a day at home

Now that we have bought our house … our days off together are FILLED with house work. Our to-do list is plenty long to keep us busy for awhile, and it’s so nice to work on those things TOGETHER.

Team Schubert.

At the end of April, Andrew and I had a Sunday together ….

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Kaitlin’s baby shower #3

One final baby shower for Kaitlin … close enough to her due date that the shower host had a mild panic attack when Kaitlin called her the day before!

This shower was put on by Joe’s godmother … Aunt Mary. She went ALL OUT … It was AMAZING and so gorgeous and at a [...]

Kaitlin’s 2nd baby shower

As I type this Kaitlin is basically due any time…. But I still have TWO baby showers to show you!

In mid-April, Julie hosted a baby shower for Kaitlin involving all of the old family friends from when she was growing up … all ladies that Julie just loves and have been part of [...]

Kaitlin’s maternity photos

Andrew and I are going to have a nephew in just a few weeks! As in less-than-4 weeks! Hopefully.

Easter Sunday, Joe and Kaitlin came out to Santa Clarita early in the afternoon and we did some fun couple-maternity photos.

Little Joey is going to be so spoiled

Note: Katie also did some [...]

birthday birthday!

I turned 30 last week, did you know??

I had all these grand plans to have a birthday/house-warming party on April 1 …. after we had been in the house for 3 weeks or so.

But alas, still no kitchen, which means boxes everywhere, which means no point in having a house-warming party.

So, [...]

seeing Kevin in Phoenix

The first full weekend in January, I planned a last-minute spur-of-the-moment trip to Arizona to see my brother (without Andrew).

He’s been living/working in Afghanistan for almost 2 years; recently quit; and moved to Colorado to go to school January 9.

But that tiny couple-day window between Afghanistan and Colorado he was in Arizona, [...]

post Christmas with family

We did Christmas Day with Andrew’s family, and then that evening my parents came into town!

Which means we got to do Christmas morning all over again on Monday (which was the Federal holiday so I had the day off)…  Christmas morning with only 4 of us (and Mom and Dad had already opened [...]

Christmas Eve and Christmas Day

Lets go back a little bit and look at photos from the holidays!

Christian has family in Santa Clarita, so he and Avalon came down for the holiday and we got to meet them for breakfast! Christmas Eve fell on a Saturday and miraculously both Andrew and I happened to have off work ….

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Coming May 2012: baby LaRiccia

I know that most of you already know this …. but I still wanted to make it blog-official!

Andrew and I are going to have a little nephew in a few months!

I’ve always said I wanted to be an aunt before I became a mom – and luckily Andrew’s sister Kaitlin pulled through [...]

getting our Christmas tree

We didn’t get a Christmas tree this year.

Wait, let me explain.

Between not really having the floor space and potentially having to start packing any day to move into our new house, we didn’t really feel up to getting a big ol’ Noble Fir and dragging our boxes of ornaments and lights and [...]

Thanksgiving weekend: Family time in Phoenix

(Psst! Merry Christmas Sunday! I still intend to blog my stories in order, though …. sorry but we’re going back to Thanksgiving weekend! )

Once we had decided we would be heading to Phoenix for Thanksgiving weekend, I was able to book a portrait session with this sweet family ….

I photographed Zach and [...]

Thanksgiving weekend: Visiting friends in Phoenix

The Friday after Thanksgiving, Andrew and I got SO early to drive all the way to Phoenix!

We had a full weekend planned and wanted to be able to see as many friends as we could while we were in town …

Once we were in town, the first stop was to visit our [...]

Thanksgiving 2011

Um …. does it seem like this post is a little late-ish? I guess we’ve just had a TON of stuff going on!

Thanksgiving this year we spent with Andrew’s family in Santa Clarita ….

Julie – bless her heart – planned our Thanksgiving dinner for early in the afternoon so we could go [...]

Meeting Elora

Our friends Betsy and Justin had a little baby girl at the end of October and we got to meet her when she was about 3 weeks old ….

Both mine and Andrew’s first time holding a baby in a very very long time …

But she was so sweet and calm and adorable [...]

Scotland: Kevin makes friends everywhere

Kevin makes friends everywhere.

He arrived in Edinburgh about 3 or 4 days before the rest of us and spent all that time in the city by himself.

He went to some pubs and some Fringe festival shows….. and along the way he made some friends.

Including 2 guys from California! Jesse and Richard [...]