Smitty* Ariel* Baby Beau

Happy 1st Birthday Beau!!!

2009-12-06T19:32:00.007-06:00

Happy first Birthday to my little Beau Beau tomorrow! We celebrated a day early since Smitty has to go out of town tomorrow for business the day of his real Birthday. Here is Beau with one of his many gifts his pink stroller. He loves this thing he pushes it around for hours in the kitchen. He was definitely spoiled for his Birthday he got way to much he doesn't even know what to play with that is how much stuff this kiddo was showered with.
Here he is just after he got done eatin some chocolate Birthday cake.
Another first for him was he got his first hair cut. He definitely needed it the kid looked like a rag muffin if you ask me. Now he is ready for his pics with Santa this week. He still sports the "flow hawk", but we can also come it down for "church boy". He did surprisingly well despite the hair tickling his neck.
A little family shot with the Birthday boy. Yes I am wearing sweats (yuck).
Getting ready to blow out his 1st candle on his cake. Beau kept making this silly face when we told him to look at the camera and smile. I think all the attention he was getting made him a little goofy.
This look is priceless I must say, my little chubba bubba. I put this pic at the end to cap off the night. Love my little guy a year goes by so fast,

Quick up date

2009-10-16T13:45:00.008-05:00

Sorry I have not updated my blog in a long time everyone but it has been crazy...So here is a really fast update of some recent things we have done and have been up to.
We decided to head out to the FlowerMound "pumpkin patch" with some friends. A few highlights and low lights from that event. My car got stuck in mud so I had a tractor pull me out. There were swarms of bee's every where it was nasty. Couldn't put Beau down because it was wet and soggy every where ( low point).
The high points look at this kids face he was so happy, he loved the pumpkins and the kids. He did not like when I was hitting him with a diaper because bee's would not leave this kid alone while we ate lunch.
We went to the largest far in the U.S it was awesome, we ate fried food and it was yummy.....Beau didnt care to much for the fair, he was having a bad day.
Saw this cute baby giraffe at the childrens petting zoo, they even had a kangaroo it was precious.
So that is our quick up date for now I will try to do better with this darn blog. Next up on our event planner....NYC and Halloween in Utah!

Long awaited post

2009-06-21T15:21:00.008-05:00

Things that we have been up to. Well our computer was on the fritz so I couldn't upload any photo's let alone use my computer. So I have been using Justin's work one until we get a new one. We had his 6 month check up he weighs 18pds and 9oz, 27.5 inches long and going strong. He loves to eat if you cant tell, anything that he can put into his mouth, from hair to his own diapers.
We go to the pool a lot Beau likes to drink the chlorine in particular. It's nice to have a pool near us to get out of the heat and cool off.
We have gone to the park, Beau just likes to watch all the little kids run around him, he starts to squeal and get really excited.
This is a trick Smitty has been working on with Beau since his legs were stable enough, he gets really excited when he does this with his dad. Smitty said he is starting to get to heavy to hold him with one hand, so now he has to use both.

Took Beau to a Rangers Dodgers Baseball game a couple of weeks ago. Not a good experience, he screamed and cried the entire time. He did not like the music, crowd of people, or the fire works can you tell by his face how happy he was. So concerts, baseball games, anything really loud wont be in our future for a while.

Beau has finally mastered sitting up by himself he has been sitting for the last 3 weeks but not with out his support of his Boppy. This is an older pic hence the Boppy behind him. He is so much fun right now, he can imitate certain faces that you make at him. He giggles all the time at the silliest things. He is also a lot more work, he has quite the little attitude when he is grumpy or you take a toy away(yikes)!
Any who I'll try to keep up on the blog, next up our trips home.

