Christmas Day

All the boys... Jason, Papa, and Quinn on his lap, Brian, Chris and Nick
All the girls... Mimi, Kim, and Riley on her lap, Carol and Aimee
Quinn and Riley playing with their balloons.

UB helping Quinn blow up his new balloon punch while he sports his new Spider man house shoes.

Riley opening one of her Christmas presents.

Christmas Eve

Bob and Alice's friends, the Koo's, were visiting from Katar. While the Koo's were visiting they went fishing and caught lots of fish, crab, oyster's. On Christmas eve Brian and Zhuyin cooked them up! With both of them in the kitchen, at the stove, it looked like a scene from the Iron Chef. Tasted like it too!!! What a memorable Christmas Eve.

Ugly Christmas Sweater Party!

The Boys gearing up for their fashion show.Bob & Alice
Autumn and Madeline

Meg and Herbert

Melissa and Bart (dressed up as TWINS... they just had twins)

Check out the fur on Brian's collar!

Toni and Andre their shirts lite up Toni made her sweater and burnt the sleeves off...Very Creative

Jen and Todd what you don't see is that Todd is wearing shorts which totally made the outfit come together.

Melissa, Stephanie (wearing TWO season's Easter and Christmas), Toni, and Aimee

Aren't they stylin'

Super Santa even showed up!

Brian's Yummy Gumbo!

IT IS SNOWINNNNNG!!!

Last night it snowed!!! These are pictures that were taken last night around 10pm. There is snow on the roof, and on our plants by the fence and table out back. I know it isn't much but it's a lot for Houston! We enjoyed every minute of it! It got so cold we even got to use the fireplace for the first time! :)

Lil' Schmidt update 20 weeks

Brian and Alice went to the doctor with me on Monday. And Alice came along again today. Lil’ Schmidt is doing great and is getting big, so am I. :) Lil Schmidt is in the 63 percentile of its size. The radiologist showed us every part of the anatomy...except the gender area- per request!

The legs, arms, fingers and toes all look good. One hand was in a fist- we could see all the fingers- the radiologist even counted them for us! The brain looks very good and developing well. The heart has all chambers and was racing at 134 on Monday, today it was racing at 151. Lil Schmidt was being a little shy and kept putting its hands in front of its face to keep us from seeing and even pushed the doppler away once. We did catch Lil Schmidt batting its eyes.

All in all, Lil Schmidt is doing great is growing fast and very active Brian got to feel it kick for the first time on Dec. 5th. :) This has been such a wonderful experience, I am so thankful that my pregnancy is going so well. Keep the prayers coming they are defiantly being answered! I’ve got some great pictures to share of our growing Lil Schmidt. Love and hugs Aimee and Brian

Bedding Surprise!!

Alice surprised Brian and I with this gorgeous crib bedding. Alice snuck into the house some time during the week last week and put the bedding on Lil's Schmidt's crib. Brian and I not knowing she had done so didn't find out till Friday evening when Alice finally called Brian and asked him to poke his head into the baby's room. :) I am sure it killed her waiting for us to discover the bedding. I know it would have killed me waiting. I came home shortly after to find Brian in the baby's room and scream OMG! LOOK WHAT YOUR MOM DID!!! :) I was so excited- you should have seen my face. It was a great surprise! The bedding is perfect- it is so soft and the colors match the walls prefect. Thank you Mimi for the bedding, we love it!

Thanksgiving Day 2008

Sitting down to have Thanksgiving Dinner.

Quinn in awe watching Papa carve the turkey.

Jason, Kim, Quinn and Riley.

Mimi and Riley cooking.

Riley's pretty smile.

Riley and Quinn with their pilgrim hats.

The boys hanging out in the kitchen catching up with Uncle Bill.

Rock-a-bye-baby!

The week Brian was away in Chicago -Alice and I painted the nursery and Alice painted this beautiful mural on the wall of a tree. Carved in the trunk of the tree is Brian heart's Aimee, on a limb there is two little love birds and a nest with a egg in it. We can't wait till it hatches!

Brian and Bob putting together the Crib a dear friend from work let us have.

Over the weekend we picked up this Adorable European Baby Stroller found on our city's website.

Rock-a-bye-baby On the treetop

When the wind blows,

The cradle will rock.

When the bough breaks,

The cradle will fall

And down will come baby Cradle and all!

The Baby Bump!

Here‘s the bump you have all been dyeing to see! I’ve started feeling Lil’ Schmidt move a few week ago which is very exciting! Make's me wish there was a window I could open to see what’s going on in there. :)

lil' Schmidt

The weeks are flying by. Today I had my 15 week check-up and Kim my sister-in-law joined me, which made the visit even more special. We heard the heart beat racing at 165 and was very easy to find unlike last time which took a little longer and a few tries. The quickness made me shed a few happy tears! Everything is progressing well. Dr. Sam measured my belly its right for 15 weeks. All in All, I’ve been feeling great; I’m not as tired as I was a few weeks ago. I'm still able to workout and visit the gym every morning at 5:30- I think it’s helping keep my energy levels up.

Brian is doing well he is still trying to get over his broken arm. He saw a specialist last week- they told him not to wear the sling and start to exercise his arm by bending it, in and out and turning it right and left so it doesn’t get stiff. But not to lift anything! Brian has been very busy at work as he's getting ready for a week long trade show in Chicago. There, he will also visit some of his big customers such as Wrigley’s you may know them, they manufacture chewing gum. He will also visit Paul his counter part, who lives in the area, and work the largest packaging trade show representing InkJet, Inc. This weekend he is leaving for Dallas for some fun at the tracks taking in a NASCAR race.

Saturday I’m going to re-paint the kitchen…I painted it last weekend but the color is too light, so I am going to paint it a shade darker (the color is mindful gray), if you want to look it up. We are hoping that the countertops will be installed within the next couple of weeks. Our insaller needs to pick up the slabs of stone, fabricate the cuts and then insall! I can't wait!

13 weeks

This week was a big milestone. Making it through the first trimester has been a blessing for us. Now going into the second trimester, our odds of miscarriage drop considerably. A month ago, Brian and I decided to change doctor's to be closer to home. The thought of going into labor during rush hour traffic was a bit too frighting for both of us. We decided to have the baby at St. Luke's in The Woodlands which is less than 3 miles from our house. Today I met with my new Doctor (Dr. Sam) Kim raved about how good of a job he did with Quinn and Riley so I couldn't resist.

The baby is almost 3 inches long, about the size of a medium sized shrimp. Everything looks wonderful- I got to hear the heartbeat this time! The heart is racing at 156. Here is a picture of our little shrimp.

Nissen's Baby Girls have arrived.

After work on Friday I visited Melissa and the twins. Taylor was born first and is a little taller than her sister but not by much, where Madison weighs a little more than Taylor and has darker hair and a rounder face. They are both so precious!

Taylor on the left and Madison on the right.

Baby Madison Lynn

Baby Taylor Frances