Christmas 2010.

Wonderful family, wonderful life..

Christmas was gathered at the Schuetz's house just like every year. Family picked names in August and I had Liz... (First year in three years I haven't said "Dad")

Liz, Me, Jas:
Kim had Dad.. Dad had me.
I'm pretty sure Kim had fun shopping for Dad:

Christmas Day..
Mom, Dad and I headed up north for the week. The Etzels and Kim came Sunday.

Dad and Kim's discussion on snowmobiling:

Ohh.. I love my Beaches!!


Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!

Possibly New Year pictures soon.... :)

One Day of School, Four Days until Christmas..Oh Boy!

I know, I know, not an exciting post because of no fun events..no pictures.(yet). It has been crazy with Christmas coming and getting things ready. On a greater note.. one more day of school for the year 2010! This year flew by..so fast. Tomorrow is Mom and Dad's anniversary,yay! Friday night is the night where our family gathers together and "reveal" our Christmas 2010 names. This weekend Mom, Dad, Kim, and I are going on our usual vacation spot on Christmas Day. Kristin and Brett will be joining us too.. which I am looking forward too! Look forward to Christmas and Up North pictures!

Merry Christmas!

What Are You Thankful For?

Thanksgiving 2010 happened to be the best of all because...

I am thankful for becoming an Aunt to this lovely couple child:I hope and pray that Brett will follow the DO's that are in this book:

Thank the Lord I have these beauties to look up too:

I am proud to say that I am the only cool one out of this bunch:



Uncle Bob... I will not drink your martini:
(Not this time at least.)

Oh.. My family is just a great bunch! :)

I am SO thankful for them!

Love you all!

Minnesota Friends

Too many fun events.. One at a time. Let's start with the weekend before Thanksgiving.

I was gladly invited by my Etzel family to come over to see my favorite Minnesota family for the day on Saturday.

My day had started with chatting with Kristin&Emily while Ollie was napping and the guys doing guy things.

My Bud: After nap-time, play-time! Kristin & Emily went shopping with my mother while they left me in charge of Oliver, Brett and Corey.

Presents from Auntie LiLi:

The best of friends exchange Christmas presents.
Soon-Mommy-To-Be and Soon-Auntie-To-Be reading her "Friends" book from Em:

What a great day&night I had with my lovely Etzel and Brecht families!

I don't know what I'd do without these two families who light up my life.

Love you both! xoxo :)

November Already?!

Oh Boy! Is it really November already?! Well that's okay because lots is going on. (Including my Sweet 16 birthday in 4 months! :) I'm not that excited at all. Mom left for a short vacation with her good friend and will be back on Wednesday. One more full week of school, two days next week then, turkey break! School is slowly getting better. No new issues, but as I gather this weekend with the Etzels and Brechts I'm looking foward to a good night! For knowing my sister as good as I do and knowing Emily for a very long time and since Christmas is only 38 days, I'm guessing I will be hearing some Christmas music in the Etzel household? Oh..boy, but I think I'm used to it by now.

So You Think You Can Dance

Last night my Mom, Kim ,Lindsay and myself went to Milwaukee's Bradley Center to see the Fox hit TV show So You Think You Can Dance Live Tour 2010. If you have ever seen this show I do have to say so myself.. It is a really good show. I sadly have no pictures :(, but it was a really good show. It was the top ten dancers from the show including Russel, America's favorite dancer from Season 6 and this season's winner Lauren. They brought back some great dances from Season 7. All the dances were even better to watch live. They even had a few new dance numbers just for the tour. I had a really good time and hopefully get to go again next year!

Just Call Me.....

Auntie LiLi!!!!!

I was so excited to hear those words come out of my sister Kristin's mouth and their announcement that her and Brett are pregnant. My dream comes true finally! About time! HAHA. Just kidding. I'm so excited that in a couple of months I will be officially an Auntie! Yay!!!! It will be so much fun with a little niece or nephew in my life. :)

Congratulations Kristin&Brett! I am so proud. I don't think I could be any happier for you two!

Love you. XOXO.

Homecoming 2010

OHS Homecoming 2010.

I had the Linds come over and do this:
Let's take some pictures as Kristin loves to do.

Dress:

Kris&I:


Sisters:

My Etzel Family:

My photogenic dog, Juneau:
Mom&Dad:

Mom:

What a night...

Shoes confiscatived...

Purse confiscatived...

Breathilizers..

Lost my phone..

Whats next?

Rhode Island Visitors.

