Tuesday, December 3, 2013

Winter Blues

Life isn't fair.  Matt is out in San Fransisco for a acoustics convention in a beautiful place when I'm stuck in Utah with...

This!  Ok, I didn't take that picture, but that's definitely how I feel.  Snow is beautiful when it's on the houses and the trees, but I hate the cold and I hate the snow on the roads and my car.  I guess I'm truly an AZ girl.  Bring on the heat!  

Anyway, Matt has only been gone for a day and a half but I'm terrible at being alone.  I guess I'm a little needy haha. 


Tuesday, November 12, 2013

Camera Love & Hit & Run Updates

A lot of exciting things have happened recently, but I've been so busy with work that I haven't gotten around to sharing all the fun news.  Anyway, here is some of the exciting things with our little family...

- Matt is finally finished with all of his GRE tests!  He had to take the Physics GRE twice which he studied for forever and then a week later he had to take the general GRE.  I'm happy to have my husband back and I'm especially happy that his stress level is way lower than it was for those months.

- I finally got my camera and I LOVE it!  I feel like I've already taken pictures of practically everything in our apartment, but I am loving my new little baby.  I've always been a wanna be photographer so now I really am haha.  I'm excited to learn more about it, but sadly I haven't had very much time yet.

- We completed our first race as a family and it was a huge HIT.  I know I already blogged about the Hit and Run 5K before we ran it, but I have to show the pictures from our run.  Matt's sister Steph and her family came to watch and it was really fun to have someone watching us.  Most of these pictures are from Steph, but I found a few online from the website that I just had to share too.  I would totally do this again in a heartbeat.


Team Calsworth... Caltons and Wadsworths.

The purpose of this obstacle was to bounce on these giant balls, but obviously Matt flopped haha








Running across the blowup dudes (before they both fell)

The giant foam obstacle.  I loved the foam :)

Me

Clayton hanging on for dear life.

Kort sliding to her death.



Trying to dodge the giant rotating balls while also trying not to fall in the freezing water.  We DEFINITELY fell in... a few times.


My hit from the swinging doors.  Definitely my favorite picture.  Look at the action! haha

The After Party

Matt's funny little run

Finished! (Nerdy pic... I know)

Thursday, October 10, 2013

Hit and Run 5K!

For a while now I've wanted to do some kind of fun 5K.  I thought about doing a color run or a dirty dash, but when Matt and I saw this we were sold and we signed up that day!  We're running this with our friends in two days.  I'm suuper excited, but I'm also pretty nervous for the weather because it's already snowed in Provo.  Anyway, enjoy this little video of our run on Saturday.  It's basically our chance to be on Wipeout haha. 


PS- My brother Dave thinks I'm going to be hit in the face with a dodgeball haha.  What's your vote?  


TV Shows Worth Talking About

Parks & Recreation
I love this show.  It took me a little while to get into it because at first it just seems kinda dumb, but it's hillarious.  Ron Swanson is the man!



Modern Family
Phil Dunphey is my other favorite character on TV right now.  I mean, seriously... what's not to love?  Modern family is hilarious.  It does have some kinda sketchy moments in it now and then, but I do have to admit... I love this show too.



Parenthood
I've never really been into dramas before, but Parenthood is a good one if you're big on drama.  The thing I love about this show is that it's always changing and it relates to basically everyone.   This show does talk about about a lot of problems that people go through, but I love it because it talks about how we all make mistakes and we can learn from them.  Sadly Matt won't watch this show with me, but it's a great one.  You might need some tissues though because it's a little bit of a tear-jerker.  


Castle
Ok people...  I LOVE Castle.  I love everything about this show (except for sometimes I have to close my eyes for twenty seconds at the beginning when they show the murder).  If you like funny crime shows this is a great one.  My favorites used to be Psych and Chuck, but Castle quickly movin' up.  It's usually pretty clean too.  It has it's moments of course, but it's a great show.  You should give it a shot.  Oh, and give Kate some time... her hair gets better in every season haha.



Last Man Standing
Remember "Home Improvement"?  This show is similar to that, but now Tim Allen has three daughters and works at "Outdoor Man".  It's pretty funny... especially if you like a little political humor now and then.  Before I felt like I couldn't recommend this show to anyone because it was hard to find, but they just put it on Netflix... happy day!   


Ok... maybe Matt and I watch too many shows because this isn't even all of them.  I work hard though, right?  I deserve to watch a show every now and then :).  Plus, right now I'm on FALL BREAK so I can waste all the time I want!



Friday, October 4, 2013

Playing Catch Up

Life has been a little crazy recently.  I am loving my new job teaching kindergarten at Freedom Elementary, but being at a new school definitely throws things off a little bit.  There are so many things to learn and figure out.  I think I'm finally about caught up with all the things I need to do so hopefully things will be slowing down a little bit.  Here's summer 2013 for ya.

Anyway, blogging has definitely been one of those things that I kept thinking "I'd get to tomorrow" but it never really happened.  Today it's happening so get ready for the updates.


