Lagoon

This is a late update for this event!! We went to Lagoon with Shari and Arthur for their stake lagoon day. Gavin was a total whimp!!! Thank goodness we werent' at Disneyland figuring this out. He got scared on practically any ride that lifted a hair off of the ground. So his favorite ride was the bumper cars. It was frustrating listening to him cry over every ride, but that's what we signed up for right...? Dallas told Gavin that we aren't going to Disneyland until he is a lot older because he didn't want his first Disneyland trip spent listening to Gavin cry. It seems strange to me that Dallas hasn't been to Disneyland yet. I guess it helps when you live in California and I got to go quite often!! I don't know how my parents did it with the 5 of us and going to any amusement park. It was SOOO boring just standing there watching Gavin cry before every ride and then watching him on the bumper cars for the 100th time. They sure are troopers!! Needless to say this was a lesson learned about not wasting money to take your kid to lagoon just to ride the dang bumper cars...!! Oh wait... if that wasn't enough torture we decided to bounce back so we got to have a re run of the whole thing, although the 2nd time my parents were heros and took Gavin to walk around Pioneer Village since he choose that over the other rides we were going on. We did get him to go on the rattlesnake rapids though and we got totally soaked, and it was nightime, so we were freezing. Oh well it was fun anyways! We camped overnight at the camp ground there and that was a lot of fun!!!

Happy 31st Birthday Dallas

Saturday Dallas turned a whopping 31. He for some reason has issues with getting older each year so I have to tease him a bit since I have SOO much younger than him!! We had his birthday party today and have a few friends over to celebrate. I had Janelle make his birthday cake again this year and she sent me a few ideas she had found and I picked this one!! I figured it was totally Dallas!! We had cake and icecream and sat around and talked for a little while. He got a wheelbarrow from my parents my dad rolled it in the house with Gavin in it singing "Happy Birthday" it was so cute!, guitar hero game and some super good smelling MEN shampoo, conditioner & styling gel from the Montoyas, and a couple shirts and a pair of pants from my Sisters, and some money from Shari & Arthur and Shane, and a wallet and shirt and shorts from me and the kids. We had a great time! Thanks to everyone who came to help up celebrate his birthday!!

4th of July

I know this is late but figured I'd still post pictures anyways!! For the 4th of July we went to Murray Park. This is a family tradition that we have been doing for at least 15 years. We get together with a bunch of friends and family and some will play Volleyball or other games. (This year Dallas and some of the others played a very "MANLY" game of crockett). Its always a lot of fun to get together. Gavin absolutely loves fireworks and has since he first saw them. This was Paisley's first 4th of July and she liked them too. It was a good day!!

Paisley's Pretties!!

Sooo... We are horrible parents! We went to the mall today to get my ring inspected and Claire's was close by... So I asked Dallas " should we get her ears pierced" he said "uhhh" and we started walking over towards the store, when I got closer I changed my mind and said forget it, the Dallas said let's just go in and see how much it costs. So we did and then we were stuck... Paisley was getting earings!! I held her, Gavin ran out of the store saying "this is my worst day ever" and she scream for a second then I gave her a bottle and she cried a little more and then was done. So her ears are officially pierced, and SO cute!! We got little pink flowers for her earings (which we found out later would have cost less at Walmart DANG) but they are cute!! We went over to my parents house afterwards and just waited for a reaction. My Mom's eyes popped open for a minute ha ha and Lindsay was screaming and jumping up and down in delight ha ha!! Brittany came home later and she was quite happy too!! My Dad said... she got her ears pierced! :) Anyways, I'm glad its over, wish I would have went to Walmart to save money, but still happy with them!!!

(she was done taking pictures at this point ha ha)

Shots for Kindergarten

Yesterday we had to take both of the kids in for their shots. Gavin had to get 3 of them for Kindergarten and Paisley also had to get 3. We got to the Dr's office. We had avoided telling Gavin what we were going there for, when we would ask what we are doing at the Dr's he would say "getting Paisley shots" sweet brother I know. Anyways we got to the Dr's. My Mom had come for support, thank goodness because we definately needed it!!

