Tuesday, August 31, 2010

finding out it’s a…

Posted in Fun Family Time

Yesterday morning we found out Baby Smith’s gender!

After a failed attempt to find out last month at 18 weeks (another modest baby), we had a successful answer to our question now that I’m 22 weeks along!

We ran a little contest on Facebook to see who could guess correctly, and from those who guessed it, we are choosing one person at random to get an iTunes gift card. Rich’s idea…he’s fun like that:)

Let me start by saying that we were all kinda crazy about the idea of having another girl. We love it SO MUCH already, and Alana has said several times that she wants a little sister…so that just emphasized that way Rich and I were already feeling. Then there is the issue of all the Smith BOYS!!! There are so many of them in the family, and the pattern has been to have either 1) all boys, or 2) a girl followed by boys. So, we thought for sure that we’d be part of this ongoing pattern (and let me state that, obviously, we would have been thankful for whichever gender God chose to give us!).

Here we are after finding out that we are, in fact, HAVING ANOTHER GIRL!!!

And just like my blog post finding out Alana was a girl back in 2007, we asked Dr. Barker to join us for a photo again. I’m all about making sure that baby #2 gets special treatment, too:)

After we left the Dr’s office, Alana and I went to Target to pick out a toy for the new baby just like I had done by myself the day I found out Alana was a girl. I’d bought her the pink caterpillar that is shown in the blog post (that I linked to above), and it happens to be her favorite toy to sleep with and snuggle with. I told her that this time, SHE could pick out the very first toy for her baby sister, and she was VERY excited about this. After looking all around the baby aisles, she carefully made her choice. She selected this little ladybug blanket and happily hung it in her little sister’s closet in the nursery the second we got home.

Happy Tuesday, everyone, and thanks for playing along with us and for all of your support and love! We love and appreciate you!

And for all of you who voted GIRL are correct and have been entered into a fun little drawing:)

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Tuesday, August 31, 2010

smith family bowling!

Posted in Firsts, Fun Family Time

Friday night was such a treat! We decided to go to Holiday Bowl with Randy and Susan and the kids…and it happened to be Alana’s very FIRST time bowling! So, naturally, we brought a camera to document the fun!

Alana was REALLY excited when I told her we were going bowling with her cousins, and then she paused and said, “What is bowling?” Haha! I explained the game to her and she got excited all over again:)

Love the pre-fun family shots…thanks babe!

I. Love. My. Family.

She was a bit overwhelmed when we first walked in, because it was very large a little noisy. But once we got to our lane and we chose our bowling shoes and balls, she was excited to try it out. I was pretty darn excited that they had a toddler size 6 in bowling shoes…I wasn’t sure if they carried such small sizes. Ah, small things are so ridiculously cute. Especially compared to my very UN-cute women’s size 9 feet:)

This was her very first time rolling the ball down the lane. Rich helped her and I grabbed the shot. Almost every ball that she rolled went so S.L.O.W.L.Y. that it stopped short of knocking the pins down and we had to roll another ball to help it along:)We didn’t know until we were leaving that they provide ramps for little ones. Would have come in handy! 

Watching and waiting! 

Throughout the evening, Alana took several different positions while waiting to see the ball hit the pins. This was one of them:) 

This is another!

Proud of herself:)

Her cousin Jake helping her. He is so incredible with her. He’s patient, helpful and kind, and she LOVES him!

Alex is incredible with her, too! Cousins are great:)

Then I grabbed a shot of rich trying his hardest to kick my butt in bowling. He succeeded, but only because I was having an “off” night:)

Then Rich took some super fun photos:) 

Self portrait with the whole group! We love you guys and had such a blast! 

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Saturday, August 21, 2010

rich and alana

Posted in Alana, Fun Family Time, Holidays and Birthdays

Rich’s birthday was on Thursday.:)

Alana and I started the day by making him breakfast…one of his favorite things. We got to spend some time with him in the morning, and then once he left to get some work done, we set about executing our sneaky plans:)We swung by Bread Basket and picked up his favorite cookies, then headed back home to make a lemon cake with lemon glaze that he had seemed excited to try about a month ago. We had a photographers gathering that evening, so I decided to bring the surprise treats to the Dotson’s house with us that night and have a little party for him there. I am planning to post those photos on our professional blog tonight, so check there for the party recap.

Here are a few photos from Thursday! We stepped outside for a little bitty photo shoot before heading to the PUG meeting because I wanted a few photos of Alana with Rich. I love these two sooooo much and love their sweet interactions! They have such an incredible relationship.

Happy weekend everyone, and again, Happy Birthday to my sweet and awesome man!!! WE LOVE YOU!

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