Simply the Smith's

Friday Favorite time! I can't believe that it is the last day of July but I'm so excited for August and the weekend! Linking up with Andrea ! This first favorite was an accidental find. I ran out of my batiste dry shampoo and so I ran to WalMart to get an interim one and now I will never buy another kind. This dry shampoo is amazing   No film or gray stuff in my hair and it works on day 3 hair! I love this so so much! The price is half too so it's a favorite all around. My next favorite? The Snackeez Jr.  We have this one already and I just ordered a second one (minions) for G We have a full size snackeeze too (that I use now when we go on walks!) but the Jr is just perfect for Grayson we pack this baby up every morning with a snack and some water and then I fill it up before I leave work and throw a little treat in it for when I pick him up. He gets everything in one and I'm not constantly handing him is snack and then his water! Love ...

It is What's Up Wednesday!!! Mix and Match Mama makes this day so wonderful and fun! 1. What are we eating? I had this last night and it was Divine!  Chicken Quesadilla The drink was amazing, Pina Colada  the food fabulous and the scenery wasn't so bad either 2. I'm reminiscing about.... how (almost) 6 years ago I was exactly one month from my wedding! Time flies when your raising little humans having fun! 3.What I'm loving.... Raisnetts. Random I know however Grayson loves chocolate and while I'm not that crazy sugar nazi mama I do like to limit the amount of chocolate that child consumes in a day. Somehow these chocolate covered raisins make me feel better. However now I grab handfuls here and there. Hey it's still fruit right? 4.What we've been up to.....Swimming! Swimming! Swimming! So thankful in the last 3 weeks that we have a pool! 5. What I'm dreading.....Nothing that I can think of 6. Wha...

This is a thing right? Halfway through the year you make new resolutions? Okay maybe it's just me anyway July 1st is the exact halfway point and I decided that with everything that had happened I wanted to make some halfway new year resolutions. The top of that list was soaking up all the little moments with Grayson and taking more pictures. The next biggest thing was one on one time with Michael. We neeeed this so so bad. With our work schedules we get very little (read if any!) alone time together. Michael gets up to go to work at 2:30 in the morning and starts work at 3:30. That means he goes to bed no later than 8:45. So with Grayson going to bed at about 7:45-8:00 and after we shower and finish picking up for the night we sometimes have mere seconds together at night. So I put out an SOS to Michael and my Mom and I came up with a plan. Every other week my Mom will watch Grayson for a few hours so that Michael and I can go out and spend some time just us. It ...

Friday afternoon my doll of a husband brought me and iced coffee at work. It was just what I needed because I was struggling to even finish out the day! He ran up and bought a new rug for our living room. Back in March we swapped our rooms around we moved the living room into the dining room and so we needed a new rug. The now living room is much bigger and our little 5x7 rug just was not cutting it. However 8x10 rugs are mucho doll hairs and so I waited to find a good deal on one. Well last weekend when we were at BJ's (our wholesale club) I saw one that was on major sale and so he went up to get it (I couldn't fit it in my truck with Grayson in there). We got it home and I love it! It makes the room feel more complete and homey! He also picked up some beer and chicken fingers after that yum! My sister called asked to get Grayson to go to the park for a little bit with the cousins and so I of course said yes![ Michael and I took the chance to hop on the 4wheeler...

TGIF!!!! I'm so excited for the weekend! Here are this weeks favorites! Linking up with Andrea One  Getting back our family pictures from the photographer I love this one of my little family of 3! And this one of me and my love Two Sword fights. Grayson got these 2 glow in the dark swords (at the dollar store) and it was pirate day at school a few weeks back so now he likes to sword fight with Daddy. Boys will be boys. Three Ice Cream date nights with my loves Four Blueberry picking! The tradition lives on! Five Eating dinner outside! Our weather has been amazing and wonderful and we are soaking it up! Happy Friday everyone!

