Simply the Smith's

Let me dust this sucker off today. I don't mean to not write. In fact I do write. I have so much I want to share and say. I want to keep up on the twins milestones (that seem to happen every day) and Graysons cute things he does. But I get halfway through and then get distracted and then bam I'm way off track. I guess I'm in the season of survival. At least that is what it feels like. My day starts early. 4:15. I do hit the snooze once and roll out of bed no later than 4:30. I have my clothes laid out so that helps and I'm downstairs to get everything around. I make my coffee, finish up lunches, do my hair and make up (which spoiler alert is a pony tail and a quick swipe of mascara!) I check and make sure bags are all around and then I feed Riley. 5:30. I start getting the kids up (if they aren't already) Grayson takes a while to wake up so I get him up first bring him down on the couch and cover him up with a blanket. I grab one of the babies u...

How is it that my sweet babies have been here for half a year? Time flies when your sleep deprived, losing your mind daily and having fun! What our normal mornings look like 3 little munchkins playing on the floor 6 months here we go Sweet Sissy, Oh Sis. You are my precious girl. But really if I'm being honest your heart belongs to your Daddy. I have never seen a baby more obsessed with someone. If he walks in a room you roll to get to him if you can hear him but not see him (because your big brother is singing in your face) well you push them out of the way to see him and then the smile you give him, oh that smile it melts him and me. There is no truer love than that. You are our food eater. You love love love veggies and fruit and oatmeal. You can take or leave the bottle. Depends on the day. But put food in front of you and man oh man you go crazy and keep your mouth open almost the whole time and screech and yell if you see us feeding Marshall and not yo...

This will not be your normal election post. This will not be an I'm sad for my daughter post, or I fear for our future post. Because I don't. I've got God on my side and I'm good with that. I have peace in that. I'm not going to say who I voted for or why. It's no ones business really that's why we vote the way we do so that we can give that information at our discretion. But I do have something to get off of my chest. I will never ever ever vote based solely on gender. Hear me out please. I believe in gender equality and because of that I could care less what the gender of our president is. However...... it was assumed that because I'm a female it was my duty to vote for a female. No just no. That would be is taking us back years as far as I'm concerned. I voted based on morals, integrity, a love for this country and who (in all honesty) was the lesser of two evils. I voted to keep my rights protected. I voted. Period. I vot...

I didn't leave the house this weekend! And I kind of loved it.  Friday- I went grocery shopping super quick by myself. Now normally I take Grayson with me but let's be real it takes twice as long with a 3.5 year old and I needed it to be quick this week so away I went by myself and I made it in and out in 25 mins! All the praise hands because Wal-Mart on a Friday afternoon of a Holiday weekend is nothing short of crazy. Once I was done there I scooped up Grayson then went and picked up Libby and B. I loaded up all the kids and then took them to my sisters work so they could go to Beggars night in the town that she works in. I grabbed food on the way home and then crashed. Grayson spent the night at my mom's house with is cousins so I went to bed at 8! It was awesome Saturday I waited for the guy to come look at our roof. A few weeks ago we had a bad rainstorm and our ceiling started the smallest leak. So I was prepared for him to say we needed a new roof well...