Annoucing a New Arrivial

On December 27th a beautiful new addition to the Smith family was born! Presley Lane Smtih was born Saturday December 27th at 7:38am. Funny, it wasn't so long ago that Sophie was born but somehow it doesn't seem possible for her to have ever been that small. Anyway, Presley couldn't have been more perfect, and mom is doing great too! Josh and I are so excited to know that Torrey and Bethany are about to experience the same joy that we have with our own little girl.

Hard to believe its been a year already

Sophie had her first birthday January 3rd. She's walking and running around the house and into EVERYTHING. We're debating on weather to tie her up or not. Ha! Its so fun to watch her grow and learn everyday. She really starting to associated words (sounds) with certain things now like, Mommy, Daddy, Ruby, ball, and some others.

She also had her first real fall two nights ago when she was climbing on her new bunk bed (won't get used for another year but we've got it set up anyway), the lower bunk, and reached for the shelf next to it and before Malia or I could get to her she went head first into the quite solid shelf and bounced back onto the mattress. Have to admit, kinda funny to watch since she really didn't get hurt. She was left w/ a tiny knot and scratch between her eyes. Kinda looks like she has a tiny uni-brow now. We were very proud of her though, she recovered in under 2 minutes and went right back to playing w/ her toys, puzzles and reading through her books she got for her birthday.

Christmas has come and gone.....

.....and so has my cell phone and all the numbers in it. So, if you could please email me your number if you havn't already. (joshhurst@allstate.com)
We had a great Christmas. Sophie really had a great time. We got all of our Christmas stuff put up yesterday and are moving on to the next party. Sophie's 1st Bday is on Saturday 1/3. We must already be in "nesting" mode b/c we did some major spring cleaning in the house yesterday. Both Malia and I fought colds over Christmas but had fun celebrating the birth of Jesus Christ w/ our friends and family.
A couple more bits of great news, Torrey and Bethany Smith celebrated the birth of their first child. A baby girl, Pressley Lane, on 12/27. Another Christmas miracle... The other bit of news was for us and on Christmas Eve morning we found out that we're having a little BOY!!!!
I hate to not have a picture w/ this post. Looks a little bare. But the temporary phone I'm using has no camera and the one I did have, flew off the car at 40mph last week. Hope everyone has a great new year!!!!

The Wonder Years

My lovely wife. Beautiful forever and always!

Rough Night

I want to start this post off by saying I have the most wonderful dedicated wife on this planet. She is the ultimate mom! Sophie was a bit of a booger last night, getting up several times for semi-long periods during the night. Then finally waking up for her day around 615am, about an hour or more earlier than normal. This was not good for our sleep. But this is what you do as a parent I'm told. I took over Sophie duties from about 630 until we left for work. But not before sneaking in a cat nap w/ her for about 30 mins on the couch. There's something about taking a nap w/ your child by your side that just makes your world feel so...calm. Today was Sophie's first snow for the year. If you can really call it that. Barely a dusting. I can't wait to take her for a sleigh ride. I was hoping to get a shot of the house w/ some snow last night. Didn't really turn out. Hopin to get a better one this afternoon. We'll see. I guess at least you get a taste of our house decked out in Christmas Spirit! I put lights up for about a week when 2 strands kept blowing out. And we decided, no more lights! So we went to Lowe's for some landscape lights for year round enjoyment and Malia found some wreaths for the windows. Problem solved.

Whoot Whoot!!!

Sophie loves riding her train at Mamaw's!

Look Ma! No hands! And at warp speed too.

HOLY COW!!!

I guess I'm too young to remember ever watching this dunk live. But this is the most amazing dunk I've ever seen, by a guy who is 6'3" mind you! This lil dude could've sat on the rim!