And She Laughs!

Last night Scott was changing Sophia into her jammies, He started "wooing" at her and she started laughing. I love these moments!

Disney on Ice

On a whim, mom and I, decided to take Millie to see Disney on Ice, Dare to Dream. On Saturday we bought tickets for the Sunday evening show. We learned a couple of lessons from this; 1. When you wait to buy tickets you do not get the best of seats. We sat one row from the way top, as Millie said. The other lesson learned was that when they say tickets are only $12, they really mean $20, there are fees and fees and more fees. Even with our expensive bad seats, we had a so much fun!

Millie decided that if she was going to see the princesses then she should be dressed appropriately. She picked out her Cinderella dress to wear. She wasn't the only little girl all dressed up. There were "princesses" everywhere.


Even though we were at the way top and you had to look through the lighting grid to see the show, Millie was mesmerized. She kept trying to imitate the skaters, and it was even hard to eat her snow cone. Her blue dress came home purple in places from where she missed her mouth and spilled the red shaved ice.

The show was entertaining, but my favorite moment of the night was when we first arrived at the stadium. Of course there are booths set up everywhere selling outrageously expensive "whirlygigs," and of course we had to get one. So we were standing in line waiting, and all of a sudden Millie starts clapping her hands and yells out, "Happy!!" It literally made my night. She was so excited that she could only say how she felt.

My Millie

The other night I was in the laundry room working, and Millie came and joined me. I was busy folding clean laundry, and wasn't paying attention to what she was doing. When I looked over at her she had put on some extra clothing, and was talking to herself in the mirror.

The Cardinals

Levi is loving playing basketball, and....he is really good! If you know Levi he is very clumsy, cannot walk without falling, tripping, or bumping into stuff. But on the basketball court, the boy has talent. The other night in their game he scored 8 out of 18 points for their team. His coach is very impressed with him. I am a proud Momma.

My Beautiful Family

Here we are, the family of five! Never thought I would have three beautiful yet completely different children. Levi is handsome, but looks are deceiving. The boy has attitude and thinks he is right and will argue until he is blue in the face. But he super smart, and at the top of his class. Millie is a self entertaining, adorable little girl with personality plus. (This is her new smile. I cannot convince her to lower her eyebrows and just smile) Then there is my precious Sophia. She is such a content, peaceful, happy baby.

Of course my wonderful hubby is my rock and best friend! I love him more than life and love this adventure called parenting that we are on together.

I feel very blessed.

Let Us Compare...

I ate lunch with a couple of friends the other day, and all five of them declared that Sophia looks looks exactly like Millie did when she was a baby. I am still undecided, I see alot of Scott in Sophia, so I decided to pull out Millie's photos and compare.

You be the judge....

Here are my two beauties, looking exactly alike.

All three of my kiddos wore this pumpkin suit for their first halloween! Yet Sophia (above) was a little small for it. Millie (below) was adorable in it. So was Levi, but his pictures were taken before the digital camera was popular.

Same bumbo seat, same kitchen, Sophia is in blue, and Millie in Yellow. Please draw your attention to their legs. Sophia's are bigger. She has her momma's legs as my family would tell you.

Well they both have great big gorgeous smiles, and angel kisses in between their eyes.

All ready for church in these pics. One thing for sure the clothes are cuter and the bows are bigger with Sophia.

I dont have a picture of Millie to go with the above picture of Sophia, but I couldn't help but put this one up too. She looks like a little old man with a huge bow on her head. LOL

By three months Millie had already found her thumb and wanted nothing to do with a pacifier. While I am still holding out that Sophia will find her thumb, she is quite happy with the pacifier.

Well, what is the verdict? Do we have twins in the making?

A PJ and Play Day

Being the last day of our Christmas Break, we declared this to be a PJ and play day. No cleaning, no chores, no work....for the kiddos that is. We began the day with cuddle time and cartoons in mommies bed. All four of us piled in (Daddy had to work today). We then moved our party to Millie and Sophia's room for some play time with Sophia.

This was the first time we have put Sophia in the Bumbo seat. I believed she liked it. She sat there for about 15 minutes playing with Levi and Sophia before she started to fuss. This could have been because one, she was starting to get tired of holding her head up, or two, becasue she was tired of Levi and Sophia putting toys in her face.

She hasn't laughed out loud yet, but we are getting very close.

Please note that after these pictures were taken, the beds were made.

Sophia is getting much more active and vocal, and has recently discovered her hands and has started reaching for her toys.

