Side trip to Denver

This is my new little niece, Anna Marie. She was born April3, 2008... A week before the wedding. We just finished with a bath and her hair is very curly when it's wet, after it dries it goes straight. We think she will have Bryan's curly hair!
This happened to be before bath time... My sister-in-law was getting the water ready for bath time. I was holding Anna, starting to get her ready. I had all her clothes off EXCEPT for her diaper. Katy (the BIG sister) decided that her diaper needed to come off. Well, Anna was free and proceeded to piddle all over me! I know she loves me now!!!!
Katy loves her little sister, Anna! and of course penguin!
Anna is all smiles and such a good girl!
Katy talks nonstop and can say anything, she was so fun and is getting so big. She will be 2 in October! This is her playing in her sandbox!

Mom and I went to visit the girls for the weekend, we enjoyed ourselves so much. We walked to the park and played in the sandbox, read stories and had lots of fun! I can't wait to go back for another visit! Thanks for letting us come and play with you!

Schmidt Family Road trip!

So we started out for our journey! Larry's father turned 50 in July and there was a surprise party happening, so we loaded up the dogs, said a little pray and set out on the road... not without stopping for coffee! I was really excited about this little adventure we were taking as a family (although a little anxious to see how Jaxson would do in the car) I packed the camera where I could get to it easily and as commonly known, I didn't take one picture, not one! I know such a bad mommy, I had better get a handle on this before we have human babies or I might be fired!!! SO, I will just write a few words of the adventure! All of the dogs did awesome. Most of the back was designated to Cooper and Mattie; well equipped with pillow, blanket and dog bones. We left a little room up front for our luggage and some snacks for the road. I thought Jaxson would want to be with the big dogs more, but he just lay perfectly content on the pillow in my lap. He slept most of the way. Although we had to stop a few more times to let the dogs out, we made good time! I must say I lost it about gallop, New Mexico... I did NOT want to be in the car any more. I became somewhat grouchy only pleading to LET ME OUT OF THIS CAR!!!! I pulled myself together by the time we hit flagstaff and cheered all the way down the hill! I was praising God I didn't have to load back up and drive home, I was flying!

After 16 hours in the car we finally made it to my Mom's house, where we got the dogs out to run in the park and to meet my Mom's dog, Fozzy. She is VERY territorial and we weren't sure how she was going to accept her house mate for the next few days. She did well, but Jaxson wanted to play. Fozzy doesn't know how to play and this frustrated her, so we kept them apart and tried to pay lots of attention to Fozzy. Cooper and Mattie stayed at Grandma Rebels, where she fell in love with them and let them up on the couch... GRANDMA!!!!

Over all we had a great time with family and friends and Larry loaded them back in the car on Sunday to make the trek home by himself. I had to stay and finish my week to work! He did great on the drive home and was happy to be in his own bed that night!!!!