Christmas picture and letter 2009

We have sent out a Christmas letter and picture i think every year we have been married and here is this years.

Christmas 2009
It seems that the years are getting shorter and time goes by faster. Another Christmas season is here.

Cole is 2 and is starting to talk, some days he just doesn’t stop talking. He doesn’t know the meaning of “idle”. If you look closely in the picture you may notice his red nose. This was earned by a face plant last night at church. This year he also decided to climb in the car while Heidi was vacuuming it and check out the cigarette lighter with his finger. He definitely keeps life exciting!!

Julia is in Pre School this year at Mt. Hood Christian School. She loves her teacher and her classmates, and is always excited to go. (After we force her to get out of bed, that is) She has class 2 days a week for ½ a day. It is also a good break for Cole to get some one on one time with Heidi. It is hard to believe she will be in Kindergarten next year. She informed the other that she wants to be a teacher when she grows up. We think she would be a good one; she always looks after her brother and helps him learn things.

We went to San Diego in July for Heidi’s cousin’s wedding. Julia was a flower girl and well, Cole; we got a babysitter for him. Uncle Steve went with us to Sea World one day and the rest of the time we relaxed with family. Brandon also squeezed in a Padres game with some pretty amazing seats, thanks to Jim and Shelley.

We started our own little farm and are growing a variety of trees on about 5 acres. It is plenty to keep Brandon busy on his days off. Brandon still really enjoys working on the farm and has fun learning new things all the time.

Heidi stays busy sewing things, and chasing our kids around during the day. She also is in charge of decorating for “Mom to Mom” at our church, which is a monthly event.

In April 2010 Heidi and I will be “outnumbered” with the arrival of our 3rd child. This one’s supposed to be another boy. We are excited, and so are the kids and Grandparents. God has truly blessed us with wonderful children.

God bless you and Merry Christmas,
The Schmidts

Bazaar 2009

My mom and I are doing the Harvest Moon Bazaar again this year and we are so excited. Mostly to sit and talk and relax! It is going to be Nov. 12th-14th at Good Shepherd, and my mom is going to have a pre-bazaar at her barn on Tuesday night. If anyone want to come please do! We will be there from 4pm-8pm on tues night. Here's some pictures of the cool things she has painted, and some of the things I have sewn.

Halloween 2009

We had tons of fun at halloween this year. Cole loved going with all the big girls, he did have to run to keep up with them (poor short legs!). Julia was a cheerleader and Cole was a shark!

News

So i figured I should finally make it official and blog about it...We will soon be out numbered. Yup, we have having another baby. I just went in for my first appointment this week and it sounds like i am 10 1/2 weeks (that half week totally counts!). I'm due around April 9th. The baby was totally moving for the ultrasounds. Looks like it will definitely fit in with Julia and Cole. I'm feeling so, so. Right now I'm exhausted so I think I'm going to go vegg on the couch!

1st day of school

Julia had her first day of preschool last week...and loved it! She told me all week, i don't want to go to school mom. (I'm thinking sorry hun, too late now.) I think she gets nervous starting something new, but it was obvious when she walked in the classroom she was going to do great! She walked in took she backpack and coat off and put them right away, I just watched. I was so impressed she remembered all those little things from being told the week before that is the way they do things. She has a little buddie Jake that was in there last year and he is totally taking care of her. He is so sweet! It's hard to believe she is going to preschool, thankfully for me it is only 2 days a week. I don't know if I could get us all out of the house at 8:15 more than 2 days at this point! I'm excited for Julia to get to meet new friends and learn in a different environment, and I'm excited for my time with Cole...we just need to figure out what to do at this point?!?

Highlights

Lots has happened this summer so I thought I would post about some highlights!! Here is goes...

New Neice!

So these pictures are really old but they are all I have right now. Our new neice was born June 22nd, Kinley Sophia Echternach.

Julia adores her!!

Wedding in San Diego

My cousin got married in San Diego so we all flew down the end of June. It was tons of fun relaxing and swimming. Julia was a flower girl in the wedding and did great. Sorry no pictures of Cole at the wedding, he wasn't there! Awesome! My aunt got us a babysitter for the wedding so we just got to enjoy the wedding and watch Julia rock out all night!


Cutest flower girls!!! They seriously danced all night long!

Sea World

My cousin got us free tickets to Sea World which was so awesome! We stayed until it got too hot and didn't feel guily leaving, so nice!

I don't know what we would have done without Steve, he's the best!

San Diego

Getting ready to go on the airplane (or maybe that was coming home? I can't remember!) Either way the kids were great!




Way to much fun is had on the scooter!

Bend trip for Grandma's Birthday

We went to Bend for Brandon's Grandma's birthday this summer. Tons of family came from Montana, Idaho and all over! It was a fun couple of days.



Lots of cousins


Grandma and her girls


The kids relaxing...kind-of!

Lots of Birthday pictures!

We started out with a little pouting in the corner, but it didn't last long!

Ready to join in the fun!



This is how the cake started out. Do you see my hand print there?!? Don't worry I cut the top of the the cake, so that part was gone. It could have been way worse though!