This is Me....

this week. What about you?

Merry Christmas!

Cutting down the Christmas Tree

Christopher and I braved the cold weather and the daunting task of taking FOUR children 4 and under out to cut down a christmas tree. BUT we were in luck! We were not looking for the perfect christmas tree or even a great tree so picking one was out was easy! The kids did great playing in the snow and didn't really care about the tree. We have cut down our christmas tree before but this was the easiest year yet!

New Pictures of Aiden

So Aiden has been healing quite well and looking pretty good! He took a bath in the sink last night and I think that it really helped him feel better. He is finally up and moving too!

Trauma Drama Part Dos

Yesterday while at the ER Aiden has said that his hand was cold. We didn't think anything about it so we didn't say anything to the doctors. Fast forward 4 hours and Aiden is saying that his wrist really hurts and it is a little swollen. By the morning, he wasn't using it. It was a little swollen and a little hot, and slightly bruised. We debated taking him in to the doctor again but decided it wouldn't hurt. Lo and behold, hairline fracture of the right wrist. poor guy. Luckily it is a small fracture and he should only have to have the cast on for 2 weeks, maybe a bit longer.

We love Aiden! Thank you for all your prayers and loves!

Our first trip to the ER

Aiden had a quite exciting day today. When he got home from school Christopher was out riding one of the horse. Aiden decided that he wanted to ride and so Christopher got off the horse and put Aiden on it. Christopher then dropped the reins and went to grab something. The horse started walking, Christopher lunged at it and the lunge spoked the horse. She took off at a run wad promptly deposited Aiden on the ground. Unfortunately, He hit face first on the ground and then slid about 4 feet. He was bleeding pretty bad when Christopher brought him in the house. We quickly rushed him to the doctors. On the way he became really sleepy and a little lethargic. At the doctors they decided to send him to the ER. At the ER they did a head CT and a couple of x-rays on his ribs. they were worried that they would miss a skull fracture or brain bled because of the force of the trauma. When all was said and done he was fine. He needed a couple of stitches in his forehead and was sent home with a prescription of Tylenol with codine. We think he will be sore for a couple of days! We are really grateful that he didn't get stepped on or break any bones!


The top cut required two stitches and the bottom three. The bruise is even darker!

The doctors were really worried that there was some broken ribs under this scrape. it is actually bigger in real life!

Happy Halloween!

This year followed the tradition of superheroes! One true superhero and one princess superhero! We went to Boise for Halloween because Aiden has been dying to visit Landon so we finally went!

These are all four of the cousins together...Landon and Aiden both wanted to be Wolverine, and Cole just wanted to be a monster so they made him Frankenstein. It looked really cool until it started to rub of on EVERYTHING.

Aiden and Landon meet two Supermans that were brothers. They we like "We are Supermans" and Aiden and Landon were like "We are Wolverines." Then they started playing together.

The post candy let down after the trick or treating

The stash!

Halloween tradition

It has always been a family tradition to carve pumpkins for Halloween. my guess is that it is probably the same for almost all families. How ever I bet that many families don't do it topless..Exhibit A....
Aren't you glad that it is only a tradition for those under 4? :)

I think that Hunter had the best time with the pumpkin because she would not stop rubbing it all over my arm! Aiden would hardly touch the inside and we had to tell hunter to stop chewing on the seeds. I love the differences in my kids.

I love the thumbs up

The kids were really cold, but still excited about the pumpkins...

I took a couple of pictures of the kids and thought that I would update my blog with them!

Summer in a Nut Shell

When you hit a creativity funk I think that one of the first things to go is the blog... So to catch up a little for my own sake, I am capturing the summer in pictures...and maybe a couple of dates....

July...A visit to CO (minus a million pictures I wish I would have taken)

August--Christopher's brother Chase got married in Logan, UT.  We stayed in a hotel there and our kids kept telling us that we were in Las Vegas.  I guess that two visits in one summer makes any hotel stay 

After that was a pony birthday party for Hunter's third b-day and Cole's second.  Because a bunch of family was still in town they made out like bandits!

We also decided to visit some of the places in and around the great state of Idaho and went to Yellowstone and Craters of the moon.  The kids LOVED yellowstone!  They were a little disappointed that the lava wasn't still hot and flowing at the craters of the moon...

Nannie and Grandpa at Craters of the moon 

Bear's Hair Cut

Hunter recently decided that she wanted to cut something.  Unfortunately, the most convenient thing for her to cut was her HAIR!  I was pretty upset and from the pictures you can see that she was pretty upset too....

I loved her hair long and was really sad to see any of the length taken off.  This is the before length....

The after length....

I must admit that I do like it.  It removed the blonde baby hair from the bottom and really made it look healthy.  

On another note, I made the halter dress that Hunter is wearing.  I have never made any clothes before and really like the way it turned out.  Too bad she doesn't like it!

Ice Caves

When we lived in Rexburg we never knew where the ice caves were. Now that we are "locals"  Christopher's brother from Boise showed us where they were. The ice caves are really just an underground tunnel that was once a lava tube. They kids were a little nervous about entering into the pitch black cave but warmed up to it really quickly. After a while we even had to remind Landon and Aiden to slow down and wait for us! The kids were really tired on the way back but I was the slowest! About 1/3 of a mile from the end I stepped wrong on uneven ground and totally screwed up my foot (it is pretty purple and green right now). However, we loved it!  

We had to lift the kids over some boulders in the cave, Cole was a little nervous

Aiden bouldering in the cave

What we have been doing....

I know that we have been MIA lately but we have been BUSY....

Spiderman has joined our family on and off..

We went to a fourth of July parade and Christopher's little sister was in the parade... 

Aiden and Landon were looking at the airplanes that passed over the parade

Christopher and I at the fireworks...

A cute random picture of Hunter...

We took some pictures in a field of wild flowers next to Nannies house, this is what happens when you get two Schmidt brothers together

Our kids weren't much more obliging 

But we did get a cute picture of Hunters backside...

Hunter likes the smell of weeds...

I love this picture of Aiden, he was happy to be going back to the house

Oh, and by the way, we bought Aiden a little Honda 50 motorcycle, for cheap.  It is running but needs a little bit of work.  He is so excited to have one! and yes he is spoiled :)