Returning with Honor!!

ELDER TYLER J. BENSON

PITTSBURGH, PENNSYLVANIA MISSION
2006-2008

Elder Tyler Benson has Returned with Honor tonight from serving a full time LDS mission in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania!! Tyler's "girl" (MOM) waited the 2 years as promised with no "Dear Johns" and they finally got to see each other again! Along with his Dad and sister Breanna! We're so thankfully for the great example that Tyler has been to our family and the families in Pittsburgh that he served!

Welcome Home Elder Benson! We Love you!!

Happy Paisley

Each morning I get to wake up to get Paisley normally around 6am, the only thing that makes it worth it, is she is SOOO happy when she sees me. She gets the biggest smiles and starts jumping in her crib!! She'll do this after a nap or when she wakes up in the morning! Today after her nap I decided to take the camera in and take some pictures of how she is!! TOO CUTE!! I also put in a picture of her new talent of folding her arms!! :) She's such a sweetheart!

(Ignore the chocolate on her face and clothes... she just loves chocolate ha ha!!)

I hate snow!! But she looks cute!!

Here's a couple of pictures of Paisley. The first ones where she's in her crib, I went to put her to bed and she was crying to get out, I just let her sit there and cry until she fell asleep, then I found her like this!

The next were from yesterday I dressed her up to go to the bus stop with Gavin and freeze in the dang snow... I put this hat on her and her snow boots, she was full of smiles although the camera wasn't fast enough to get them because of the delay :( she's sure cute! We got to the bus stop and she did not like the snow one but (just like her Mama) she starting screaming until we got back inside... at least she looks cute ready for the snow!!

Happy Halloween... a day late!!

We had a good Halloween this year! We took the kids to boo at the zoo on the 25th and can I just say it was SOOO crowded, I don't know that I would do it again!! Gavin sure enjoyed it and Paisley I think could care less, but it was fun. We met up with our friends Shari and Arthur and their kids.

For Halloween this year Gavin was an "Ice Wolf Ninja" he loved his costume. This is Paisley's 1st Halloween so it made it a little more fun :) (except for the fact that she has an ear infection in both ears again and a cold...) Paisley was a chick. We went to Gavin's first Halloween Parade for school and he was super happy to see us there!! He kept waving and yelling our name! We helped with the games afterwards and the day was super busy. OH... since Gavin wasn't allowed to wear a mask at school we decided to spray his hair black and to put face paint on too... it looked decent. I kept telling Gavin not to put his hair on anything and not to rub his face on anything... of course when Dallas was left to "watch" the kids Gavin must have forgotten what I had told him since I now have 4 different spots on my carpet from his dang head.... I swear that boy can't go a day without doing something stupid.... So we washed his hair out and the face paint off then got ready to go trick or treating. We went to the Montoya's like we do every year! We had a great time! We took the kids to a few houses, it was kinda sprinkling so Gavin got sick of it quick! Our friends little boy Luke is the cute giraffe! I went as a boring ol' mom and Dallas as a boring ol' dad!! My other sister Lindsay dressed up in scrubs and her friend was the phantom of the opera!!

Dallas and my sister Brittany's work dressed up for Halloween here's a couple pictures of them. Brittany went as a pirate, she looked super cute!! Dallas' team theme was something to do with Cowboys... Dallas won #1 funniest costume... lets just say I'm glad I didn't have to be seen with him for too long... he was one ugly cowboy!! Here are some pictures from the events!

Dr. Appointment & Stuff

I'm 24 weeks now. I went to my Dr's appointment yesterday and everything was fine. Next month I have the diabetes test and then my 2 week appointments start after that. YIKES. I've been feeling good just SUPER tired.
The kids are doing great, I haven't taken pictures of anything lately, I either don't have my camera or I don't think about it.
Gavin is still loving school and Bella. He ask last night if he would be going to school this morning and I told him yes... he said "good then I can see Bella's beautiful eyes" GEEZ... I think we're in TROUBLE with him for many more years to come. He says he always has dreams about Bella and him, in one they were eating the SAME icecream together... Romantic huh!! and another they held hands. He told Dallas one day... "Dad I've just gotta tell Bella the truth about my dream" We keep telling him not to, we don't want to scare poor Bella. She is super cute though!!
Paisley is just as cute as ever. She has been crawling up the stairs for a little while now and is starting to get the hang of going back down them. If she starts going up the stairs we will tell her No No or to get down and either she will do it, or she will get a huge smile on her face and shake her head "No No" back to us! I sure love this little girl! She is getting SO big and is attatched to her Mama!! I have to be in eye sight for her to be okay most times.
That's about it for now... I will try and take more pictures... I can't seem to remember much lately!! :)

My little Boy!

Today I had Paisley dressed all cute... but aparently she can pee twice as much as she drinks and she peed through her clothes. We were over at Earle and Holli's house, so I just let her go around naked for a little while. Holli then gave me a onesie and blue pants that Merick has grown out of.. thus creating a little boy!! Gavin was wearing two shirts and took the top one off, so instead of holding it I put it on Paisley too... so here she is dressed up like a little man!! She's just too cute! Oh and you can kinda see her teeth in the pictures! They finally broke through the gums, thank goodness!! She has 4 on top and the 2 on bottom and hopefully no other ones will decide to make the debut at least for a while!!
**that's chocolate on her chin not an ugly mole ha ha**

Making cakes... or at least trying to!!

