Merry Christmas

Love-DJ, Kelly, Molly, and Baby Smedley

Best Friends

Thanksgiving Weekend

DJ and I spent Thanksgiving weekend in Colorado visiting Tommy, Mandi, Jaelee, and Jax. Tommy and I made our first Turkey. Although it didn't look so well, it tasted wonderful! We spent the long weekend visiting and playing with the kids. I can't wait to go back in May with the baby!

DJ and Jae talking on the phone.

JaxEstes Park

Cat or Lab?

She never ceases to amaze me....

Alzheimer's Walk

Every year the Sullivan family walks in the Alzheimer's Memory Walk at Mt. Mary College in Wisconsin. This year the weather was beautiful! A perfect fall day and a good cause! We miss you Grandpa Sullivan!

Jax Sully

My newest nephew was born on September 29 at 2:21 am. He weighed 9lbs 15 oz and was 23 inches long.

Jax and big sister Jaelee.

The Smedley Family....

is due to grow on March 20th. I am 17 weeks and had an ultrasound earlier this week. The ultrasound tech. THINKS the baby is a boy, but isn't 100% sure. Hopefuly we will have another ultrasound to clear things up. Everything looks good, and we couldn't be happier!

Molly Molly Molly!!

Molly's leg is feeling a little better! After being tranqualized for three weeks, she has quite a bit of energy! Since she has been off of them I have found her in her cage chewing up DJ's electric razer. She also took off with my curling iron while it was hot. She dropped it as soon as she realized she was frying her mouth. Today she spent a while roaming around outside. When I went outside this is how I found her.

Poor Molly!

Last Saturday Molly started limping. We thought she was just being a "Drama Queen." She would still run around the back yard with our friend's lab we had for the weekend. However, when she was inside, she would hop around and limp on it. We finally brought her to the vet yesterday thinking she had something wrong with her foot. The vet thought she had broke part of the bone on her back leg off, at the growth plate!! I had to drop her off this morning for tests. Luckily, nothing is broke. She just tore all the ligaments in her back knee. Poor puppy has a cast on her whole back leg, for the next two weeks. She will be getting the special treatment at our house until she feels better!




She looks quite awake and happy in this picture. NOT! She was just yawning when I snapped the picture. She went right back to sleep when I stoped flashing the camera in her face.

Alycia & Brian's Wedding

Alycia and Brian got married on August 1st! Alycia and I have been best friends since we were in middle school. Their wedding was beautiful and went off without a hitch!

Family Picture

Silver Lake Sand Dunes

In the beginning of June, we made our annual trip to Silver Lake to camp with friends for the weekend. As tradition would have it, we got rained on each time we tried to sit by the fire. It was FREEZING cold, we all laughed about the many layers we had to wear. All in all it was a good weekend with lots of memories made!

DJ and I on top of Test Hill

Me, Leesh, Nicole, and Katie

Brian, DJ, Shawn, and Mike
Alycia and I FREEZING in the truck on top of Test. What you can't see is the seven (not kidding!) layers under our sweatshirts!
We didn't let the rain ruin our fun! Instead, we all went and got umbrellas at the General Store!

NO MORE GREEN!

DJ and I have always joked that our house looked like a bowl of mint chocolate chip icecream! The uglyest color green! After 2 year we finally painted it! We also competely redid the landscaping.

Before

After

And Molly makes three...

DJ and I brought home a Chocolate Lab puppy in late April. Her name is Molly, and rates high on the most spoiled puppies list! She is a lot of fun, and we are quite attached to her.

Molly at 6 weeks, the day we got her.

Molly at 10 weeks.

Molly's 1st trip to Silver Lake.

Honeymoon-Sanibel Island, FL

DJ and I went to Sanibel Island, Florida for our Honeymoon. While it was a blizzard back home we had beautiful 80 degree sunny days! We spend our days laying out at Sanibel and Ft. Myers beaches. We also went on a dolphin tour in jet skis and on a gambling cruise boat. Although we didn't win any money, we did break even. We visited the Chapel By The Sea on Captiva and ate at all my favorite Florida restaurants. Including the Lazy Flamingo!

DJ and I at Alger's Beach on Sanibel Island

Dinner at The Mucky Duck. Doesn't the Christmas Tree look out of place?

On the Big M Casino Boat

For one of my shower gifts I got flip flops for DJ and I to wear. They said "Bride" and "Groom" and made "Just Married" imprints in the sand. DJ was a good sport and wore them all week.

We came back to more snow than we had ever seen! Luckily we had someone snowplow our driveway!

December 13, 2008

DJ and I got married on December 13, 2008. It was undoubtedly my dream wedding day. The weather was beautiful and everything went as planned.

The Friday before our wedding Jess, Katie, Leesh, Kaitlyn, Amy, my mom and I went to LT Nails to get our nails done.

After our nails we headed to the church to decorate the sanctuary.


The morning of our wedding day the limo picked us up bright an early! It took us around town to pick up the bridesmaids and flower girls. After a stop at Panera we went to get our hair done.

Our Wedding


Wedding Party

Poor Seren fell asleep in the pew before the pictures of the whole wedding party.

Lamb Family

Smedley Family

Our reception was at The University Club in downtown Grand Rapids. It was absolutly perfect!