Many Faces

These pictures were just too cute to pass up!

Christmas Train

We were so blessed to have our Mom's come and visit us for Thanksgiving! Our first family members to visit us in Oklahoma! My Mom came the week before to help me with kid's night (we made the cutest little turkeys) and flew out on Friday to visit the granddaughters in Denver. Larry's mom flew in on Thanksgiving and will stay through the weekend. We wanted to share Christmas Train with them, our church's version of the Christmas story. It was amazing! It was an old western town redone with different stores and restaurants. We had to go 2 separate times to accommodate both Moms, but we didn't mind seeing it twice! We ate BBQ with both mom's because it was so good. We did some shopping and ended the night riding the train. It told the Christmas story in beautifully painted murals and some live scenes. It really was a good time! Very well done!

Seeing Stripes

This has been my favorite project so far! My Mom was visiting for Thanksgiving so I took advantage of her help! I have always wanted to do a stripe wall and this was my chance! YEAH!! We picked out a color and made sure we had it before Thanksgiving day so we could paint while Larry was fixing the meal. We started by painting the wall all one color with flat paint. The next day we taped off all of our stripes. This was much easier than I had expected. We used a plum line and chalked the line, then followed the line with blue painters tape. The hardest part was keeping track of which ones to paint the gloss color, thank goodness for pencil X's! We painted all the X'ed stripes with the gloss color and peeled the tape off and "TA DA" we had stripes and the look so cool! They are amazing! Thanks Mom! OH YEAH... Jaxson had to get in on the fun! He was checking out the wall and found the paint lid. He stepped on it! Thank goodness Larry was standing right there to scoop him up before we had a real problem! Such a little helper! We could have had puppy paws all over the house!

Sweet Girl!

This is our baby girl, Piper. She loves this blanket my Mom made for me. She was all snuggled up and so content. Don't you just love that face!

Snuggle Pups

They are all so snugly and sweet! This is where they end up after a morning of fun!

Construction Zone

We are constructing! So much has been happening! It's all coming together! While I was in Phoenix for my week of work, Larry and our friend, Jonathon tiled the kitchen and laundry room. It's beautiful! I challenged them to lay the tile diagonally. They weren't very happy with me, but they got over themselves as they realized it wasn't as hard. This was Larry's first time tiling, he put his perfectionism into action and it looks awesome! So, when I got home we had wood floors to lay before my Mom arrived on Sunday. That gave us 2 days to get it done. We started Friday night and worked hard all day Saturday. We got into a groove and worked really well as a team. Yeah for the Schmidt's! I wanted the power tools. So, while Larry laid one row, I would measure the last piece, make the cut and snap it in place. It was smooth sailing and so much fun! Larry was very good at the intricate cuts and tricky closets, I like to make the end cuts and bust out the rows! Finally at midnight we hopped in the shower and fell into bed! Everything was hurting, even my toes! I don't think we moved the entire night! The floors look beautiful and we are so excited to say we did it! We will finish the floors up with some base boards and move onto the next project! We have a house and it's our very own!!!

Picasa

Many of you have asked how I collage my pictures on here. Well here it is, it's so easy! Go to www.picasa.com and download the FREE version (I have Picasa 3, the newest version). Picasa will search your computer for any and every picture you have. It will then organize them by year. They are all in one place, YEAH!! You can make collages right there, it's that easy! There is also a "blog this" button that will take you right to your blog spot so you can make a new post! I love when people make life easier! Enjoy this fun feature!

Emergency Visit

Yes, we had our first emergency room visit with our little one, Piper. I think it was more traumatic for Larry, since it was him who caused her the pain. He was letting the dogs outside and there is a loose piece of concrete and when you step on the corner it lifts up. Piper happen to step right there as the slab was coming down and her little paw got caught under the slab. She cried for a while as Larry held and comforted her. We called the emergency vet to see what to do and they advised us to watch her for a while and if she still favors it after an hour to bring her in. Well 2 hours later she still wasn't walking on it so in we went! The doctor took her back and did some x-rays! The good news is she is only swollen, nothing broken...the bad news was the bill! I guess that's reality when you have kids! But she will be fine and spoiled rotten! Never a dull moment in the Schmidt household!

Let's Play!

Jaxson loves Piper! We are very thankful for that! Here they are playing in our backyard. Sorry for the bad video job, they were really hard to follow! Jaxson is very cute with his little sister. We were at a friends house with a lot of people and Piper was a little overwhelmed. Besides, she had just had her shots. So, I was sitting on the floor with her between my legs just resting. Jaxson kept coming over to her and checking on her it was so sweet. He would kiss her and run off! (wow it really sounds like we have kids!) They make us laugh all the time, when Piper steals Jaxson's chew toys and runs off with them. Jaxson follows close behind and tries to take it back. This usually goes back and forth for a while. She yips at him and the roll around the floor. Jaxson loves to catch bugs, while Piper loves to chase and catch leaves. She usually brings them back to me. These are just a few of the funny things our pups do!

Meet Piper

This is Piper, she is 9 weeks old and the newest edition to the Schmidt family! She has so much personality and is very mischievous. Every morning I have to find my slippers, I take them off next to the bed, Piper comes in the morning and steals them. I also find random socks around the house. She loves being outside! In fact if we are done being outside and she is not, she runs away from us. She does the same thing when it's time for the crate, she's not too sure about that yet and takes off running. It's hard not to laugh because she is so funny! Her little tail goes a mile a minute. She loves her big brothers, Jaxson and Cooper and her big sister, Mattie. They have accepted each other very well. She has been very fun and so snugly!

Jaxson and Andie

Jaxson makes friends so easily, in fact we have met many of our neighbors because of our little Houdini. He likes to wander the neighborhood and our friendly neighbors know who he is and bring him back. Here he is with our friends, Joy and Isaac's little girl, Andie. She just wanted to touch him and Jaxson was so gentle with her. It was fun to watch her light up with excitement when she saw him.

Demolition Help

Jaxson loves things that make noise; the vacuum, the sander, the shop vac. We had just ripped up the baseboards in our new house getting ready for new floors. I wanted to get it cleaned up, so out came the shop vac. This is Jaxson helping with the clean up! He gets his tongue stuck all the time. It's so funny! A lot of the time I have to pick him up or I will run him over with the vacuum. At least it makes me laugh!