5 Months

2009-05-07T18:54:00.004-05:00

I cant believe this guy is 5 months old. Can I just say I love this stage of his life, he is so much fun and his personality just keeps shining through. Some of his favorite things right now: His mommy, yes he is a mommas boy( I love it). Beau love his walker, he flies around our hard wood floors with it. Plastic bottles filled with a cold liquid so he can suck on them(teething). Daddy time, when Smitty walks through that door from work Beau gets a huge smile and he knows what time it is. Bath time is Beau's favorite time of the day he likes to splash and pee in the water.
He is so much fun Smitty and I just cant get enough of our little "Beau Beau".
This is Beau's infamous picture face, "Deer in head lights". We can never get him smiling when we get the camera out, I think the flash distracts him.
He looks like quite the porker in this pic, Smitty and I think he weighs at least 17 to 18 pounds.

To Big

2009-04-24T13:41:00.002-05:00

I set Beau in his bouncer for 2 seconds and I turned around and this is how I found him. You could say he doesn't like his bouncer anymore.

4 Months

2009-04-13T11:17:00.007-05:00

Here are some quick Easter photo's of the little guy he looked so darn cute in his Easter outfit that I couldn't help myself. As you can see he pretty much has the same facial expressions in all of his photo's.
A quick update on his "Stats". He weighs 16pds 3oz, 77% for his age, and is 25inches tall 56%. So he is average and chunky. We are also starting to notice some hints of red in his hair, you can definitely see it in the picture above. The first picture it looks brown, so it will be interesting to see what color of hair and eyes he ends up with.

Smith's have come to Texas

2009-04-02T13:44:00.003-05:00

We were so lucky to have Smitty's family come down for a quick impromptu visit. We love when our family can come out and enjoy our good weather, and see the "Beau Beau". Here are some pics from there visit. Above is our favorite cousin Lu Lu, who Beau is always entertained by as are we.
Papa "G" and Beau waiting for there meal at "Bobs", which was so yummy as usual.
Beau with Mimi and Papa "G". Beau was looking at something but we are not quite sure what, must of been the jumbo shrimp.
Thanks for coming out Mimi, Papa "G", Brenden, Shea, and Lu Lu. We miss you guy's and will see ya soon!

SuperMom

2009-03-31T10:02:00.003-05:00

Normally Ariel is the one doing the posts for our family, and actually she does a whole host of other things that many times go unnoticed. So I thought I would say that she is a wonderful wife and mother. Cooking, cleaning, laundry, finances, vacation, extended family, DVR, Birthday's (best German Chocolate ever!), holidays, baby, baby, baby and best friend are all things she's the best at... I am a lucky guy and Beau's a lucky baby. Thanks Ariel, love Smitty and Beau.

Rollin

2009-03-23T14:28:00.004-05:00

Can you believe this little guy finally rolled over all by himself? On Sunday after many day's of attempting to roll over to his tummy he finally accomplished his goal. The only problem is he doesn't know what to do when he is on his stomach and he cant roll back the other way, so we have to help him.
I also just wanted to wish Smit a happy B-day today 27! We love you and know how much you loved your gifts from everyone. Especially your wife's who supports the most time consuming sport, that takes up an entire day of trying to find your balls(jk, that was a little golf joke everyone).

Bumbo

2009-03-12T17:19:00.003-05:00

I just thought this pic was so cute, it shows how big my little "Beau Beau" is getting.

Baby Photo's

2009-03-03T14:40:00.003-06:00

Here are a few pic's of Beau at his first photo shoot. He did pretty good, of course he got a little fussy towards the end but the majority of the time he was ready for his close up. Thanks to our wonderful friend and photographer Whitni she captured just what I wanted!
I only put up two because I have to hide the rest from the Grandma's since I am doing this as a gift for them, which they will get soon.
Is he not the cutest little "Beau Beau" you have ever seen?

