More visitors!!!!!

After Chris and Jill left we had Grandma, GeeGee, Uncle Dewi and Remi's uncle Grady from California come visit us! It was a full house but a great time!!!

We filled the baby pool and sat outback for most of the afternoon! Hannah actually kept her hat on which is news to me!! She always takes it off for me! But daddy did it so it stayed!


My little watermelon baby! (don't mind the nose! haha) We have like all 4 molars coming in!!!!


4 Smith boys= TROUBLE! Once again we went out for crabs to the Jetty and of course BEER! For the men, h20 for me! On the left is GeeGee (Remi's dad) Dewi (brother) Grady(Uncle) and Remi!!!! Can you tell they are related!?!?


Yum Yum! Dounuts for breakfast!!!!


I walked into the kitchen to check on Hannah and found her doing this!!!! I took a picture then got after her!!! Of course there was nothing on the stove (b/c I don't cook) haha

Hannah and bay-be Alex!

A few days after Remi came home we had his buddy Chris his wife Jill and their little "bay-be"(that's what it sounds like when Hannah says baby, fyi she says it ALL the time, whenever she sees me and my huge belly) Alex who's 6 months old come visit! Alex is adorable! He's soooo happy ALL the time! :) Just like Hannah was. It's great to catch up with them and be able to get out and do things because the kids are so easy! We totally took advantage of the great "cooler" temperatures and headed to DC on Wednesday! It got HOT but still was breezy and enjoyable! I think everyone had the same idea! Then again the nations capital is probably always busy!

Once again we did not bring the camera but we took them to the Crab Deck for dinner and the boys had crabs, crabs, crabs!!!! It was once again a very enjoyable experience. Hannah loved the ducks around the docks and the crabs on the table! She even helped hammer them! haha!!

She looks so big next to Alex!


On the metro!


Our family picture!


Hannah supporting daddy and Chris by the United States Merchant Marine Seal. Sporting her red, white and blue! :) Go mommy on that planning!!!


AND I'M DONE!!!!! Remi says he LOVES this picture of me. It pretty much captured how I was feeling at the end of the day! Hot, Tired, Pregnant, Sore,..........


and someone else was worn out as well.........


Remi getting use to handling 2 kids coming at him at once!


Alex happy boy!!!!!!


Thanks for visiting, we love having you guys and can't wait to see you again!!!!!!!!!!! Good luck on going back to school Jill and Good Luck on your new job Chris!!!!!! We love you!!!!

DADDY'S HOME!!!!!!

This is what daddy walked in and saw when he surprised us!!!!!!!!!!!


So daddy came home Sunday morning!! Yay! Before everything happened it got delayed (of course) and was due in Monday night instead of Sunday night. Booo!! Then I had to go and have a messed up nerve that ended with me in the ER so he told higher up people and pulled strings and got home sooner than originally planned! Yay for me right??!

HAHA! Anyway we were in the middle of eating (8am) breakfast when I noticed a car in the driveway and "some man" walking up to the door! It was REMI!!!!!!! I ran out and was so psyched! It was such an amazing surprise! Hannah was still in her chair eating away. She acted like she knew him but was still a bit shy. After a bit and daddy's grand idea of showing her on skype (where we did a TON of talking) that daddys on there then in the same room with her she seemed to understand and warmed up to him right away! I can't believe I didn't get any pictures of him and her together but I was pretty much laid out on the couch with my gimp painful face! :) haha

I just watched them together it was precious! I can't believe we are going to add another one to the mix in about a month it's unreal!!!

Our happy girl!


Who's soooooooooooo happy daddy is home!!!!!!!!!!


<3

More baby drama.......

So after a very interesting week in Texas, we fly back to MD and my parents head back to VA the next day, of course they make sure we are fine, and head out while Hannah and I nap because my inlaws are headed up to help me out. Things go fine then THEY get sick while they are here!!!! Can we ever catch a break?!? NOPE! Thankfully my bff Sarah has already planned on coming to visit and keep me sane for the weekend because Remi was due home Sunday night! So the inalws leave with a stomach bug, praying to make it home before it keeps them down, we clean the house settle in to our new guest and I'm looking foward to mommy time (HAIR APPOINTMENT!) and of course girl time! :) Love having my girlfriends visit (which needs to happen MORE!!!!)

