thinkin

1. Mom and Joe just left

2. Collin is driving friends to the airport

3. Monte is sleeping

4. I'm left alone which is sad, but also feels really good and cleansing. I'm alone with my thoughts. It's so warm today. Feels amazing. 75 DEGREES!! Feels like 90. I love it. Time to get ready for the Relief Society birthday dinner tonight. COOL!

A visit to the birthing center

Tonight we visited the birthing center in Annapolis. I had the best experience. The people were so warm and extremely knowledgeable and I just felt so good about it all. They answered ALL of my questions. I could have cried out of happiness.

I'm going to do it! As long as my pregnancy stays healthy, I'm going to have a water birth in a birth center with a midwife! I feel great. My husband has taken his role as protector really seriously, which is pretty cute. My mom and brother had a great experience too.

Family oriented. Mother and Baby skin to skin. As little medical intervention as possible. Giving birth is not a sickness, but can be a wonderful experience. I'm pretty much getting excited. I loved seeing all the pregnant moms (also on the tour) with their bellies all different sizes.

Birthday birthday birthday!!

It was a great day!!

Iron Chef: secret ingredient: PISTACHIO!!!

Delicious, incredible, amazing, stupendous drinks made by my lover, Collin. 

He's amazing, incredible, delicious, and stupendous!!!

By the Tolleys: Grapes covered in goat cheese and then 

rolled in pistachio crumbles! GENIUS!

With goat cheese and blue cheese spread,

my heroes.

Rice with lots of good stuff and pistachio sauce

by the fabulous host, Purvi!

Ohhhh myyyy gosh. This pizza was SO GOOD. 

From the crust to the simple and tasty toppings. PERFECT.

By the Hubands.

Erin, gettin serious.

Loves.

sunny, ice cream cone, boat, cookie

So one day I was going to have a baby, and I wasn't super nest-y or mom decorating-y by nature. Then I came across some adorable onesies with super cute prints on them and was like, awwwww, they are so little.

Problem: each one was $38-45 and I just couldn't get myself to buy something for that expensive that would be potentially barfed on, pooped on and grown out of. 

But thanks to craft expert, Erin, http://ohthehubanity.blogspot.com/

a consignment sale with Natalie, http://meandmavie.blogspot.com/

craft night for Relief Society, http://radio.lds.org/eng/programs/relief-society-episode-2

and my crafty skills, OH YEAH, I made my own masterpieces and man I'm in love with them.

Photos!!

Babe Money-Smith, you will be awesome.

Let's just make it official.

I'm having a babe!!! He/She is coming sometime in September.

Super, super happy am I.

ABOVE PHOTO:

Babe Skittlecore at just 7.5 weeks. He's the shrimp puff that's being measured. The circle thing at top that looks like a head was actually the feeding sac. 

She/he is now 12 weeks, has mostly all parts, a placenta, and is the size of a LIME!

Growing SO fast, at the end of this week he'll be the size of a PEACH! Whaaa??  So cool. I've been reading and learning a ton about being pregnant and giving birth. Now I'm done reading.  I'm just going to enjoy and experience and try to figure things out. But I'll still listen intently to any mother's birth story. 

I'm not afraid of child birth, for some crazy reason. Maybe I will be later, and I know it'll hurt insanely, but I'm sort of excited to experience it. I just want to be calm and relaxed.

Collin is the best ever. He loves me, feeds me, listens to my complaints and even takes the blame when my hormones are going CRAZY and I'm SUPER MEAN to him. Seriously, it is nuts.

Monte knows something is up. He's acting more babyish and needy and cuddly than ever. I sure love it.

Anyway, this was the perfect time for us. Heavenly Father really knows me and is preparing me and loves me. 

Ps. My mother and youngest brother are going to be here in 4 days.

I MISSED NATIONAL PANCAKE DAY!!! HOW DID THIS HAPPEN!?

Happy MARCH!!!

MARCH!

My favorite month! The best month ever! Beautiful, wonderful spring is coming!!

I'm turning 27; Collin is turning 30!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Mom and Joe come out to visit. 

Lots of other very good things. 

March brings so many good memories. I just went through about a million pictures from 2003, 4, and 5. Boy, were things different then. The boyfriends! Haha. Ahhh, the past, eh?

happy, sunny things:

I miss you, AZ.

Baby come dance with me.

I'm diggin this rainy day while doing a gigantic pile of dishes, 

kitten sleeping, and listening to my "favs" playlist. 

It's full of really amazing stuff, and then a couple 

of things everyone would disrespect me for. 

What can I say? I like being alone. I love a quiet home. 

I love to think. I love to just be. 

And I also love to be loud, be funny, be crazy, be spontaneous, be with Smith. 

That's why I love my life. I'm with Smith, who allows me to be me and be anything. 

We're all in. In it together. Just us two and the couple we've brought in. 

Cupcakes. Sharing 3 at Georgetown Cupcakes Fri night 

made me SO sick that night, but Milk Chocolate Birthday Cake, 

Strawberry Lava Fudge, and Lemon Blossom, you were

SO worth it!!

Gonzo. 

What a curious life we have found here tonight

there is music that sounds from the street.

There are lights in the clouds and his ghost all around

hear a voice as it's rolling and ringing through me,

soft and sweet, how the notes all blend unreachable.

The trees.

What a beautiful face I have found in this place

that is circling all 'round the sun.

And when we meet on a cloud

I'll be laughing out loud, 

I'll be laughing with everyone I see.

Can't believe how strange it is to be anything at all.

                -N.M.H.

He's a cat. MEOW.

Okay, this video is really really funny.

YouTube - Cat Flushing A Toilet Music Video - Parry Gripp

Monte loves water. But we leave the toilet seat down ALWAYS (super pet-peeve of mine not to and I've trained Collin well) so he hasn't gotten a chance at this one yet....