Gavin was first, he got weighed... he is still 47 pounds, (81 percentile) and they checked how tall he was getting 44" (69 percentile) then the Dr came in and checked everything else out. He was good to go. Gavin told the Dr that he didn't want to get shots, the Dr said I dont' want to give them to you either so I'm going to have someone else give it to you!! Ha ha!! Next was Paisley she is 16 pounds (37 percentile) and 26.5 inches (62 percentile) and her head is normal!! Anyways that was that... Paisley fell asleep waiting for the nurses to come back in with the shots. They took forever. In the meantime, Gavin was throwing a huge fit about not wanting shots. We were telling him how he just needed to be brave and then it would be over with and he could go to Kindergarten. This didn't help, so onto the next idea... We told him Bronson had to get shots and that didn't work either so then we started naming everyone in the United States who have also had to get shots... this didn't help either. So my Mom called my Dad so Gavin could talk to him and get some brave tips from him.... Gavin asked his grandpa "do you know how to get me out of here" ha ha!! The phone call didn't work either. It was all a lost cause. But we still had to keep up with more ideas because the dang nurses were taking forever. By this time Gavin had already kicked the table a few times, smacked his head into the back of the table, which then caused him to be more mad so he fell to the ground and was screaming I don't want shots I dont' want shots. Finally the nurses came in after what seemed like an hour of waiting. I was holding Gavin knowing that I would be the one having to try and put him up on the table because Dallas was holding Paisley sleeping. Sure enough when the nurses came in I had to try and grab him off the floor while he is kicking and screaming and put him on the table. In no less time had I put him on the table and my Mom was trying to hold him down too, he was up and running in place screaming he didn't want shots. We finally pinned him down. We were trying to tell him that if he would just hold still that they could do two of the shots at the same time and it would be over quicker. He didn't want to hear it. He was kicking his legs and squirming all over. So time for shots... I was practically laying on Gavin, my Mom was also holding him and the nurse was holding him and then shots were given one by one. He was screaming "this is my worst day ever" sad, but geez!! Then he was done. Next was Paisley's turn who didn't wake up during the whole ordeal with Gavin, she got her 3 shots, started screaming and that was the end of that... she held still so they were able to give her 2 shots at once.

WHEW.... what an adventure. My mom then took Gavin to Walmart to get him a toy, he picked the teradactyle toy to add to his dinosaur collection.

Morale of the story.... You better hope your kid isn't as bad as Gavin was for shots, if so bring back up!!!

3D Fireworks

Tonight we went to the West Fest. They had 3D fireworks, it was a lot of fun!! We went with my parents, sisters, best friend Shane and our friends Shari and Arthur and their kids. Lindsay had gone earlier and got us all the 3D glasses. We got there a little early and sat around and talked while the kids played! This was Paisley's first firework adventure... she was sleeping until they started and then she woke up and cried for a minute then went back to sleep as soon as we gave her a blanket and a bottle! We bought pink ear plugs for her too, they were cute, we had to cut them in half and then half again for them to fit in her little ears, I didn't want the noise to hurt her ears more as she has really bad ear infections in both ears, :(. The kids all loved the fireworks!! We all had a great time!!

Underoos!!

Since Gavin was little Dallas was very insistent that we buy him underoos like he had when he was little. Finally we found some yesterday. Dallas was SOO proud!! ha ha! Here is a picture of Gavin in his HULK underoos!

