Snow Day

since we've been in Colorado, we've had a few snow falls but everytime cheyenne happened to be sick so this morning was her first time ever playing in it! it was great, she looks just like me when i was little. she had a good time. Just wanted to share some pictures with you all! although she wouldnt smile at me when i actually took the picture....booger head.

 Grandma and Cheyenne

 Chasing grandma

 Cheyennes first snow angel!!

 Airforce & Navy Snowmen

how Pearls 4 Dogtags began

Since my husband is on deployment i've been looking for things to help pass the time...you know, along with raising two wonderful babies, school, working out and spending time with both me and my husbands families...yeahhh..
I was at the commisary one day and saw a man wearing his nametape around his wrist clasped with velcro. I thought there has to be a really cute way for a girl to sport that! so messing with the sewing machine...i created....

<3 Why not wear your heart on your wrist  <3

I also made some into keychains....

i made my own page on Facebook and name it Pearls 4 Dogtags from the quote "she'll trade her pearls for his dogtags" and so far so good. I really enjoy making these.i get to connect and relate with other military wives, girlfriends, and family members who love their hero and want to show their support.

I dont profit much from making these.i point is that it keeps me busy and i like to see people show their support.The money i make from making these goes right back to buying more materials to make more :]

If you are interested in purchasing one, there is a pink contact me button on the top left corner of this page with the order form.please include the following...

BRACELET/ KEYCHAIN ORDER: Bracelets are the standard 7in. if you need it to be any longer please note that in your order :] --PRICING-- Standard bracelet include clasps, nametapes, and choice of ribbon for $15 Standard keychains include, keyring, ribbon and bow*** please let me know if you do or do not want a bow on your keychain*** are $10 added charms are $2 extra What you want bracelet/keychain? What Branch, if marine woodland or desert? if Navy, silver or gold thread? What you want them to say? Ribbon choice( you can request a ribbon also, i dont mind searching for new styles!) Charm (can also search upon request :] )? Payment cash, check, paypal and money order is available PAYPAL: to pay with paypal i will need your emailt o send you an invoice, then you will get an email of your total and there will be a button where you can pay online.







You can also visit my FB page (button on my blog) with more pictures of ribbon choices, clasps etc.  :]

Spread the word and the love :]











CHRISTMAS CARE PACKAGE!!!

YES! It's that time again :] care package time!
my mother-in-law and i are pretty awesome at putting the most ridiculous items in my husbands care packages. REMEBER, you're trying to make them smile, laugh and not think about how much they miss home! My husband loves ridiculous items at stores, for instance, the extremely larger pencils and pens that are like...two feet long! stupid stuff like that...so my favorite places to find these stupid things are Bed Bath and Beyond, Wal-greens, and Target.
Seriously, i just go to the $1 value items that are usually by the checkout and just find hilarious things. and he loves them.
i just finished my Christmas package.  I went to a craft fair with my husbands grandma and mom a couple weekends ago and found a marshmellow gun made of PBC pipes. if you know my husband and his friends...they make all sorts of crap out of PBC pipe! so he will love this.
Anyway, i got alittle carried away witht he glitter...its pretty much an explosion of glitter...i hope he gets embarrassed :]
i hope you like it and i hope this gives others ideas when making care packages.
BE CREATIVE!!

Christmas Package!!

Yes that is a candy cane shot glass :]

all finished and wrapped :]

i also sent him a "peanuts" themed tree and made these ornaments to put on it!!!



If looks could kill

Something happened to me today that made me really mad.  And if you know me, I dont get mad very often or easily.  I usally keep to my self and mind my own buisness but this REALLY bothered me!!
I was grocery shopping with my in-laws today at King Soopers, cheyenne was in the "car" in front of the shopping cart... You know, the carts that keep the little ones "busy" so you can actually do some shopping lol.
ANYWAY, Carson is in his carseat latched onto the shopping cart.  As we are checking out, this lady next to us glances over with a nasty look on her face and sees cheyenne playing in the car, looks up at carson (same look) and then looks at me YES WITH THE SAME LOOK and then whispers something to the other lady she is with.
This lady has no shame with  her "stank face" either cause she does it about three more times.
Now, I'm not sure why she gave me this awful look or what she was saying to her other lady friend but i'm assuming it has to do with me being a "young" mom and maybe that i let my child play in the car attached to the shopping cart OH YEAH and im assuming that because im young mom, im probably a single young mom. but lets get something straight, yes i am a young mom. and yes i am temporarily playing the role of a single mom because my HUSBAND is fighting for your freedom and democracy!
This is irratating for me because this is not the first time this has happened to me. after my son was born i went to enroll him into DEERS and this girl, also military, comes up and says "youre way too young to be a mom of two"