I debated on hitting publish on this post. I don't want to seem like I'm dwelling on it but it's my reality. It's one month to the day that we learned that our baby had no heartbeat. Typing that out is still devastating. It's still hard. It still makes my heart ache so bad. It's weird being one month out. My body has how do I say this gone back to working order which I'm beyond thankful for. One down one more to go until we can try for another baby. I'm ready so ready. Grayson and I were watching a video of him as a newborn, we're talking less than a week old and he was doing some tummy time and I was transported back to the smells, the musy-ness, the snuggles, just all of it. I had to take a moment for myself after that because really it fells like that will never happen again. And I want it so bad. So so bad. This whole situation has been trying on me as a person. I hear myself being irrational and nasty sometimes (mostly to my husb...

 This is how Friday afternoon went. (I'm the one using all the emoji's) My work week was just beyond anything I can describe. Just one of those weeks. Throw in being emotional on top of it and well that's just a recipe for disaster.  I even went as far as trying to convince my husband to run away to Mexico in August for 3 days for our anniversary. When he told me no (because that's the adult thing to do not charge a trip we don't really need) I threw a fit. It was a mess. I was a mess. Just a mess. That was Thursday so when I got into work on Friday and it was just more of the same stuff different day kind of thing. I thew out an SOS.  (and just for reference he is asking me to love him forever because he told me no about the trip) Mama needed wine. And pizza. So that's what we had for dinner wine and pizza. It was just what I needed.   I drank and these two watched guitar videos Grayson's new obsession. I stayed...

I am a mess most days I keep wishing for more hours in the day. I want more time with my boys, more time to write, more time to play. Just more time. I wish I could take a vacation to somewhere tropical. A swim up bar and the beach just me and the hubby. I sing all the time. Random things usually to make Grayson laugh. I dance during Monsters University when they are all at the party. We watch this movie at least 4 times a week and so Grayson and I always get up to dance during that scene. Plus we dance after bath. I put Pandora on and we jam out. I think in this age of social media that people think their opinions matter more than they do. In the last few month with Caitlyn Jenner coming out and the whole Josh Duggar scandal I think that people insert themselves where they shouldn't. Listen everyone has to answer for their own doings not anyone elses so just let people be. Everyone is big and bad behind a computer. I really want Burger King c...

Last Friday was a crazy morning....... Grayson woke up earlier than normal at 4:00. I went in his room got him out of his crib and told him it was still night night time and he could lay in mommy's bed with her. He fell back asleep and I drifted off when he woke up crying. Okay bad dream he was trying to pull his shirt off because it had a bug in it. Whatever kid I helped him take his shirt off and tried to get him to go back to sleep it was only 4:45 I still had half an hour to sleep. Nope he started screaming " I go downstairs" I told him no he can't it's not time yet and Mommy still had to get dressed. This went on for a good 2-3 mins and then bam my kid sat up looked me in the eye and slapped me across the face. What? Where did that come from? We don't hit in our house. Michael never hits me, I don't hit Michael we just don't hit. He.slapped.me.across.the.face. Tears came instantly, I yelled his name loud and stern mostly from shock and ...

Friday after work I ran and got Grayson so that we could run a few errands and then head out to Dennis and Marie's house. "running in the store quick" yeah that does not happen with a 2 year old, but he was so so good. We grabbed our party supplies and headed for baby doughnut Friday. Stopped off quick to grab his 3 wheeler and throw the cold stuff in the cooler and then we were off to Dennis and Marie's. We got there and the guys had just finished a lap of racing so we chatted for a little bit got out G's power wheels let him take a few laps before the big boys got back on the bikes and then Grayson started picking up sticks in the yard. Something he learned from my father. He got hot wanted to swim in their kiddie pool that is meant for their dog but we let him go at it anyway. First with just his diaper and then that got filled up with water and he wanted it off so he went skinny dipping. #redneckswimming. We left there around 7:40 got home for bath and...