Accident Prone child aka GAVIN

Since I just wrote about Gavin and his snaggle teeth, I thought I would give an update as to what he's been up to. Here's a quick run down... mind you this was all in one day probably within an hour. So I had mentioned before that Gavin's teeth have no hope in staying in his mouth, thanks to the owner who keeps trying to knock the dang things out. So Tuesday within an hours time had hit his teeth again. He was carrying his basket of clothes up to his room, somehow tripped and BAM right into his teeth, so now the bottom 3 are loose and the original top snaggle tooth is still loose. After that, Gavin climbed up on the counter while I was making dinner, I have a candle/oil burner where you put the oil in a little dish and you put the candle underneath. Anyways Gavin decided that this was the perfect opportunity to "Taste" the oil... yeah... so we read the label and it says "if your GENIUS kid swallows this call poison control immediately" so that's what we did. They said he is fine and would call us back in an hour to make sure that he doesn't start coughing as it could get into his lungs. So in the meantime we are just waiting to see how he is doing... he is still being his absolute normal self so we're pretty sure he is just fine... and just to prove it, he falls down the stairs, once again hitting his freaking teeth. UGH. I am thinking this child will have Dentures by the time he is 12. Anyways I took a small video clip to show his wigglers. (ignore the tormenting by his parents!!! We have to create our own fun sometimes too you know!!)

Gavin's Turn

11 things about good Ol' Gavin

*He NEVER sleeps, seriously. He could stay awake for days (if it weren't for good ol' Meletonin) and be just as hyper as if he had enough sleep

*He can write his own name

*He LOVES his "Sister Bear", "Baby Girl" He can make her smile by doing practically anything. He loves giving her kisses and he even thinks he can carry her around the house. (insert scared Mom face here)

*He absolutely LOVES Dinosaurs. He has his own "collection" and knows a lot of the names. He especially loves the T-Rex. His favorite food is "Dinosaur Food" chicken nuggets shaped like dinosaurs.

*Gavin loves to sing and immitate people. He knows quite a few songs and all the words!! He also likes to immitate people. His favorite right now is Shrek... this is favorite quote "Donkey... you're annoyin me!!!" (with the accent of course!!)

*Gavin's teeth are destined to fall out, (or should I say get knocked out). He originally knocked his front tooth loose my banging it on the kitchen table because he wanted the tooth fairy to come and give him money. Since then it hasn't been the same! He can hit it on just about anything and make it loose again... corn dog sticks, cups, tables etc. He has since moved on to other teeth (the bottom two) by biting on a squirt gun... they are loose now. As he would say "I'm a Genius"

*He says POOT instead of PUT... We have constantly tried working with him on this. When he says POOT we say PUT PUT PUT. Gavin being the funny guy that he is then said "POOT POOT POOT.... I POOT MY PANTS"

*He calls his Daddy his best friend. If he gets in trouble he will say "are we still best friends?"

*When Gavin gets in trouble and has to go to his room for time out he always ask "Will you say my name." The translation for those who haven't heard before is he is asking if we will say his name for him to come out of time out. If you tell him NO... he will go psycho! (we do this on occassion just to liven things up :)

*Gavin's favorite color is Blue... just like his Mom and Dad's. He says we are a blue family!

*And last but not least.... Gavin wants to be just like his Uncle Bronson when he grows up... he wants to have braces like him, and hairy legs and pits like him, and glasses, his ears, his straight teeth, his car and even his girlfriend!!!

We are thankful to have Gavin in our family... although we sure get out run for our money with the sassy boy he is! He sure makes us smile and laugh a lot and definately keeps us busy!!

We love you Gavin!!!!

All about Paisley

11 things about Paisley

*Paisley loves her bottles/bananas. She can go from super smiley to throwing a big huge crying/screaming fit which quickly ends once she gets her food.

*She loves to be standing or sitting. She is quite interested in seeing what everyone else is doing.

*She loves her brother Gavin, he can make her smile by doing just about anything.

*Paisley will "talk" to her self non stop, she makes this gurgling noise.

*When she sees someone she recognizes she wil start kicking her feet and moving her arms in excitement

*She can sit up on her own for quite a while now.

*She sleeps through the night and has since she was about 2 months old!!!

*She has to fall asleep either wrapped up like a burrito, or with the blanket covering her face (trick learned from Renae.. I'm really not smothering my baby!!)

*She has a dimple!! (Yes you can still see it even though her cheeks are SOO chubby)

*Paisley is a protector!! Dallas will hold her and Gavin will give Dallas a "high 5" over and over. Dallas will shake his hand and say "ow ow" Paisley gets all worried and after a while will squeel and scream to get Gavin to stop!! Too cute!