2011 Director of the Year

Every year after Christmas, Scott and I pack our bags and head off to HYC or Holiday Youth Convention. Other than camp it is the biggest youth event of the year. We have been attending HYC for many years now. For several years we went as chaperons to our youth group. Now that Scott is the Section 5 youth director for the state of Indiana we go and help to plan and execute the convention.

We love working on the Youth Committee and have made lasting friendships, and always have a great time. It usually is a week of early mornings, late nights, church in the am and pm, good food, and of course laughter in abundance. We come home exhausted, but wouldn't trade it for anything.

Every year the President of the committee gives one committee member the honor of "Director of the Year" based on your work performance throughout the year. This year Scott was the recipient.

He received an engraved iPad case and I received flowers.

He will also receive money to pay for our trip to General Conference, and for reaching his monetary goal for Sheaves for Christ for our section, he is getting the iPad 2.

Christmas Day

After making our annual late night drive home on Christmas Eve, our kiddos were tired and slept in on Christmas morning. Of course Sophia and I were up around 7. The rest of the family didn't get up until after 9.

As soon as everyone was up we all gathered on the couch. Scott got his bible and told the kiddos we were going to read the Christmas story. Scott started reading, and a short time into the story, Millie put her head into her hands and stated, "Oh man, this sounds like Baby Jesus's birth not a Christmas story!" It is this moment that you think to yourself "failure" as a parent. We have been reading lots of Christmas books lately, and we have been talking about the true meaning of Christmas, but I guess not enough. Both Scott and I died laughing and explained it was the original Christmas story. We than sang happy birthday to Jesus and let the kiddos open their presents.

Levi in his new suit. I scored this Navy pin stripped Nautica suit for $20!

Now you may be asking yourself where are Sophia's presents? Well I really didn't get her any. She had two gifts that daddy opened for her. She will never know....this was my reasoning. :)

As always we headed over to Grandma and Papaw Seniour's house for Christmas dinner and more gifts.

Millie loved playing with Baby Lyla, our Great Niece. She is 6 weeks older than Sophia.

If you are around Millie for any period of time, you will play the Slug Bug game with her. She is very good and can spot them anywhere. She loves them so much that we walked by one in the Hobby Lobby parking lot and she told Levi in awe, "I have never been this close to a slug bug before." Kohls had a Barbie version of the VW beetle, and thanks to our cousin Rachel, who went out at 11 pm to purchase this one when I finally found one at the Franklin store, Millie got a slug bug for Christmas.

It was a great Christmas!!

Christmas Eve Festivities

The tradition for the Smith family is to celebrate and open presents on the 24th. We also have a tradition to open one present each on the 23rd. (of course I didn't have my camera out when this was taking place).

If you are in the Smith household there are two items that are always present with my dad....cameras and guitars. Uncle David got out a geetar to play a tune for the kuzns.

Another treat from Uncle David was custom pb and j's. Here is Levi's Darth Vadar.

One of my favorite pictures. Pap and Sophia.

The big boys waiting to open their presents.

Sophia was super excited about opening presents.

Uncle Joe giving Millie a music lesson with her new bells from Grandma and Pap. If you look closely the bells are sitting on my Christmas gift....The Shark steam cleaner for floors. I loved it and have used it twice to clean my hardwood floors. It is very efficient and easy to use and doesn't require chemicals, only water. I was telling my oood friend Crystal about my gift and she was telling me about what she received (kitchen utensils). We than began discussing at what age do women stop receiving gifts for themselves, and start getting cleaning tools and kitchen supplies for gifts. and like them? At 31 I loved the floor cleaner, not so sure I would have liked it 10 years ago. :-)

This is one happy boy....The original Ledgends of Zelda for the Wii!!

What a wonderful evening spent with family!

Santa Hats

I love browsing Pinterest. It makes me feel so crafty, without doing anything. When I saw a picture of edible Santa hats, I thought that looks easy enough. So I planned a little craft for the cousins at Grandma and Paps house. (I know I'm the cool mom/Aunt) All Aunt Sara wanted to do was eat MY divinity and hold Sophia. :-)

While the little kiddos made their hats with strawberries, whipped cream and brownies, Levi ate the whipped cream.

It was a great time had by all!!

Christmas Programs

Both kiddos were super excited to be a part of their Christmas programs at school this year. I was a little nervous that I wasn't going to get to go because of Sophia being sick, but my mother in law came over and watched her so I could go to both.

I was quite impressed with Levi's choir, and the CMO program was one of the best. I love watching little kiddos perform.