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Phoenix friends

(I realize, of course, I am WAY behind in telling these stories. If you want a more up-to-date look at what we’re doing, check out my Project Life 2012 gallery)

These images are from the first week of November, when we were in Phoenix for Miranda’s wedding.

Andrew and I both had [...]

Christian and Avalon in town

(My harddrive died at the end of October and I had resigned myself to the loss of these photos. AND THEN! I found the memory card that they were on and resurrected them. One of the perks of being slightly disorganized)

Back in October, two of our favorite favorite people [...]

TCS Gift Guide

Andrew and I don’t really buy each other gifts. We haven’t done Christmas for each other in years. We did 30th birthday gifts, but no birthdays for awhile.

That doesn’t mean we don’t think about gifts for other people!

Here are just a few ideas for holiday gifts for your loved ones…

(note: Because [...]

old friends

We’ve now lived back in California for about 4.5 years …. and I *just* saw some of my old friends from growing up a few weeks ago.

I made plans with some of the girls from my old church youth group for them to come over for lunch – to [...]

Meeting baby Mary Claire

We finally got to meet Michelle’s little girl!!

Mary Claire was born in June … we were initially planning on visiting Tucson to meet her when we went to Phoenix for Kim and Jed’s shower. But then it turned out Michelle was bringing her family to CA anyway!

Michelle and Dusty drove up (from [...]

Breakfast with the Haugens

We got done with maternity photos around 945a or 10a or so….

Andrew and I weren’t planning on staying in town too long – I had to be at work the next day – but we decided to meet up with my parents and Kim’s parents for breakfast!

I love going out to breakfast. [...]

Kim and Jed’s maternity photos

Since we were going to be in town anyway, I got to take some maternity photos of Kim and Jed!!

They’ve been married almost 8 years and haven’t ever had professional photos taken of them – other than their wedding. And even then ….

We met up EARLY Sunday morning (early for me), and [...]

Kim and Jed’s baby shower

Waaaaaay back in January, I made a quick, surprise visit to Phoenix to see my brother while he was in town.

While there we got together with a BUNCH of old family friends, including my friend Kim. She is my mom’s best friend’s daughter, so I’ve known her her entire life (she’s about a [...]

Fourth of July BBQ

Fourth of July is usually pretty low-key for us. Mostly because we don’t care a whole lot about seeing fireworks, so we don’t have to plan a our day around getting a good seat anywhere.

This year’s Fourth involved a lot of Mad Men (Andrew got Liz hooked on it. She watched 2+ seasons [...]

another out-of-town guest

Last week we had another out-of-town guest! It’s so nice having a guest room to offer you people …

Our friend Liz came out to visit us from Wisconsin.

Liz grew up in Wisconsin, moved to AZ for a couple years where she worked with Andrew at Hall of Frames, and then moved [...]

Memorial Day

Monday morning Memorial Day!

The first Memorial Day in 4 years that I haven’t worked – previous years I volunteered to work for the overtime pay because I assumed Andrew would be working. And then he never did.

SO this year I elected to just take the day ….

We got up Monday morning [...]

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 ….

[...]

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 (1st) baby shower

Joe and Kaitlin’s baby is due in about a month!!!!

Which means these last couple weeks (and next couple weeks) are full of baby shopping, baby showers and maternity photos….

Between the 2 of them, Joe and Kaitlin have so many family and friends that she actually is having 4 baby showers!!

Little Joey [...]

Moving day!

March 10, 2012 …. Team Schubert moves into Schubert Headquarters:

First, I’ll say that we hired movers. Even though we really could have used the money we spent, I found that the expense was totally worth it in NOT breaking our backs. NOT stressing about getting our king-size bed and fridge down stairs (and [...]