*Last but not least, Paisley is such a sweetheart! She is always making people smile! She loves kisses (or at least tolerates them). We are so lucky to have her in our home!

Paisley was "tagged" by her friend Amy. Now she is tagging her friends Clara, Nolan, Ian, Lexie and Kade

Dinosaur Land

This weekend we went to Vernal Utah to see Dinosaur Land! Gavin is completely obsessed with Dinosaurs. For his birthday he got a bunch of them to add to his "dinosaur collection." We stayed at the KOA with my parents and my sister in their 5th wheel. We had a lot of fun going through the museum looking at all the dinosaur bones. We also went on a hike to look at some bones, and we didn't have a hat for Paisley so we used her burp cloth, super cute picture!! I don't think she enjoyed the heat so much though!! On our way home we stopped at Josie Morris' cabin, its said that she housed Butch Cassidy, we were able to walk inside the cabin that she built and also see the chicken coop that she built. After that we went to a little playground to eat lunch before we headed back home. We all had a great time!! Thanks Mom and Dad for letting us camp along with you!!

Catch up for Gavin's Birthday/Party

Happy 5th Birthday Gavin!!!!

So.. I'm a total slacker, I haven't updated this with much of anything... This is my attempt to catch everyone up on what's been going on in the Schmidt home!

Gavin's birthday was May 11th, which also was Mother's Day. So since this was MY day :) we didn't have his party this day (Just kidding) we still tried to make this day happy for him so we had bought a window chalk pen for cars and we wrote on all the windows something about his birthday, On the back we wrote Honk its Gavin's Birthday, on his window we wrote Gavin sits here etc... (i Just have the one picture I'll get the rest from my Mom and put them on here, it was pretty fun) anyways Gavin loved it. He made us turn off the radio and roll the windows down a little so he could "hear his honks." A lot of people actually honked and waved at him (Dallas was enjoying it a little too much too since he was waving at everyone that drove by us... I'm thinking we might just have to do something similar for his birthday). So that was that day.

The next day we took Gavin to the zoo. He had a couple of his friends go with him, we had so much fun!! We got to ride the train this time so he was really happy. Grandma, Brittany and Lindsay also came to enjoy the adventures of the zoo...

We also went to the zoo again on the 16th with Gavin's cousins which was a lot of fun too!!

May 17th we had Gavin's birthday party, it was the "Transformers" theme. We had a pinata and my friend Janelle made an awesome cake for him! He got a lot of new toys (not like he is hurting for them) and we had a great day!

(Finally a hat that fits Dallas' head)

Brother and Sister Bear

I have been horrible about writing... I still need to update pictures etc from Gavin's birthday and the zoo... they will come... as for now, we were at my parents house yesterday and Gavin and Paisley were sitting next to eachother, we of course had to take a picture, TOO CUTE!!

Happy Mother's Day

I know I am a day late but I didn't want to miss the chance of thanking my Mom for being my best friend. I know all relationships with our Mom's are special but I would like to say mine is the best!! I know there is a reason my Mom is in my life and that I was born into her family. I can always count on her to make my day a little better or to give me a call just to say hello! Many words come to my mind when I think of my Mother.... Caring, thoughtfull, best friend, encouraging, smart, forgiving, patient, understanding. My Mom has all of these qualities and many more. I looked up to my Mother as a child and I look up to her even more as I am raising my own children. I know that I can count on my Mom for anything and I am so thankful for all the time she has spent with me and bringing me up in the gospel where I can be with her forever and teaching me the things that will help me out in my life. As the saying goes... the only thing better than having her for a Mother is knowing my children have her as a Grandmother, what an amazing blessing this is. So to you Mom on mother's day, thank you for all you have done for me and my family, for all the sacrifices you have made, for not giving me away when I was a teenager and didn't want anything to do with anything you said!!, thank you for the prayers and for being there for me during the happy and even more in the sad times. Its all about the magic and you have certainly made my life magical. I love you!!