My Mom and I signed up for a cake decorating class. My friend Janelle teaches them and she makes awesome cakes, so I figured why not take the class from her!! We've been wanting to sign up for a while but haven't so we finally did and we had our 1st class two weeks ago! This was the easy class, we didn't have to make anything, we had to fill out a paper with our names and phone number.. ya know the super easy stuff that we KNOW how to do!! We listened to Janelle talk about different things like how to make frosting, what different consistancys of frosting were used for etc, then we were told we needed to bring a cake, frosted, for the next week. So what do my Mom and I do... bring the biggest freaking cake that we could possibly bake, frost and then carry ("Us Schmidt's like to do things BIG"). So we did, I do have to say that my cake only took 2 boxes of cake mixes compared to my Mom's 4!! ha ha!! So Mom and I stressed over making the cake, making sure it didn't burn, making sure it didn't cave in the middle (I kept telling Gavin he couldn't jump so he didn't ruin my homework and Janelle would give me a bad grade ;) So we accomplished that. The next step was to turn the dang cake over and then pull the pan off and hope that the cake just slid out... Thanks to PAM WITH FLOUR!! This task was accomplished!! ha ha!! So the next step was to frost the dang thing... yeah mine looked like a challenged 1 year old frosted it... I never knew it was such a task to make it look smooth... Then off to the class we went! Of course Mom and I were the only 2 there with the largest cake, everyone else was smart and brought a normal small cake!! We learned how to do stars, dots the middle of a rose and to write... along with the frosting being too "stiff" and Mom's bag bursting because she was squeezing so hard ha ha we managed to get the cakes decorated!! We couldn't stop laughing through the class, its been a lot of fun to have a "Mom and Me" night every Tuesday... next week is cupcakes and I heard Janelle say something about us making a clown... ha ha!! I might be buying a pre made clown topper and call it good!! ha ha!! Here's the pictures of my first cake attempt!! Don't judge its my first time!!

Name for the Baby

It seems like I have already told everyone the name we picked out for our little guy!! If not here it is! We're going to name him Bronson Dallas Schmidt! After my Brother Bronson and of course Dallas!! We're excited to meet him, although we still have a little while.. and we still have a dang baby!! But we're still excited non the less!!

Picking up Grandpa!!!

Last Wednesday Gavin and I dropped my Dad off at the airport. He was on an adventure to California to go scuba diving and also a lobster hunt!! So I took Gavin with so he could say bye to him. He got really sad and said he didn't want Grandpa to go to California! Well he came back on Sunday so we went with my Mom to pick him up! We made Gavin a sign to hold that said Welcome Home Grandpa We Missed You! And we put our snorkel mask on Gavin so when Grandpa came out he would be surprised! Well we got there early... or so we thought! But my Dad's flight got in a little early so we just barely made it down the moving escalator (I don't know what they're called! But you know what I'm talking about!!) and Grandpa was already walking towards us!! He saw Gavin and started laughing!! Gavin had put the snorkel breathing thing in his mouth and was smiling!! So here's the pictures of Gavin and Grandpa!!

Random events

So I really haven't written about anything that's been going on.. so I just got around to uploading the pictures from my camera so I'll upload some here and tell you about them!

So the first couple pictures are of Paisley trying on her Halloween costume. She's going to be a chick. Gavin is going to be the ice wolf ninja, but I haven't taken a picture of him yet!

Next was Gavin's trip to the Dentist! The last time he went and had any work done was when he had to get a filling done. Anyways I had to go back to work after it was done and I dropped him off at the babysitters and told her to make sure to watch him so he doesn't bite his cheek... well that didn't happen and he bit practically a hole in his cheek... basically as much as you can bite of your cheek he did and it was super swollen and infected and it was just horrible. So now he's afraid of anything "pokey" at the dentist because he thinks that's what the problem was from. Anyways he has to get two "baby root canals" and we went and got the 1st one done... We gave him a valum and then we were going to give him gas but he totally freaked out... he was kicking and crying, we tried telling him Uncle Bronson did it, and he could fly like super man, and it was like Daddy's mask he wore at night etc etc but nothing worked. So the dentist just went on numbing him, he jumped a couple times but got through it. Then onto the drilling.. he did perfectly fine.. he even started singing... WHAT??? No gas please.. .I'll just sing when my tooth is getting drilled CRAZY!!! So anyways here's the pictures from that....

22 Weeks and counting

I'm 22 weeks now. It seems like the time goes by so slowly when I'm pregnant, but fast for everyone else! I guess that is how it is when you're the one going through it!! I am finally feeling better for the majority of the time, thank goodness!! I started feeling the baby around 14 weeks but it wasn't very often. I felt Paisley around the same time, but she moved a lot more and her movements were stronger. With this little guy he is SUPER calm, (lets hope it stays that way) I been able to feel him a lot more but his movements are very light almost like you would lightly touch your arm... anyways not strong at all. Dallas' has only been able to feel him 2 or 3 times. Gavin is still super excited that he is going to have a brother! Paisley could care less! ha ha!! I think it is still extremely psycho that I already have a baby and I have another one coming soon.... So.. all in all things are going great!