Oct. 8-9-10 2009

I couldn't pick just ONE for Oct 9 - so there are 3. Oops! Since it's been icky and rainy here the past two days, lots of dog photos and one really funny cow photo. Sadly the 9th was the last day our cute and curious 'neighbors' were out to pasture. There is a road right behind our house, which is about 4 ft below our yard with a retaining wall. My landlord put the cows in the road for a day to 'eat down' the grass before it's back to the barn for the winter.

Today is cloudy and icky too, but the sun did pop out for about 8 minutes. It was beautiful! Looks like rain again, but we'll take advantage of it while we can and maybe I'll get some photos of the awesome fall leaves.

Oct 8 - Kyla and the tennis ball. After Oliver's obsession with the tennis ball Kyla had enough and destroyed it.



Oct 9 -

The 'bavarian beer' has seen better days.


Hello neighbor.


Sisters.


Oct 10 -

Piper, making his Smit blog debut

a photo a day.

I started taking a photo a day on October 1. Since we PCS next October I thought this would be a fun way to document our last year in Germany. Of course I was traveling home from Paris on the 5th and forgot to take a photo - so 5 days in, I seemed to have already failed at my mission, but I'll continue on for the fun of it.

I'll post Oct 1-4 in the Paris pics...until then

Oct 6 - my attempt at making homemade mac and cheese.



Oct 7 - My friend Pam's dog Oliver. He's the sweetest thing ever, in fact he was yawning in this photo, but he looks sooo mean and protective of his "bavarian beer" which I think it's hilarious he carries that beer everywhere!



Oliver and his brother Piper are hanging out with us for a few weeks while their mom Pam is in the states. I'll be meeting up with Pam in DC then we're traveling for a few days together before coming back to Germany.

Brian's new address.

I have Brian's new address. Please email me at nicoleyatessmit at gmail.com if you'd like it! :D Have a great weekend everyone!

Estella's 1st Birthday

I stole this photo off Makenzie's facebook page.

My cousin Daniel's little girl Estella turned the big 1 last week!

Happy Birthday, Estella!!

(and might I add - her favorite cousins Nicole and Brian gave her that adorable dress she is wearing!

*I think I'm in love now...love nooow*

Yes, I changed the words to the infamous 'Tiffany' song "I think we're alone now" but you can hum along to the tune and sing my new version as you look at these FANTASTIC new rugs by Amy Butler, by far my favorite fabric designer ever. I'm in L-O-V-E. I could put one in every room of my house. Amy's website.

Changes.

Life tends to throw us curveballs when we least expect them. Usually they are small ones, like an unexpected rain shower (how did I lose my umbrella AGAIN?!), a sick child (or dog!!), frogs in your house (at least they're cute), the barista who makes your latte wrong (wait...I am my own barista!). All things we adapt to and overcome everyday. The Army/Military in general loooove doing this. Changes at the last minute, changes after the fact, change change change....wait...where have I heard that word before??

Yesterday we got a HUGE curveball thrown at all of us - a big change in Brian's deployment and while we don't have a lot of details, please keep our family and friends in your prayers as we ALL make this transition to Afghanistan. As soon as I find out more information, I'll do my best to share without violating OPSEC (Operational Security). Hopefully I'll have a new address for Brian soon, but until then any packages can still be sent to his current APO address or to me and I will forward them to him once they get moved (it's free for me to mail things to him - it's considered APO to APO). If you need his address or our home address, feel free to email me: NicoleYatesSmit at gmail.com

Waving.

Our little lady waving to daddy (in the very beginning) before Dr. Bauman freezes it!