2 Months 1week

2009-02-12T15:46:00.005-06:00

We had our 2 month check up on Monday, Beau weighs 13pounds and is 23.5 inches long. I think he needs to lay off of the carbs what do you think?
I cant believe my little(not) man is already 2months I still feel like I just gave birth, and my body is still bouncing back from giving birth. He is allot of fun though he coo's and smiles and is just a happy go lucky kid. Did I mention he sleeps through the night pretty consistently, jealous?
Everyone say's he looks like Smitty, we dont see it, we really dont know who he looks like. He did get my coloring, dark hair, and nose, and my mom said he has my hair line. So we both have mini troll hair, balding in front and a troll fluff in the back(Hot). He has Smitty's lips and eyes, the rest of him is just a hybrid I guess.

Some of you wanted to see pic's of the nursery here are a few, though I am not quite done yet I still have a couple of more things I want to do with it. A big thanks to Grandma Mimi, and
Smitty!

Blessing

2009-02-08T21:32:00.004-06:00

He loves his Gym!
Not the best pic of Beau but it was windy so he had to be wraped in his blanket
The Smith's and the Nelson's

Here are a few pics of Beau's baby blessing we had a couple of weeks ago. It was so much fun having all of our family come out and have a fun weekend with us in Texas. We were also blessed to have excellent weather that weekend high 60 and low 70.
Thanks again everyone for coming out we already miss you guys, and cant wait to see you this summer.

Good Night!

2009-01-19T20:10:00.004-06:00

I love his "Little Man" clothes that I got at his baby shower it makes him look so grown up.

Smitty Jr.

2009-01-12T10:28:00.002-06:00

Here is a little Zoolander pose for ya Aunt Hillary, we love our shirt. Thanks a ton!!!!

"Beau Beau"

2009-01-08T13:05:00.005-06:00

Before we have a nap.....

Peaceful little boy....
After our nap a happy little Beau Beau!
Here is some more pics of our little monkey. He is getting starting to get pretty plump, but we like that he is actually able to fill out his clothes now.

Grandma's in town

2008-12-22T11:51:00.002-06:00

It was so nice to have my mom in town the first week I came home from the hospital. She cooked, cleaned, and gave me good parenting advice for Beau. I was very sad to see her go since I knew that I wouldn't see her until February for the baby blessing. Unfortunately I live very far from my family so when I do get to see them it's a very special occasion. Soon after my mom left Justin's mom flew out to help with Beau. She was such a big help, it was also sad to see her go along with Papa George. So until February we will just have to miss our Grandparents!

I'm a Mommy

2008-12-14T16:51:00.002-06:00

Hi everyone! I know people are wondering how everything went with the birth, and all that fun stuff. Well I am not going to write about it so if you would like to know you will have to give me a call. But I will tell you it went better than expected! I am doing good the recovery is going well and I am suprised at how little sleep I can get in a night and still function during the day.
Justin is so in love with him as am I we didnt know that a baby could bring this much joy in our lives and we feel so blessed to have such a wonderful miracle during this Holiday season.
Quick little note on how amazing my husband is I just have to let everyone know that my husband is super dad. I am so lucky to have some one wait on me and the baby hand and foot, change a million dirty diapers, always want to be involved in anything that has to do with the baby, and is my rock to lean on during my emotional times. So a special thanks to my wonderful husband, I can honestly say that I am the luckiest women in the world to have such a sensitive husband who would do anything for his family.
I will post more pics soon!

2008-12-13T11:53:00.003-06:00

Smitty here; we are proud to announce the birth of Beau Rawlings Smith. He was born @ 12:51pm on December 7, 2008 and weighed 7 pounds 14 ounces. I am sure mom will be writing more soon but I wanted to at least post some pictures for everyone.

Texas Baby Shower

2008-11-10T09:22:00.010-06:00

Last weekend Mary Kaye and Ashley Peay threw me an awesome Baby shower. It was allot of fun, I have great friends here in Texas and I totally appreciate all that they do for me. Thanks to all of those who could come, and a special thanks to MK for putting to good use her Martha Stewart skills. Ashley for subbing in for "Betty Crocker". Abbie for putting together a embarrassing but fun game for all to join in on. And Laurel for saving the day with her awesome breakfast casserole
Great friends!
"Bump Watch"! Abbie don't worry we all know you already had your baby a long time ago so don't go drinking the water just so you can fit in.

