a few mama pics

I took some Christmas card photos for our friends the Smiths (Kyle, Erika and Cooper the super dog) and in return Erika (also a photographer) shot a few of me too. It was a somewhat sunny and 50* Sunday, so we went for it! I threw them in iPhoto and changed a few to grayscale, but a few could use a little more photoshopping with light, but I'm not too worried at this point.



The Smiths


Kyle and Cooper helping me walk a wall at the Lichtenau Castle. Kyle and Erika live in Lichtenau.



See I can JUMP!


Cooper wanted to be in all my photos, I think it was because I smelled like girl dog.

Happy Veterans Day Soldiers, Sailors, Airmen and Marines!!!!

I'm kinda partial to this one!

Oct 11-17th

Oct 11 - Kyla and the mole holes - our daily struggle.
"What are you talking about mom? I don't dig holes! I got dirty paws from... pulling up all those weeds...yeah pulling up weeds."



Oct 12 - A typical winter day in Bavaria
"Ohh the weather outside is frightful...but the rainbow kinda makes it delightful!"



Oct 13 -

Oh the joy! (Feel the sarcasm?)


Funny series of Oliver - he's a ham!!




Oct 14 - "ARRRGGGH MATIE"

Hey mom, I wanna be a pirate for Halloween, where's my patch?!
Kyla and her eye issues. More trips to our German vet than I like to count...and I thought all along Ginger was my "medically challenged" dog



Oct 15 - SNOW! Yes, Check the date, Oct. 15. SNOW!!


Oct 16 - Our awesome high chair from Auntie Blair and Uncle Jeff arrived today!
There are a lot of straps on this thing, I hope I put it together right!


Oct 17 - With love from Ireland. My friend Elena brought this back from Dublin over the weekend for little Brya.

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!