Let it snow!

It snowed here for the first time this morning. We didn't see it until we left to take Drew to work. He had heard that it might snow, but I was shocked. I went on a walk with some friends yesterday and was in short sleeves so I definitely wasn't expecting snow today. It was exciting though. We got about an inch but most of it melted by this afternoon. Here's a picture from our porch. Yea for snow!

I think some of the kids in our complex were pretty excited about it too, because when I left this afternoon I found this note at our door...

Snata??? It took me a second to figure out that it probably said Santa. That made me laugh :) Whoever put it there put the same note at the other doors around us. Kids are so funny!


I also wanted to post a picture from last Sunday. Drew's cousin and his wife had a baby boy in the same hospital the day before Kathryn was born. Which, by the way, made our time in the hospital actually fun. We kept wanting to switch the babies until the nurses noticed (which would have been especially funny when they went to change the diaper), but decided not to because they take security so seriously there that they really probably would not have found it funny. Anyways, their baby (Caleb) was blessed last Sunday so we got a picture of the two of them together again. First, here's a picture of them in the hospital...

Kathryn and Caleb

And here's them last Sunday at a little over 2 months old...

It was really fun to see them again.

Yea for Flowers!

Drew gave me a beautiful bouquet of flowers the other day. Sweet, huh? They are so pretty, I just have to share with everyone :) My favorite are the big yellow ones. Drew is so great and I am so lucky to have him. He does so much for us and is so good to me. He's a wonderful father and my best friend. I love you babe!

HALLOWEEN!

We had a fun Halloween weekend. We only got one group of about 5 trick-or-treaters which meant we ended up eating a lot of candy :) On Friday we rented a movie and ate some good BBQ and on Saturday we watched the BYU game (definitely an exciting one!). Kathryn had fun celebrating in her Halloween outfits...

It looks like she's already got a sweet tooth.
Definitely taking after her parents :)

I made a cake in the shape of a pumpkin (thanks for the idea Natalie) which was a fun adventure :)

Finally Another Post! :)

Sorry it's been so long. I've been wanting to post some more pictures for so long and now I've finally learned how to do it all, so here we go :)

Kathryn has been working on smiling and it is so cute. Here are some of the pictures we've gotten of her smile or at least what looks somewhat like one...

And my favorite...

And, here are some more cute pictures...

And here are just some silly pictures...

Watch out, she's tough!

Gotta start her loyalties to Brazil while she's young...

Now, in case you haven't seen enough, here's just a couple more...

My sister Sherene came to visit for several days and we took Kathryn for her first walk. It was fun and I think she liked it despite the look on her face in the picture.

My parents passed through about 2 weeks ago and it was fun to have them here again and for them to see how Kathryn has grown.

Baby Kathryn

Our little daughter was born last Saturday, the 6th of September, around 7:00 PM. She was 7 pounds 1 ounce and 19.5 inches long. Mom and Baby are healthy and we are so excited to have her as an addition to our family.

Her full name is Kathryn Bela Smith. For those of you who don't know, Kathryn is also my mother's name. We really like the nickname Kat and plan to use both Kat and Kathryn interchangeable, so feel free to call her either. I have to give a shout out to the original Cat back in Utah -our friend Lindsay's little girl Catalina (I think that is how it is spelled). She was the cutest little baby girl I had ever seen and only just recently took second place on the list =). Thanks Lindsay for letting us use it too. Her middle name, Bela, is pronounced "bay-la" and is Portuguese for beautiful. Emily served her mission in Brazil and my dad, sister, and brother-in-law did as well. I also took Portuguese classes at BYU, so Brazil has a special place in our hearts. Hopefully Bill will take us there this summer on some of his air miles=).

Well enough blabbering, here are some pics. I imagine most of you looked at them first anyway =).