number 16.

post by casey



i know Courtney already announced her OWN baby - how dare she;). But I had a few photos that I snapped at the Hospital and in honor of the baby I'm not yet pregnant with...here are some photos of a baby to tie me over;)

9th baby in the Smith household. 16th grand-baby in our family:) 

coy david smith

a few things about our hospital stays:

- we.love.them. Start (the birth!!!!:'))))) to Finish (well, maybe not the 'being forced to take a shit before leaving' part;). BUT otherwise...pain, exhaustion, over-abundance of visitors, stomach checkkkksssss:/, sitz bath:), nasty hospital food, quiet moments with a new baby on your chest, those first feedings...on and on. It's just so good:)

- we're up to an automatic 24-ish visitors...before any extended family/friends...so the room can get...crowded...to say the least;)

- what you can't tell, from these room photos, is that by day2, the room smells like a mixture of fart and McDonald's (if you're new to all the smells - that ain't good!;)...that fresh baby smell had some competition;)

the face of a woman who knows 4 may not - FOR SURE NOT - be enough!!!!:):):)

blessed!

post by Courtney

I may be a broken record, but we couldn't be happier. 

Saturday we welcomed a beautiful baby boy to our family. 

We've been so, so blessed! and we're just so thankful everyone is healthy!

welcome Coy David!

born Saturday, October 15 at 1:40pm

weighing 7lbs 14oz and 19.5" long

currently eating, sleeping, pooping, and snuggling round the clock. and enjoying every second of it!

more photos to come!

a huge thank you to my sister, Megan, for all her help with the kids while we've been... preoccupied. and for cleaning the frig... I'm certain there was something dying or growing in there! 

also thanks to all the visitors and kind comments from all our friends and family. we feel the love, and we're so thankful to have all of you in our life!

now we patiently wait for my parents to get home from Europe to meet the little man! 
check out her amazing photos here!

theo daisy: 30 months and rocky peyton: 11 months

post by casey

i'm confident that referring to my 30MO old as...a 30MO old is BEYOND annoying. 2-1/2YRS. She's 2-1/2YRS. She's aged me twice that in that amount of time - I can tell by the way that my face is;) 

baby girl, you are a force to be reckoned with. Just yesterday she told me she was going to "pee on a sucker" and showed my sister (thankful that it was a family member;) her 'parts'...like...really showed her...a lot. All of it;) It was basically an assault on my sister's eyes;) And in the same day we talked about how if Theo and Homer were locked in a cage, fighting to the death, Theo would be the one to walk away from that situation alive - don't tell me you've never hashed out which of your children would survive in a baby-fight-club scenario???;). 

So that's Theo in a nutshell. Nasty and Aggressive;)

but she is freaking CUTE. And she's funny as hell. She's starting to potty train - hence, her 'parts' being out and about;). And she still sleeps like a champ - Thank you, JESUS, for kids who sleep!!!! She eats. She never.stops.eating. Her hair is still wild. She still sucks her fingers and cuddles...hard:)

this is accurate.

because if one won't do as you ask...pit them against each other.

"well, if you won't sit...Will will!!!!!"

 

this portion of the blog post is going to be relatively short because...

HE'S FUCKING PERFECTTTTTTTTTT.

the end.

kidding!!!;) Well, only kidding about this being short because he IS perfect;)

rocky...Rocky.Peyton. I should put you out front of the house and charge people a quarter to hold you and soak in your amazingness:) We're already so incredibly rich, just having you in our lives. But a few thousand quarters could be helpful;)

rocky has 4 teeth now. I'm not sure how the night-time sleeping is going because it definitely varies. Some nights are good and some nights are hard. But tis life with a baby. And he manages to make up for that by being PERFECT all damn.day.long;) It amazes me that other kiddos his age (or younger!!!) are already walking...Rocky is barely putting weight on his legs;) But he's falling in line with my elder 2, who didn't walk until well after their 1st birthdays - we're not overachievers like that;). He's still nursing...I'm thinking of trying to wean and I've saved enough to get him through till he's a year old. I don't know...this part of it is always hard. With each baby, I've gotten a little further (9MO with Homer, 10MO with Theo) and with each baby, it's gotten a little harder to stop:( I'm so grateful that it's been an easy road for me each time. I cherish that time with my babies and look forward to doing it again...and maybe again;)

he's just a good boy. We're very thankful for him and his chillness because we aren't stupid enough to think it'll last forever (we are stupid enough to be hopeful;). 

and because I like to inflict pain on myself...

