I LOVE KSL

Let me just tell you how much I love it.....A LOT!! Over the past week I have sold a TV and a dresser and had calls on a lap top! I also was able to buy somethings for our baby boy! We have been looking around for a play pen and this one had all the features we wanted. a changing table on top, a bassinet part and then of course just the regular pen for when he is older. We got it at such a good price we couldn't turn it down.

We also got this cute baby bouncer. The clothes, though, are curtesy from Walmart. His first little alfit. Can't you just picture Brantley bouncing away!!

Needless to say, David and I are getting so excited!!

Our little attempt at a garden!

Since David and I live in an apartment complex that has no real good spot for growing things we decided to try something a little different. Last year we tried the Topsy Turvy planters...well they didn't work for anything. so this year we decided to just plant the plants in a pot and they seem to be doing okay!

Hanging peper plant

Cute little tomatos

Well I am sure proud of the tomatos. They aren't really big enough to cut up and put on a sandwich or hamburger or something but they are good just to eat. We will see how the rest of the summer turns out!

Here are the pictures from Fish lake!!!

Beautiful Fish Lake
David Fishing on his new Float Tube

Seems he did pretty well!!

Fishing on my Daddy's boat. He is getting a hook out of a fish's mouth! I know why they call it fish lake....there were lots of fish to catch!

Byron driving the boat

Bradley looking at the water, trying to see the fishy's

Some of the fam just relaxin

My Momma and little Lilly

Catilyn and Reagan

Reagan always had a story to tell! She is so funny!

Little Lilly and Byron. Lilly turned out to be quite the tease!

The following are Cove Fort pictures (the adventure before the Fish Lake adventure)

This is a super cool water traugh.

Me trying to work one of the old western toys

David was really good at it!

Old fashioned mouse trap

black smiths shop

the barn and the coral

David wishing he could have lived back then to see the place in its glory!

an old quilt made in 1855

We loved our trip!!

5 Months

5 Months....ALREADY!!

So these past few months have gone by really fast! I can't believe that I am already 5 months.

CAMILLE:

Let me say what has been going on since I was 4 months.

I am getting bigger, but still every where I go people still look at me with questioning eyes or tell me how small I am.

I found out we are having a baby boy!!

I am hungry all the time.

I haven't thrown up in such a long time...and it feels so nice to be over that.

I CAN FEEL THE BABY MOVE! They aren't big or all the time but I know he is moving and it is just another reminder of the miracle I have going on inside me!

I still sleep good at night.

I get hot all the time, not outside, but I feel like my insides are a heater that I can't seem to cool down without ice cold water and a fan blowing right on me!

I get more and more excited everyday to be able to meet Mr. Brantley

We have started to buy baby things which makes me even more excited!

DAVID

He is SOOOO excited!

He is always looking at baby things!

He is SO excited! He is going to be such a proud Daddy!

He loves patting my belly

He is so good to me, always wondering what he can do for me!

Drum Roll Please.......

ITS A BOY!!!

Brantley Chlarson Smedley isn't very shy about showing off his business.
We are so excited, especially David! We were so sure it was a girl. We prayed last night that the baby wouldn't be shy and he wasn't. As soon as this picture showed up on the ultra sound David got such a huge smile He hasn't been able to stop smiling. I am very excited too. Having a boy will be so much fun! The doctor said the baby is healthy which makes us even happier! We got to see feet and arms and we got to see the baby's mouth move! Seeing everything was so fun. I probably had tears streaming down my face the whole time.

I can't help thinking about the miracle about having a baby. I am amazed everyday. The fact that I have a living baby growning inside me is absolutely an amazing miracle. I am so grateful for this opportunity. David and I can't wait to meet him!

Boy, will I be excited when summer is over....

Not that I don't love the summer with no school, no homework, no school stress, the vacations, family outing, the sunshine, the fresh fruits and vegetables being able to wear my flip flops and everything else that is wonderful that goes with summer. but I GET TO HAVE DAVID HOME ALL THE TIME. He has left me once again. He went with one of BYU graduate students to help with his project back down at the Lytle Ranch which is about 5 hours away. He will hopefully make it back in time for the baby appointment that is at 8:40 in the morning. He left Monday around 1 and will hopefully be home Friday around 7:00 but for this to be possible he has to leave Lytle around 2am. I know David is a night owl, but that is even early for him to be up and moving. That is when he is usually going to bed.
At the beginning of the summer I was getting used to having him leave, but the past couple of weeks I was spoiled to have him home most of the time, and when he did leave it was only usually for a night. So this week has felt like starting all over again. I sure do miss him.
BUT on a lighter note this past week David has surprised me with a few notes he had hidden around the house for me to find to let me know that he loves me. I probably cried the first few I found. Oh how I love him! I can't wait until he comes home!

Before Fish Lake...our side trip to Cove Fort

So on the way down to Fish Lake Cameron was having some car troubles. So my parents were with him to make sure he made it there okay. (David and I were still a couple of hours behind them along with the rest of the family) so on the way down after they had fixed what they thought was wrong with his car my parents just headed to the camp site to drop off the trailer and then go back and tow the boat to see if that would help. Well David and I figured that the family still wasn't there and so we decided to take a detour. We drove to Cove Fort. We love church historical sites. This one is no exception. We got our own personal tour with a wonderful convert missionary from I think it was Ohio. He was so super nice and you could tell he had a very strong personal testimony. I love historical sites there is just a special feel to them. We had fun learning/relearning about the history of this place. How it was built, why it was built, who lived there, what kind of things went on there and so on. We even went and toured the big barn, bunk house, and the black smiths shop. We even got to try a game that the children used to play. David was really good, me not so much. We had a lot of fun on our little side trip, even if it was an expensive side trip! David on the way down wasn't paying attention to his speed and was going a little to fast, needless to say the Highway patrolman wasn't very nice and well our little side trip turned into a very expensive one, but it was totally worth it. Oh and just in case you were wondering Cameron made it to Fish Lake just fine, it just took a really long time!