one thing i love about colorado

the weather that's right-snow in august! unfortunetly, ryan and i (and nick) don't live in the high country, we're only at around 5300 feet high...so we will just be getting rain and cooler temps. the high on friday is 60! the high!!! is that amazing or what?!?

surprise!

remember how i mention God's timing being so funny sometimes... well, it certainly is! just when we thought we were getting things figured out, major things change. ryan and i have been praying since soon after arriving in colorado that God would really make our path clear. it's not that we don't like colorado, it's just that we miss home and our wonderful families (who wouldn't?!?). anyway, God recently made things very clear to us, which certainly we are thankful for the answered prayer, but, as it sometimes goes, it was a surprising answer...not quite what we expected! for you see, after a mere 8 months of marriage + 10 months of dating, we, ryan and samantha smith, are going to have a baby! SURPRISE!
and recently, i learned a friend from college is also expecting, and it just could be that our babies are born very close to one another.. craziness!!

family!

a good bit of our family was here over the weekend (and past week), which was just wonderful! the last of them left this morning, which was all too soon for me. once they got here, it was like we had hardly been apart any time at all... which was strange since it had been 2 loooonnnngggg months. now that they are gone, it feels like it will be an even longer few months until we are together again. anyway, i thought i'd share a few pictures from our weekend of fun:

amazingly, two of the people (in addition to us) pictured above actually live here now, too. one of them even lives with us! my sister, hannah, moved into the dorms at cu denver this past weekend, and started school yesterday! she even has a ridiculous amount of homework to do already! lol! and my brother-in-law, nick, moved in with us over the weekend...and is still deciding just what he's going to do now that he's here! we are tickled pink to have them... =)

until next time...

cotton ball + tape

i wrote quite a while back a blog about one way you know you aren't a kid anymore is when you go to the doctor and get a shot, they no longer give you a sparkly bandaid...instead, they give you a plane old tan extra sticky bandaid, that rips off your skin when you take it off...unless, of course, you decided to "wear it off", which could take up to a year. well, sadly enough, it has gotten worse. i have had to get some blood taken twice in the last week, and, can you believe, they didn't even give me a bandaid. no...they ripped off a piece of cotton ball, then tore off some medical tape and stuck it onto my poor arm. so, so sad....

God's timing...

it's so funny and unexpected sometimes!

grande vs tall

every now and then my dear husband lets me go to starbucks on the mornings that i have to work early. it makes the getting up a little bit easier. ;) my most favoritest drink in the world at starbucks is a caramel macchiato. i really just like it for the caramel-one of my favorite things! anyway, i like it so much that, for some reason, i always have to have a grande, even though i never ever drink all of it. after realizing that i was doing this every time i went, i told ryan a few weeks ago that he should insist i only get a tall. so, he jokingly did. but it hasn't helped. i get to starbucks and as i stand in line i think to myself "tall tall tall-only get a tall." but then when i actually order it, the words come out, almost as if i have no control over them, "i'd like a grande non-fat caramel macchiato." i think, "well it just sounds so good... i'm sure i can drink all of it this time!" but, i never can. what am i so greedy about such a silly thing?!?

i have a great husband..

when i decide i'm too tired to make it through the movie he's into, he just turns the volume off and watches it-insisting it's just as good that way!