Great decor for my little "Wild thing" themed Baby shower.
Here I am opening up some cute gifts. Whitney was a big help as you can see showing enthusiasm as she and I opened up tons of packages.
Thanks everyone!!!!

Texas Fair

2008-10-29T10:09:00.003-05:00

I totally forgot that Justin and I went with some friends to the Texas State Fair a couple of weeks ago. I think they have the most fried food in the country at this little event. From fried Snickers candy bars, to fried Coke. You name something to fry and they will try. Justin and I tried the fried Snickers bar, Justin liked it, I did not. I think we all spent about 70-90 dollars just on food. When I think about this I kick myself because I probably could of had a really good steak for what we spent on Corn dogs, funnel cakes, drinks, and of course the variety of fried food. But as Justin always says "You cant put a price on fun"!

Sorry Brittany and Josh for the bad pictures.

Juno

2008-10-28T13:04:00.003-05:00

Sorry for the really long overdue blog everyone. Unfortunately these past couple of months have been busy! We bought and moved into a new home, our Internet wasn't being installed for two months. Justin and I went out of town for two baby showers, one in Utah and one in Idaho. And to top it off my camera is not working properly.
Quick update I am 34 wks prego, and I feel like I am 4owks, I don't know if my skin is going to allow me to grow any bigger, but every time I say that it finds a way to. I don't really have any complaints about this stage just that Justin keeps having a melt down in the middle of the night. Every time I get up to pee, he turns over ( if he is awake) and says " Is everything ok"! Yes everything is ok if it wasn't I would be screaming and I would roll over and smack you to wake up and drive me to the hospital (jk).
Last weekend we went to a friends house for a Halloween party Justin and I dressed up as "Juno" and "Paulie Bleeker". I figured there are only so many options you can go as when you are pregnant for Halloween, and what better that a pregnant 15 year old and her track running babies daddy. It was allot of fun, MK sure can through a great party and we even one cutest couple award.
Happy Halloween everyone! I will really try and stay up on my blog, so please don't send me anymore threatening mail.

Baby Beau

2008-08-05T20:29:00.005-05:00

Here are some pics of Beau inside my belly, he looks pretty interesting right now. He currently weighs 1pound 30z.
I currently just finished the end of the Twilight saga series "Breaking Dawn". Of course I loved it but I am sad that this is the end of my soap opera addiction of a book. I know Justin is happy to see it end, since I completely abandon him and leave him to fend for himself for 2 days (rough life).
He offered to take me shopping last Saturday when my book arrived that morning, just so I wouldn't start the book and ruin his Saturday. So I decided if he was offering to take me shopping he must be pretty desperate (and truly hates these books), so we went and got me some prego clothes.
Here is a list of things I am loving and hating currently during my pregnancy, I just though I would share more of my complaints.

Hate
1.) Chines Food
2.) Pinched nerve in my Back
3.) Maternity Clothes
4.) Constantly having to pee
5.) Gaining Weight

Love
1.) Anything chocolate
2.) Prego Yoga w/my friend Ash
3.) Feeling Beau move in my belly
4.) Twilight Saga is over so I can stop obsessing
5.) That I have great Prego friends to complain and coo with
about our babies.

*A note from Smitty:

Just in case anyone is wondering how I'm doing during the pregnancy... I'm holding in there. My basic duties remain the same: dishes, trash, scoop ice cream and mood swing damage control.

Current interests:
Vampire books (ha) but a good book to check out is "The Last Patriot," by Brad Thor;
Golf;
Getting my mind right for football season (I think Favre should just agree to play for 16 different teams this season playing every week for a different team, so we can all have a chance to throw something at him);
I am also currently training myself to become the worlds greatest SaaS (Google it) sales rep because I got a kid on the way and need to start stacking that paper.

