Mothers Day 2012

This Mother's Day weekend has been a great one. Last night we celebrated with Tyler's family. It was so nice to have his Grandma Thornock around this year. We both are loving that we get to see his grandparents a little more now that they're here in Utah! We went to dinner at Joe Banditos with everyone and it was so fun. The only downside was that I felt like we only got to talk to half the family because the table was so long! Today we went to see my mom and as the Schaefer tradition goes, Mama Schaef didn't do any cooking. Gold stars for Papa Schaef and the Schaefer children! Tyler had to go home a little after dinner to rest up so he was ready for work but the rest of us went and saw my Nana and enjoyed her company (and her ice cream pie) for a while! I am sooo grateful for all the wonderful mother's in my life. I'm going to have pretty high expectations for myself when I become a mother because of the amazing examples I have had! I am sooo grateful for my own mother and all she has done for me. I am also so glad that Tyler had such a good mom too that taught him how he ought to be. And I am also grateful for grandmother's and the love they have pshown me and for the examples they are! I have learned (and still learning) so much from my own grandmothers and am again so glad that Tyler's grandma lives closer so we can learn from her too! Mothers are the best!!!

Double the Pleasure. Double the Fun.

January 8th is a busy day in my family, but always a good one. It is both my Grandma's birthday as well as my little brother's. We celebrated the double birthday at my parents house.

Nathan is the baby of the family so its crazy and hard to believe he's 14! This year Tyler & I got him an LSU Jersey...he loves LSU but the Jersey is an adult size and they don't make them smaller, so we were a little worried about giving it to him since its not one he can actually wear, but we had no reason to be worried. I figured it could go one of two ways. He'd be excited about it or he'd like it but show no enthusiasm. I didn't know there was a third option. He opened it and at first there was no reaction....and then he pulled it out and went nuts. It was really funny and I'm glad he loved it! Nana seemed to love her presents too. Just not enough to jump up and down screaming. Maybe next year?

This picture turned out super yellow. I keep telling my mom she needs to paint because the lighting and paint color make for awful lighting! This is it AFTER I attempted to edit.

Sooo this is Nathan's reaction to his jersey.

It was a lot funnier initially but I wasn't videotaping so this was actually round 2 of his excitement. Really its not worth watching after the first 20 seconds. 

 

                                                  

The End of a Chapter.

Last week we sold my Grandma and Grandpa Schaefer's home. My mom and sister were in Orem the night before so I went and met up with them to take a few photos before it closed. I didn't expect to be sad over it, but on my way to meet them and found myself crying and wasn't sure why. It was totally unexpected. I realized I have probably just as many memories in this home as I do in my own...its been in my life longer than any other house I've lived in, I even lived in it myself for a while. I realized it is also the last big part of my grandparents here, so it definitely felt like a close to their chapter.

Here are a few of the pictures we took:

Yesterday.

Yesterday was a pretty eventful day....

We went to the BYU vs. Airforce Basketball game.

And of course BYU won :)

Then we had dinner with two VERY special people.

It was my Nana's Birthday!

...and it was Nate's birthday too!

We celebrated with both of them at P.F. Changs!

And then back to my Nana's for cake & presents.

The cake sort of fell out of the freezer.

It was really funny.

My dad doesn't find the humor in this sort of thing so we had this big plan of how to hide the damage from him (My Mom, Me, and Natalie). My mom was still getting candles on the cake, but Natalie and I went back into the living room where everyone was. A few minutes later we heard a thud in the kitchen. Thinking of the cake again, Natalie and I kind of just looked at each other and laughed. Of course, my dad, being how he is...instantly said, "What was that?" Which made us laugh harder...thinking he was funny and COMPLETELY kidding says, "Oh, it was the birthday cake!" So of course Natalie and I are laughing hysterically and even funnier, I was sitting on the arm of a chair, and because of my laughter I fall off the and continue to laugh EVEN harder til I am laughing so hard, it hurts. At this point my dad and Tyler wouldn't leave us alone, trying to figure out what was so hysterical and why we can't stop laughing--which in turn, just kept us thinking about it, so we continued to laugh. And of course, we couldn't just tell them a ruin the nice cake surprise! Needless to say it made the night much more entertaining and memorable.

Happy Birthday Nana & Nate!
Hope you had fabulous days!
Love you Both!

Forever In My Heart

                Edna Thornock Clyde

   November 25, 1914-August 20, 2010.

Whenever I go to BYU game, I'll think of you, because you sure loved your cougs. My mother says my love for Pink was inherited from you, and I love that we've had that in common. You spoiled me rotten on Christmas Eve, my favorite clothes were gifts you gave-you taught me to love Nordstroms. No grandma will ever top the entertainment you provided whether it be your hilarious halloween costumes & the characters part you played perfectly, or when you danced with Santa on Christmas Eve. As a grand-daughter I enjoyed your fun birthday parties...making up raps dedicated to you or blowing party horns & playing BINGO with you. Whenever I hear an Alan Jackson song, I think of you, and this will never change. Most of all, I'll forever be glad that I got to know you. I'm glad you were here for so long, to give me that chance to know you & have so many memories of you, my great grandma. I loved coming to your house to visit with you & on some visits playing Phase 10. I am sad for me, because I have lost, but I'm happy for you because I know you're with grandpa. 13 long years without him here, I'm sure you missed him lots. I'm so grateful to know where you are, and that your no longer sick & that you're safe back in Grandpa's arms.