I have alot of respect for other women who are young and are taking care of their kids alone...since my husband is in the military, i do alot of this alone. i cant imagine having to do this all the time. it is alot of work and it is hard.  I bet they get the same crap and same looks that i got today..but remember THEY DO NOT KNOW YOU OR YOUR SITUATION! 
these people do not know that i'm married, that my husband and i ahve been together for almost 7 years, that we wanted to have children young, that im just about done with school or that he was deployed. So i find it interesting that these people have it so easy to say things like that to me or give me the look of death.


Just had to get that out of my system...the way this lady glared at my kids and me really bothered me today...love to all the mommies out there! whatever your situation may be!

TAKE THAT MEAN LADY AT THE GROCERY STORE :-p

Half way there :]

I've never felt like ive accomplished so much until now. 
My highschool sweetheart became the man of my dreams, we've overcome seperation thanks to military duty...bootcamp...underways...
we've sacrificed birthdays, anniversaries, holidays and a birth...we have two beautiful children and YES after almost 4 months...we have finally hit our halfway mark of this deployment!!!!
But wait it doesnt end there, im almost done with school, ive lost 34lbs since having my son 2 months ago and just recently i started my own cute little buisness making military support items.  I honestly dont understand how i make the time for all of this, but i can say that this all makes me happy...minus the fact that my husband can't be with us right now.
This all keeps me busy and keeps my mind off of this deployment.
Thinking about everything that i am doing makes me feel so accomplished...i overcame some of the hardest obstacles a military wife can go through.I DID IT...I DID!
i am so thankful for the strength god has blessed me with to able to do all of this.
GOD IS GOOD and i will NEVER doubt him.
Here's to the last half of this deployment!

BTW, here are some pictures my friend took for us to send to spencer :]
you can check her out at http://www.facebook.com/pages/Vega-Photography/138363209598842

Fall Pictures For Daddy

These were all taken in Manitou, Colorado.

It is beautiful there :]

check out Vega Photography

http://www.facebook.com/pages/Vega-Photography/138363209598842

A Day At the Park...

One of the things i love about Colorado other than its amazing beauty is how often the weathere changes.  i like how its so unpredictable that we literally can go through all the seasons in one week.  We got our first snow fall a couple of weeks ago and then it rained a few days after while lately the sun has been strong enough that i had to crank up the A/C in the car but wait...was that ICE i just scrapped off my windsheild the other morning not to mention the wind that came with it...  like i said, SO unpredictable, i love it.  My bestfriend, Taylor, once told me that "If the weather is ridicously nice out, you better get your jackets."  she's so right.  If mother nature doesnt decide to change it's mind the at the last minute, the weather man predicts snow coming our way in a couple days.  This means, i gotta get as many pictures as i can of colorados beauty surrounding my munchkins before it's too late.  After all, San Diego doesnt have trees and colors like this!
I dressed my babes up in their "big sister and little brother" outfits and headed off to the park.  Since toddlers seem to be pretty independent and of course mine has "sass" my pictures didnt come out the way i wanted exactly, but the memories are just as important.  I just wish their daddy could have shared those memories with us.Although Carson is still a newborn and couldnt have enjoyed it as much as Cheyenne, he did seem to like looking at all the pretty colors fall has to offer while cheyenne was chasing ducks and sliding down the same slide for the one millionth time :] love love love being a mommy to my "things one and two"

Our day at the park

Carson :]

Cheyenne and Grandma <3

Mommy and Cheyenne <3

mommy and Cheyenne :]

<3 moments like these

Super mom status ; ]

SORRY...i know, i know, i suck and havent written in forever...
Baby Carson Ryder Schutte was born on August 24, 2011 at 12:59am.
The expierience was incredible and completely different then when i had Cheyenne.
Cheyenne was awful. i was in labor for almost 24 hours, was throwing up, had back labor, and had to push for almost 3 hours...AWFUL i tell you. But my sweet baby boy Carson was so nice to me and was only in labor for 8 hours and pushed that sucker out in ten minutes. Though my husband couldnt be there, i did get to hear his voice... he was allowed to call me at the hospital and i had my best friends in the room with me.

