I Love Blakely

It is amazing that I have wondered for so long what our baby girl would look like.  Right when she came out I saw her and was like "duh, of course that is what our baby would look like."  It is only day 3 with Blakely but I could not imagine life with out her.  She is truly our daughter and she is so perfect. There are so many times that I will walk into the room and I just have to stop look at Blakely's face, smile real big, and just say she is super cute out loud.  I find myself doing that about hundred times a day.  That is no exaggeration.  Although it was nice staying at the hospital because of all of the help we would get with Blakely, it is so nice to be home.  There seems to be space for everything to get Blakely to feel right at home.  She has tons of family that loves her to death.  My whole family drove down and I was so happy that they all got to meet my baby girl.  All of Katie's family (except Corinne) was able to meet her as well.  I am so happy that so many people love her and are so excited for her.  I will write more about my experiences about Blakely entering our lives.

My Blakely Rose

Well I am going to write my wonderful experience in pieces over the next few nights about how my baby girl came into our lives.  I remember when Katie was pushing during the labor.  I could not believe that she was at this point and that the next thing on the list was for the baby to be there.  When her head came out I jumped up and fell down full of happiness. I just started crying with joy about how amazing this experience was.  I have never felt anything like that before in my life.  That two people could work so hard for such a wonderful end product.  I have never been happier and I just looked at Katie and told her how much I love her for this.  When I went down to where Blakely would be cleaned there was a moment when it was just her and I.  I looked at her and just had an overwhelming feeling of love.  It was a godly love.  I felt so connected and over joyed knowing that this beautiful daughter of God was entrusted to me.  Those are some of the many feelings I have towards my beautiful little girl and I will write plenty more on the subject.  So grateful.

PERFECT

BLAKELY ROSE SMITH.  SEPTEMBER 27TH. 1:44 AM.  6 POUNDS 11 OUNCES.  19 INCHES LONG.  STRAWBERRY BLONDE HAIR.  BEAUTIFUL BABY GIRL.  ALL OF THIS EQUALS ONE WORD. .. PERFECT.

And She Would Have Won Again!

So there is something new I found out today that I like to do with Katie.  I like to watch the price is right with her.  She is super good at it (she is smart at everything she does) and all I want to do is beat her.  It was the last show case and I had to run off to class. I threw in my guess and told her to text me who would have won.  Well as you can guess I get a text back her with the price and she would have won.  It is fun for me to be competitive with her and all I want to do is win.  Well I just realized I have already missed one day this week and I didn't write in it last night.  I was so exhausted I just passed out.  Well turns out the Doctors think that Katie will go past her due date.  BOO!  They said she hasn't really progressed that much and with the baby being smaller they won't induce early.  Double BOO!  So the game plan is to see if she comes on her own and Katie will keep going to appointments.  If nothing happens by a week from Thursday, we will go check in that night and get things started for October 5th.  We are so bummed because we want that little stinker here already.  And I know that she will be my little partner in crime and I need her here already so we can start coming up with games and awesome dance parties.  I love my baby girl and it just isn't fair ... especially to Katie.

A Weekend Away

Well I missed the past two days. Luckily for these first weeks I gave myself a little buffer.  Well I am going to make this quick because we got back later tonight and I have to wake up early for work.  Katie stays a lot at our apartment so this weekend we decided to go up and stay with some family.  We went up on Saturday to Salt Lake area to watch my brother Mason play baseball.  He was playing a couple games for the region teams.  He did alright and made some great catches but the main reason we were there was because of family.  We got to see lots of different relatives and it was fun to catch up and visit.  Katie was the main star this weekend, everyone went straight to her to see how she was and when the baby would come. . . if only we knew.  Today we visited more family and had some great talks with the grand parents.  Katie and I got to go to church with my Dad, he is in town for baseball games and work.  It was nice because I haven't been to church with my Dad in forever and it was the temple dedication.  I really enjoyed when President Packard (Brigham city temple by the way) talked about how grateful he was to see this and that the gospel is a family gospel.  He talked a lot about if we do our part that we will be taken care of.  After we had a really good dinner with Nana and Papa and the rest of my family.  We actually had a great visit with everyone and it was really nice.  It was a great weekend and now is game time where the baby is due by this Friday.  I am so pumped.

BRONCO! What Were You Thinking?

