Baby Giraffe, Baby Elephant, Baby Smith

While my cousin Claire and Paul are preparing to have their baby anytime, I am getting more and more excited to meeting our own little one. 

Progressing along in my pregnancy, Patrick continues to take care of me and my every midnight water needs and cravings. We can feel the baby kicking and moving around in my stomach and it truly is amazing the miracle inside of me, like God's little angel and I am so humbled that we as women get to carry these little lives in our stomachs. What a beautiful process. ;)

And I must say, I am not one to cry so easily and often but when I see Patrick with other babies or his nieces, I just know he will just make the best father to our baby. He is always so caring and wonderful, I know he will be there for our baby and myself with loving embraces, and of course, bringing humor and joy to every moment. Today, he drew on my stomach a huge smiley face....

So the baby is doign well and can't wait to see all of our amazing family and friends. Speaking of, we were overwhelmed with love when we visited my parents and they held a huge baby shower for us. They are so great and it will be so wonderful when everyone meets our little baby Smith. 

p.s. I am in love with little miniature everything's that we received for the baby. I love the clothes and shoes and little small diapers and onesie's. It is all so adorable!!

We love you all and come June, I can not wait for us to Patrick and myself to meet our little baby and be apart of our new growing family. God's blessings.

Pregnant in a snow globe!

Pat and I have been enjoying the amazing snow and warm fireplace! Had a great Christmas and looking forward to the next few months as we are gaining a few more family members up here! We are excited to have Jamie come and move up here and we will be visiting Abby at FUS here soon!

I am now further along with my pregnancy. I am showing and people are starting to stare. A doctor where I work looked at me and he asked me how I was feeling. I said, "Fine and how are you feeling?" completely forgetting that I actually look pregnant.

It is so beautiful, being pregnant, and for the first time I felt the baby's arm or leg move in my stomach, it is sooo little. I can't believe I have a life inside of me. Praying that I be a safe haven for this baby these new few months until we have him/her in June. And for all of you who are wondering what it will be, we are waiting until it is born so that I can hear, "It's a boy" or "it's a girl"! I can't wait for that moment! Posting pictures soon of the belly.

Missing all the family and always keeping y'all in my prayers!
The Smith's

Fall Leaves

This is one of the reasons why I moved up here and LOVE it. There are so many yellow, red, purple, and oranges leaved trees right now and they are so beautiful. Wanted the Florida family to share in the beauty, too.

Holloween!

We found the perfect pumpkin to take home and Pat and I carved our first pumpkin together! I haven't carved a pumpkin in like 10 years, so it was so exciting!

Then Halloween came..... our little lady bug, Ellie and us with Chrissey!

Fall Time Fun!

The leaves are changing, the fall season is here, complete with the beautiful crisp air!

AND ALL THE ACTIVITIES THAT COME WITH IT!

We went to this huge Pumpkin patch and corn fields with the Ohio family, I have never been to a real Pumpkin patch, an established one, anyway.

Birthday Fun

Have I not told you how amazing Patrick is? Well, let me just say!

We have a Secord tradition called "The Birthday Breakfast", where everyone except for the birthday person, wakes up earlier before 5:00 am to make a ridiculous spread of breakfast and the traditional Entemann's black donuts. Even though I have been a huge fan of this  annual morning adventure, I am in no way a morning person, so I was wondering what Pat would do? He let us both sleep in as much as we could before he made me breakfast and gave me my beautiful present, a scarf (I LOVE SCARVES!!). It was so nice because we were both exhausted and that is what makes the tradition so special.

Then, after work, I come home to a beautifully homemade chocolate cake that HE BAKED!! I didn't know guys could bake. :) If that wasn't special enough, it was a DOUBLE LAYERED cake!! It made my year! It was so awesome! That night I got together with the girls up here, Rachel and the babies, as well as Chrissey!

Needless to say, Pat is always showing me how much he cares so much and he is the best husband ever! Very excited and loving the married life with him!

God's blessings.

Settling in.

We are now settling in to our apartment in the beautiful city of Columbus. A few weeks after we got back from the honeymoon, I didn't feel so well. So, I went to the doctor who told me that I was pregnant....PREGNANT!! It was so awesome when I told my husband, he just smiled and looked at me, obviously shocked and happy with the news. That is something I will remember. 

Every so often, he touches my stomach and says baby and talks to it. A father's love is so amazing! And the best part about having his baby, is that this will be first known blood-relative because he is adopted. God is doing amazing things to us and our little family. 

Prior to the wedding, we had decided that we would get our dog, and interestingly enough, our little chocolate lab, who is 7 weeks old, is as old as the baby in my belly. Ellie, the pup is so cute and she brings sunshine to my life everyday, especially when she cuddles next to me.

 

Do you have dogs in your family? How are they with babies and little children? I am excited to see the day when the two meet, in June 2011!

All of God's blessings!