St. Pat's Survived

This past weekend was our annual St. Pat's party. It has changed dramatically since the first 3 parties we had and that has to do with the photos below. We think we have had 6 parties, with 2 years off, one for the Rolla 100th and one year off after Megan was born. Parenting has definitely changed the agenda a little bit of the festivities, but we're still having a good time with our extra attendees!


The weather was decent on Saturday - a lot warmer than when we actually got to Stephens Lake Park, but it was good for the kids to get out and play and burn some energy. We actually got them all to hold still for about 15 seconds and this is what we got.


The two newest babies, Reagan Resnik (on left) and Allison Cowan (right). They were sleeping in their car seats for the other photo so here's some tummy time back home. The babies are only 1 day apart and while at the house they each rolled over from back to tummy for the first time - 1 day apart! They are both very good babies and were very happy the whole weekend despite all the different people and things going on at once.

We did manage to get a boat race in on Friday night, it was slightly pitiful, but it was done. No rematches though, one was a enough. Between all the food - both fried on Friday, then in the "buffet of crock-pots" on Saturday it was an aroma filled weekend. I'm still trying to air out the house.....

So until next year....another St. Pat's is survived and complete in the books.

Happy St. Patrick's Day (delayed)

Our festivities will begin this evening for St. Pat's but just wanted to share a shot of the girls looking cute in their green.

John & Mary Jane's 40th Anniversary Party

This past Saturday we made a day trip to Lebanon, IL for Tim's great aunt and uncle's 40th wedding anniversary. Tim spent a lot of time with the Dietz family out on the farm growing up and also took advantage of Mary Jane's cooking as well from the stories I hear!


Here is the cake - you can imagine how the girls enjoyed the frosting!

Here is Tim with his Great Aunt Mary Jane.



Yes, our little bartender. Don't worry, she was just pouring, not drinking, but got a little obsessed with wanting to fill everyone's beer. Tim's uncle put a tip jar out for her and by the end of the night she had over $20! When the keg ran out she started wiping off people's beer from the coolers and delivering them to their tables. She didn't want to leave and clung to her tip jar. In all fairness she did try to give the money to Tim's cousins who were hosting the reception, but they refused. Then Tim made her pay $2 to a girl that Abby had "employed" to help for about 10 minutes, but her Mom made her give it back to Abby. So the tip jar came home, but we convinced Abby to give some of it to church as she enjoys putting the weekly envelope in the offering. She gladly gave up some of her money, however informed us she will be buying a Barbie movie with the rest.


Megan enjoying the cake as usual.

John and Mary Jane enjoying their first dance again.

Abby and Megan enjoying the first dance as well. You can only imagine the running around and dancing they did. They were quite popular on the dance floor.

This is Sherry and Mike who are John and Mary Jane's kids. They hosted the lovely event.

This weekend is St. Pat's at our house. We did a lot of prepping for things this week with some cooking in advance but there still is a lot to accomplish, just to clean it all up again on Sunday. We are expecting 10 adults, 7 kids, and 4 dogs to be at the house over the weekend - wish us luck!

LaBousch 1999-2011

It was a sad day yesterday, our lovable cat LaBousch had a blood clot/heart attack and passed away late morning. It was quite a shock as he hadn't been acting abnormal at all and was playing with the kids the evening before as usual. LaBousch was a birthday present from a college roommate from the Rolla pound. Compared to most cats he was extremely warm and lovable, he loved to cuddle and sit on your lap, or sleep on your head. His worst trait was probably that he purred to loud and would wake you up when he snuggled. He was considered to have a "smoker's meow" which was entertaining at times for all. He got along well with the dogs and all babies.


As you can see he was very interested in the girls and loved to be apart of what they were doing. He would fight the dogs for crumbs that would get tossed off the table.


He was always following Abby around, and in the end was sleeping with her in her bed at her feet - or on her pillow if she let him.

Megan enjoyed him as well - even though he got his fur grabbed a lot he never ran away, always wanted to be around them.

It has been a rough 2011 for the Schmidt family. Thank you all for your nice comments and memories of LaBousch. He was a good cat.

Dr. Seuss

This past weekend the Auxvasse Parents as Teachers group and Callaway county schools hosted a Dr. Seuss themed activity day. As the weather was a little cold and we had never been to the high school yet we thought it would be a good experience.


Here are the girls painting their blue fish - yes it is frosting, you can see Tim smelling it to figure it out. This was one of their favorite activities. I think there were 6 less fish by the end of the activity.



There was also bean bag tossing into the hats - Abby's version....

Megan's version....

The next activity was making our Cat in the Hat hats.

Megan really enjoyed hers! There was also doorknob markers to let you know not to disturb because there was reading going on in the room, and we also made Grinch puppets - very scary! Then we made a turtle, pond, and tree for crafts.

Overall it was a very fun couple of hours. We had a great time and got to see some of our Auxvasse friends and Abby's preschool teacher Mr. P.