Recap of my SC Vacation

I am forever grateful to Katie who blessed me with a trip to see my best friend and her family. I haven't seen them in 2 years. Samur and I have been best friends since 8th grade. That's 16 years! While there however, I learned I'm allergic to SC. I was really sick my first 4 days there. (a great reason to get them back to TX!) I wasn't going to let that stop me from having fun though.

Matt & Samur are amazing parents. I know there are a lot of amazing parents out there but they are two that I highly admire. We will apply many of their parenting skills to our own when Chloe gets here. Their kids are absolutely the most precious ever. I cannot express how much I love them. I am honored to be their Aunt Lala. Every day Mason would walk up to me, pat my belly 3-4 times and say, 'So, hows baby Chloe doing?' It melted my heart each time he did it. They all three asked me every day, 'How many more weeks till baby Chloe gets here?' It's so special to me how much they love her even though she's not here yet.


Now on to some of the fun we had...

Of course we did some shopping. Actually, I had to mail back everything we got for Chloe while there. It is so hard to resist baby girl items.

These bibs were too cute...especially after her name was put on them!
If it were up to me, everything this baby girl owns would be monogrammed.

Of course she needed the matching burp cloths to go with the bibs.
Or, was that me that needed them? ha!

I was taken to eat Japanese food at Wasabi. It was excellent. The steak was mouth-watering and I am not the biggest steak fan.

Aunt Lala, Hudson, Aubree, Mason and Samur

Our Chef

Mason & Hudson using their chop-sticks. They were quite good at it.

We had fun at the beach. The air is not near as salty as it is on the TX coast. You feel like you have just left the lake when you leave the beach there. Absolutely no sticky feeling at all.

Aubree Lilah

Hudson & Mason jumping the waves

We went to see Toy Story 3 and for the most shocking news of all...I watched all three Twilight movies. Can you believe it!? I was anti-Twilight for the longest time. Not real sure why. I just thought it was a vampire movie and I have absolutely no desire to waste my time watching a vampire movie. I was somewhat wrong. It truly is a love story and the three movies were no different from some of the other action/drama movies I've seen before. I also compared it to Beauty and the Beast and Little Mermaid. Girl falls in love with someone she can't be with and in the end it all turns out great. It's just an adult version of those.

We had so much fun. I already miss them like crazy. I'm just going to keep praying every day that God transfers Matt's job back to TX!

Our 4th of July Celebration

We had a wonderful day! Our morning was nice and relaxing. After lunch we packed up and headed to the pool. One of my favorite things to do since I've been in my third trimester is be in the water. Ahh, the pressure is relieved immediately. For dinner I got to experience '5 Guys Burgers'. It was scrumptious! Then is was off to the Battle Ship in Charleston for fireworks.

The firework show was by far one of the best I have ever seen.

This is the Battle Ship the fireworks were set off from.

Shown here is a fraction of the crowd we endured.

Oh, but it was so worth it! We had a wonderful time.

The beautiful bridge in Charleston SC.

These kiddos are amazing.

I cannot begin to explain just how much I LOVE them.

I think they may be more excited for baby Chloe to arrive than I am. ;)
Aunt Lala, Hudson, Mason & Aubree

Me & Samur

(and baby Chloe, I'm 32-1/2 weeks pregnant here!)

I hope you all had a beautiful, blessed 4th of July!

I finally did it...

I got a Blog! So many of my friends have been asking me to and I just never got around to it. It took my best friend sitting me down and setting it up for me to get it done. :) I'll be doing my best to post several times a week so you all know what's going on in the lives of The Smith's. Here goes...

Me and Samur (Best Friends since 8th grade!)

Here we are at Samur's Church 4th of July Picnic in Charleston SC.