This past week, we have been so blessed to have the Zwoenitzer family from Washington visiting and fellowshipping with us! They arrived last Sunday and to our dissapointment left Thursday morning. Our visit contained late night card games and readings of a favorite and hysterical book, mini concerts and music lessons (Isaiah attempted to teach me the harmonica but i am lost when it comes to musical instruments) a trip into the woods where we built a dam, and found an armadillo skeleton, jolly meals outside, fun cooking experiences, a birthday party for Israel and and a baseball game. We hope to have many more such memories with the whole family! 

Yuchi babe 

Whilst the guy's played ball, the younger ones climbed trees and played with the tire swing 

Zech with baby 

"and he's about to be out!" The Zwoens last afternoon here, the guy's and Daddy's all went outside to play ball! Our cousins the hosches arrived and they joined in! 

Josh the pitcher 

Nathan abou to make a home run!  

view fro upstairs 

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kitchen helpers 

and we girls cooked... 

armando 

Jonathan 

Zech 

Bekah 

Isaiah 

Yuchi 

telling jokes around the table last night 

last night, we grilled outside and enjoyed a celebration meal in honor of Israels 21st Birthday. Happy Birthday! 

Isaiah 

Zechariah 

Mr. Zwoneitzer 

Charlie and Israel 

beth 

Charlie Morg. 

Isaiah on the banjo 

Rachie helping me in the ktichn 

Isaiah darlin 

Charlie working on the piano, I think he found a bobby pin stuck in one of the keys. LOL 

playing "how many can we fit 'round the table" game again 

the great room was turned into a Zwoen studio 

dearest mama 

Mr. Zwoenitzer 

Rush hour another favorite game 

playing cards one night, Nertz is the name of the game today! 

the boys working on the lawn mower 

the tables have been turned....LOL 

the other day, (ahh I can't 'member which) Mr. Lummus brought Ivis and Arthur up to visit with us and the Zwoenitzer family! We spent the whol day sewing, chatting, and watching P&P! What a lovely time we had Ivy! 

Peaches and Ivis sewing whilst chatting and watching P&P! 

Bethy irons 

ofr lunch, we girls had a picnic outside! 

Rachie 

Robin hood and his band of merry men 

ahh...evidence of an Ivis Lummus visit....they dissappeared quickly. LOL 

eating lunch 

Miss Ivy embroidering on Katies quilt 

Bethany knitting 

HEy y'all, aunt Neecy has uploaded pix that uncle John has drawn! also there is a pix of a man with a baby named Levi. That is the little baby that I held when I went with aunt Neecy awhile back during that gospel concert thingig thatI served food at. He is so precious!-kressy http://www.hoschfamily.blogspot.com/ 

I found this online today. Isn't it great?!-kressant 

Rachie 

Bethany 

Pauly wall 

Grandaddy and I 

Rachie pache  

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charming 

Bethany working on Katie's quilt 

The perfect wedding look...

as the wedding quickly approaches, the arrangment of our hair has been the topic of late. And guess what!? We have found a solution! The other day, we were picking flowers with the Mortons and whilst arranging them, we were inspired and decided to try them out atop our heads! Nifty eh? Well, here they are, of the 6 hair styles below; which are your favorite? LOL
-Kressant

one afternoon we gathered flowers after eating a picnic. 

#1 bespeckled..

#2 incircled..

#3 flower showered...

#4 a'topped with grace and sweetness......

#6 short and sweet....