Wednesday night fine, took it back old school with Fried Green Tomotoes and Steel Magnoilas, Thursday am inalws get sick head out earlier than planned so we hang around clean like I said and I head out for my afternoon of mommy time. Now I don't know about you guys but I HATE having my hair cut, colored, messed with.....etc so not normal for a girl I know but I do what I got to do to look good!!! THEN my friend Sarah gets to feeling bad, lord here we go again!!!!!!! So we veg out Thursday night cancel the babysitter head to bed early hoping to feel better in the am AND.............I wake up with a numb right side of my face! SERIOUSLY??!?!? I'm kinda freaking out not wanting to believe what has actually happened so I put it off for a while saying I slept on it funny or it will come back it's just a fluke. Doesn't happen it get's worse. I have a headache and neckache on top of cant wink, can't move the lips or smile fully for that matter, nose doesn't move when you scrunch it......etc etc etc.....So I called my friend that's a very experienced nurse for years and talked to her about it and she said it was probably Pregnancy Bells Palsy. Never heard of that! It happens usually in the 3rd trimester (check we are there) to one side of the face, no reason, and will USUALLY go away after birth give or take a few weeks, months! LOvely! So I call my OB talk to him and he sends me to the ER! By this point it's Friday night in Annapolis at the ER...FREAK SHOW!!!!!!!!

blah blah blah! CT scans, blood work, waiting, medication, The doc comes up with Bells Palsy and follow up with your OB on Monday! So I'm on meds and my face looks silly not really just looking at it but once I talk and have facial expressions you notice it! It's just been a whrilwind of emtions here at the house! I get home Fri night like 2am email Remi and he's on top of things and does what he needs to go and actually pulls some strings and is headed home earlier!

He came home Sunday morning while Hannah and I were having breakfast! It was awesome! I tried to smile big but didnt happen!!! He calls me his little pirate and I secretly love it! :) He's been home a week now and I've had this for about 10 days, not better not really worse, need meds but the doc's arent sure if I can continue for the baby. The baby is fine just might have 2 heads or 6 toes kinda thing haha kidding but excessive meds aren't good point blank so more doc's appointments and follow ups for us. We are just taking it one day at a time, some days good no pain (pain b/c of the inflammed nerve that did this, it causes headaches and just a tingling feeling throughout the right side of my body, legs, ) some days are bad. But what are you going to do ya know!??! Each pregnancy is totally different it's unreal!

Thanks for all the thoughts and prayers! I've been kinda MIA for a while and now you know why! I'm still self conscience about it but I can't live in a cave and hide from everyone so I need to get over it!

Finally updated.....

Well A LOT has happened since the last time I blogged. Where to even begin?? First off my baby girl who's 17 months is a full blown toddler and talking up a storm!!!!! Where did the time go??? We jetted off at 5am to Texas on August 6 for a week (well suppose to have been, more on that later) Hannah, myself and my folks went to Texas to visit my grandparents who live there part time! They were moving houses so we decided to join and check out the new place!

Hannah was AMAZING on the flights! Yes 2 OF THEM! One 3 1/2 hour flight then hour delay and one short 45 min flight then we were in Harlingen, TX!!!! 20 mins to the Mexico boarder and 45 mins to South Pardre Island (a very popular place for you spring breakers!) We had a lot planned in that week and man was it HOT down there!!! Thankfully it was a breeze all the time so there was some relief in the heat!


Here's the back of Hannah's head on the first flight, we lucked out and had the first row so it meant MORE ROOM!!! Yay! She was able to get down and play and sit at my feet! Even though she was awesome it's worth the money to buy a seat! Espically if you have a big growing belly that your toddler likes to sit on!



Hannah and her nana! playing and crawling across the seats! :)

The first day we took it easy and relaxed let Hannah get all her naps in and just hung out at the pool. The next day we headed to the Zoo!!! I LOVE the zoo!!!! Hannah seems to enjoy going as well! She is amazed by all the animals! How they move, the noises they make and just the size of them!!!


Hannah and her meme checking out the gorillas!



This was so neat! You could get food and feet the giraffes! It was amazing watching these guys eat! They so just awesome animals! Hannah couldn't stop looking up at them!


Hannah and her pet alligator! She was hard to wrestle put back into the stroller so once she was in there I kept in her there! But she wanted to hold on the alligator so we parked the stroller and she hugged him! haha, she's a hoot!

This lion was right up aganist the window just laying there, half paws on the wall the others on the ground, guess he was just taking a rest, whatever the case that's the closest I've ever been to a lion before and probably the closest I EVER want to be! Pretty good close up huh?!?! Yes I know they are huge animals but just check out those paws!!! OMG!



AND put a fork in us we are DONE!!!!! What a fun and HOT, exhausting day it was!!!!!

The next day we got up bright and early and headed to MEXICO!!! I love all the shops, markets, vendors and just the whole atmosphere! It was Hannah's first trip (out of the womb, we took a "babymoon" to Cancun when I was 6 months pregnant with her)



Here we are walking across the bridge from the states to Mexico!!!! You could drive across but we just choose to walk it espically since our rental care said no driving in Mexico!! B/C they are CRAZY DRIVERS!!!! haha


PROOF we were there!!!!! Us in front of the Mexico sign, a place where we all stop and have our pictures taken. It's a right of passage!


Shes done with food she wants shopping and sightseeing..........

THEN the next day we went to South Padre Island! It was an awesome time!!!! Great beach day, Hannah was amazing, loved the water, sand, people, they had covered sheltors to eat at, decent bathrooms, a playground, showers, a very fun and exhausting day!!!!!!!
Me and my fav gal pal! :)



loving the water! She wouldnt let us put her bathing suit on her so she ran around in her swimmy pretty much the entire day!!! haha, She didn't sit still till we put her in the carseat!


