birthdays and a big weekend

November is always a busy month for us. Not only is it thanksgiving but also my dad's birthday, my nephew jake's birthday, tuck's birthday, kate's birthday and our anniversary! Although last week was a very hard one, we have tried our best to get back to normal as much as possible because I know Susie is looking down on us and telling us to! Last sunday we celebrated kate's 3rd birthday and then we went over to my dad's to watch the texans and celebraet his birthday as well. It was a bittersweet end to a tough weekend. Thank God for family:)

 

This weekend is no exception to our busy month. Tomorrow Carl and I will be celebrating 5 wonderful years (be looking for a blog post dedicated to us:)) and on sunday tucker will turn the big ONE!! (again, yes another blog post dedicated to our munchkin;)) We already celebrated his birthday so we will probably have a nice family breakfast because the rest of our day is jam packed!! My nephew jake turned 4 last week and his party will be sunday afternoon. After the party we will head back to schindewolf lane to celebrate an early thanksgiving dinner with coach, uncle erik, aunt kristen, kater and abbey. Carl is going to fry a turkey and I am going to be making susan's dressing that was so special and passed down from her mother. It is an honor to make it and I just hope it will taste half as good as hers did! I guess maybe I can perfect it in the next couple of years:) We miss her so much but I know she is always with us:) We are looking forward to getting together and eating lots more yummy food! We will be celebrating thanksgiving twice more in the week (once with my mom and once with my dad). Guess I will need to be hitting my elliptical extra hard this week!! Anyways, here are some pictures...several new blog posts coming up!!

 

 

go texans!

cheif with my boys

me and my boys ready to cheer on the texans!

 

 3 schinde boys and me...celebrating kate:)

 tuckey with his coach...loves him!!

 

 my sweet big boy!

 

 tuck waiting to see the specialist

 

 blurry but precious!

 

 love him!

 

 love him too!!

 

who does this look like??

 

 

thanks to all for stopping by! I hope all have a great weekend ahead and a great thanksgiving week. Although, we have suffered a major loss we know we still have so much to be thankful for. Remember to be thankful and thank God for all the blessings in your life:)

 

 

Love and Blessings,

Traci

Our Guardian Angel

This past week has been the hardest week of our life. We lost the heart of our family, our grammy, to a long hard fought battle with cancer. I am unable to put into words what she meant to me and us, but I am going to try. All I can say is that I had the absolute privilege of getting to know susie and growing very close to her, if you know her you know that is not hard to do. She was never a mother in law to me, she was a mom and for that I am grateful. I look up to her and respect her more than I can ever describe in words. I've said it before and I will say it 100 times more, I aspire to be like her in all that I do. She was such an example of kindness, selflessness, love, family, and so much more. I am so blessed to have had the chance to have her in my life, even for just a little while, I'm a better person because of it. My boys loved their grammy and always will. She will forever live on within our hearts and our home. We now know that we have our very own guardian angel:) We love you grammy/mom and we will miss you so very much but we know we will see you again one day:) keep watching over us:)

We have been overwhelmed by so much love, support and prayers. Thank you all from the bottom of our hearts. We wish we could thank you each personally, but know that we appreciate each and every one of you. Please continue to pray for us and for don. Learning to go on without her around is going to be very difficult, but we know we can do it because that's what susie would want us to do.

Love and Blessings,
Traci

Tucker's first birthday bash

 

Our little tucker bug is nearly one!!! He actually turns 1 on the 18th, but due to many other conflicts etc. in november we decided to celebrate his birthday 2 weeks early. So yesterday we had a big bash with lots of family and friends out in our yard! We love having big familes because that means big gatherings!! We like to do the first birthday BIG and boy did we!! We had a blast and we just want to thank all who came out to celebrate with us. We had a mickey mouse themed party complete with a moonwalk and a pinata, not to mention lots of food and goodies:) The birthday boy was a little cranky, but we still managed to have a great time!! Instead of boring all with words I will let the pictures do most of the talking. 

 

 

aunt cindy, mom, my sisters and nephew

the schindewolf family...minus a few;)

my sweet boys<3 td="td">

 sweet natalie and caroline...they drove in from college station!



 mom and me (in our matching shirts...love them!!)

 the pinata...(mickey theme with a little texans flare since they were playing yesterday!)

 uncle erik took a few swings and broke it for us...and yes we used a tennis racket!

 gathering candy:)

 

 the big cake:)

 

 cousin erin, sweet sam and great friend michelle

 

 the birthday boy...wasn't too interested in his cake

 

 our family:)

 

 the smash cake...which is actually still in tact today!

 

 uncle erik and precious abbey...aunt traci likes to joke that she has some "junk in her trunk" :)

 with kater roo and tripper too!

 

 aunt cindy, dad, ginger and kel

 

 me and my sweet birthday boy!

 

 great friends!!

 

 erin, jessica, peggy with lily and sam

 

 

We had a great time! Thanks again to all who came out! We love you all. Just another reminder of how blessed we are:)

Please take a minute to pray for our grammy. And please keep don and the rest of our family in your prayers too:) Thank you all we appreciate it more than you know!

And a special thanks to my mom, sisters, aunt karen, kristen and all who helped out...sorry if i missed you!!

Hope all have a blessed week:)

Love and Blessings,
Traci

Happy Halloween 2012

 

We had a great halloween. Tripp is becoming more aware of the purpose of trick or treating. This year, we went in our "hood" aka: schindewolf lane. We went to aunt janelle's first where she filled tripp up with some goodies. Then we headed over to grammy and coach's house where they filled the boys up with even more goodies and lots of hugs and kisses too!! Last, we headed down the road to uncle jimmie and aunt carrie who loaded up the boys with lots more goodies!! These little boys are loved! We love living on schindewolf lane and getting to see our family all the time!! I taught tripp to say ":trick or treat and to hold up his "bucket" (pumpkin). So he did! It was really cute. He wouldn't put the pumpkin down the rest of the night. After trick or treating down the lane, we headed over to my mom's for some pizza. Tripp of course trick or treated at yaya's before we went in to eat:) Once he figured out where the candy was he kept going over and filling up his bucket!! And he loved answering the door to trick or treaters with my mom. It was a fun night filled with family which we love:) Here are a few pictures:)

 

heading to the lane

 

 tuckey had fun trick or treating too

 

 knocking on grammy and coach's door

 

 hanging out with yaya

 

 look closely, had 2 suckers in his mouth!!

 

helping yaya at the door

 

 

 

Now since today is November 1st and in the spirit of thankfulness, I am going to attempt to name something I am thankful for everyday in november. I am doing it on facebook but also wanted to record it here as well. Here goes: I am thankful for my wonderful in laws. Especially my mother in law who has shown me what it truly means to be a loving, caring and selfless person and a great mom and grammy. I aspire to be like her. Thank you for inspiring me everyday susie:) I love you!! Ok, so hopefully I will keep to my goal! I hope november will help to remind us all of the blessings in our lives:)

 

 

thanks for stopping by! Hope all had a happy halloween and are ready for the holidays:)

 

 

love and blessings,

Traci