Utah and Baby shower

This past week I went out to Utah for a quick visit to my family and a Baby shower. My trip started off a little rough, by getting stranded overnight in the Denver airport due to a freak snow storm, so after much scrambling around we got me safely to my moms house and I got to spend time with the people I love the most. It was sad that it was so short but after baby boy comes flying out wont be easier....... but ill have more time to come out if i want.

These are the horses that come to visit Mom and Dads.
Sweet darling Julia I love her and miss her so much already! she just smells wonderful and is just so kissable.
Ryan didn't like me too much this trip, it was too short for him to warm up to me. I hate it that we live so far apart that its like that when I see my sweet little nephew.
Darling
My sisters and Mom put together my Shower, Amber was the mastermind behind it all , and for those of you who know my sister, anything she does always turns out amazingly beautiful. It was a Milk and cookie theme.

These are the cups that we drank out of.
Milk table
And the beautiful way she put all the cookies together!






My wonderful sisters, who I am grateful are good examples to me and are such a support to me in my life. If I can somehow manage to be half the moms that they are I will be happy.
And my Wonderful mom who is the best motherly example I could ask for.
These are my sweet sister in laws who came to the shower, and its fun because we are all pregnant. Suzanne is about 15 weeks, me 32 and Amy almost 40.
Beautiful Amber
This picture makes me happy, in only a handful of weeks that baby on my chest will be my own sweet little angel that I have waited so long to have. I cant wait!

Baby Bump

Well here it is, My 20 Week baby bump. I have been really bad about taking pictures of myself through this time so this is my first "prego" photo. Ill be better as the weeks go by but I thought I would throw this out there. :)

Also For those of you who dont know its a sweet little boy, and we are very excited!

Christmas

Christmas was a little different this year, But different is good sometimes.

Tom and I flew out along with the whole Schmitt clan to Utah to spend it with our families. And It was wonderful! I cant tell you how much it sucks that my whole family lives out west, it makes it hard to see people and to share memories with, but I think we did good this year.

Time flies and the kids who were just babies the last time you saw them are now running around talking laughing and are so big. It makes me sad a little bit.
Toms mom made all the boys matching pjs and all the girls these cute hats.
One day we had a big Schmitt gathering, I didn't get a picture of all 30 of us but it was a crazy and good day. Toms Grammy carved us this huge Santa which is amazing and we love it!
Christmas eve and Christmas day I think were my favorites! We got to spend those two days with my Parents and sisters. It been years since we all have been together. it was good to laugh and be our little family again.

Christmas day after we did present and ate we had the kids put on the Nativity. It was good, next year it will get better :)

But you cant tell me those are not the cutest Joseph and Shepard ever.

Eva loves the movie Tangled so this year she pretty much got everything Tangled including the wig.
I wished we all lived closer, I already miss them so much!!!

Good End of the Year

Well this end of the year has been a good one. Full of many blessing that I am so grateful that we have received.

First of all after a long Long process of waiting to hear from dental school again this year, (last year we did not get in) Tom got the wonderful news that he got accepted into University of Detroit Mercy. Which was his number one choice. And it is in Michigan so I am so thankful that we get to stay here, a major blessing!!!

I cant tell you how many prayers went out everyday over the past 2 years that we would get in, that we would be able to start progressing in a positive direction. We felt like we were just stagnant- not moving in any direction, and that was a very frustrating feeling. So my heart is full of joy that we now are going to start school this next fall and start on the way to a new chapter in our life!

A new chapter in our life... I really like the sound of that... Most of you who know me know that with all my heart all I have ever wanted was to be a mother. To raise sweet babies in the gospel to have the chance to be half the mom that my mom is. Over the course of the 4 years that Tom and I have been married I have watch countless couples get married, have babies and have more babies, and my heart would ache, I felt empty, all I wanted was that feeling and job of motherhood.

So after a wonderful trip to the temple with Tom we decided that now was the time to try, yes there are many uncertain questions and answers that we had,like if we were going to get in to school or not (we did not know yet if we were in)but we felt like a leap of faith was required here. I knew with all my heat and soul that the Lord would take care of us, that he would not put us on a path that we could not handle... so we went for it.......

July 11 2011 I will have my wonderful sweet baby to hold and look into those eyes and feel something that I cant even explain. Sometimes a leap of faith is what we needed to do all along, since finding out that we are going to have a baby there has been so many blessing that have come into our lives.I am overwhelmed by them and have so much gratitude for my heavenly father, I am so ready for this new chapter in our lives, I know it will be challenging but I am ready for it!

This has been a great end of the year, and I am ready to face the new year with all the new challenges and changes.

Baby.. not the best picture, but here it is.. 9 weeks old. Tom calls it our little mousekewitz.

Four Years

Four years ago I married my best friend, the man who makes me want to be a better person in every way that I can. I cant believe how fast time has gone by! It seems like yesterday that we were only dating, and now 4 years later we live in a small hobbit hole and are making our memories and life together. I'm looking forward to the rest of the journey that we have and glad that I'm get to go through all of life's ups and downs with Tom.

Happy Four years, Heres to eternity...

America Quilt

I guess you could call me a patriotic person. I love our country and am so thankful for the liberty's and freedoms that we have. I'm thankful for people like Greg who serve our country willingly and sacrifice their time and lives so that we can have our country stay free and be the great country that it is. I'm proud to be a American.

So I wanted to make a quilt to show my love for my country..

The back of the Quilt

Some close ups of the stars.. there are 25 stars total each with 9 pieces for the star and 8 squares to sew them to.

Finished!!! And I love it!!!

God bless America!!!

Summer Projects

Tom and I decided that while everyone else was on vacation that we would re-do some rooms in his parents house to surprise them. We did the 2 bedrooms and a small office which we turned into a nursery.

This is the blue room when we started out
The Green room which we turned into the new Brown room.
Ripping out the carpet....
And painting and nailing the floor to make sure all the squeaks were gone.
Old office
New Nursery
New blue room with the water beds turned into normal beds, This one had a custom made memory foam mattress.
Old green room, now the Brown room with a new pillow top mattress.
Finished Brown room



Finished blue room

It was a long project that took most of the summer to do, there were lots of sweaty drives home and days just being tired and not wanting to work but we did, Ralph and Rebecca were so surprised when they came home and saw that we did the basement, and 3 rooms upstairs, they were grateful to us for putting time in to do this and getting started on projects that needed to be done. It was a good project for Tom and I to do together and we learned a lot about home repair.:) Not sure if I want to do this again anytime soon but i'm proud of what we accomplished this summer.

And yes I know I didn't post pictures of the basement but we just organized all the tools and food storage, it looks good down there.