Anna Kate!!!!

Here are a few quick picks. We are home from the hospital as of 5:30 today. She is doing great and we really appreciate everyone's thoughts and prayers. I will update more when I have time!

SHE's here!

Anna Katherine Yale was born Monday, July 16th!
She weighed 5lbs 7oz and measured 18 inches. She is healthy and absolutely beautiful!! Jennifer is doing wonderful and Daddy is love'n every minute.
Congratulations!!

Busy Days

Well, all is well here. Last weekend, Joe graduated! He is so excited, but I don't think it has really hit him. He starts work next week. I'm very happy for him and know he will be a wonderful pedodontist. Joe's Mom, Mimmie, Dad and Deb all came in town for the graduation. We had a great time. Sunday was our church baby shower. It was wonderful. We have made some wonderful friends there! We will miss them tons! The pic of me in the white dress is my 35 week pregnant pic! I'm now 36 weeks which is officially full term. Friday we went to the doctor and he gave me my "walking papers" as they call them. It's just the papaers and releases I need to be admitted to the hospital to have the baby! I can't believe it's already here. They baby is still breached so....we are scheduling a C-section for July 23!!!!! 3 weeks from today. A c-sect is not my ideal plan, but God has something else in store for our little baby. We are so excited to know when this baby is coming. We can't wait. We are also moving to Lafayette next Friday. Thankfully, we will have plenty of help so I don't have to lift anything! Well, that's enough for now!

Happy Anniversary!

Joe and I celebrated our 4th Wedding Anniversary Thursday! We stayed in and ate boiled shrimp! I had a lady that is a patient at my office make a cake. Excuse the cake! It was delicious but it looked kind of funny. Here is a pic from 4 years ago this week.

We had a sonogram today. I am 34 weeks pregnant this weekend. The baby is 4 lbs right now. It is so wonderful to reach a point where you know that if the baby was born it will make it. The baby is breached right now. We have a few weeks to go so, hopefully the baby will change positions. If not, C section here we come. It's about 50/50 either way right now. No worries from the Dr. or the Yales. Whatever the baby wants to do, we will be okay with. We are confident God will take care of the baby and us!

In other news, we put a purchase agreement on a house in Lafayette! We love it! Here is a picture of the front of the house. It's hard to tell what it looks like from the pic. I will put other pics up later.

We are closing July 20th. Pray that we will not go into labor at the closing! I'm due July 29th. We have not sold our house here yet. We are trusting God that the house will sell, we can close on the other house, and the baby will be healthy! Alot going on but we are hanging in just fine.

Today was really fun. The ladies at my dad's office threw him a surprise shower! It was definitely the first grandfather's shower I have ever been to! It was really fun for his office to get to share in the excitement.

Harding Reunion in Destin!

We went to Destin for Memorial Day weekend with 6 other couples. The guys are all friends from Harding University. The girls are all the significant others! We had a wonderful time some of us catching up and getting to know each other! We hope to make this a tradition.

Here is a pic of the guys: Adam, Josh, Cody, Joe, Brad, Greg, and Chad.










Here are the girls: Lauren, Kim, Me, Meghan, Lauren, Jaren, and Cory.


Had fun with you guys!




















BABY UPDATE:

Well, in this pic I am 31 weeks pregnant! Things are going well. I am starting to feel a little tired, but overall doing great. We are very excited to be in the home stretch. We have not been able to set up our nursery because we are trying to move! I'm getting a little anxious about that, but there is nothing I can do for now. We are waiting on our house to sell here in Denham. Hopefully, by some point in July we will be in the new house and I can finally do my nursery. I know what I want, I just haven't actually put it all together yet. My furniture is purchased and the bedding is picked out. I will post pics at some point! Anyway, I go to the doctor tomorrow. We are just anxiously awaiting baby Yale now!!!!





Dr. Yale's Countdown:

As some of you may know, Joe will finish his Pediatric Dental Residency June 22! This is a huge deal to us! We feel like we are about to finally start our life! Joe has been in school for as long as I have known him! That seems so funny. Anyway, he has 3 weeks left and we couldn't be more excited. He said he feels like he is waking up from a bad dream!!!
I made him this paper chain (my 2nd grade teacher-mom's idea). He has to pull a ring off every day until graduation. It may sound silly but it's been fun for us because it makes us realized how close it is!

Baby Shower and a Party 10 years in the Making!

This weekend was my first baby shower! It was wonderful. Some of my high school friends and one of their moms put the shower on for me. I was soooo grateful for all of their hard work. We had a great time and I got some great stuff. The most fun was getting to see everyone.

Saturday night was my 10 year high school reunion! I can't believe it's been 10 years. We had a wonderful time getting to see everyone. It was hard dancing and staying out late being 6 mo pregnant but I made it through.

We also had a great time sunday night putting together our stroller and car seat that was a gift from my mom and dad! Thanks mom and dad. I think Daddy Joe is getting excited!

Hello and Goodbye Dallas!