#5 the Wispy Wisteria look

silly girles 

Schedule. LOL

Hey y'all,
I'm sorry about the posting order, my blogging is inbetween cooking meals and such and I have so MANY pictures and events to cover that I cannot catch up! LOL. But to give a clear picture as to how my week went here is the schedule:
two weekends ago:
Friday:Drove down to the Mortons where we found the Campana and Sanders families
Saturday:The guy's worked on the barn, we girls cleaned house, cooked and such until evening when we went to Plaths shower.
Sunday:Church at the Mortons with fellowship, Lunch, and shower at Davis'
Monday:Daddy and Mama to Griffin, Charlie and Mr. Noah Sanders to Florida to work on boat.
Thursday:Charlie and Noah return, we bid farewell to Mortons and journey to Sanders residence in Alabama. Ate lunch with the darlins and drove over to hospital to see dear Abbi who had had surgery. Drive home.
Friday: Drive to Tennessee
Saturday: Stephanie and Michael McDermott's wedding, caravaan to Atlanta with Sanders.
Sunday: Zwoenitzer family from Washington state arrive

Ok, LOL maybe now I can sort my week out. LOL. Thanks y'all!
-Kressant

Sunday afternoon, we girls all piled once again into various vehicles and drove over to our dear friends the Davis' for another shower for our Katie may! When we arrived, the house was filled with ladies and girls all meandering around enjoying the lovely decorations and inviting food. The dining room was the center of activity as in the middle of the room was a table piled full of the most delicate and gorgeous little delictables! Ahhh...the flowers, punch bowl, lemon thingies, cookies, and the all the wonderful things were so delicious! Thank you so much Davis family! It was a memory not easily to be forgotten! 

sweet friends 

the gifts 

Miss Addimay and I 

Mrs. Mattox demonstrating Katie progression into the next season of her life 

sweet girls 

the Demott girls 

gathered around Katie may 

Miss Ivy with baby Issac 

girles 

opening presents 

mamas enjoying eachother 

Mrs. Kim Plath 

abbi, rachel, and darthy 

caleb 

the darlin young Robert ladies 

saturday afternoon 

saturday afternoon the young ladies were so sweet to work on the quilt! 

Saturday before the shower, the little ones enjoying...... something. What's in those glasses anyways? LOL 

Saturday evening, we all piled into SEVERAL vehicles and started out for Cairo! We drove an hour or so and turned into the Plaths driveway as the sun dissappeared over the horizon. Our breath was taken away and gasps of delight escaped from the can as we drove through the winding drive way elimnated by the flickering fairylike lights of votives in mason jars! This was just a foretaste of what was next to come! We arrived at the house and a beauitful vision met our eyes, white lights hanging from the trees, house, and a large white tent! There under the tent we found tables beset with dishes, handmade ice boxes with sparkling cider, tall dainty glasses with rose petals proudly bearing our name placements! Ahhhh, need I say much more? It was lovely! Thanks so much to all the dear ladies who made this event so special! Thank you especially the Plath and Lummus families for all of your hard work! 

a few of the young men, captured by Mr. Arthur 

the bridesmaids table 

Mr. Arthur Lummus our photographer 

After the meal, the guy's headed down to the trailer for a guy's shower whilst we young ladies, mothers, and baby's gathered in the house. There we showered Miss Katie may with gifts and precious words.  

How sweet you look Amanda darlin! 

aunt Jeanine and Mrs. Kim 

sweetsies enjoying the eachother 

Mama, Mrs. Lummus, and Mrs. Maddox chatting 

Ivis with Mrs. Wendi 

Adddi May with aunt Laura 

all the sweet little girls hovering around Miss Katie May 

aunt Jeanine 

Abbi and Katie 

Miss Kim Plath, the most charming hostess, mother, friend, and Goldy inspiration! I sure am thankful for the blesing of knowing you Mrs. KIm!!! 

Aunt Lisa with Frankie bones, Adeline and Ivis 

The Campana, Lummus, S'morton, Sander, and Davis girles, bridal shower for Katie and Alan at the home of Mr. and Mrs. Barry Plath! 

The Smith and Lummus girles 

The S'morton young ladies 

The Smith and Sander girles 

Daddy with Charlies new sword! A present from the dear Plaths 

waving goodbye, "Su navi per mari......que non hay mai, con te le li viverlo con te partilo" 

Thursday afternoon we arrived at the Sanders residence in Alabama! We were greeted by the smiles of the girls and the lovely aroma of freshly baked bread! 