A new man in my life

2008-07-30T21:34:00.001-05:00

So it's official we are having a boy. I went in at 17 wks and my Dr. thought it was a boy, and today at 21 wks it was confirmed. Justin and I are both very excited, Smitty was ecstatic at the apt today when we saw the baby had a willie. When the doctor started the sonogram our baby was spread eagle so I asked right when she started if I was seeing what looked like boy parts and she said, "Ya that is definitely a boy". Everything is healthy and going well, I have very little complaints in the discomfort area. I am starting to get use to looking more round, though I still don't like this stage that I am in because people still are not quite sure if I am pregnant or just a little plump. My clothes are starting to get pretty tight but I cant fit into maternity yet so I just have to buy bigger sizes, and that is still a challenge. I am a cheap skate and don't want to spend money on something that for one is a bigger size and two I will only be able to wear for a couple of months. I have used the "Belly Band" a couple of times but they are so hot especially when it is 100+ degrees in Texas right now, and I am wearing 3 layers of clothing. So like I said not to many complaints I am just glad to have a pretty easy pregnancy thus far, hopefully I will have a easy birth, but most likely I wont get the best of both worlds.

Family Reunion part deaux

2008-07-09T20:28:00.009-05:00

This is a good shot of some waves that they were about to run into.

Here's a pic of the gang in some rapids on the South Fork.
Smitty with the big kid's was able to go on the South Fork of the Payette River. My cousin Jared the one in front of Smitty, fell in Smit's lap on Staircase(big rapid) and then fell out of the boat. It was all good though.
Above Smitty in the red boat and my cousin Jared in the blue boat are catchin some good waves.

Here is Smitty in a Ducky that he loved so much when we were on the Salmon river a coulple of years ago, he decided he would do it again.

So We had a great couple of day's in Idaho. Justin said the South Fork was an amazing experience and he wanted to do it again. I only went on the family friendly waves since I was 4 months prego, maybe some day soon I will grow big arm muscles like Smitty(ha ha) so I can go on the South Fork with the big Kids.
I miss my family they are such a blast to be around hopefully some day soon we will live closer to everone, so that Justin and I can go on these trips more than once a year.

Family Reunion

2008-07-09T20:06:00.003-05:00

Sorry everyone for the slow blogging, I have been busy. So here are some pics from my family reunion in Idaho.
This is a small portion of my family, but the only ones who went rafting that day. Did i mention that I was 4 months prego and white water rafting!
Smitty puttin air into the boat he looks like he is working hard but he's really not.
Not the best pic but it's of us gettin ready for a rapid, we look like a center for ants.
This is Smitty and I one the first run of the day, Smit's in front on the left, I am one person behind him and my dad was the guide on the back.

Memorial Day weekend

2008-05-25T15:25:00.003-05:00

Sorry it's been so long since I have put up a new post about Smitty and I, but I have been busy and I have finally found some time to write a post.
This weekend has been a lot fun, Smitty's dad George came into town a.k.a (Dave). He took us to this awesome restaurant called Chamberlain's Steak and Chop House. It was so good, I definitely recommend it to any one who can afford it the only reason Smitty and I got to go was because it was on George's dime. Smitty and George also went golfing at Castle Hills golf course. The weather was over cast that day so my very "Mayo white" hubby decided he didn't need sun screen, and I will just leave it at that. It's always great when we can see family, We miss you all a ton.
Saturday Smitty and I went to Hurricane Harbor (it's a water park), it was a ton of fun. We got there early so we could try and beat most of the crowd that would be there that day, but every one else had the same idea. We went on almost every ride, Smitty got sunburned again (not surprised). So after a few wedges, weird people, and 5 hours later, we decided we were spent and headed home.
The rest of the weekend we are going to relax, BBQ, and maybe hit up the new Indiana Jones movie. I will definitely try and stay up on my blog, so every one can stop buggin me about how old my post's are.

