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!