:: Nursery - sneak peek

I love Anson's nursery.

The colors. The simplicity.

There are many times when I catch myself staring at the world map,

imagining my family roaming far off places.

Maybe one day, but for now, I'm content with watching my baby sleep. Or cry.

Whichever he's wanting to do at that moment.

Life is grand.

crib/world map/jute rug

:: Family Happenings

Well, with school starting, summer has officially ended.

And we're working on getting back into a routine.

Kindergarten (Ava), dance lessons (Ava and Reese), violin lessons (Ava), 

drooling (Anson) and continuing to enjoy our SoCal weather.

 Still daydreaming about our trip to Lake Powell, though.

:: Family Happenings

Within the past few weeks we've been insanely busy.

I went back to work.  Boo.  I miss my kiddos so much when I'm gone.

But . . . grateful that I do have a job.

We've made multiple trips to the pool.

And to the beach.

We celebrated our 7th wedding anniversary.

Trying to cross the items off of our summer bucket list.  

The girls love going to the dollar movies at our local theater.

We're trying to leave the TV off from 9-5.  It's been hard.  Really hard!  

But it's nice to see the girls using their imagination instead of staring at the TV. 

 Do you see their cruise ship they made?

They loved going to a local baseball game.

(and it might be because they ate hot dogs)

And they've almost completed swimming lessons.

And this is only the beginning.  Yay for summer!

:: Family Happenings - locks of love donation

Last month we decided to cut little miss Ava's hair.
We have NEVER cut it (besides trimming her bangs).
It just grew into natural layers.
She wasn't exactly fond of us brushing her hair . . . and she would make it known.
So this is the reason why.

We had it cut, she loved it, and we loved it.
I decided to document it by making a very CHEESY video of it.
{that you can see below}
She even decided to donate her hair to Locks of Love.

:: Embrace the Camera 05.02.13

We're embracing the camera today on Photo Booth again.

The girls love playing with this camera on the mac.

Anson is now 7 weeks and cracking smiles every once in awhile.

Reese has become my dancing, singing, defiant child.

Ava is my big helper that likes to whine at times.

Loving these children of mine.

:: Family Happenings - portrait of a 5 year old

Ava recently turned 5 years old.

Here she is in her birthday dress being her cute, little ole' self.

I can't believe she's this old AND that she start kindergarten in August.

At times I wish I could make time stand still.

:: 35 before 35 - #4

Well, I've been pretty bad about posting the completions of my 35 before 35,

 let alone bad at posting . . . period . . . on this little ole' blog of mine.

But my lack of posting might have to do with

 completing #4 on my list . . . to have another baby.

On March 15th I gave birth to this sweet little boy.

9lbs 3ozs of preciousness.

And we love him to pieces.

Although it wasn't the perfect pregnancy this time around

and ended up being very stressful until I actually delivered him

 (due to findings on the ultrasound),

I feel so blessed to be able to have children and to have had healthy children so far.

It's definitely something I don't take for granted.

These pictures I took (on my couch!) when he was 5 days old.

He is such a sweet little baby.

And I finally have a child with hair!

:: Embrace the Camera 04.04.13

We decided to take some photos today.

Anson is 3 weeks old tomorrow.

Reese found a sharpie.  Is it that obvious?

And Ava now has short hair.

Me?  Well, I'm still trying to get used to having three kiddos.

But life is good.

Happy Thursday from the Smiths!

:: Easter

Hope you all had a wonderful Easter!

We were able to attend church (the little man even made his first appearance) 

and then we had an Easter feast with family.

We're so grateful for the life of our Savior, Jesus Christ 

and the impact he has had in each of our lives.

Easter dresses:  Adornme Girl