A few weekends ago my friend Darah and I went to visit my sister in Dallas. I titled this hello goodbye because I finally made it to visit Jill in Dallas about 3 weeks before she was moving! We had alot of fun. I got to live the single life for a weekend with my sister! As single as you can be while you are 6 mo pregnant! Anyway, it was a blast and happy belated birthday Jill!

Baby Yale

Here is my 22 week sonogram! It was so much fun. I was very nervous until the technician told me things were looking normal! Who doesn't like the word normal right? To explain (if you can't figure it out) the baby is laying on it's back. The head is on the right and this is a profile shot. We are not finding out what the baby is. I love to know what other people think it is. It's very fun!

On a different note, our house went up for sale yesterday. It has been very hard for me. I love living here and will miss everything about it. We are moving to Lafayette, LA. It's only an hour from here, but it's still hard. We have spent alot of time making this house into a home. It was also a mini shelter during the hurricane! I'm sure I'll have to take pics of like every room before we move (I definitely won't bore anyone with all of those). I know I'll be excited about the next house. We have hopefully settled on a neighborhood in Lafayette. It's a new neighborhood so there are lots of houses for sale. Nothing is final though. We are praying for our house to sell in time, the new house to be finished in time, and the baby to stay put until the right time!

21 Weeks and counting...

Here is my 21 week pic. I'm having my sonogram friday! We are a little behind due to scheduling to have the sonogram. We are not finding out what the baby is! I have heard so many opinions about this. People either think you are crazy or they say that that's the only way to go. It's just a personal choice! I'm feeling great! The 2nd trimester is definitely the golden time (at least for me). I'm dreading the hot summer though. I've already thought of all the fun summertime drinks (i.e. snowballs, lemonade, icees) that I can have. It's so pathethic that I can only think about food! Oh well, I have to eat right? That's what I keep telling Joe so he doesn't think I'm a big fatty! I think he is slowly getting used to the new (bigger) me! I also included a couple of pics of some of our best friend's new baby girl! We just love her!

18 weeks and counting...

Well, I finally got my camera back! I am 18 weeks pregnant and here is the pic. I feel huge! Things are going good. I feel fine. I'm going to have my sonogram in 3 weeks. I can't wait to see what it looks like.

In other news, we are moving to Lafayette, LA. Joe is joining a very good group practice there. I'm going to stay home with the baby. We are going to have alot of changes this summer! I'll try to blog better. I'm just not very good at it.

Great Trip!

We got back last week from Park City, Utah. We had a wonderful time. Joe and I, my sister, my brother, my sister-in-law, and my parents all went. It was a blast. I've included a few pics of the beautiful mountains! It was a blast and I was very sorry to leave.

I am officially 13 weeks pregnant today! I am starting to show slightly. I feel like it is a little early to show, but what can I do? I feel good and am looking forward to my next sonogram @ 20 weeks to see my cute little baby!

We went this weekend to Ft. Walton Beach, Fla. to visit Joe's dad and his wife. It was a quick trip but it was good. Anyway, I think these pics are cute!

Ski slopes, here we come!

We are leaving in the morning for a ski trip with my family! We are all very excited to get to go together. I think this is the first big trip Joe has gotten to take with the crazy Smith clan. It should be alot of fun.

Anyway, my camera is getting fixed because the sensor is out. No pics for a while. My brother will take some pics on the ski trip and i will get to post those.

I am officially 10 weeks and 5 days pregnant! I feel great. A little tired and sometimes a little nauseated, but fine. The nausea usually goes away if I eat something. I am having a hard time with feeling a little pudgy. I'm not showing and can wear my own clothes, but I definitely feel pudgey and bloated. I can see the difference! i just want to either be my old size or have a belly. I don't like the in-between stage! Well, people go through it every day! I'm no different, i just wanted to grip! ha ha. Anyway, we are very excited about the baby (whatever it is!) It doesn't feel real yet, but i still can't wait! I messed up this pic and can't figure out how to rotate it! I'm computer illiterate!

SURPRISE!

Well, the big surprise is out now! We are having our first baby! I am extremely excited! I am currently due July 29th. We found out a few weeks ago but I wanted to wait a while before posting it. I never realized how little I know about pregnancy, child birth, and babies until I start reading all these books! I'm kind of overwhelmed with all of it right now and have left my pregnancy books to go back to my first love Fiction! It's alot easier to deal with. Seriously, we are very excited and if I can figure out how to scan my 7week 5 day sonogram I will soon. Until then, Merry Christmas!

Merry Early Christmas

Here is my tree. For some reason my camera isn't taking good pics! Anyway, I haven't blogged in a while so I thought I would post a quick one!

Happy Halloween!

We went to our friends' house for a party on halloween and had so much fun! Joe was the tooth fairy. I still can't believe I talked him into wearing that costume. It was hysterical! I was a Geisha. I'm sure Joe will be mortified by me posting this pic but I couldn't resist. I also posted this really cute group pic. Everyone went all out with their costumes. I was impressed. Joe did win the costume contest though!

Dad's Birthday

Can you tell what Dad wished for?
My dad had his birthday last Sunday. My sister came in from Dallas and the whole family went to eat at this really good steak and seafood place here. We had a good time. Happy Birthday Dad!