Island Park

2008-03-31T14:01:00.002-05:00

So my mom finally sent me some pic's from February when I went on a mini vacation to Island Park Idaho with them. It snowed the entire time we were there plus some, I hadn't seen that much snow in Idaho in a long time and I've lived there my whole life. It does snow quiet a bit more in eastern Idaho than were I grew up, but that still was one of there biggest snow hits I guess in quiet some time my aunt Kris told us. I had a blast the entire time my aunt's cabin was amazing and quite large, so there was plenty of room for my family plus some(thanks David). We snowmobiled up to Jackson which was gorgeous, then stopped and had lunch at a local dive, which had great milk shakes. During the long snowmobile ride my hands would get tired from holding on to the gas so I would switch off with my Aunt Bronwyn and ride on the back of my Uncle Keith's, who is a crazy driver! But my family cant go anywhere without having bad luck so of course one of the rangers pulled over my dad and gave him a $80 ticket on one of the rented snowmobiles because it wasn't registered, he was pretty up set to say the least.
Times like this when I miss my family and Idaho, there is definitely allot more outdoor stuff to do in Idaho than in the Big D.

Wisdom Teeth

2008-03-29T14:31:00.002-05:00

Yesterday was spent helping Ariel recover after she had her wisdom teeth taken out. After the surgery she was pretty delirious, and kept talking about the weird dreams she had and how the drugs were a trip. She recovered quickly but because of her medication was asleep most of the day, so I just played video games and watched TV between changing gauss strips and feeding pills down her throat.

Rock band B-day!

2008-03-24T20:13:00.003-05:00

It was Smitty's Birthday on Easter this year. Though his birthday doesn't normally land on Easter, This year he had to share it with a holiday so he had a b-day weekend instead. So on Friday for his b-day I took him to get some good Mexican food in Coppell, we saw a movie"Drill bit Taylor" which I gave a thumbs down to. Saturday I took him to lunch at a burger joint (I also give it a thumbs down) we went to Sprinkles which has the best cupcakes in the world and then I allowed Justin to open his presents a day early. I got him a couple simple gifts because I knew his mom was getting him the mother load! Which she did with a little bit of my help if i do say so my self. Yes folks he got "Rock Band" for his x-box 360, which now that I think about it was probably not the best idea, since I couldn't get him off his video game in the first place and now I feel that I just feed the belly of the beast.
Don't worry everybody we didn't forget the most important Holiday that happened this weekend, we did celebrate Easter. Though we broke the rule of no video games on Sunday we figured since it was two Holidays in one that we could let it slide this time.

Sick of being sick!

2008-03-17T19:12:00.000-05:00

I have literally been sick for the past month. I got bronchitis about 3 weeks ago and now I have it again, I definitely think it's being around all the kids at my old job who are always sick and there parents don't do anything about it. So this weekend I basically have stayed in bed and did a whole lot of nothing, so that I could be all rested up for my new job that I started last Friday. But nothing changed I actually just got sicker, and today as I was blowing snot and germs all over my new co-workers I decided it was time to head back to the doctor. I was re diagnosed with bronchitis and he put me on stronger med's this time so that for sure the virus would go away.

My first post

2008-03-10T23:00:00.000-05:00

When I first heard about "Blog Spot," and people posting blogs. I thought "Ahh it's kinda like myspace but instead of posting about there Friday and Saturday night drinking binges at the closest fraternity house, people talk about there kids. Anyways I was pretty hesitant about doing a blog, but a couple of friends kept telling me I need to do one, I told them I dont have a hole lot to "blog" about; Justin's and my life is not very intresting, we dont have kids, we dont have a dog, what am I going to write about? But then I figured I actually am not going to be doing this for myself it's actually going to be for our families, since we live so far away from all of them I thought they would like to get better updates than what I usaually give them. So I dedicate this blog to our family who we miss everyday and who live so far away in good ol' Utah and Idaho, and to cousin Nate and Megan who are like family but from another mother.