Happy Mothers Day!!

Out to breakfast on Mother's Day with my favorite little girl! Only two more days until we have another favorite little girl!

At the park

Only one week to go before the arrival of little miss smith #2! I would like to think that again it is the camera angle shooting up that is making me look sooo huge!

Mr. Crawly

We found a caterpillar at the Park. It kept us entertained for an hour at least! Can you see him?!? Between her hands? He was a little small...

Extra special cupcake

Maggie just finished her first week of serious swim lessons. We had to stop on the way home and get a colossal cupcake. She only ate part of the icing... I think she was overwhelmed!

Sunday morning

"Look mom! I am in a worm cave!". Ummmmm... Ok.

Base day!

Fun at the base with daddy!








Attempting to get into the jet. No way at 36 weeks pregnant! Spouses taxi will have to wait until next year!

Maggie at 2 1/2

2 and a half years old: weighing in at 33 pounds, 37 inches tall, and 19.5 inches for her head. Our little girl is growing up! Too quickly. When she is not giving us grief that is typical of the terrible twos, she is darling. She is excited to meet little sister in a few weeks and tonight tried to feed her a snack through my belly button. She also kisse my belly and tells little sister goodnight. She is saying some really funny stuff lately and loves to sing 'her' songs... One of which is 'we are family'!


We are keeping busy trying to avoid the last of the winter torture:


More snow last week if you can believe it! But, it should get up into the 60s this week!

The Squadron Girls

As is the case with most fighter sqs... when the families of the pilots show up, so do all of their little girls. While the speeches were going on, the girls played hide and seek in the locker room. Maggie found her Daddy's locker and thought it was "really cool".

Youngs dairy

A sunny day in Ohio!! Finally!

Winter... when are you going to end!??

We are ready for some sun. We are ready for the park. We are done with snow in the forecast. We are ready to walk outside instead of at the mall. We are ready to be healthy again (no more colds!).

Well, I am ready. Maggie still loves the snow.

Happy Valentine's Day!

Daddy finally came home! He brought pink roses for Maggie and red roses for mommy! Two lucky girls!

Snow day

Snow when we woke up this morning. That is our street out front. It delayed Baba's departure by a day, so we are enjoying the snow!!

Baba's birthday

Celebrating baba's birthday in chilly Ohio!

Must like Golf...

Me: Hey Maggie let's go watch a show on TV before dinner.
Maggie: Ok mommy.

Flipping through the channels, I stop on CBS and am sucked into the beautiful views of Torry Pines and the Golf Tournament. After soaking in the sun and blue sky for just a minute... I switch the channel looking for Barney or something more interesting for Maggie to watch.

Maggie: NOOOOOOO!!! MOMMMMMYYYYY!!!! I want to watch GOLF!!!
Me: (in shock) Um, ok. Golf... as in the tournament on TV?
Maggie: Yes. Please.

So, she is sitting at her table, watching Golf on TV. For the past thirty minutes. Not moving. Not responding to my questions. Just staring at Golf. She is two years old. She just cheered when the crowd did. Dinner is ready and she is watching golf.

Another Pebble employee in the making! Dad: please save one of those tickets for the Open this year... I might know of a huge fan who would love to go with you :)

All I know is Yo Gabba Gabba got nothin' on Golf in this house!

Snow!

Sledding at the Farm. She loved the snow!

Investigator

John: "Are you investigating?"
Maggie: "No, I am Maggie!"

It's a....

Girl! Found out today that baby #2 will be another little girl! Here she is...


Everything looked great on the ultrasound. They did note that she was measuring bigger than normal. We were not surprised considering Maggie was 10 1/2 pounds!!

John is a little frightened to think what our house will be like in 12 years with girls running around. He might have to take up playing golf afterall.

Capitola Fun

Crusing around on her wagon on Christmas Day.

Silly grins with Daddy. Could the weather get any better on Christmas Day? Beautiful!

Baba and Maggie on Christmas Eve all ready for church. We had a very poor showing at Church... did not even make it half way before a melt down. She also reached into my purse and turned on an iphone show... not a very good impression in the silent church!

Maggie & I on Christmas Eve. We had such a nice dinner (thank you John and Baba!) and were lucky to have some Air Force friends who are stationed in Monterey over for dinner. They were really impressed with the Reding family rendition of "The 12 days of Christmas" after dinner. I am not sure why, but everyone always seems to forget their line... is it that hard people!!? Perhaps it would help if we did the family sing along at the start of the meal next year!

More Christmas in Cali

Maggie with her Auntie Carol and Auntie Mary

Maggie and Grandpa checking out the gingerbread house display

Maggie & Mommy!

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!