I love you Pinkie & will miss you very much!

Wow. I Just Wrote Quite the Tangent.

MIDTERM, SAY WHAAAT?
So I just found out like an hour ago I have a midterm...when?
Tomorrow?
Yeah, great.
On what?
Yoga!
I have no idea how to study for a Yoga midterm.
Is it written or is it just doing Yoga?
I have no idea.
Other than the fact it would be like impossible to test on us actually doing Yoga.
Why?
1. Only one teacher
2. What determines good? and Bad?
3. Yoga is all about listening to your own body. How will she know if we are listening?
You get the point.
If it is a test based on our ability...
I will probably fail.
Since we have "breathing exercises"...and I cannot do them.
YEah. Nicole forgets to breathe.
I also prefer to hold my breath.
If it is a written test...
I will also probably fail, since I don't know the names for anything.
Show me the position, and I will follow.
Sorry though, I still don't know what Vinyasa means.
Want to ask me what downward dog is though?
Or happy baby?
Or dolphin?
Or warrior 1?
I know those ones.
So wish me luck cuz I'm gonna need it!
Maybe I'm crazy but I thought Yoga was supposed to RELIEVE stress, not CAUSE it! Gah.
O ya, and I got a paper to write tonight. Oh joy.
I HATE English.
Good thing, once I'm done with this class, no more English for me.
I pretty much hate this week of school.
Good news though, I have an AWESOME dance teacher.
She cancelled class Friday just cuz we wanted her to.
And it gets better, our midterm was scheduled for Friday, but now we have til Monday.
Really that just means I have til Monday to forget EVERYTHING we did today.
So maybe that's not such a good thing.
But it is dance, and I love it. So I will survive.

ARIZONA IS CALLING MY NAME
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So today my Aunt and Uncle from Phoenix welcomed a new baby girl into their family.
Her name is Mia.
And boy, she is a cutie.
I am DYING to go see her. Like I wanna jump in my car right now and drive all night long.
BUT...I can't thanks to school :(
Ok...School isn't the only thing holding me back.
There is work too.
bah....
I do want to visit Arizona though soon.
It's one of my favorite places in the world!!!
(might be only because I've never left the U.S. so I haven't seen the world. Just seen the U.S.)
So, I'm watching very closely for the first opportunity that presents itself and I will most certainly be taking off! I miss my cute little cousins A & Z and now I'm missing little M, even though we've never met! I can't wait to meet her so that is the same as missing her, right?
Oh and off course I miss Matt & Becky too!!!
I'm very envious of my Grandparents at the moment.
Why?
Because they are there! And I am not.
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My Bestie!

FR FOREVER

So I had a girls night out with my bestie, Chels! I love her to death, I am who I am, because of her, I don't feel like a person can truly know me til they know her, since, everything I have gone through, I have gone through with her right there with me...she's gettin married SUPER SOON and I'm WAY excited for her, but its caused me to reflect a lot lately about everything we've done together and so I've started a list...it could go on forever but here is just a few...

Memories with Chelsey include:
1. Matching Outfits
2. Summers in Price
3. Identical Dollhouses
4. Barbies!!!
5. Birthday Parties
6. Trips to McDonalds (for Barbies and Beanie Babies of Course)
7. Slip N Slide in our little bikinis
8. Sleepovers
9. Biting each other (we only did this cuz we loved each other of course! haha)
10. Playing beauty shop
11. Darth Mal Makeup (Don't Ask)
12. Taking Baths Together
13. Trips to St. George
14. Moses built the Ark
15. Building Forts
16. Arizona Trip with Nana and Grumpy
17. Walks around the Orem Block
18. Christmas Eve Parties
19. Dressing up for Halloween ( with Brett too! I love you too bud!)
20. Working together at Century 21
21. Girls Nights
22. Pictures at Kiddie Kandids
23. Being Pen Pals
24. Visits to Hurricane
25. Making up Dances
26. Trick or Treating in my neighborhood on Roller Blades
27. Shopping Trips
28. Build A Bear
29. Texting and "Venting" (Our famous words!)
30. Writing our tribute to our great grandma
31. Sharing hours and hours of stories
32. Being there for each others trials
33. Wedding Dress Shopping!
34. Sharing Secrets
35. Playing with Leeches.

...So this is just a few! Haha I love you Chels. Glad we went out tonight! You're the best!

One of our many matching Halloween Costumes
Halloween 2007

Christmas Eve Party
Last One with Chels as a Single Gal
...and I must say it was great!
Santa was pretty excited to have us on his lap.

Our grandparents that we get to share!

If it wasn't for them neither of us would be around.