Realizing how precious life is!!

When you have a lot of medical problems its amazing how your outlook onlife changes. You take every moment you have and make it the best. For awhile this winter I let my disease get ahold of me and get me down and it took alot of love from my family and friends to realize that I need to get back out there and keep living my life. I mean none of us never really know when we are going to go. I am blessed with amazing doctors who stay on top of my problems and take care of me to the best of their abilities. I am also blessed with an amazing support system. I dont know what I would do without my family and friends. Recently one of my friends was diagnosed with cancer for the 3rd time and she completely amazes me. She just keeps going and fighting and not letting anything get her down. I wish I could be half as strong as her!!! So I just want to say Steph you and your family are in your prayers and I know you are going to beat this again. I love you girl!!

Father's Day Part 2

Ok so I am back from my parents house, it is always interesting driving back into Rexburg, its not even the same city I grew up in! It just amazes me. Anyways, my brother Royce and his family were out there and he has a 3 year little boy named Gabriel and for the longest time he would say mom, dad, grandma and grandpa, now he calls me nana and my sister Amy, Mimi, which we figure for the rest of our lives we are going to be called that cause his baby sister is going to pick up those names and so I am going to be Nana! Its ok I love it actually its adorable. I always think its so special when your neices or nephews come up with little nicknames. For the longest time my nephew kayde and Kellen everytime they saw an army person they would point at it and say aunt Jana. Too cute. Anyways, we had a really great Father's Day, even though I wish Joey could have been there. We had a great BBQ and its nice to just sit down with everyone and catch up! Anyways I was going to take pictures, but just got too caught up in everything and I forget,oh well, til next post!

Father's Day

Well I hope that everyone out there who is a father has an amazing day. Today I am going up to Rexburg to spend the day with my dad. I am so blessed to have him as my father, I dont know where i would be or what I would do without him! Joey is still gone wtih the guard, I feel bad cause he is missing father's day!!! HE is such an amazing dad, I just am in awe when I watch him with Kailey, but my family has decided to do Father's day again on Thursday when he gets home just so he wont be left out! He missed his birthday earlier this year because he was gone to Alabama for training so we threw him a birthday party when he got home, hopefully he will be able to start being home for these things and cross my fingers that they dont go back to Iraq like they have been talking about!! Well enjoy your father's day!!!

Waiting for Joey

So I am just writing a random blog cause Joey is gone and the dog and cats aren't that great of company. I am really looking forward to this summer. We have started to plan so many fun things and it will be great to just start the summer out with alot of fun activities. We are planning on doing lots of camping now that we have our trailer and of course lots more fishing. We are planning a BBQ with all the army guys once they get home, so that will be exciting and of course even though this is near the end of summer Kailey and Kellen will both be turning 5 and starting kindergarten, SCARY!!!!! Brooklynn will be turning 1 and Jon and Nicole are having their baby girl, so there are lots of exciting things happening this year. My cousin Kyle is getting married in July, its amazing, it seems just like yesterday we were all little kids and now we are all grown up going to at least one wedding a year and having kids of our own. Me and Joey are throwing the baby word around and we will see what happens, we plan on sitting down with all my doctors and seeing what they say and hopefully in a year or so there will be another little Schmidt running around this place, anyways, enough with the boredom blog

THE IMPOSSIBLE SLIDESHOW

Slideshow

I have been trying to figure out how to put this slideshow on this webpage and everything I have tried just isnt working, so I am putting it in a post for now cause I am just not as smart as all these computer guru's but I am determined to figure it out, come hell or high water

STARTING SUMMER OFF WITH A BANG!

There is no other way in the Schmidt family to start the summer off unless its by fishing, we have already made several trips up to Palisades dam to do the night fishing adventure, let me tell you at 4 am it starts to get really cold up there and a little creepy, they crawl right down on the rocks near the spillwells, not the huge ones but the flat one you can see when you pull up, if you arent familiar with Palisades you have no idea what I am talking about lol, But its pretty scary. They had an amazing time catching over 50 fish each time. We also went out to the kids pond to let Kailey have a go at fishing, she of course is now all grossed out by the fish and wont go near them, when last summer all she wanted to do was pick them up and hold them, she is becoming the girly girl we always had a feeling she would be, our little princess. And to top it off Joey and his brother Adam and their dad went up to Henry's Lake and got record size fish and are sending them to the taxedermist so now I have to get used to having a fish hanging on my wall, its def going to take some gettiing used to!

Joey at Palisades


Kids Pond, Why not swim too while we are there!!








Henry's Fork Trip