The girls in the kitchen 

Sander eggs! yummy! 

Emmanual and Giiby sanders with their "zoo collection" LOL 

Mr. Ethan showed us his brother Noahs blacksmiths shop 

Mr. Noahs work shop! 

an ole fashioned anville 

The gizmo lizzo 

This is such a sweet picture! When we arrived at the Sanders home, their little boys had gathered each of us girls a lovely bouquet of flowers! 

Master Ethan Sanders and their dog 

Miss Rebekah 

talking on the trampaline 

God's beauty 

This past weekend, Daddy, Charlie, Arman, Rachie and I traveled up to Oakridge TN to attend our dear friends the Pethtels wedding! We met Stephanie Pethtel and her family last year when the before mentioned family members minus Arman drove out to Idaho to make a movie. The Pethtels were so gracious to have us stay in their home and Nick and Steph were actually in our movie. Well, the Pethtels stayed with us for the Father/daughter last year and having toured the south decided to move down to TN! AFter their move and a few exchanged visits we were so happy to hear that Steph was betrothed to a young man by the name of Michael McDermott of Springfield MO. 

the father escorting the bride 

my view 

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I now present Mr. amd Mrs. Michael McDormott! 

Mrs. Wendi and A bbi directing the pictures 

one of the beautiful Gonzalez sisters played the harp during the wedding! It was so beautiful! 

Miss Jessica Gonzalez, friend, seamstress of the dresses, and violin perfomer. What a precious young lady! 

Rachie and Gracie 

the grooms family 

the brides family 

enjoying a special moment 

the bride and groom 

Rachie and Charlie 

enjoying the view. LOL 

dancing the Laendler 

the wedding cake 

the grroms cake 

cutting the cake 

tasting the cakes 

sweet Abbi taking pictures 

The bride and groom in a differant array. LOL 

afgter the wedding, we had the pleasure of carravanning back to Atlanta with the Sanders! We girls rode with Daddy in the sub and with a few "snacks" blankets, pillows, Andy Griffith dvds and old pix of past get togethers; we had a splendid time and were surprised that our journey ended "so quickly!" LOL I had a lovely time girlies! 

watchin andy Griffith! 

Home Again!

Hey everyone!
The Smith familia is back home loaded with picures and memories from a few of our wonderful friends! This last weekend we had the pleasure of a visit with the Sanders, Lummus, Davis, Plath, and Campana families at the Morton's residence, as we all gathered for the Bridal showers of my new Sissy Kate! We had a most WONDERFUL time as I hope my pictures can attest too! It was sooo much fun seeing everyone again!
Cheerio!
-Kressant

This dress was made by Bethany! Isn't she a good seamstress?-kressy 

here is my prairie dress that I made the other day-kress 

Rachie in her dress that she made the other day-kressy 

poor aunt Kim and Ben are sick with the flu, but jolly ho here they are up and enjoying the warm air! 

LOL, Saturday was spent in spring cleaning the house! hurray! Daddy and uncle Ed worked on editing the last of our footage for th emovie show, Charlie helped and talked to my sissy Kate, the little boys were organized by Rachie and had a ball scrubbing the back porches and cleaning up all of the sticks from this past winter. Beth and I cleaned the house and for lunch, uncle Ed was so sweet to go out and get us bar-b-que! Just as we were fixin' to eat, our aunt Leanna and uncle Scott popped in! They joined us and then we returned to our work. Later in the evening, Daddy and uncle Ed decided that we all needed a bit of the outdoors air and called us out for Daddy's version of baseball. It's quite differant from regurlar baseball and a whole lot more fun!  

Rachie and our aunt Leanna 

uncle Scott and Charlie setting up a tent 

Jakes table 

enjoying the spring afternoon with lunch outside! 

my aunt Leeana's new jeep! Crocie, what a beaut! 

the tent 

Jake Edwards 

cowlick Nick 

whoa baby! 