we are just having a great time over here. I mean, some days ARE hard. But recently...even with Jacob working the most he's EVER worked and Homer being more sassy than I EVER thought possible and Theo throwing her 'parts' around like she's trying to make a living;)...our days are good:)

thankful. That is all...just really fucking thankful:)

have you met my friend, Oregon? part2

post by casey



i went to Oregon 2 weeks ago and yet it already feels like it never happened! What the shit!?:( 

PVSD - Post Vacation Stress Disorder - is real, people! Coming home from vacation being ANYTHING but refreshed and happy and fulfilled is NOT.ACCEPTABLE. But in reality...no matter how great of a time you had - and we had a super time from start to finish - you're basically exhausted and left wanting more:( 

BURY THOSE FEELINGS AND TELL NO ONE!!!!;)

if you can't tell, I miss Oregon. It was beautiful and it was so nice to be in a city with so much to offer. BUT I don't want to dismiss the beauty of a small town, where everyone knows your name - whether you know theirs or not;) - and as the kids have gotten older, I've come to find that our city has a lot more available to us than I had ever known:)

vacations are wonderful. I need - NEED - travel in my life. Jacob has promised me a lifetime of adventures and I have no doubt he'll follow-through on that:) But there really is, no place like home:)

Lake Oswego Farmers' Market

the flowers we left for our wonderful Airbnb' host...pizza grease stain? What pizza grease stain??;)

we wandered through Lake Oswego and I took a minute to look in this little shop:

Glassy Baby

It has a great story behind it and also donates part of its proceeds. A beautiful business:)

Lake Oswego

after prepping for the wedding in...wait...I was going to complain about having to share a bathroom with 8 other humans but then I remembered we were on vacation...staying somewhere with a legitimate amount of toilets and sinks and mirrors. What is this life?!?!?;)

the reception was at Union Pine. 

i may have penciled in a vow renewal there for 2020. People renew vows on their 9YR anniversary, right? - who cares. Jacob's in!

This place was...gorgeous. I danced all over it. Ate all it's food. And then I did a couple lunges. 

I look the same doing all 3 of those things;)

yeah. She's even more gorgeous than the already gorgeous reception site she chose. I mean. Stop. Pretty. You. There. Are. Pretty. 

Hard to believe there are more ways to encourage my awkwardness but apparently, pretty people can be added to that long.ass.list.

check her out on Instagram, it's...pretty. HERE.

the WI crew.

(+ Joyce, from IL, but we still love her;)

my dad took these photos!:):)

my perfect cousin, Briton. I introduce her that way:);)

SO much fun hanging out, Briton!!!!!!!

when your selfie...is photobombed...by another freaking selfie!!!!;)

more of the disgustingness of their reception;)

UNION PINE...see you in 4YRS!!!!;)

cousins:)

sunday...after buttering them up with donuts and coffee, I got that dreaded group photo...and then we headed to the coast!:)

Mo's

Cannon Beach

we were SOOOO close...but yet so far. We didn't have the time to walk all the way to the rocks, which was a bummer and another excuse to leave this on the bucket list to be checked-off some other time:)

my aunt and uncle own a Vineyard. 

Do you think they'd be embarrassed to know that I've included that on my resume?;)

it's just...beautiful foxy classy stunning - had to hit the Thesaurus for that cause I've been whoring out beautiful and pretty and gorgeous:/.  

after our quick trip to the beach, we hustled back to the vineyard and it was worth our hustle. It was a sight to see and it was so fun to hear and see everything that my aunt and uncle have done with it, since purchasing it 35YRS ago:)

giving up alcohol, almost 5MO ago, felt the most stupid...right.this.second.

*not shown: me crying into my bottle of water!!!!:'''''''(

the family...on a trailer... a vineyard

#thankgawdforcameraswithtimers

quick ferry ride on the way back from the vineyard. 

I don't have to know that you're rolling your eyes...to know that you're rolling your eyes. YES, this vacation was that perfect, that it ended with a God.DAMN.FERRY.RIDE!!!!;)

have the vacation fairy's been kind to me or am I just at an age that I can appreciate EVERY single aspect of a vacation? Especially, one that includes a beautiful state, a gorgeous wedding/bride, the ocean, a freaking vineyard AND wonderful family????

i feel like I've always vacationed pretty well - I'll be blocking comments from my parents;). Man, I love to travel. 

i don't know where we'll be headed next but I won't stop checking the prices of flights daily and texting Jacob ideas for adventures I've schemed up!!!

happy traveling, friends:)