A Week Late - Happy Easter!

I know this is a week late, but Happy Easter from the Schulze's!

Summation of Life These Days

These two pictures sum up life these days.

Sweetness

Sass

Sweetness and Sass...  Man I love these two kids!  Being their Mom is the absolute best job in the whole entire world!  Too bad hugs and kisses do not pay the bills, because I'd be monetarily rich, not just rich in love!

It is going to be so hard to go back to a full time job and have these kids back in childcare!  I am having the time of my life hanging out with them more often!

Four Generations

Connie, Donna, Amanda & Elizabeth

Update

Life has changed a bit since the last post.  I have a little more time on my hands right now as I am currently not working, so I figured I would pick this little blog back up on occasion!

Eddie finally lost both front teeth!  Libby was pretty excited about it!

I lost my job at the beginning of February and am now working on finding a different job that will allow me to spend as much time as I can with these two little kids!

William is working a little further away from home than previously, so I hope that I can find something close to home and that works with their school schedule.

I know the right job is out there for me!

Clothesline Fun

One of my favorite things to do when I was little was run through the damp sheets on the clothesline when I was a kid. 


Now my kids are getting to enjoy the same.

October 23, 2015

Checking out the low river

October 22, 2015

Sliding at Dusk!

October 20, 2015

My Girl!

October 19, 2015

Bowling with the family!

October 1, 2015

My silly girl.

She even asks to take a selfie with me now!

September 30, 2015

Edward (or Elmo?) and Elizabeth playing nicely together.

September 18, 2015

Elizabeth & Mom at the Twins Game!

September 16, 2015

Elizabeth at our annual Fall Festival at Church!

September 9, 2015

Elizabeth - Labor Day Weekend, 2015

September 1, 2015

Elizabeth's first day of Kindergarten

A Haircut!

Libby recently decided she wanted a haircut. She kept pointing to a photo of her when she was 3 years old and stated she wanted that haircut again.  She looks so cute in the new cut.  Glad she was finally ready to see the long strands go!

Before - Long and Stringy!

Oh so cute!

The curls are great!

My Goofy Girl

That little girl of mine sure is cute!

Snuggling on the couch.

Goofy Girls!

Ice Fishing

Took a chance and went ice fishing this past weekend with the family. 


I haven't been ice fishing in YEARS...  But, I did have a fun time even though I didn't catch any of the fish. 


We met up with our Chiropractor and some of her friends on a little lake where the Rainbow Trout were huge!  And they were so fun to try to catch.  William caught two large ones (in addition to the three he had caught the day before!). 

William helping get a fish of the line.

Getting ready to put a waxie on the hook.

The delicious rainbow trout!

Elizabeth's snowman - named Strawberry Shortcake!

Eddie fell asleep on the way to the lake and so he stayed in the truck for the first hour or so and napped while Libby and Grandma Sue build an awesome snowman named Strawberry Shortcake!  Once Eddie woke up, they both had fun with their shovels and looking at all the fish that had been caught. 


It was such a fun afternoon.  Almost makes me want to go again...


And the trout was delicious!

Visiting with Santa

On our way back from having a breakfast out on Saturday, we decided to try to go see Santa with the kids.  He was visiting in our old hometown at the community center.  They had a few vendors selling their items, some food and Santa & Mrs. Claus.

December 13, 2014

This is as close as Libby would get to sitting on Santa's lap and she told me that she didn't have to tell him what she wanted for Christmas as she had already told Gin, our Elf on the Shelf and he told Santa.  I really only think she even posed for these pictures because Mrs. Claus had apples and M&M's to hand out after the kids were done with the pictures. 


Eddie wouldn't go near either of them and clung to William tightly through the whole time we were there. 


I guess it wasn't a terrible first time meeting Santa & Mrs. Claus!

Christmas Ornaments

A glimpse into our Christmas tree this year.  Nothing too fancy, but beautiful anyway.

The real tree - in our upstairs living room.

An ornament capturing the moment William asked me to marry him.

Homage to A Christmas Story

Elizabeth's high heeled shoe ornament. 

Elizabeth's Cinderella shoe ornament - it plays music...  And she likes to hear it often.

Ornament from William's Step Mother back in 2001 when we had our first home together.

Eddie's first ornament

Miss Elizabeth at 1 year old.

Mr. Edward - less than one year old.

One of William's ornaments from his childhood

Elizabeth's first ornament - made by me when she was less than a month old.

Me as a kooky child - so far the only ornament I have from my childhood.  I need to raid my Mom's tree for more!