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!!

Growing up

Paisley is 4 months already... time sure does fly by!! She is so much fun! Her personality is really starting to come out! She is full of smiles and is starting to laugh, it so much fun to have her in our home! Gavin is still in love with his sister! He LOVES to kiss her and hug her and clap her hands and wiggle her feet when she is a sleep, very convienent I tell you! We've started feeding her rice, the Dr said to try it out and see if it helps make it so she doesn't throw up as much... so far she is doing better, we'll keep our fingers crossed!! Here are a few pictures of "Sister Bear" we are sure lucky to have her!

Gavin's scooter tragedy!!

We all went over to my parents house and we brought Gavin's scooter with that Grandpa and Grandma Schmidt gave him for Christmas. We figured it was nice enough outside that he could try it out since it doesn't work too well in snow!! So we went over and Gavin was SUPER excited! We brought his helmet... ya we know our boy!! And away he went. My Mom was out with the camera of course and was sitting on the steps to the house and Dallas was standing by the car taking pictures with our camera, Gavin was SO pre-occupied by striking a pose or making sure he gave us good photo opps that next thing we know he has fallen and then is screaming bloody murder. I was sitting next to Mom and Gavin turned and his hand was covering what looked like his eye, I ran over to him although I was a bit scared in case it was his eye, I don't know that I'm capable of dealing with eye wounds! Luckily it was his nose and cheek. I carried him inside and he was saying "this is awful" and "this is NOT the best day of my life" ha ha ha!! We got him all cleaned up and put the magical bandaids on and he was okay!! Luckily!! Anyways here are the pictures we got before the tragedy!!

Evil Grandma is 50!!!

We had a 50th birthday party for Dallas' mom Malynn at our house yesterday. We decorated the house with a bunch of black balloons and had a cake made for her. It was quite the day! Dallas and I bought her her first pack of Denpends!! AWWW.. I know we are just too sweet! After everyone was gone she kindly modeled them on for us ha ha ha!! Happy Birthday Evil Grandma!!

Elder Bronson Dane Schmidt

Yesterday we took my brother Bronson to the MTC. It was a bitter sweet day. Bronson recieved his mission call back in December and has been called to serve in the Geneva Switzerland mission. I kept telling him to delay turning in his papers so that he would be able to see my little Paisley before he left on his mission. Not only did he get to see her but he got to spend 4 months with her. I am very thankful for that, I know its selfish but hey!! Four months later there we were dropping him off and saying our goodbyes. He is such a great guy and will come back an even better one!! Bronson will be in the MTC until June, he will be learning the French language. I'll keep the updates coming on him when I recieve any!! Here are some of the pictures from yesterday.