Saturday, August 31, 2013

Rian's first Lemonade Stand

Rian has been talking about having a lemonade stand for about a year. I told her when she's 5 we can have one. Well, that was a little to long for her to wait. After ,"Mom, when can I have a lemonade stand?" or "Can I have a lemonade stand tomorrow?" Over and over for 1 month straight, EVERYDAY! I kid you not! Soooooo, Mark and I decided we would make her a lemonade stand! Now, Mark is not a handyman" by any means BUT I have to tell a when he puts his mind to DO something he does it and goes all out! A call to his buddy Jack and we had a drawing plan for a lemonade stand! Rian was super excited and so was daddy! He went to Lowes, 3 times, but hey, he did it right? After a weekend it was finished. Mark built an amazing lemonade stand and Rian and I painted!

We told her that she has until next weekend to have her lemonade stand. She asked me again if she could do it tomorrow which would be a Monday! LOL!!! Impatient like me I guess! Then she ask me, "Who can I invite? I want all my friends to come!" Of course I wanted to make sure she had some friends come so Mark and I asked around. She had an amazing turnout. Her friend Reid from her Pre-school came and lots of our neighbors! Everyone was really generous, especially when they found out that Rian wanted to donate all her money from the stand to kids who didn't have money to have their own lemonade stand! How could you not want to pay more then .50 cents for that!!!


Rian made $23.50! The best part was playing with her friends new and old! She filled up everyone cup then asked if they would like a rice krispie treat to go with it! What a sweetheart! "Sissa" Presley was there enjoying the pink lemonade and rice krispie treats!









 Our new neighbors, Sailor and Christopher
 Rian's friend Reid from pre-school



 Rian loved holding Hayden!!
 Hillary loved holding Presley!
Presley also LOVED holding baby Hayden!

Sunday, October 14, 2012

Our new home!

Mark and I have decided that Texas is the place to stay and raise our family! So, we found our dream house and had it built! We cant wait to move in December! Here are a few pictures of the progress so far.










 We have met several neighbors already and they are all super nice which makes it that much more exciting! Rian and Presley enjoy our future new park every Tuesday and Thursday after Rian's school.

Dewberry Farms

We love Dewberry Farms!  It's a large farm with rides, fun activities, yummy food and a hay ride out to the pumpkin patch and Christmas tree farm!




The first time we went Rian was 8 months old! The girls loved it and enjoyed the cow train, pipe slide and the pillows! The girls had hot dogs and chocolate milk for lunch and I enjoyed (very much) a frito pie! Mark had a giant baked potato.  The girls picked out 2 "baby" pumpkins and enjoyed the hay ride to get there. When we left we had rice crispie treats and yummy fudge, by the way butter pecan, was FABULOUS!









 

Saturday, October 13, 2012

Remembering the funny things..........

Since my memory seems to be dull I thought I would make notes of the funny things the girls say.

Presley talks SOOO much at her age, it hard to keep track of everything she says. Presley can say EVERY word you ask her too! Thanks to a big sister! I just have a few favorites!

1. She loves to hold out her pointer finger and tells me, "Minute!"
2. Sissy Play
3. Huggie (Gives lots of hugs)
4. Ring a Rosie  (Ring around the Rosie)
5. Hugry (Hungry)
6. Nana (Favorite fruit, Banana)
7. Iradessa (Fairy)
8. Camera and picture
9. Mommy, where are you?

Her favorite songs:

1. Itsy bitsy spider
2. ABC
3. Ring around the Rosie
4. Trot Trot to Boston


Rian, she is so stinkin' funny! Sometimes I have no idea where these things come from...

1. She stumps me the other day with...  Rian is pointing to my chest and she asks, "What are those?" Mark and I about lost it! I was thinking of an appropriate word to call them... I said, drum roll please.................... breast!  BUAHAHAHA!

2. As I'm putting Rian's shoes on she says, "Now I feel sexy!"  My jaw dropped and I think I might have cracked it!  I asked her where she heard that from and she tells me her friend Rachel, who is 12.  Well, I cant wait til Rian's 12, what are they going to be saying then!  UGH!!!

3. When Rian toots, 8 times out of 10, she tells us Presley did it! ;)  Poor Presley started getting blamed for this when she was 2 months old!

4. EVERY night before bed time, we have the same routine.  Bath, lotion up and dressed, read a book,  give a magic word to turn lights off, sing you are my sunshine, flips or mommy then finally bed! I think its the longest routine!

5. I always thought Rian was good at sharing and never worried about it........ until Presley became an age where she wants a toy then takes the toy!  THEN, if Presley plays with a toy that Rian is not playing with or even near then she wants it and gets mad that Presley isn't sharing!  UGH!!!  Sometimes I just want to laugh out loud its so comical but then there are times I want to pull my hair out and throw away ALL toys!

6. I LOVE the look on Rian's face when we drive by our new house that is being built.  At first it was, "I don't want to move, I don't want to look at the house!"  As soon as they put the frame up and it looked like a house she was excited!  We look every Tuesday and Thursday after we pick her up from school, then we hit our soon to be playground!

7. Rian tells me the other day that she would love a cute little alien to hug.  I said, well I would love to hug you all day!  Rian replies, I don't want your hugs!  Soooo, I say that my feelings are hurt and she comes back with but I can hug you whenever mom so its ok! 

8. Rian and I painted each others nails and I told her it comes off after a few days with washing your hands and things like that.  So, when she has to wash her hands for the first time that day she says she didn't want the polish to come off!  I said it didn't happen that quick sooooooo, then before dinner she washes then again and says the same thing! For two days she would say this every time!

