2nd Lieutenant Shane Smith

We started off the day early because Shane had his Army Commissioning Ceremony!!
It was quite the ordeal, I had two girls who didnt want to cooperate and who were more interested in sleeping than wanting to get ready!! But we finally got to where we were supposed to be and we weren't late, Thank Goodness!!!


Rylee playing with my camera, while we were waiting for Shane to come and get us!!
I really sometimes wonder where on earth the blonde hair comes from???


This is Shane and Cole getting sworn in as Officers in the Army. It was really cool that both of them got to be sworn in at the same time, however looking at them you would never guess that they are brothers!! The Officer with his back to the camera is a great friend and Cadret member of Shane and Cole's, he's been a great influence and help to both of them and we just wanted to express our thanks to Captain Mike Rhinehart!!!


This is Shane receiving his first Salute as an Officer!! The whole commission ceremony was a whole lot better than sitting through the 4 hour commencement for a regualar school graduation!!! Go ARMY!!!


Seems I've managed to not capture Sydnee at all today, she was nestled away snug in her carseat...She was so good never made a peep and slept through all of the ceremony...JaCee and I had our hands full with Rylee and Bailey running up and down the isles...they were sure proud of their dad's though!! And a special thanks to Shane and Liz for helping out with the girlies as well as being apart of Shane and Cole's Commissioning!!!


Shane, Solomon & Cole Smith

Yeah.....Finally!!!!

Yeah Shaner is graduating!!!
He is also commissioning as a 2nd Lieutenant in the Army!!!
Wahoo!!
Congrats Shaner!!!

Happy Birthday Shane!!!

Happy Birthday Shaner!!!

We love you very much

Love your Girls
Jamie, Rylee & Sydnee

Sydnee is One Week Old and Rylee Bug is Busy Posing!!

Sydnee is one week old today!!! She is doing great, we are going to have to work on her sleep schedule though, since she thinks the middle of the night is a good time to be wide awake :)


My sweet Rylee, who I love so much is being a great big Sister, she is trying hard to help and adjust to the new changes going on around here!!!


This is where Sydnee had to stay for the first 4 days of her life, ugghh, she hated this bed but you do what you have to do to get them better!! We still have to watch her Billi count but thank goodness the doc gave us the okay to get rid of this bed.....


For some reason this girl has got the head tilt down... there isnt a picture I dont take where she doesnt tilt her head.... She is almost 3 and just growing up so fast its crazy how fast time has flown by!!! Grandpa Shane just came and picked her up and took her to Dayton so she could have a sleep over with Grandma and Grandpa, I miss her already!!! Its just me and Sydnee for the night, Shaner is gone til Sunday for Army training.. :(

We definitely have a fish in the family, she loves the water but doesnt like it touching her face (go figure)... Whenever we go to my mom's house she asks if we can go swimming, its great now that she doesnt have to wear those annoying swim pants, they always would leave a big rash on her... Hopefully we will be spending a lot of time at pools this summer, well atleast Rylee will be in the water, me however would probably being doing everyone a favor if I just stayed on the side...hahaha
I LOVE MY GIRLS AND MY SHANER!!!

Sydnee Lynn Smith

Sydnee Lynn Smith

Sydnee arrived on Thursday April 9th at 3:10 pm... She weighed an even 8lbs and was 20 inches!!! I haven't had a chance to upload some pics yet but hopefully I will get some time later to do it :)
I went in on Thursday morning to be induced at around 7 ish, it took a while for the potocin to kick in and well then I had the pleasure of getting two epidurals, yep that's right TWO. The brilliant money making anthestiologist missed the first time and oh my goodness that is an expierience I dont ever want to happen again, needles digging around in my back, grrrrr....but the second one worked!!! I went from a 5 to a 10 in like an hour it was crazy and Shaner decided he was hungry and left to get something to eat, thinking it would be a while but the nurse came in like 5 minutes later and said I was ready, ahhhh where is Shane!!! :) I finally got a hold of him and he ran back, heheh!!! It was a pretty easy delivery I pushed like 3 times and there she was!!! She has so much dark hair though, I was super surprised, and has the longest eyelashes, they were curling the opposite way it was so funny!!!

We left the hospital yesterday and she had to only pass one more test the "jaundice/billirubin" test well I was all excited because she passed everything else with flying colors, well that wasn't the case. She failed the jaundice test and so Sydnee at the moment is living in bassinet with tanning bed lights, its really weird but I feel so bad because she hates it and cant snuggle in a blanket or any clothes, she has to be in a diaper and that's it!!! So its been an interesting 24hrs being home, I just want to hold and snuggle her all the time and Rylee wants to hold her but she has been ordered to stay in this light bed unless she is eating...Ahh I hope on Monday the doc says she can get out of it!!! Alright so I will get some pics on here later...Until then thanks so much for your support :)

News News News

Well the Doc has decided that tomorrow(Thursday) is the day....ahhhhh I'm really excited but really nervous too!!! Anyhow hope to have some pics up some time in the next few days!!
Happy Easter to all, just in case I dont get back to this blog for a while :)

A Random Update....

I went in to the Doctor today for the weekly check-up and they did an ultrasound to see how big she is and to make sure all her measurements are on and so forth.... Well they told me that she weighs 6 lbs 15 oz (give or take a few oz) so she is pretty much on track to be an 8 lb baby just like Rylee was.. Hopefully she isn't bigger than that because I am whimpy ;)

I still have three weeks until my official due date and I'm hoping and praying she has other plans :) I didn't have any contractions with Rylee before my water broke on its own, that was really nice!!! I'm kinda scared this time that I will be like the normal women out there and experience the contractions before they actually have to give me potocin. (Like I said I'm whimpy :)> )

Until the next update.... By the way I cant believe its already almost April..... WOW TIME IS FLYIN!!!!

We Have Summer Fever

I am so ready for Spring/Summer to be here its not even funny...and when the weather decides to warm up a little bit, it goes and snows like 2 feet....OF COURSE!!! I hope it was the last big storm of the season other wise I'm moving to Arizona or something :)
I've been a blogger slacker lately but we are still alive and just wishing we could spend most of the day outside without getting frost bite!!! Hopefully that day will come soon...I've got about 5 weeks left until this next little girl is scheduled to arrive, and hopefully she will feel the need to come somewhat early just like Rylee did....haha I'm so done with being HUGE!!!

We went to Barnes & Noble the other day to try and waste time waiting for Shane to get off work... Well I decided its my favorite place to take Rylee lately...She walks in the store and straight to the back where all the little kids books are, she grabs one and goes and sits in this little green chair and quietly just looks and the pictures and becomes enthralled in the book!!
I hope she continues to love books the rest of her life, I know her dad thinks this picture is priceless, since he reads like 2 books a week :)