Dear Hoover, I love you!

You are looking at a picture of my new favorite must have...the Hoover SteamVac!

One of the things on our "to do before baby" list was to have someone come out and clean the carpet. I am embarrassed to say that they haven't been cleaned (I vacuum often, but I mean clean cleaned) since Molly has been born. So we started looking it to who had the best prices and all of that good stuff. Then...I got the idea to browse on amazon and look at steam cleaners....just for fun. I saw that this puppy had 4.5 stars from almost 1,700 reviews. That means a lot to me! I love amazon reviews and I place a lot of stock in them. I convinced Dicky that we should get one. You know, it saves money over time, all that stuff. Well...this was only $139 at Walmart and it will save lots of money over time. I have already cleaned our entry way and all of the upholstered furniture that we have. It did a super job!

Our Visit With Santa!

This morning, we went with the News to see Santa! The kiddos weren't really a fan of him, but we got a few "good" pictures.

Here are the winners:

Rachel tried to give Jaxon a pep talk and bribe him with candy!

Here is how it went...

After all of the drama, we took them to ride the carousel. Then the parents rewarded themselves with some Mexican food at La Hacienda. We figured we had earned it! :)

We hope everyone has a very Merry Christmas!

Thanks for coming to see Santa with us Jared, Rachel, and Jaxon!

Sweet Baby Smith!

Well, I am 27 weeks pregnant and haven't posted a single thing about this pregnancy other than the "we are pregnant" and "it's a girl" posts. Probably because for the first 19 weeks or so, I felt horrible most of the time. And I think we have taken maybe two belly shots vs. the fifty million that we took when I was pregnant with Molly. I guess when you are chasing a 19 month old around, you just don't stop to do things like that. We are still just as excited to meet her! I will spare you all the belly shots and show you a picture of our sweet baby instead.

My OB office got a new 3D/4D ultrasound scanner and they had a deal back this summer that if you signed up, they would do it for free. FREE?! So we figured, why not? We didn't do a 3D ultrasound with Molly, so we have nothing to compare, but we can't wait to meet miss...oh, wait, we can't nail down a name! We are pretty sure on the name, but if I post it on the blog, I feel like it is official! So, not just yet. :)

Anyway, here she is at about 26 weeks. Right when we started, we saw her take a huge yawn, and then she went to sleep. Hopefully she will be a good napper!

We love her so much!

First Haircut!

We took Molly to get her first haircut today! We want her bangs and the back to keep growing out, but the back part was getting scraggly. We only got about 1/4 in. trimmed off of the back and added a few layers. It is a pretty subtle, but here are a few pictures:

Before:

(Doesn't she just look thrilled?)

Waiting our turn. :)

Amanda gave her a lollipop. GREAT idea!

And....

This next one is my favorite! We are taking her to get Christmas pictures tomorrow, so I did a trial run with her hair and here it is...

Merry Christmas...

...from our little helper!