This Sunday will be me and Melissa three year anniversary and I just thought that I would take some time to tell everyone how wonderful my wife is, if you didn't already know. Melissa, from the instant we meet each other, makes me feel special. She gave me a sense of purpose in life. She brings so much joy to anyone she is around. One of the first things that attracted me to her was her smile. She lights up any room she goes into.

Melissa has shaped me into who I am today. I, like everyone knows, am a very shy person, but she has some how opened me up were I am not as shy as i use to be. I still have a lot more to open up but in time Melissa will work her magic and get me there.

Melissa is my best friend! I don't like to brag but we have had people come up and say that they can tell the we are really good friends. We interact so well together. She understands my weird jokes and she just understands who I am. I love Melissa and I am truely grateful that she found me that day when we first meet.

Sorry that it has been so long since the last post. Things have been really busy. I started school at the end of August. I am taking 14 credit hours which is a little more than full-time. At work I was luck that I was able to switch to part-time to focus more on school.


I am currently applying to BYU (which was something I told myself I would never do.) I really like their graphic design program. It seems to be fitted more on the practical use of design as oppose to the more artist part of design like the U of U. This has been causing me to be busy in two way. The first is that I am applying for BYU which seems to be more of a process than I thought. I had to have an interview with my Bishop and soon I will be having an interview with the Stake President. I also had to let them know about my seminary that I took in High School, and there is the obvious paper work about why I should be accepted by BYU. I am almost done with that and then I will have some free time to work on the second part of the BYU business. The second part is for the graphic design program I am wanting to apply to. As part of the application I need to come up with a portfolio of fine art pieces that shows my artistic ability. I have been spending most of my time at night drawing or trying to be some sort of artistic. It is finally starting to work.


As far as the family goes we are doing well. Jackson has been walking now for about a month. He is growing so fast and learning so quickly. He loves his mom and his dad and loves to so us this by coming and cuddling with us when he needs it.

Melissa is doing well. She is still waiting to go to nursing school at Salt Lake Community College. Here estimated date of when she start keeps moving soon, so that is good news. We are hoping that she will be able to start Fall of 2009.

I guess that, that is all that is going on right now. The Smith families is getting ready for another trip to Disneyland in January. We hope anyways :)

Bye for now...Justin

Last Sunday, June 22, Jackson had his first birthday. Can you believe how fast this kid is growing? We had a small party for him in our backyard. It was my family and Melissa's family, no kids kind of sad because Jackson needs someone to play with. He even had his own little birthday cake. Now you would think that after spending a year of not knowing how good cake is that he would try it. He did not. He did have fun smashing it. He got a lot of cool toys which he is proud of as you can see in the pictures.


He also recently had his one year check up. He is healthy. He is a big boy. He was in the 90% for his weight. He was 92% for his height, and a whopping 99% for the size of his head! (Must be a smart baby with that big of a head) He was 26 lbs which makes sense since he is almost too heavy to carry. When is he going to learn to walk?