Cabin Trip... Round 2!

Matt and I love going to his family cabin.  He calls it the happiest place in the world and I don't think I'm quite to that level of devotion yet, but I do really love going there.  Tensleep Wyoming is so pretty and I love taking time away from all the craziness to be in the mountains.  This time around we got to be up there with Matt's parents, his brother Mark's family, his cousin and her husband, and the lovely Sara.  We ended up doing a lot of work on the ditch that brings water to their horse pasture, but we also played hard and ate waaaay too much.  I'm already excited for the next time we get to go.  I just really hope Dirty Sally's isn't closed because I could definitely cry.  Maybe a new manager wouldn't be too bad though because I swear that guy's chest hair gets in my ice cream every time... gross.

Welcome to the cabin.  Take off your shoes and stay a while.  Isn't it gorgeous!  Great picture, Megan.  Thanks for letting me have them!


Matt & Mark comparing neck beards.  Oh brother..s


Corn hole is one of my new favorite things.  I especially love the John Deere sign.  I feel a little proud of it because Matt and I designed it and cut it out on my Silhouette and then we all helped paint it.  

My first bite of a donut burger... and possibly my last but it was surprisingly tasty.  Think greasy goodness with bacon.  


Matt's great at photo-bombing haha.  I hope Mark & Megan aren't too mad though because this would've been a great shot of their little family.


Yep, that's my man in coveralls.  Sometimes I get the impression that he really thinks he belongs in Wyoming.

Splash Pad!


Take care, Wyoming.  We will miss you.
PS- Pictures are by Meg at snaphappymom.com


Lake Tahoe with the Schmidt Clan
The Schmidt vacation this year was set at Lake Tahoe, but Matt and I got really lucky because unlike the majority of our family, we got to fly to California (thanks Mom & Dad!).  It was great because we flew into Oakland and then got to hang out in San Jose for a couple days with my brother Nate, his wife Elisabeth, and their little girl Elena who I absolutely love :).  We went to a crazy butcher shop/sandwich shop that serves a sandwich called the tripple bypass.  Yeah.. pretty crazy.  Matt was in HEAVEN though... he still talks about that sandwich shop all the time.  Anyway, we went there and then we also went to "the artichoke capital of the world", a fun beach, and a really yummy ice cream shop.  OH AND THEN we stopped at the Jelly Belly Factory.  I was in heaven :)

  After we hung out with Nate's fam we drove up to Lake Tahoe where all twenty-eight of us stayed in a huge log cabin and basically partied all the time, which was great but of course exhausting.  The main event was the Tough Mudder that my brothers and dad ran in.  All the crazy Schmidt boys cut NASTY facial hair and ran this crazy hard race where they signed their lives away so they could run up a mountain, jump into below freezing water, and get shocked by electrical wires.  Of course there were some cool obstacles too, but that is definitely not my kind of race.  It was great though.  We played all week at the lake and even got to go to "Kearn's Castle" one morning.  My dad has a very wealthy business partner (Kearn) who invited all of the adults over.  We had a great breakfast which was made by his personal chef and then we got to play on all of his toys for a while (boat, jet skis, SWEET blow up trampoline thing, and paddle boards).  It was AWESOME but Matt quickly helped me understand that we are never going to be able to live like that haha.  Too bad... I really wanted an indoor spa, a cleaning crew, and a house with beach front property.  Ok no, but it was nice for a few hours!

TOUGH MUDDER
Tough Mudder boys before the race... with NASTY facial hair and haircuts might I add.

During the Tough Mudder.  Ouch!!!!

And finally... after the crazies were done

KEARN'S CASTLE


Love all of these men

And these girls of course

HIKING
The whole clan


Tough Schmidts

The originals. 
Wish Sarah could've been here.





Finally, as we were traveling back, we got to go to my brother Matt's baby girl's blessing.  She is such a cute little girl.  We love baby Regan.



Coronado 

We ended up having a pretty busy summer because we also got to go to one of my favorite destinations in the world: Coronado, CA!  My family has been going to Coronado every August since I can remember so it truly is one of my favorite places in the world.  This year we got to spend time with my parents, Tim and Brittany's family, and my brother Dave.  It was fun to be up there with just a "few" people this time around, but I missed the rest of the crazy Schmidt clan too.  We did a lot of the normal activities like the bike ride around the island, swimming at the beach, eating at the one and only Miguel's, and taking a little trip to Moo Time for ice cream, but we branched out a little bit too which was great.  We tried out "The Burger Lounge" and let me tell you... it was amazing!  Just thinking about it now is making me super hungry.  I don't know what it was, but seriously, if you're ever in southern CA you should check it out.


Sweet dolphin we made... mostly Tim

Matt never wants to get out of the water.  I swear, we all go out for a good chunk of time and then he's out there by himself for a good hour.  What a cutie.

Matt was soo proud of his creation so I decided everyone on the blog should see it haha.


Well, goodbye Summer.  Hope to see you again soon.  
<3 a true AZ girl.