May the SCHWARTZ be with you: Bday

Why do I Blog?

Life is so fast & furious with 3 young children, working from home, ect that I fear I will forget the lovely details of my girls' precious childhood.

My main motivation for blogging is to capture the every day moments...so I don't forget them before I have a chance to scrapbook. Sharing with you is just an added bonus. Keeping this blog has helped me get the photos off my camera's memory card and label/organize them on my laptop. It is the BEST tool I have for scrapbooking. I haven't ever been able to keep a journal, but this I can do. I don't pretend to have anything interesting to say. In fact I'm sure this little blog is boring to you, but to me it is priceless!

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Monday, May 10, 2010

0 Allie turns FIVE YEARS OLD!

Saturday morning: Daddy took them to Smithfield’s “Health Days” parade

Saturday mid-day: Family goes to the “Health Days Celebration”

The girls got to ride a few rides and we ate fry bread with honey butter after walking through the booths.

Sunday evening: Cake with Ice Cream and opening presents with the Schwartz clan

(Mika, Kai, Koji, Keiko, Allie, Kylie, Alyiah)

Oh, and Alyiah announced she is also going to be a BIG sister (Dec 11th-ish!)

Allie’s BIG gift was an upgraded bike. She went from a 12 incher to a whopping 18 incher!

Now she can keep up with all the kids in the neighborhood… even all the boys.

Monday, March 15, 2010

0 Photo Highlights of November 2009

Annual mommy retreat: Wolf Creek, Utah. This year we did very little scrapbooking and more relaxing. We soaked in the hot tub, played cards, read books, and even did a little shopping in Ogden. (We found the ‘great’ Target top that looked good on all of us. I think we each got one or two.) Between naps we watched the entire LONG movie of ‘The Pride and the Prejudice’ or as Laura calls it, ‘the dancing lady show’.

First snow to play in.

Hanging inside more.

putting up the Christmas decorations.

Staffords visit for Maren & my Birthday Weekend which nicely fell on the release of the second Twilight movie, ‘New Moon’. We have a nice lunch at the ‘Olive Garden’ before and then did a little Christmas shopping after. When we got home the men (and when I say men, I mean Mike) had prepared a yummy BBQ Ribs dinner complete with flowers and ice cream cake.