I'm a little behind (but that's okay.)
A few weeks ago Kristin had invited me to have a Pizza Party with the Dillions at Kristen's mom's house.

I have to say seeing Kristen, the kids and also meeting Kristen's family was quite fun. :)

Filled with playing, running, hanging out with kids=One heck of a good time!!

Harper,Max, and Nina:
(Harper is Max&Nina's cousin) Kristin, Nina and Me:

Kristin & Nina:
Me&Nina: :)
What a day that was! So great to see them!

Although Mark missed out..I hope I will get to see the whole Dillion family again at Christmas time!

Love you all! xoxoxo! :)

Suprise!

September 14th was my best friend Nicki's Sweet 16 birthday. Her mom decided to throw her a suprise party! She messaged 10 girls on the magic wonders of Facebook. :) Nicki was at the middle school helping out kids. While the 10 of us were finding a place to hide. We ended up hiding in her room.
Priceless Face:
The 11 of us girls had the house to ourselves with her mom checking in on us. The party including games, talking, and just hanging out. Here is a picture of the Oreo game. (Stick on your forehead and get it in your mouth without the use of hands):

Two of the girls:
Kalie in Green, Amanda in Orange.
(The car in the back is Nicki's car!)
So many pictures couldn't decide! :)
Hope you enjoyed your birthday Nicki!
Happy Birthday! :)

Fall is Coming!

Fall is for sure coming quickly. Chilly in the morning, hot in the afternoon. I have been SO busy with many many things. I haven't had time to squeeze in a blog post lately.(not even pictures from Dad's birthday, but hopefully soon!) Now things are a lot more calm. School has started up again. My second year and Kim's last! School started out rough and still going. (Long story.) September 2010 has been quite busy for us. This coming weekend my mom and dad will be in Illinois for a car show while Kim is going to see her boyfriend and working and I will be quite busy then too. Spending time with the sisters, and friends. Super excited! Kim is really excited because Tuesday the 21st is her and Jason's birthday! Woohoo! She will be 18 and Jason will be 31. (YIKES!) Plenty of celebrating! That's about it for right now. I surely hope school will get better as the year goes on.

Pictures will be coming very very quick!

Happy Fall! :)

WI, MN and RI Families!

I've been so busy lately that I couldn't find time to squeeze in a blog post. Now I have one more to go. :)

At the end of July Kristin had invited me to come see the Brechts. I spent Saturday and Sunday night to visit with the Etzels and Brechts.

Zero explaining to do in this picture:On Sunday we headed out to Golden Lake.

Ollie and I took over the biggest floaty:

Waverunner with Junk:

:) Ollie found a way to ride on my walker:

Mark and Kristen were in town and they stopped by, so great to see them!

Congrats on Baby #3! :)

Had a great time with my WI, MN, and RI families!

Thanks again Kris! Love you all!
xoxo.

A Day at the Lake... Priceless

Today was a beautiful day for a lake day. :) Kris&Brett invited us to Golden Lake for some fun in the sun.

We just relaxed, floated,went swimming and went on a boat ride:

Juneau and Cayman:
Sisters :)


Cayman was watching people enjoy the lake:

What a great day for the lake.

Thanks guys! We love you! :)

4th of July Weekend.

Before I go on to talk about the holiday weekend. This one month of vacation Up North flew by so fast! I can't believe it's coming to an end. My mom, dad and I leave tomorrow. Kim and Alex left early this afternoon with Kris and Brett. It's incredible how fast this went.. I don't want wanna go home! I keep asking my mom " One more week please?!" Also just a note: For the people who watch The Bachelorette like my family, Emily and I. Vieanna and Jake were on tonight talking about their break-up. All I can say is WOW.. but then again my mom and I were laughing because now Jake can see the real Vieanna. Alright, I'm done yacking about The Bachelorette and how this flew by.

PICTURE TIME!

Kim and Juneau:

So GREAT to see her!:

The loons who had a baby:

Juneau:
Tapper:

Lucy:

Cabin Sweet Cabin

Mom, Just ONE more week?!

The completed driveway:
After trying to catch a fish in the middle of the lake..

Kim finally caught a Bluegill and a Northern:

Check this out:

The family was taking a pontoon ride around the lake so we could fish. After fishing we all heading back to the cabin and this Heron was no doubt, on our shore of the lake:

What a GREAT 4th of July weekend filled with FUN.

Too bad we all have to go home tomorrow.

When we all get back home I've got plenty of things to do and by the time all the doctors, dentists appts are all over. We will be back up here. =]