Big Dates For The Smith Family In 2019
1/ 6 Charles turned 13 which meant we now had 2 teens in the house
1/13 Elisa visited her mom in WA
4/4 Elisabeth made high school cheer
4/9 Charles had weekly baseball games. Fall he played basketball.
4/29 Jane was the speech festival finalist for her classroom.
5/21 Nora had a tumbling performance.
6/26 Drove to Oregon to visit family. While there, we also made a day trip to Redwood forest. It was Scott and the kids first time visiting California.
7/4 Family reunion in Idaho with Elisa’s family.
7/18 Elisabeth got her drivers’ permit.
7/25 Scott & Elisa celebrated 16 years of marriage in Park City, riding horses & doing ziplines.
8/17 Elisa made a weekend trip to WA to visit her mom and they stayed in the San Juan Islands.
9/7 Scott did a sprint triathlon.
9/14 Elisa ran the Cottonwood Canyon Marathon and qualified for Boston.
9/20-21 Salt to Saint Relay- Scott did a cycling relay race with some friends. He took a pretty bad fall, but thank goodness he was wearing a helmet because it got really beat up.
9/29 Elisa led her 4th primary program (children’s choir at church).
10/18 Grandma and Grandpa Smith came for a visit.
10/19 Annabelle started soccer again, and Scott coached.
11/6- Elisa’s mom passed away. Elisa and all her siblings were there with her mom who had struggled with pancreatic neuroendocrine tumor cancer for 10 years.
11/16 Jane had her first gymnastics showcase.
11/22 Charles chipped his two front teeth...they were repaired immediately, but he will one day need a crown or two, and possibly a root canal.
Books Read:
1. Washington: A Life by Ron Chenrow (Even though I finished it this year, I started this 2 years ago. It's massive and I was listening to it on audible) @
2. When Breath Becomes Air by Paul Kalanithi
3. Daring Greatly by Brene Brown @
4. Mindset by Carol S Dweck @
5. Clean and Lean by Dr Ian Smith
6. Body Love by Kelly LeVeque
7. Beauty by Robin McKinley
8. The Last Word by Samantha Hastings
9. Promises and Primroses by Josi Kilpack @
10. The Broken Road by Richard Paul Evans @
11. Big Magic by Elizabeth Gilbert
12. The Truth About Miss Ashbourne by Joanna Barker
13. Educated by Tara Westover
14. The Lincoln Hypothesis by Timothy Ballard
15. The Whole-Brain Child by Daniel Siegel
16. Angel by Danielle Carriere
17. Girl Stop Apologizing by Rachel Hollis @
18. Russell M Nelson: Father, Surgeon, Apostle by Spencer J. Condie
19. Twelve Days of Christmas by Debbie Macomber
20. Book of Mormon
@= audible
My goal for this year is to finish 24 books, or about 2 per month.
