GRIFFEN CLAY & AMARA DELCI

What did Santa bring?

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Cruisin' in the new Mustang

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Christmas 2010

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Disney on Ice!

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We went to Disney on Ice "Let's Celebrate!" today. It was so much fun! Griffen knew we were going, but we didn't tell Amara. She kept asking this morning where we were going and then I heard her say something to Grandpa about going to a football game. Maybe we watch too much football at the house...hehe...I don't know but she had a permanent grin on her face when she realized where we really were!! She had seen the commercials...it didn't take her long to realize!

Griff and Mar before the show!

Aww...I have my very own Princess Tiana! Amara LOVES her!

And the show begins....

This was the Disney Princess portion of the show...Amara's favorite!

Fairy Godmother and the Disney Princesses

Princess Tiana

Christmas Celebration

Toy Story 3

And that's the end! We had a blast!

Happy Birthday Ray Ray!!

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A few of my Favorite Ray Ray pictures! Amara tells everyone Areian is her sister...and I let her...They pretty much are. They have so much fun together! Wish we all lived closer!

I am so blessed to have such a wonderful sister, who is my very best friend and the best mom ever! I'm so proud of you Shawndi! You and KJ are the reason that Areian is so incredibly smart. The work that you have done with her since birth has paved the way for her. You're right in saying that God chose you...and for very good reason.

I love you all to pieces!!

Two of her favorite things...Dancing and Singing!

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I know this video is sideways...and I can not for the life of me, figure out how to rotate it...?? But you get the idea. :-) Although this is Lady Antebellum, Taylor Swift is her absolute Favorite!! And Lady Gaga. It's funny that she has her own little opinion and taste of music!

Eastern Washington University!

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Griffen had an amazing season this year. They ended the season 4-2 and Griffen had 3 interceptions this year. He played Corner and Wide Receiver. He is so competative...I have NO IDEA where he gets it. Hehehe. ;-)

Celebrating the big win!!

So proud of my baby! He had an interception and saved 2 touchdowns this game!

This is where he is reminding me that he and his friends are "getting pink Mohawks" because of the win...it never happened.

Pumpkin Patch & Corn Maze!

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The Great Pumpkin Hug!

Having tasty BBQ!

Amara and the "Pumpkin Princess"

Picking Amara's perfect pumpkin!

Ready to get LOST!!

Spokane Falls - September

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Paije, Amara, Parys and Dale at the Falls

My Daddy and Me

Griffen...I mean, Mike "The Situation"

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Griffen went to a Halloween Party tonight. Sadly, I'm beginning to realize that hanging out with mom isn't quite as fun as it use to be...I've only seen him for about 2 hours the whole weekend! I can not believe my baby will be a teenager in 6 months!!! :(

Halloween Pics!

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Princess Belle

We had Trick or Treat night at our mall this evening so we dressed up at work and then I brought Mar back for the adventure! She got a lil tired half way through, but she still had fun!

I had planned on wearing Griffen's uniform but his last game was on Monday and he had to turn in his gear...Luckily, a friend was nice enough to let me borrow her son's high school football uniform!

Random pics from the past year...

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More pics from our trip to San Diego...Coronado Beach & ridiculously handsome boys...

Griff's 2010 football pic...he played Wide Receiver and Corner this year. They had a great year! I can't believe how big my baby boy is! He looks so grown compared to his last year pic!

On her way to school...

Amara at Joe's Crabshack for her Birthday lunch!

On the 4-wheeler with Rand

Here's the signature pose...she's a character!

Our beautiful girls! They are BEST friends!!

Amara helping in the garden at Grandpa's friends house, Randy and Maureen...we had to put up a fence to keep the Deer and Moose out!

We went to Red Lobster for Griffen's birthday dinner...he's picking on his sister!!

DISNEYLAND!

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I took Amara to eat at Ariel's Grotto(she didn't touch her food) :) It was priceless to see her face light up as all the princesses came in! When Princess Jasmine walked up to our table she whispered to me, "Oh Mama, she is so pretty!!" It was adorable!

Girl Talk!

Amara's 4th Birthday & Trip to Utah!

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4 months later... pics of the princess birthday at Randy's this summer! We had so much fun with the Jacobsen's! Amy and Jaxxon came too, but Jaxxon was way too busy with the tractors to stop for pictures!!

Ashtyn, Amara, Griffen & Skylar

Adorable girls...even Sasha!!

I would say that this is Amara's signature pose! She is quite photogenic!

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Newest Pics of the Kids!