Well it is late (really not too late but I like to be in bed early) so I may not write as much as I would like.  I am up later this evening because we just watched the BYU vs BSU football game.  I have been so excited for this game to see my two teams face off.  I figured this would be such a fun game to watch.  It was actually the opposite.  It was ugly and after BYU finally got a touch down Bronco decides to go for the win with a 2 point conversion.  I don't have to be a coach to say, look buddy your team has worked 4 quarters to just get one touch down, just kick it.  And I was right.  I am frustrated.  The Broncos did win but not in the way I would have liked them to.  Luckily we had some friends come over to watch the game with us, Clint and Alissa.  Turns out they will be going to the same Optometry school as us.  So it is nice to know we will have fun friends with us.  Some good news is during my O Chem lab today (curse you BYU Chemistry) I got a phone call from a number I didn't recognize.  I almost forgot to check my voice mail after class but when I got around to it I was surprised.  It was Sunnie from SCO saying she wanted to talk to me about scholarships.  I hurry and called her back and she had good news for me.  As much as she loves giving good new, I love receiving good news.  The good news was I they decided to award me with a $5,000 scholarship.  That will be $20,000 saved over my time at Optometry school.  Count your blessings babe cuz sugar we are going down swigin.
Good Night!

Nothing Like Long Walks On .... The Way To The Duck Pond

Look at me go!  Day three and I am on fire.  This writing in my journal daily was easy ... maybe because I promised myself some rewards.  That always helps.  So two things happened today that were funny slash awesome.  On my way home from school slash work I saw something random happen.  A car full of high school boys pulled up quickly to a girl who was walking and their trunk popped open and two guys jumped out.  First off I have no idea how those two guys fit in the trunk but it was funny. They ran up to this girl and took a picture with her and then they drove off.  I was like what in the world was that.  I am walking and all of a sudden the car pulls up next to me.  I was going to play hard to get so I kept looking ahead with my tunes on and they were like hey guy, hey guy.  I pretended I couldn't hear but they ran to get me and tapped on my shoulder.  It was those two guys from the trunk and said hey can we take a picture with you.  I asked them what it was for and they said just for fun.  So I gave them a good silly picture and they went on their way to their next victim.  I have a witness because I ran into Meagan right after that.  We watched as they tried to trunk pop and lock it jump attack a girl walking and talking on her phone.  She got really surprised by the situation and jumped back and walked really fast to get away from them.  From what we saw she got mad at them and they had a failed attempt.  But they jumped back on in and sped off to their, I am sure, many more victims.  Randomness like that can paint a smile on just about anyone's face.  So Katie didn't sleep very well and she has just been pregnant long enough already and it was not the best day.  So we went on a walk to the duck pond together ( maybe she wanted to go without me but I am annoying like that and followed her anyway).  Our times at the duck pond are amazing because the weather is so nice and the environment is comfortable.  We are able to just focus on us without any distractions and just talk.  It is one of my favorite experiences when we can just be outside and talk about life and the things that matter most to us.  We had a great talk together tonight and I sure love my wife.

Long Tuesdays and Not In A Good Way

Good evening ladies and Gentleman.  It is now official, I have written on my blog/journal more in the past two days then I have in the last two months.  This is going to be an exciting time for Katie to be able to be bombarded with loads (yes loads like the way Harry Potter says it) of grammatical errors.  But this is a price that we will all have to play.  Tuesdays are my longest days.  Start of the day with some O Chem lab ( most time consuming class for one lousy credit, curse you chemistry department and your hatred to non nerds)  but the rest of my classes are fine enough.  The hardest part of today is when I was in class while Katie was watching our new show.  That is right we now have something we can do together, finally after all of these years (just kidding, Katie can't you tell it is a joke).  The other night before the BYU vs Utah game ( I still have so much hatred I want to kill a ute) we were flipping through the channels and saw the voice.  I was interested by all of the hype and started watching.  Little did I know I liked the show and thought it was creative.  So Katie and I have been getting into it and we like it and I am proud of it.  Well we are trying to pass the time in the best way we can while we wait for out stubborn little girl to get out.  She is already not listening to me because every day I tell her to come out now or she is grounded.  Maybe an exaggeration but I do want her here more then anything right now.  It has been real P Town and Good Night.  I said Good NIGHT!

My Project is Making Me Do This

So it begins.  For my Health Behavior Change class I had to pick something that I would like to change in my life.  I was thinking about starting a work out plan but deep down inside I wanted to write in my journal daily.  This is something that I have done in the past and from my first blog I said I wanted to write in a journal.  If you look back through my posts you can see that I didn't get to far in my journal writing and really dropped the ball.  Now for my project this semester I am going to try and create a habit of writing in my journal daily.  One main reason that I want to is because I am so super excited for my baby girl to be born.  This project will force me to write about my daily life and I will be able to write the amazing moments I share with my brand new little family.  I am so excited for this.  Katie had a Doctor appointment today and they said that the baby will be coming around the due date.  If that wasn't just a week from Friday I would be upset.  But instead I am freaking out with joy.  I am going to do my best to write in my blog journal every day, but I do not promise that each one will be a novel.

Andrew