The Life of the Smiths: May 2012

Wednesday, May 30, 2012

Stressed Out

Why don't you relax a little Tucker?

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Experts

As anyone who has spent minimal amounts of time with our family knows, we have three very different girls (thank goodness!!!). Lately, I've noticed they are excelling at various things too.

Reese: Master hider. For real, the girl can hide in my pillows or blend into the ground and it's impossible to see her. She scares me all the time because she stays unbelievably quiet until she screams (which, if you know Reese, this isn't easy!).

Hailey: Whiz at hula hooping. She chooses when she will stop. The hula hoop does not dictate when it will drop.

Landry: She is the comedian extraordinaire. She totally gets humor and jokes and knows how to get people to laugh. And...she uses her power to get out of trouble by changing the topic with a joke. I predict she will be a major social butterfly.

Tuesday, May 29, 2012

Landry LuLu

One of my dear friends happens to be a photographer (she has taken our family photos) and she just sent me this today for fun.... Landry and I were helping her take pictures at Hailey's school and she did this when I wasn't looking. She is so talented. And, Landry is growing up so incredibly fast!

She's three. However she thinks she's 7....just like her sister.
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Monday, May 28, 2012

MAYhem

I'm just trying to hold on and make it to June 1st! The end of the school year is quickly approaching and my two littlest munchkins are already DONESKY with their preschool year. We've had a great month with vacation and Aunt Rhonda visiting (how did I NOT get a picture of her when she was here?), and seeing old friends and meeting up for playdates with new ones. The girls' faces below explain how most days go in this house!

I'm just so glad that at the end of every day, I get to see this guy and call him my husband and best friend.

Lately, I've had moments where I'm overwhelmed with happiness for all the blessing in my life and I've had moments where I can't remember my name because my brain is on overdrive. The blogging has been lacking and I'm hoping to pick up the pace again this summer. Bring on the summer (although, Mother Nature, if you're listening....we don't need to try to set that "hottest summer ever" record again)!!!

Disney

This month has been nutty crazy here! However, before the insanity hit, this fam took a few days off for our vacation. We went back to Disney and this time, Landry LuLu came. She was ridiculously excited. I'm making a scrap book about our vacation, so here are just a few highlights.

The chickies....ready for some pool time. This is one of my all time favorite pics of my girlies.

Meeting characters and getting their autographs was a BIG hit. Can you tell if it's Chip or Dale below? It's Chip! Ask Landry the difference between them, she will be glad to tell you all about it. Speaking of Landry, where is she in these pics? Well....before we entered the park she was all ready to meet the characters. And then....she saw them....so tall....so big.....so costumed up.....and she freaked. However, she decided that she would meet any characters that could talk to her and she made an exception for Minnie and Daisy....because they are girls and she couldn't resist!

Alice was by the tea cups!

We even got to see our friend, Anna!!! She left the girls a gift basket full of cookies, princess stuff, games, etc. They went NUTS!

We sure love Disney and all the entertainment it provides. However, I love the moments where I get to step back and watch our girls play nicely together or catch them holding hands or dance in the street or simply be goofy (no pun intended....ok, it kind of was). Trey and I don't take them for granted and we sure cherish these times because they're growing up fast.