Bethy was so sweet and spent the afternoon playing with the littl eboys 

"help me up Jake Please?" 

!Yuchi 

This afternoon, Daddy and uncle Ed called us out to play baseball 

Armando our batter up 

uncle Ed peering into the sunset for the ball? LOL 

Aunt Kim and ben our two poor sick darlins enjoying the warm breeze and sunshine 

Bethy our first baselady 

Nicki in awe of bethy's wonderous catch 

just keep you eye on the ball 

mama enjoying the various antics of the novice players 

Yuchi stringing a bow whilst we play 

Jake our #1 star hitter! 

Here are a cew pix of our road trip to Tennessee! Rachie and BEth were so sweet to sit up front with me to keep me awake. LOL.  

home, home on the range top.... 

hmmm.... 

when kids have too much time on their hands...beth's car creations 

"you see, they're on whisper mode..." 

not something you see everyday on I-75 

kiddies enjoing the road trip 

what is this?! 

Yuchi babe 

Tuesday or monday, I can't recall, we arrived our at our aunt and uncle's home in Oakridge Tennessee!!!!! 

one morning we drove over to visit with our friends the Pethtels! We went our west last year to their home in Idaho and shot our film Mr. Safegaurd which we entered into last years Film Festival in San Antonio. The Pethtels returned the visit and journeyed to Georgia to attend the Father Daughter retreat. They spent two weeks with us also attending the Uniting church and home conference in North Carolina. After touring the south, they decided to move on out here and now live in Oakridge Tennessee! Here is a little tour of their new home! Thanks so much y'all for your wonderful hospitality! 

mama with the Pethtel young ladies 

Nick and Arman enjoying their swing 

their dogs can actually open this gate! believe me I know... 

peering into the guest house 

the guest house, looks like an old church or one room school house. 

nifty place for a bike eh? LOL 

hmm... an interesting chinese structure 

LOL 

after a lovely tour around the house, we girls skipped outside to continue with the grounds. To our joy we discovered their creek! Oh what fun we had crossing back and forth, dangling our legs into the refreshing water.... 

The Pethtels lovely creek! 

Bethany and Stephanie 

Miss Rachel 

Miss Bethy 

"sitting on the dock of the bay..." 

enjoying the piano forte 

Beth and our cousin Ethan playing a duet 

Aunt D and Bethy 

the kitchen my favorite room in any house 

mama and her sister Aunt Dianna 

Wedensday afternoon, the Pethtels joined us for a 2 hour swim in this HUGE swimming pool, all to ourselves!!! 

My aunt Dianna and uncle Ed 

the reason for our trip to Tennessee was to pick up our half of a cow that we slit with aunt D and Uncle Ed 

LOL 

dear uncle Ed split a cow with us and drove us over to the slaughter house to pick it up. 

look at all the meat! 

Here are a few scenes from our drive through Tennessee 

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this little pond is so clear that you can see the bottom all the way out in the middle! 

a house in maryville 

a barn 

the mountains 

a redneck car 

Beth and I 

the blue ridge mountains! Looks just like a beautiful patchwork quilt!-KB 

Beth and Yerik 

Rachie observing the lovely view 

Thursday morning Alan drove me down to the Morton's residence for the week to help with the meals whilst they hurriedly prepare for the upcoming wedding!  

no the barn is not burning, friday night the Morton's had their annual controlled burning. It was pretty neat too look out the window whilst I was cooking supper to see the pretty flames jumping and sputtering in the woods.-kressy 

"Zorro"LOL-kressy 

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Friday night the guy's burned of their porperty 

Saturday a few men came to help the morton's with the roofing on the new barn. 

Thankfully the Morton's cow is back on her feet and enjoying the yard! We are so grateful for all the wonderful fresh milk! 

Miss Darthy and Addi may sewing on the wedding dress-KB 

Miss Katie may receiving RSVPs for the wedding!-KB