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Random Pics

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Lots of random pictures....San Diego sunset, Griff and Mar with Santa, Anthony wearing his sister's pink shoes and shooting his gun, Ant eating his dinner off the kitchen floor, Ariean lookin' beautiful with her straight hair and Me, Shawndi and KJ at the SLC airport the day they left for San Diego... I was in SLC for a meeting and they came to give me a hug!

Halloween 2009

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Amara was a beautiful Angel for Halloween...how fitting, huh?

Griffen didn't dress up this year, but he was so cute with Amara. We went to a nice little neighborhood up the street for trick or treating....since we don't have any Grandma's here :-(
Most people know that Amara is TERRIFIED of Masks...thanks to Uncle KJ :-). Well, the 4th house that we went to, the guy who answered was wearing THE MASK...the EXACT, scary devilish mask with long, stringy hair that Uncle KJ had. The one that has given Amara nightmares for two years!! (PS...KJ use to get that mask out and tease all of the kids, but Mar was the only one that thought it was scary; Ant and Areian would just stare and laugh!)
It was funny and sad...she IMMEDIATELY covered up her face with both arms and hid behind her brother. After that, she was done! We did go to a couple more houses after that, but I had to go to the door with them and I had to carry her. She kept her face hidden in my shoulder until I said "It's okay sweetie, they're not scary. There's no mask." But she still wouldn't say "trick or treat" anymore after that!! My poor little angel!

Family Pictures

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Mar being...Mar

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Amara's new thing is that she's "A Great _____". She's basically great at everything!! She was helping me make breakfast the other day and said "I'm a GREAT Egger!"(she was stirring up the eggs). She's also a Great Girl, a Great Finder, a Great Bouncer...well, she's just Great, ask her!! LOL!

I'm sure most of you have seen the Old Navy "Supermodelquins". Rita is the 3 year old. She's the exact same size as Amara and every time she comes to the store, she hugs her and touches her. When we went into the store Tuesday night, Amara and Rita were dressed the same. Mar thought it was great...so we took their picture!

In this picture, we had been at Griffen's football game and Mar was pretty tired. I came in and put her on the couch...coat and all. Griffen and I were just talking on the other couch and all of the sudden Amara gets up, stumbles around for a minute and then goes into the kitchen and lays down by the front door! Oh yeah, and she took her coat half way off in the process. It was hilarious...she just slept walked herself right onto the hard kitchen floor. I only left her there long enough to take a picture!

And here is a picture of the new "pink bedroom" Amara picked out all by herself! She had about 10 choices and she picked out the most frilly, little girly bedroom there was!! And all this time I thought she'd be a tomboy!! NOPE!!

Griff's Football Season "Pullman Panthers"

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I have a ton of pictures on my camera of football, but my "Great Finder" as she like to call herself, (AKA: Amara), lost my USB cable so I will have to get a CD of all my pics and then I'll update again!! And Mama, this will also fix the size of the pics...because I sent them from my phone, you can't look at them any bigger than they are here...so I'll work on that CD!! :-)

He had a lot of fun this year. We were so excited when we FINALLY found a tackle team here. Everyone here seems to just play soccer....something Griff's just not into. Although they didn't have a lot of wins, they learned a lot and they did win against the reigning champs from last year and they won their last game. Griffen was on the starting Offense and Defense. He played Wide Receiver and Safety.

Family Reunion~ Mercer Island

2009-07-12T19:56:00.000-07:00

This weekend, we had a Schroedl Family Reunion at Uncle Greg and Aunt Kay's house on Mercer Island. It was a blast! We got to see all of our aunts, uncles and cousins that we haven't seen in years. We had a delicious dinner and played out in Lake Washington.

After dinner, we went out on the boat. Griff, Erin, Margaret and I got on the tube...Patrick drove us around the lake. It was a gorgeous day so EVERYONE was out on the lake...which made the water a little choppy! My body hurts so bad today, I can hardly walk! Guess I'm really out of shape!

Late 4th of July pics...

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We went to the Johnson City parade. It's a tiny little town outside of Pullman, but I think every resident from the surrounding counties attend this parade! Amara got a full bucket of candy. We had so much fun! Later that night, we went to Sunnyside Park in Pullman to watch the fireworks. Amara had a blast, but she danced herself right to sleep 5 minutes before the fireworks started and slept through the whole thing!

This was Amara's 4th of July hair...I thought I did pretty good....and she was REALLY good and very patient!
I tried to download the video of her dancing at the firework show, but I'm not very good at blogging! Maybe someday I'll grasp it!

