has taken it out a few times to play. If Ron had his way he would take it out every weekend and spend two solid days in it. I think once the warm weather comes around that wish might come true as well. He has already gotten it stuck and I also have a feeling that will be occurring more frequently as well this spring/summer.

He has gotten the chance to work on it several times already! I think he loves this aspect of owning the truck too. Ron welcomes any chance of getting his hands dirty and figuring out how that hunk of metal works. I have to admit that I do love the truck as well. Maybe not as much as Ron, but I have always loved the old Cruisers and kind of wanted one. I think that I'm going to have to keep reminding myself of that when hours/days are spent 'playing' and 'working' on it!

Ada and Cate helping Ron on his truck! 

Kansas City

This weekend the whole Smith gang meet in Kansas City! The Kansas City Temple open house is currently being held and we thought it would be a great excuse to see the temple and meet up for a quick trip to all have fun together. We got into Kansas City Friday evening, had dinner and swam in the pool. 

The next morning we got up bright and early (6am, earlier for some of us) to head out to the open house. 

The temple was beautiful! I'm so glad that we were able to all be there together and see it. I hope that it is something Evie will always remember. After the temple we headed back to the hotel for some more swimming. We were lucky enough to meet our amazing cousin Shauna and her adorable little Lincoln for lunch at one of our favorite spots, Red Robin! We ended our trip in Kansas City by visiting Liberty Jail.

(PICTURE COMING)

We were all a little anxious to get on the road. We were hearing reports of bad weather waiting for us back in Lincoln and wanted to get back to town before it started or got really bad. We made most of the journey back without any problems. When we got close to Nebraska the rain started and we actually had to pull over and wait it out for a bit. It was raining so hard that we literally could not see in front of us and the wind felt like it could have moved the car more than we would have liked! It was scary. We heard on the radio that we were right in the area of a Tornado Warning and we all think that we were probably right on the outside of that cell. Once the rain calmed down we got on our way and made it home without any problems. 


It was a fast trip but a fun one with everyone! I am so thankful for the wonderful family I have been blessed with. I love them all so much and can't imagine the crazy world without them!