O--oreo!

What do some of the most intelligent people I know talk about when they get together........ OREOS! Naturally.. right? For the past 3 years our group of friends have debated the best Oreo and the appropriate way to dunk Oreos....  so we decided to bring the debate into action by having our own Oreo-fest 2012! My friend Maddie is a much better blogger and photographer so check out the pictures here. 

Oh and Happy 100th birthday Oreo! The world is a more delicious place because of you :)

Our Story....

My friend is doing a cute series on her blog about people's wedding rings. It has been really fun to read... especially with Valentines coming up! I did a guest post about our story ..... Here!

I have done a horrible job at posting.... It seems like now days most people have forgotten about blogs. Nobody will probably read this but it is fun to update every now and then so we have something to look back on. So here is an update of our little life:

- We had a blast in Thailand but had to come home a few days later because of the flooding.

- While in Thailand we found out we are pregnant! I spent a good portion of the last few weeks in the hotel bathroom with morning/all day sickness.

- We surprised our family with a layover in slc. It was Julia's birthday and couldn't have been more perfect!

- We got back to our beloved NYC and started teaching early morning seminary the next day!

- We had a visit from one of my favorite people/cousin and her friend.



- My brother in law came out for Thanksgiving. When he wasn't sleeping (tired college student) we showed him the city. Including front row tickets to Wicked and the Macy's day parade.



- My dear friend Maddie put on an amazing Thanksgiving feast. It was great to spend time with our close friends.

- Robert flew around the country interviewing for residency. Lots of interviews overlapped so he had to do several overnight flights ... It was painful. So many of our friends and family helped out with rides and places to stay! I went with him on a few interviews including Rochester to visit my bff Ericka!



- We went to Utah for 10 days over Christmas and had a great time! I love and cherish our visits home.



- While in Utah, we found out we are having a GIRL!!!



- We made it back in time to see the ball drop in Time Square!



- Robert is 100% done with interviews. Now we just have to anguish over how to rank the schools. We are blessed to have nothing but amazing choices but it is still HARD!

- We are spending a lot of time getting Robert ready for this May's Ironman. I will ride my bike next to him while he does his long runs, swims some laps or just talk to him while he does his 6 hour bike rides on his indoor trainer!



- We have three months left of medical school and are excited for graduation day! We found out Robert will be graduation top of his medical school class (AOA)... (silly boy didn't even think he would graduate ;)

- I am anxiously awaiting the arrival of our little girl in June! My belly is getting bigger every day. I can feel her moving around. I have graduated from throwing up 9/10x a day to only a few times week!

- We are actively living up our childless days with little getaways, movies, plays and (my favorite) the ballet!


Until the next update... Cheers!

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Bangkok

So we changed our plans for the weekend and stayed in Bangkok. We still had a list of things we wanted to see and with the threat of all the floods we decided it would have to be sooner rather than later. I am glad we did because things we saw on Saturday are under water today! We took a river boat to all the historical monuments like the Grand Palace. On Sunday we went to the Bangkok International Ward. It was nice to hear things in English. Great weekend! Next weekend we are headed  North.

I felt more like taking the pictures than being in the pictures ....

Southern Thailand

Thailand has been treating us well! We had an amazing weekend in southern Thailand this weekend. We flew into Krabi and took a ferry to the Phi Phi (pronounced pee pee.. hehehehe) and then to Railay (cute name huh? ). It honestly was one of the most beautiful places Robert and I have EVER been. I felt like I was in heaven all weekend… or at least what I hope heaven is like………Islands in all shapes and forms, turquois water, tropical fish (you could see without snorkeling gear), bungalows on the beach for $16 a night, monkeys, long tail boat rides, yummy food, fire dancing, caves, kayaking, hiking, limestone cliffs, stalactites (stalagmites???), $6 hour oil massages (can you tell I am flabbergasted by how cheap everything is?). I wanted to freeze time and then bring everyone I know here!  It should honestly go on everyone MUST SEE list. Write it down Phi Phi Don, Phi Phi Leh and Railay 

(I put lots of pictures up on Facebook if you care to see)

Robert went back to work Monday afternoon. He really likes his rotation. It has nothing to do with what he is going into but he says it is interesting and informative. He has seen some rare things that you only read about it text books. Not to mention it has been really relaxing.  He goes in at 10 and is home by 3. I spend my days reading, laying out at the pool, working out, roaming the neighborhood.. and of coarse blogging …. Rough life huh? I feel kinda guilty with all this ME time but I know when real life picks up again I will long for these days.  

Bangkok is an interesting place… traffic, pollution, crowded, dirty… (“Wait don’t you live in NYC?”.. you ask.. YES but NYC has my heart)

We are planning to go to Northern Thailand this weekend (Chang Mai) and am excited to ride and elephant and see the long neck tribes.

Thanks for reading!

We made it to Thailand!!!

We arrived in Thailand with a flawless trip! I guess we were expecting the worse and were pleasantly surprised. We had the entire row to ourselves so I sprawled out and slept the entire 12 hours... so did Robert ... except when he was playing the in-flight trivia game and beat everyone :) The flight in was beautiful. The landscape is thousands of acres of rice fields with sporadic extravagant Buddhist temples.  We took the air train (much nicer transportation than NYC)  to our hotel. Our room is on the top floor (21st floor) and overlooks all of Bangkok. We are right next to an elementary school so I feel right at home:) I can hear the kids singing and chanting all day. I seriously could look out this window for days.. there is so much going on. Our room is basic but nice and clean. We have 3 American channels on our TV but I think I prefer the Thai channels.. they are hilarious. We spent the first day sleeping, unpacking, and eating! The food is… well maybe I just haven’t ordered the right thing yet?!?! (I hope) It seems all the fish still have the eyes,  the chicken still has the skin and everything else is coated in a film of slim. The breakfast has a few more American options so I will survive J We worked out this morning.. Robert is determined on getting in shape for the iron man. There is a pool on the top floor along with a nice work out facility. We are noticing how large we are in comparison to Thai people. The pool is very shallow on one side and gets deeper on the other side. I laughed when Robert got in because the water went up to his shin J I must have created bad karma cause when I got on the bike I skinned my knee because my legs were too long. Robert went into work today. He says  the hospital is really nice. It is about 2 miles away from the hotel so he takes a tro-tro (a colorful four wheeler????)  Everything is SOOOO cheap. Robert came home for lunch so we went to the local supermarket to stock up on H2O and Diet Pepsi (equally important J). Walking through grocery stores in foreign countries is one of my favorite things to do (very interesting). I just spent the last hour talking to the front desk (everyone in Thailand speaks decent English and most of the signs are in English) about all the things we should do while we are here… I am so excited. Now I just need to convenience Robert to play hooky from work J

California

Smith girls know how to travel! We took a lil' trip to southern cal and had a blast. We initiated our newest girl to our girls trips'..... Hailey!

She is a great addition.

I overlooked my vendetta against Disneyland and actually enjoyed it. The perfect weather and no lines helped!












And of coarse spent time at the beach.....



It was a great trip! Thanks mom and DAD for everything!

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