Master Schmidt

 I have my man back!

You don't realize how wonderful something is until it get's taken away from you, or until you get it back. And my friends... I have it back! I have Jory back for weekends, week nights, and mentally- he's here. And I welcome this with open wide freaking arms. Jorbor graduated with his Masters in Educational Leadership this week, from ... BYU if you can believe it. (When I met Jory he had some ... interesting views of BYU and we like to laugh that the zoobs stole him). 

 

The first day he had no class, we had no idea what to do with ourselves. We danced around the house, then squealed like little girls when we realized we had time to go and get ocean waters from Sonic. 

It's been funny too, after his graduation I realized the man I married the relaxed, care free - stress free man was slowly emerging again, a little bit of that side of him has been lacking for the past 2 years, and just recently noticed it. He's been so busy, but maintained only one stress melt down in two years- in comparison to my once-a-week stress melties- I'd say that's pretty good.

I feel like I am the second, proud Mother in his life. 

Happy day!

 

Our 2012

2012 was a good year!

January

(Okay so maybe it was December '11 but I'm scraping already... great start, ha!)

Jord and Ash get married. 

Best day ever. Sister in laws are the best, best, best

February

Our baby Gretchie's first litter

 

 March

This girl turns 24. And this picture was seriously taken in March, outside. Remember how we pretty much skipped Winter? I've been dreaming about skipping winter lately.

Oh and Me and Jor made an ipod cake, we were pretty proud of it, I guess that's worth documenting for the month of March!

April 

Jory built a shed.

 

Sarah did her first wedding

May

 I did my first sprint triathalon!

Jay left to the MTC for Sweden which still absolutely awesome and I love it so so much

June

New York/New Jersey. Sweden. Iceland. 

July

At this time this cute guy only has 9 months more left of school. Over 1/2 way done!

And there were tons of fires. 

 August

Jory's little tooth is no more. 

August is when found out we were pregnant. And ectopic. Had surgery #1.

 September

Had surgery #2. To remove the ruptured tube, again.

Jory fixes things when I recover. and he becomes addicted. to fixing things.

October and November

 busiest month of photoshoots- just a few of my fav's

 

December

Jory's got his tooth- he's turned in his application for School at Alpine and Jordan School districts... and now we wait for interviews!

Our Christmas extension

So the best part of Christmas is obviously- Christmas. Family, food, presents... the whole thing, I love it, like everyone does. But you know whats even better?! When you can stretch Christmas out a bit longer by going on a quick get-a-way the day after ... 

Seriously the best idea I think we've ever had and I think we need to make this a tradition. We booked a groupon getaway with our besties Jenn and Mike and it was so perfect to do it the day after Christmas!

Besides the fact that it snowed-more that day then any day prior to Christmas (just our lucky luck) and I think everyone else in the world decided that extending their Christmas Holiday was a awesome idea too, because- there were more people there than I have ever seen in my life. 

It was cold, so that was depressing looking through window at the drained pool. Whenever you are in Vegas you're supposed to be hot and in a tank top with a swim suit under it with awesome tan lines and swoob and love it! But it's okay. 'Cause we had tons of fun just spending time with Jenn and Mike! 

Our camera was being a little frustrating with the flash not wanting to cooperate so our pictures that we actually took were a little sad. But the spa package with cold cucumbers and robes made it all the camera issues worth it. 

View from our room of the breathtaking strip. Just kidding, but it was pretty cool, we're too cheap to usually get strip view rooms. Me and my penny pinching hubsta

Oddly enough one of Jory's favorite things to do in Vegas is watch the Volcano show at the Mirage. It's what we mormons find fun

(Not sure what was going on with my belt. But I apparently thought it looked great)

I will always accept a lemon challenge.

I loathe the M&M factory. I will not take my children here. There are far too many people squished into this busy life sucking space and everything is pointless and too expensive. There are no seats in sight and why are you always so exhausted when you're in there? Oh I know, it's because there's 4 levels of death and when your friends want to see every floor it is painful. In every way. I was not happy enough to be in a M&M picture.