Category Archives: the schmidt’s
happy birthday sweet girl!
Annalise, my sweetie sweets, is ONE. I seriously have no idea how this year went by in a flash, even more so than EmeryView full post »
birthday balloon wakeup call
Tuesday morning, all of us busted in to ambush Annalise with balloons + singing for her birthday. She was quite confusedView full post »
repainting our front porch
Emery has been obsessed with the outdoors since he began to walk so we spent countless hours in front of our home whileView full post »
welcome to the world!
On July 27, 2020, we welcomed Annalise Kathleen in to the world. As happened with her brother, she was nameless forView full post »
baby schmidt #2
Anthony, Emery, + I are excited to announce we are adding another kiddo into our world, coming August 2020!View full post »
easter 2020
Easter 2020 was a strange one! With COVID-19, we obviously didn’t go to church or to be with our families. WeView full post »
Valentine’s 2020
Anthony was out of town for Valentine’s Day, but that didn’t stop Emery + I from celebrating with homemadeView full post »
snow day
Anthony’s out of town again (surprise, surprise!) for Emery’s first true snow day (he was such a tiny thingView full post »
grieving
I started grieving the loss of my mom long before she made the decision to go on hospice. I distinctly remember havingView full post »
final goodbye
On December 22, 2019, early in the morning, my mom took her last breath, surrounded by my dad + my Aunt Carolyn. My momView full post »
hospice – learning to say goodbye
Here are a few thoughts during the last month of my mom’s life on earth. 11/19/2019Mom has been in the hospitalView full post »
outpace cancer walk
Anthony, Emery, + I did the 1 mile walk around the OU Health Sciences Center for Outpace Cancer in honor of my mom’View full post »
brave shave
We went to Shawnee to be apart of the shaving of my mom’s head, just days before her 64th birthday. It didn’View full post »
ovarian cancer
On April 24th, my mom received the diagnosis of ovarian cancer by her OB/GYN. The next day the family met up at OUView full post »