Dance Class!

2009-07-12T19:39:00.000-07:00

For Amara's 3rd Birthday, Aunt Diana enrolled her in dance classes! She absolutely loves it! She goes every Tuesday morning...it's adorable!

We forgot to put her tutu on for the pic! And that's her favorite part!

Mar and Mommy...alone in Spokane!

2009-06-27T21:44:00.000-07:00

Amara and I spent the day in Spokane. We tried to go downtown by the falls, but it was a zoo (it was Hoopfest)...so we went for Plan B....THE MALL! After purchasing some adorable new "J's" for Mar's birthday, we went for a 2 mile walk along the river on Centennial Trail. We had so much fun! We saw chipmunks and squirrels and a beautiful waterfall! Downtown Spokane has an area with a few rides...Mar wanted to drive the airplane!

Then we came back home and had dinner and Birthday Cake....Just the two of us! We miss Griffen....he left this morning for Colorado; It's going to be a loooong 10 days without him!

Mar and I took a pic of each other at the falls....there's the pic Mommy took of Mar in the right corner...here's Mar's pic of Mommy! She tried! I thought it was cute...so I posted it!

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New Pics.....FINALLY!!

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Shawndi's kids were being little characters and weren't quite in the mood for photos!

How fast are you?

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64 words

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I thought this was fun.....and addicting!

October is Down Syndrome Awareness Month

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This is my adorable niece, A'reian (Are-ee-on). She and Amara are 8 months apart and very best friends! They learn so much from each other. Their absolute favorite thing to do is watch Signing Time. We started teaching all of our kids sign language by the time they were about five months old. It was amazing how well they could communicate with us and each other at such a young age!
In honor of Down Syndrome Awareness Month, Parenting.com has posted pictures of beautiful babies with down syndrome. For more information on this site and other facts about down syndrome, visit A'reian and Anthony's page...

A few of my favorite pictures!

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I must say, I have some adorable babies.....and they are characters!! I don't have any funny pics of Griff right now; I'll try and find some. I have plenty of Mar being silly! And some very handsome pictures of Griffen. All the girls at work are in love with him and wish he were older!! I constantly have to remind them....HE'S 10!! BACK OFF!! :-)
Amara is so funny! The picture where it looks like she's eating spaghetti out of the grass.....she is! And wearing my swimsuit over her pajamas, which are on backwards! And she likes to pull her shirts on top of her head! And finally, attempting to sip champagne at her Aunt Brandi's reception (she didn't get any.....just for the record!) She keeps us VERY BUSY!!

From the beginning....

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Here's our story....I met Ethan 6 years ago in Fort Worth. We decided after a couple of years to add on to our family. We found out I was pregnant on Halloween of 2005. We were so excited! And scared....it had been 71/2 years! All of the ultrasounds looked great and we were thrilled to find out we were having a girl! A playmate for RayRay! When I was 7 months pregnant with Amara, we all moved to Utah, and boy what a journey that was.......A 7 year old, a pregnant woman, a newborn and 2 dogs! LOTS of pee stops!!! Amara was born on June 29, 2006 at 12:29pm (7lbs 14oz 201/2in) and appeared to be healthy as can be......but later that night we noticed she wasn't eating properly, she wanted to eat, but couldn't breath. The nurses tried to tell us she just had the newborn stuffiness and she would be fine but we knew it was something more than that. As the night went on, she got worse and worse and her oxygen level was in the 80's. She was immediately taken to the NICU. We were scared to death! I had just had a cesarean but refused to wait for the nurses to stroll me down to see her in a wheelchair, so I walked down to the NICU every chance I could (I got in trouble, by the nurses and Ethan, but I just didn't have the patience to wait). The pediatrician at LDS hospital sent a ct scan to Primary Children's to see if the ENT's there could see anything unusual with her nose. They discovered her nasal passages' were almost half the size they should be.....no wonder she couldn't breath!! She was transfered to Primary's where we spent the next 4 weeks. She had her 1st surgery on July 7th. They put stents in her nose after they drilled the holes bigger. It was so hard to see her with breathing tubes and this puffy little nose and lip. She looked just like little Cindy-Lou-Whoo!
Anyway, after one more surgery and some follow-up visits, she was perfect! Thanks to my family for taking care of our other baby for an entire month!

Our Family....

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Ok....I'm finally starting a blog so Shawndi will stop bugging me! It's going to be a slow process, so please have patience!:-)