The Smedstad Family: November 2008

The randomness that is..... well, random.

So here is my random post for the month.. just a hodge podge of crazy photos taken by yours truly. I absolutely LOVE taking pictures of my little girl- I can't get enough of her.. even when she is asleep, I am looking through the pictures.. just to get a little more of her sunshine!!! These are some of the pictures that have put a smile on my face lately (sans bee.... keep reading.. you'll see....)

This is her.. "Get outta my way woman!! I am on a mission!!!" face.. LOVES IT!

So I figured we could both share in her mission...

We got to hang out with Grady Boy for a day.. they really had fun together!!! I love that she has a little friend she can roll around with..

They played, shared toys.. kicked each other.. puffer shared, etc.

see??? Sharing.. ain't it cute?

Ashlyn also shares with Lucy.. albeit without Lucy's approval.. but hey- who's looking?

It's Fall, and getting cold here in OK- I have decided, I love baby hats.. It's my new thing.. I appreciate a good baby hat ALMOST as much as a good stroller or diaper bag (see the "ALMOST" part.)

I also am LOVIN the baby legs.. I just keep thinking, "She's a maniac, MANIAC", via Flashdance circa 1983 and Jennifer Beals.

Ok, yes.. this was NOT a good look..(even Chris raised his brows to say "why is she wearing argyle AND polka dots??"), Looking back, I am thinking "hot mess"

This is what I wake up to most days.. I LOVE it!!! How can you NOT just pick her up and smother her with kisses???

Obviously, she pulls herself up nowadays, so we had to lower the crib, THEN, she kept pulling on the quilt from the inside of the crib, and would just end up pulling it IN the crib....

So, the quilt had to go.. but DANG! Can you GET any cuter??? Me thinks NOT.

So here is the ONE picture that does NOT put a smile on my face.. BIG, huge RAGING killer bee in my back yard. Luckily, my Jedi mind tricks forced it to death in this flat of pansies. I know it doesn't LOOK that big.. but I swear- that thing was the BIGGEST BEE I have ever seen.. EVER.

I hope everyone is having a FANTABULOUS week- I know we are enjoying all of the sunshine (and kisses, and loves and sugars OH MY!!) the good Lord gives us!

Who says you have to be 18 to vote????

So folks- yes, I know we already have a new President.. BUT, we DID vote (member?? We are behind here in the posting!)

We got out after the afternoon "rush" during lunchtime.. but there were STILL crazy lines!! Baby girl and I waited for over an hour and a half to vote on this historic day!

It was CRAZY windy (gotta love Oklahoma!!!), so baby girl was alll hooded up- she kinda looks like the uni bomber.. but whaddya gonna do?

She was REALLY good in line!! I couldn't believe she didn't put on her crabby pants (and believe me.. she has SEVERAL pair)!!! She got a little bored and a little tired, which is FINE by me.. as long as she isn't screaming! :P

It didn't take us long to vote- Here we are about to drop our ballot into the reader-machine-thinga-ma-jig.. those of you who are nosey (you KNOW who you are- quite trying to zoom and read my ballot!)

After our voting we decided to pose for a super corny "peace-man" picture (yes... it WAS windy)

This was really fun day for baby girl and I.. we got to vote! AND we got a sticker before they ran out!!!!! Hot damn! (sad what excites me now-a-days) Anywho.. off to do more posting! "peace, man".

Halloween Fun!!..mwahhhhh haaaa haaaaa!!!!!

Ahhh... Halloween.. Quite possibly one of my FAVORITE holidays!!! Despite this love an affection for all things scary this time of year.. we failed to get ALL of the Halloween decorations up this year- sad as that is.. we still managed to have a pretty fun Halloween!!!

Our day started off with big smile from baby girl! She enjoyed wearing her "My 1st Halloween" bib Nana A got for her- she was FASCINATED by all of the colors- I think she played with it all day long!

It just SO happens that the baby legs I ordered for her arrived on Halloween morning- NO- it is NOT part of a costume!! Baby legs are like little leg warmers- they keep baby girls knees from getting all gobbledy-gookey while she is crawling around the house- some say they are hideous.. I think they are super cute! (especially on baby girl!!!).. learn to love it, people.

We had to make some adjustments to Lucy's Halloween costume.. as you can CLEARLY see.. she LOVES this costume.. she is thinking about wearing it every day.

Around dinner time, I let baby girl know it was time to get into her bat costume.. she was THRILLED... or not.

Yup.. definitely thrilled

Clearly Ecstatic

Buuut.. once we were done pulling and prodding, she seemed pretty proud of herself, and dare I say "happy" to be in bat attire???

Seriously, most bats are blood sucking rodents- but this one is just plain cute.. I think we will keep her.

Even upside down!!! How can you not LOVE this???

Upside down WITH puffer (sold separately!)

The Reeder clan came over to hang with us and do a little trick-or-treating.. meet Ariel the mermaid, and Sebastian the crab (also known as Ella and Grady!). We all had good times-and I certainly can't complain about alllll the extra sugar in the house!!! :P

Falling into Fall...

Hello to all!!! Fall greetings and Autumn blessings! I have been behind on my blogging!! But in alllll fairness- my wireless has been out on the home computer for a while, and my savvy hubby returned it to working order last night!!!- So, we have been so busy.. it's crazy! We have lots to catch up on, so I won't blab on like I usually do.. (although.. in my mind, that's the best part!!)

We took baby girl to the Parkhurst pumpkin patch before Halloween.. we figured we would get some super cute pics of her crawling all over pumpkins.. what we didn't account for was A) Although the Parkhurst pumpkin patch was a really cute place (will be loads more fun when she is a lil older!).. there was no pumpkin "patch", just a tractor bed full of pumpkins.. and B) Baby girl was CRABTASTIC... we apparently interrupted naptime. Despite A & B, Chris and I enjoyed ourselves, and made complete idiots of one another trying to get baby girl to smile.... our embarrassment equals your pleasure- ENJOY!!!

The entrance to said Parkhurst Pumpkin "patch" (FIBBERS!)