wedding sneak peak

My cousin, Christina, and I combined forced and talents this last weekend to photograph our first weddings. Quite an experience indeed. I'm not sure I was prepared but I think it went well. Here is just a sneak peak... enjoy!

Cannot wait to see the rest finished and feeling slightly more confident about the next wedding :)

daily Smith fashion

Again I apologize for the absence of daily Smith fashion... here we go... my most loyal subject! and no... her hair is not combed/brushed/prettied.

Austyn:
Shirt: hand-me-down Old Navy from Lia
Cut offs: hand-me-down Old Navy from Lia
Hat: Gap
Sneakers: hand-me-down Adidas

trampled wheat

Our nightly routines before Dave's surgery usually included the kids and me helping pick something from the garden and then meeting Dave as he walked home from the shop to check out the hop plant Dave is aspiring to become rich from with his cousins...here are a few shots (SOOC) I took of the kids playing in the field just east of us. Let's hope they didn't trample TOO much ;)

 Look closely... there's a Smith animal hiding!

beans galore

I'll be real straight... I know nothing about gardening or keeping any sort of plant alive. My tulips are lucky they live outside where God waters them. Someone once told me the easiest plant/flower to have was an Easter lily... yeah... apparently they need water... or something. All this said for one reason... we have a garden. This is our first garden. I shouldn't even say "our garden." Our wonderful neighbor (Dave's aunt) has a garden. We go out and help pick beans. Occasionally. If we're not hiding in the house because we just knowwwww she's got to be in that garden picking beans. Darn beans. Kidding! Our freezer is bean tight because of our wonderful neighbor!

We've received lots of compliments on our garden so I'm taking everyone's word for it that it is indeed a great garden... ;)

There's that crazy wonderful neighbor in the background. She'll appreciate the next photo as well. What you don't see is ME actually helping plant her sixty tomato plants. Repeat. SIXTY!

Something is actually starting to grow from all those itty bitty, teeeeeeeny tiny seeds we spaced exactly one-quarter inch apart. Yes. If she asks... I planted them exactly that far apart. ;)

And THIS is when is starts to get good... you can actually EAT the things in the garden. Gets me every time!

We will definitely be "helping" again next year. A few things we learned...
Lettuce - not so good.
Beans - we have PLENTY.
Tomato plants - late bloomers.
Cilantro - LOVE!
Garden - needs "fertilizer."

Wonderful neighbor, if you're reading this, next year we must add watermelon, cantaloupe, andddd... strawberries. ;)