Lucas and Marcie's Wedding!

What a beautiful wedding! The rain even held off till just after the ceremony! We had a great time dancin' away with friends!

The first dance! What a beautiful dress!!

The boys :)

Laincz and Marcie.....Laincz had a goooooood time that night :)

Friday night BBQ and some fun Madagascar with the boys!

The last friday we were in Kansas, we had a BBQ at Erin and Ryan's house! While the adults were working on the Don, the kids were having a ball. Here is a video from that night!

Riverside Park Mini Golf with the parents!

Well I am claiming that it was mini golf... but for those of you not from Indy.. this is the golf course with our bricks in it. The Schroeder fam is located on hole number 5!! It was fun searching for everyone.

Keith Urban and Taylor Swift Concert :)

Here are some pictures and videos from the Taylor Swift/Keith Urban concert at Sprint Center in KC! The concert was awesome and as you can see I went crazy with the camera! And this is just a small sampling of pictures from it!

The Girls!! I miss them. (Left to Right) Erin, Amber and Me!

Here is a pic of Taylor... love the ones with her in the background and the little thing up front!

Same angle of Keith... on the bigscreen and down below.


Love him!

He does a great job of coming to the back and playing for the back of the crowd! It's the best part!

Rockin!

Here is Keith singing "Kiss the Girl." Since it's Taylor's last concert with, they played a prank on him and came out dressed as Kiss and in Hershey's Kiss costumes. Taylor is just to the right of Keith in the Kiss outfit. See the video below.

Taylor and Keith.... their last concert. They sang a Keith song together, pretty cool!

Video's below... enjoy if you have time.. they are each about a minute.. some less.

This one goes out to all my Payless Peeps!!!

Well.. Payless was in the Texas news tonight! They didn't call out Payless (which I thought was complete crap) but I knew it was PSS! My favorite is the little guy at the end of the video dancin with his Airwalks!! It was down in Sugarland so my PSS peeps better make sure we have some flow back! :) I am sure that was a bulk order!


Way to go PSS for being location of choice!

Booker is adjusting to Houston life and HOT weather!

Well this is Booker outside laying in the backyard! Yes, and it's 3:20 in the afternoon, the hottest time of the day! He has taken some lessons from Bogey and is waiting outside for a squirrel to come so he can be ready. We didn't have any squirrels at our Lawrence house so it has taken him a couple of weeks to figure out just how fascinated he is with them. He sits in our bedroom bay window and watches them, goes crazy and then sits at the back door to be let out to chase them! Too funny. The recycling containers apparently make a great place to hide!

Before and After - Tree trimming front yard!

Last night Jeff and I did some serious front yard tree trimming... wanted to post the before and after to show what a difference it makes. I don't think the pictures quite tell the entire story! The 12 bundles that the yard waste guys just took probably do! Thank goodness we didn't have to put all of that in the back of the Jetta, we would have had to make 6 trips!

Before

After



Before

After

Grandpa Schroeder's 90th Birthday Partay!!

Happy Birthday Gramps!

This weekend we celebrated Gramps' 90th Birthday. Below are some photos and a couple of videos of his speech. He looks damn good for a 90 year old. My grandma stands proudly at his side at 86(87 next month).. and the both look great! The whole family was there with the exception of Jeff and Sam. Jeff in Houston and Sam in China studying abroad. Very rare that we can all be in one place at the same time!







The Cake and the table!






The Family lounging on Mom and Dad's back porch all afternoon! Really couldn't beat the beautiful Kansas Weather today!!

I love my new living room!!

Here are a couple of pictures of our new family room! I love it. My mom and I were so lucky to have found the great area rug so quickly... I thought I was going to be looking for months and it didn't even break the bank!

The Lawrence Hillbillies have arrived in The Woodlands!!

Since our yardwaste collection only happens once a week on Tuesday's, and we have lots of overgrown trees, last night we had to use the good ole Jetta to help us get rid of some extra brush! This was us loading up the Jetta to head to the recycling center.








Booker is really wondering what the heck is going on! I think he was a little confused at what we were doing. Everyone that drove by and saw us trimming our own trees looked at us pretty funny. I mowed the lawn earlier in the day and had people staring at me too. We have concluded that nobody around here mows their own lawn or does any yardwork. Well they haven't seen anything yet! Wait till next Spring when I plant all my own flowers and pots!!



Good thing Dad showed up after a meeting downtown, we used his Mercury rental car for the other load! Thanks Dad!

Booker's New Haircut Texas Style!

He looks good as new! It's much shorter (you can't tell) but they did a good job! I think I found my new place! Just a little work on his beard and we will be good.







This picture was him checking out his food container.... I had just refilled it so he was Mr. Curious!

New Kitchen Cabinet Hardware!!

Here is the before and after for the Kitchen cabinets... so much better and we will be able to get them open!

BEFORE



AFTER

Picutures of the house coming soon!

As soon as we get everything done!

Another new experience!!

Tonight we had a lizard in the house... you won't find that as often in Kansas! Luckily it was just a baby pink salamander and it was easily caught, but now I am going to be a little worried about sleeping.. EEks, can you imagine waking up to that on you!

Haha... testing out my camera video skills

Fire Ants... watch out! My first bite!!

Tonight I got stung/bit (whatever you call it) by a couple of fire ants! I got lucky that I didn't mess with the entire colony, but I got the idea of what it would be like for me, Jeff or Booker if we ever got into more than just 2. We had just sprayed Mosquito stuff on each other to go on a walk when I walked away from the house and thought Jeff had sprayed it in an open wound on my ankle.. when I looked down, I realized I had FIRE ANTS! It was not pleasant and burned for a while. I am attaching a picture of my tiny welt in case you were wondering! It was on my ankle!!



I had to share so you would know what it was like if you are ever visiting us! Needless to say we killed them tonight.. and they are gone!! Thank goodness Booker didn't try to sniff the mound or he would have had them up his nose and we would have had ourselves a vet bill :)

We are in Texas and starting to adjust!!

All of these pictures are of Booker, because for right now he is the most confused!! We are living in Humble Texas for 10 days then on to the new home! We all can't wait, living with 1 plate, 1 bowl and no chairs or a bed is a little difficult!! At least we now have internet and TV here!

Think he is guarding the stairway so that he doesn't get left!!



Still guarding!




Guarding the master bedroom door.. anytime we walk around on the 2nd floor he makes sure he is right there!

Here he is starting to adjust. This is his "pop up" house that he is sleeping in while we are in temporary living.. he is starting to feel at home, I gave him both of his purple pillows so how could he not be at "home." His favorite pillows!!

Another shot. So cute and peaceful next to our airbed :)

And we are moving!!!!

Kitchen is almost packed!!

They pulled straight in.. hopefully they don't have issues getting out!!

It's official!

This is what happens to my poochie when we start cleaning out drawers! Happy 4th of July from Booker McD!

Booker is super excited about our new house!

Can you tell... this was after our weekend with my parents and Bogey... I think Bogey wears Booker out!! He loves his chicken...