9. In school Rian plays with boys for the most part.  After her 2nd day of school she tells me Breckon says he loves her out on the playground.  I went to her school early to see her play on the playground and sure enough she was with Breckon and 3 other boys!  Oh lordy!! Also, she tells me that Breckon is her best friend! We have already been to a boys birthday party from class, Jonathan.  I tell ya, its a little scary! ;) I was wondering how it was going to be this year because there are only 4 girls in her class but apparently Rian would rather play with the boys anyways!

I need to start writing these things down, there are so many that I have forgot!  

Monday, July 2, 2012

Meet Presley Ann Smith!

Presley Ann was born!  April 19, 2012!  Obviously a little late since she's 14 months old!
Well, everyone has been asking me about my delivery story so here it goes!  It was about 10pm on April 18th and I was laying in bed reading a book and Mark was in the livingroom watching tv.  I get a "feeling" that my waters about to break so I get up and grab a towel to put under me in bed.  Mark ask me what I was doing so I tell him I think my waters going to break.  He says, "How do you know?  Are you sure?  Of course I'm sure and I just know" was my response!!  I lay back in bed and within 5 minutes my water breaks!  WooHoo, here we go! 

I am told that your second childs labor is generally cut in half sooooo I'm thinking I have got to get going, I have 4 hours or so!  I walk out to the livingroom and tell Mark that my water broke and he looks at me like I'm just messing with him!  LOL!!!!!  I change my clothes and call my good friend Christy to come over and stay with Rian.  She's over in 10 minutes and out we go!  I found a short cut to the hospital since we moved and now were farther away.  Mark is zooming down the freeway and I'm talking to my mom on the phone telling her my water broke and were on the way to the hospital.  She tells me I'm so calm and I okay?  HAHA!!!  Yup, I feel great I tell her.  I say we have a few more calls to make so I will keep her posted.  Mark flys by a cop and prays he doesn't pull us over, I definately didn't want a cop to delay my baby arrival time!  Nothing!  Whew!  So we turn on the street where we have never been before, but its a short cut so who cares!  Going faster then the speed limit because thats just what a dad does when his wife is in labor, goes flying over speed bumps at 40mph!  I look down and am hoping Presley didn't just fall out on the floor board!!!!!  Yay, she's still in my tummy! Mark's saying, repeatedly, how sorry he is!  Poor guy feels horrible!.

Okay, check in, la de da....... this lady is unbelievably SSSLLLLOOOWWWWWW!  While water is STILL dripping I'm a little more then ansy to lay down at this point, it felt gross!  Does it ever stop, Rian's was a quick one gush and that was it!  TMI?  Sorry, I'll continue on! ;)  I put on my beautiful blue hospital gown and hop into bed.  One of my nurses Michelle was a wife of Mark's friend, what are the odds.  Anyways, she tells me I will get my blood results back in about thirty minutes then she will be back in to get me all set up.  I was feeling fine until my contractions started hard and fast!!!  OOOOUUUCCCHHH!  Then out of no where my mouth starts up!  "Where the hell is that lady?  Why is she so freaking slow?  Whats the problem, can you call the nurse?" ow, this has only been about 15 minutes!  I was not happy!  This started around midnight.  I had 15 more minutes til the half hour!  UGH!  Finally they come in and my doctor shows up, checks me out and says he's going to try and sleep a couple hours and he'll be back to check on me.  I was dilated at 1 1/2 and effaced at 40%.  So, I wait but I am in need of the epidural now!  BAD!  I am rolled in a ball on my side waiting for what seems like years for the anethesiologist to get there.  Once he's there I'm thrilled but still waiting and waiting for this and that.... I didn't remember all the waiting last time.  It was a quick shot and he was gone!  Now that I had something to compare it to I was wishing for the same guy I had with Rian.  Finally, I'm drugged up and ready to try and sleep, it's 1:45 am and I am tired!  Mark turns off the lights and we get comfortable and Mark especially because he had the 5 star, extra plush cardboard couch! 
I'm finally comfortable and ready to close my eyes at 2:20am and I feel like my epi wore off!  I'm thinking that's impossible so I tell Mark to get the nurse.  Nurse tells me there is no way it wore off and she's going to check me out.  Moved the sheet up and says, "Oh, it's because her heads there and were ready to push!"  OOOkkkay!  Let's get this party started!  She calls my doctor, Joseph Castillo, and when he comes in looking exhausted, laughs and says that he should have known it was going to be fast again.  Poor guy maybe had an hour!  Everyone was ready and we started to push or should I say I pushed and Presley was born!  I have to say, I love the whole birthing process, maybe I'm crazy but it is all so GREAT and the best roller coaster ever!

I remember hearing, "Look at all that blonde hair!"  I thought huh?  Really?  I know Marks is blonde but it was still a shock!  So we now have one of each!  My mini me and Mark's mini me!  Presley was beautiful and of course we instantly fell in love with our new princess!  Presley Ann was born at 2:48am weighing 7.4lbs.  (and a large head, thanks Presley!)

Thank you for all the visitors!

 Hello Presley!

 Crying and am sooo in love!

 Beautiful I know!  LOL!!!!!  No sleep for a day and no make-up!  Oh well!!!
 Big sister was so proud and excited!  She came right after her breakfast!
 Rian wanted to hold her every second she could!
 Daddy and Presley!
 Daddy and his girls!
 Grandpa Brian holding his 3rd grandbaby!
 Grandma Betty holding her 3rd grandbaby!
Justin getting some time in as well!  Justin and my sister had a baby 14 days before!
 
                                    
My Uncle Kerry and Franklin came to see our Princess!  Such a natural!