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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 »