Christmas in Cali!

Little California girl scoping out the scene at Spanish Bay... the birds catch her eye...Patiently watching them...Off she goes!!Twins... Baba and Maggie. Look how cute they are? Matching outfits, matching hair, matching expression.

Another cute pair. Cousin Yelly and Maggie with her baby blues. Taking a break from brunch. I am only half way through this pregnancy and I am already feeling huge! It is time to pull out the pictures from last time around to compare!

Mommy and Maggie cozy by the fire.

Merry Christmas!!

A very pleased girl on Christmas!!

Christmas Cookie Decorating

We have been very busy around the Smith house. Getting ready for Christmas, our trip out west, and of course eating the appropriate amount of Christmas cookies and candy! We baked all of the Christmas cookies today and spent the evening listening to Christmas music and decorating. She is so much fun!

Christmas Tree hunting at the Bohman's Tree Farm!

Happy Thanksgiving! We had a great Thanksgiving at the Smith house, had a lazy day, ate too much, and relaxed with the family. We took advantage of the warm weather (50 degrees and sunny!) on Saturday to drive to Indiana to "hunt" for our christmas tree at the Bohman's Tree Farm. There were tractors pulling families to their favorite tree picking spot, little Bohman's handing out saws and setting the families loose to go get their tree. Hundreds of people were enjoying the nice weather, the popcorn, hot cider and of course, the ferris wheel cooking hot dogs!

The tractor in the distance... We were lucky enough to have two of the Bohmans (or Eldridges, but close enough!) as tour guides on our tree hunt. Lilli & Owen are experts after all and knew how to pick out a perfect tree. John & Lilli on the Tractor heading out to the hills of trees.

We found our tree!

Maggie helping daddy cut down the tree. Johnny made quick work of it.

Smith family with our tree. Happy Holidays!

A twelve foot tall kangaroo?

Took the girls to the greene for lunch today. They are decorating for Christmas and the girls loved running around the giant Christmas tree. Outside were two 12 foot tall kangaroos... can't really figure out what they were doing there. Pretty sure they were not part of the manger!

Hanging out on the kangaroos foot... Maggie & Elizabeth

First art class

Evidence of Maggie's first art class is now hanging on our fridge. The amazing clay 'sculptures' are now the dining room table centerpiece. Pretty impressive don't you think? Well, I do... But obviously I am her mother.

Oakwood high school football game

Maggie loves to watch the high school band. So we head over just for half time to watch the band play and then head home.

Apple Picking

Happy Halloween!

Our little Mickey Mouse loves candy. She could not believe that people were just giving it away. Maggie & her friend Elizabeth jumped into the wagon and away they went. That is called trick o' treating in style.

The last house on our trip around the block! Jane's house!

Maggie & Elizabeth touring around Oakwood in their wagon. Notice Maggie's grin: everytime I have the camera out she does this crazy happy smile.

Mickey Mouse and Daddy.

Rainy day

"when baba gets here I show her my paints!"

Big girl bed!!

First night in her big girl bed was a big success! I asked her how she slept, she said, mommy it was really nice. Yeah, really nice.

Cup of sunshine

Maggie was working in her kitchen and brought Daddy a cup of "shushine". When I can not understand her, I always tell her to show me what she is talking about. She walks over to her kitchen and points to the light button on her refigerator. "See.... Shunshine!"

Ahhhhh how sweet, she gave daddy a cup full of sunshine.

Picking Pumpkins!

Daddy & Maggie with the balloon bee.

Jane & Elizabeth with the Smith girls

Our only family picture from the day... Maggie was clearly scared of something spooky!

Opening Day Bengals NFL 2009

John doing the fly-by on Opening day for the Bengals
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sfRu2nP8EK4

The band!!

The local high school band invited the toddlers to band practice!! Who knew it could be so much fun! Maggie had a flute and was marched around the track as part of the band. Maggie was so excited to listen to the drum solo!

Zip on!

For my birthday John was kind enough to humor me and go zipping through the trees!!! Getting ready to zip on!!

Mommy's Birthday!

Maggie helping mommy blow out the candles

Mickey mouse

Getting ready for Halloween!

Maggie turns 2!

Blowing out the candles with daddy. She understood the concept this year.

And another party... with an amazing cake! Thank you Aunt Sussus!

I am a little bit late on the pictures from Maggie's Second Birthday!

Family Day and our own airshow!

Family Day out at base. It was a beautiful day here, 75 degrees and not a cloud in the sky. After they flew by the Bengals they did a few passes by us. It was really cute to see Maggie dancing on the flight line. Daddy is the second from the left.

Sunflowers

The zoo!!

Hunting on the back of the alligator


Waiting for her prey...

All wet

A run in with the water feature at the mall!


Her outfit for the car ride home... Dadda's shirt!

Maggie & daddy

Visiting daddy at work