<3

[looks just like daddy when he was a baby]

SO...now Carson is almost 2 months old.  I havent had a chance to catch my breath and write because i've been in super mom mode.  A couple weeks after he was born he became extremely fussy and would throw up.  i found out he had a protein allergy which happens to run in my family also..so i changed his formula to soy and turns out he can't break down the proteins in soy to have bowl movements.  Now he's on special formula and is doing awesome :]  happy...healthy...sweet boy.

I also started classes again on September 19th which has also been keeping me busy. I'm in my fifth week out of nine of my second psychology class.  so far...so good! And when i get the chance, i exercise by taking the kids on 4 mile walks or (my recent favorite) go to zumba classes! i thank god for giving me the strength and the help i need to get me through all this but i especially thank both spencers family and my family for being there for me and helping me when i need it.


Oh, but you know i always make time for my sailor! 

The funny box that i like to call "the LOL box"

 Inside:

• newspaper with carsons birth announcement.
• dvd that I made of cheyenne.
• dvd of carsons being born.
• magazines.
• strawberry jar cake.
• working gloves.
• febreeze.
• minifan (for his rack).he's been miserable by the heat...
• hand wipes.
• picture cheyenne drew
• .funny card.
• phone cards.
• cd's with the latest music :) .....and there's still room lol



Halloween box!

this was my favorite box so far!

This one includes:

• magazines
• homemade cookies
• halloween candy (not chocolate caus eit will melt)
• spider webs to decorate the ship
• cards
• a shirt i bought him
• beef jerky
• spiders
• eyeballs
• and some other things but i cant remember lol

Thanksgiving!

Hand Turkeys of the kids hands and feet!

This box includes:

• Head massager to help him relax :]
• back scratcher
• nerf gun (he's such a little boy)
• ridiculous pointer finger LOL
• "dont push" button (haha)
• peanuts
• candy corn
• jerky
• sausage stick
• magazines
• air freshner
• sunflower seeds
• fruit roll ups
• jelly beans
• laundry detergent
• calendar with sucess quotes (for motivation)
• cards
• and many other crazy things lol

LOVE MY SAILOR

Care Packages!

SO, it has been just about three weeks since my husband has left for deployment and i have been one busy bee. First with having to move from San Diego to Colorado Springs, change PCM's for me and my daughter (which is so hard to find a Dr. at 36 weeks pregnant), deal with tricare and deers and just plain old trying to get settled in.  basically now...i just want this baby to come out :]  i am 38+2 weeks pregnant and let me tell you...my poor body can hardly handle this anymore.

the fatigue is wearing me down and i can hardly play with my daughter which makes me sad because i dont want her to think that i dont want to play with her....i just physically cant without feeling awful pain in my tailbone.Thank goodness for both me and my husbands family. they have all been amazing with helping me out and showing Cheyenne all the attention she deserves since i cant give her all of that.My husband and I are so lucky to have such wonderful family.

Anyway....point is....Baby Carson, im ready whenever you are!

So having said all that, i have been staying busy by preparing care packages for Spencer.i received an email this morning that he got his first package a few days ago!! he loved it.  I want to share the packages with all of you and i hope this could give inspiration to your own care packages as well!

Care Package One

i did not decorate this package because i was so anxious just to get it to him!

it includes:

• Magazines & Newspapers
• Pens (he's a pen theif)
• gold bond foot powder
• deodorant
• extendable back scratcher (he said it was his most proud item int he box)
• boot insoles
• macadamia nuts
• sour cherry bombs
• beef jerky
• granola bars
• nail clippers
• loofa
• toothbrush sanitizer
• to go snapple
• air freshners that smell like home
• chapstick
• flossers
• and some games, pictures, and cards from family members.

Bed, Bath, and Beyond is one of my favorites to get things because they ahve the most ridiculous stuff that always makes my husband laugh like the back scratcher...lol

Care Package Two the birthday box!

Spencer's birthday is september 21st but with the new baby coming soon, ill be really busy.

Cheyenne helped decorate the outside

she did NOT like the paint lol

Back to the future theme

Devils food cake in a jar for him and three other buddies

(im sure he'll keep them for himself )

since you cant send aerosol cans of icing get the tub of icing OR these awesome icing baggies!

they are easier to fit int he box and they can squirt it inside the jar!

this box included:

• Magazines
• Jar cake & icing
• shoe polish kit
• cooling towel
• wet suit anti chafe
• part poppers
• razors
• shaving cream (non aerosol)
• photo album
• 3 mini water guns
• wisp quick tooth brushes
• shout wipes
• birthday cards from family