Clarifications and other family info

As this blog has progressed along, we realized that we may be unintentionally misleading some of you.
So now we will take a moment to make sure that all (if any) of our readers understand some of these things.
Firstly, someone asked me the other day why our blog is named Gus's Family. Well the answer is:
In the process of developing the blog, we tried to think of a "catchy" name, like some of the other family blogs that we have seen, but we realized that with the Smith last name, this can be hard, so we named the blog after our dog Gus. For those of you who may have thought that we had a secret hidden family member, we don't, this is just our effort at being clever. (you may be the judge as to how that worked out)

Secondly, I realize that the post lists Mike as the writer, this too is incorrect, in order to create the blog, you needed a compatible email address, his was compatible, hence, he gets the credits at the bottom. Now please don't get me wrong, he does contribute, either by choice or because living with him is just so fun, and he is always doing funny things that we can share.

We are now firmly entrenched in the routine of school and it is so nice to have the dinner schedule back on track. Let me explain, as our children are now getting older, and in order to help them become well rounded individuals, and because I now work full time, we created a dinner schedule. This is a huge help for me, as I now only cook 2 days a week, one of them being Sunday, and the kids each have a night in which they are responsible. I have to say that Mike and I are so impressed with the level of skill that they have developed and the diversity that they have shown us in the menu!! They even look up recipes on the internet and if we are missing ingredients, they purchase them on their own. We have enjoyed much success with this effort, except for Friday which is Mike and Reids' night, and that means that we usually have pizza or some other such thing! The girls keep bringing up the word"cheater" when we discuss this, but I think that secretly they are happy to eat the pizza!

Reverence in Church
This Sunday, our family, more correctly Jordanne, Dallas, and I got the giggles during sacrament. Now please don't misunderstand, as reverence has always been of the utmost importance to our family and it has been many years since we might have disturbed a meeting. Except for this Sunday, let me fill you in. Reid was passing the sacrament to our row, as Jordanne took the water, somehow (and I seriously do NOT know how), she managed to get the cup stuck onto her top lip. This then caused all of the water in the cup to pour directly down the entire front of her shirt. Now if that wasn't bad enough, she then began to panic, as the tray was passing her by, and she began to grab at the cup and twice was unable to dislodge her lip from the edge of the cup. Once she had reached the complete panic stage, she finally grabbed that little plastic cup and yanked it so hard that she almost pulled her lip off!! I am not exaggerating at all, and have yet to ever see anything so entirely funny in my life. Needless to say, I began to giggle, so did Jord and Dallie and each time we thought the situation was under control, someone would giggle just a little bit more. You must know also, that I am the YW President and we were sitting on the 4th row from the front right in front of the Bishopric.

We are all still repenting, and hoping that we will be forgiven.

Indian Summer

Like many of you, we are currently experiencing a fantastic heat wave. This weekend was Youth Conference and the girls and I all got sunburnt. I just have enjoyed the heat so much. We all have. Hopefully the weather will hold, and we will enjoy a beautiful fall. The sky has been clear and lots and lots of stars out in the morning when we are out delivering papers and we have really enjoyed that!

Well that is all for this week. Hope everyone is well.
Love to you all.