Stealing Nana's shoe and taking it for a walk in the ocean!!!! She knows who's shoes and things belong to whom and takes them to the right people....AMAZING!!!

Now this is where the pictures pretty much stop b/c Wednesday (I think it was Wednesday) night Hannah and I got a bad stomach virus that ended up with me in the ER and being admitted to the hospital till Saturday! So we missed our flight and had to rearrange everything!

Hannah got better within a few hours of just her throwing up on her 17th month birthday poor baby girl!!! First time ever! :( I on the other hand did not get better, got dehyrated and ended up starting contractions at 31 WEEKS!!!! So they were worried and had me on every kind of monitor known to man and pumped me with fluids, medicines, baby medicines, to stop the contractions, make me stop throwing up, bring my levels back up, heart rate down, etc.......I could probably keep going. It was unreal! So I got admitted Thursday morning they did test after test, long story short everythings fine, baby is fine, I stopped contracting even after they took me off the meds, kept me longer b/c my heart rate was still extremely high so that's why they kept me so long!

My family was amazing the entire time I was in there! They took good care of me while I was in the hospital and loved taking care of Hannah! My grandparents really got to know Hannah a lot better b/c my folks were with me at the hospital so they kept an eye on Hannah! I'm so thankful they are so amazing!!!! I love you guys!!!

I came home on Saturday morning, finally got my strength back and we were able to fly home Monday. It was pure exhausting. I couldn't wait to get home to my bed! We finally made it!!!! Monday was probably the lonest day of my life so far!!!! An 1hr flight then a 3 or 4 hour layover then a 3 hour flight back to BWI got home at 10pm at night! Man!!! The week following was pretty rough, Not eating for 3 days will do that to you then just jello and chicken soup......ugh! So my inalwas came up and help out with me while I was getting my strenght back. They were up for a few days then my bff Sarah came up to help out till Remi got home! It all ended up with a good suprise though!! Remi said he would be home on Monday and actually came in on SUNDAY MORNING!!! He drove in from Dullas and walked on in the house! Hannah and I were in the middle of breakfast! YES! :)

I'm better now and just taking it easy, thank god no bedrest! Thanks for all your thoughts and prayers!!!

We have plenty of more pictures to post and stories to tell but that will have to wait till later.......:) Happy Friday to everyone!!!

FINALLY!!!!

I bought a new card reader for our "new" Nikon camera!!!

HIP HIP HOORAY!!!!!!!!!

Now where did I leave off with uploading pics?!?! I will just post some SUPER cute pictures of Hannah down in OBX back in JUNE!!!!

ONE of my favorite lighthouses...Ocrarcoke Island! Then there is Currituck (where we got married....awww) Hatteras and Cape Lookout! Pretty much all the ones along the Outer Banks Coast I LOVE!


Hannah's favorite activity....walking Ginger


awwwww.....to her all dog's are "DOG" no name's required just dog!


She loved doing this b/c with our dog Teddy she can't. He would be pulling her down the street!


AND another favorite thing of Hannah's to do was play in the empty cabinets! She does not get to do this at home b/c who has empty cabinet space!?!?

Love like crazy....

Call me a love sap but I can get enough of this song! I think I heard it twice today on the music channel! I'm getting back into country music so it's usually on when we are home. I think there is a lot of truth in country songs and they tell stories about love and life. Yes some songs are about drinking and getting girl's but those don't speak to me! haha It's just common sense things that make a difference. It could be the hormones, the fact that I see my love in 2o days, but I don't care I just had to share my new favorite song with you all!!!!!!!!!

This song is called "love like crazy" By Lee Brice.



They called them crazy when they started out
Said seventeen's too young to know what loves about
They've been together fifty-eight years now
That’s crazy

He brought home sixty-seven bucks a week
He bought a little 2 bedroom house on Maple Street
Where she blessed him with six more mouths to feed
Yea that’s crazy

Just ask him how he did it; he'll say pull up a seat
It'll only take a minute, to tell you everything
Be a best friend, tell the truth, and overuse I Love You
Go to work, do your best, don't outsmart your common sense
Never let your prayin' knees get lazy
And love like crazy

They called him crazy when he quit his job
Said them home computers, boy they'll never take off
He sold his one man shop to Microsoft
They paid like crazy

Just ask him how he made it
He'll tell you faith and sweat
And the heart of a faithful woman,
Who never let him forget

Be a best friend, tell the truth, and overuse I Love You
Go to work, do your best, don't outsmart your common sense
Never let your prayin knees get lazy
And love like crazy

Always treat your woman like a lady
Never get to old to call her baby
Never let your prayin knees get lazy
And love like crazy

They called him crazy when they started out
They've been together fifty-eight years now

Aint that crazy?