More Pictures

Grandma and Grandpa "Quade" stayed with us for a few days (thank goodness, who knew our daughter would like her grandpa more than her dad?). They always hang pictures of the grandkids up on their wall and so they took a picture with Karli and one of Karli to hang up on their wall. They also suggested we take a picture at the apartment she was born in so that is included as well. Enjoy!

Introducing Karli Kathleen Schoonmaker

Here is the long-awaited pictures of our beautiful girl Karli Kathleen. We had a tough birth, but Kelly was amazing and made it through! After a few days we got home from the hospital and are now enjoying the company of Kelly's parents and all of my family that is in town. If you want to hear more about our birth story, feel free to call!

Zoo, Wedding, Graduation

Hey everyone!
I can't figure out how to get these lousy pictures to work right for me on Blogspot. So I am just going to put them all below and you need to figure out which goes with which:). So here goes:
I am finally getting pictures up from our trip to Colorado and Wyoming in May. While in Colorado, one of the favorite things to do is go to the Cheyenne Mountain Zoo. When you go to the zoo there are a lot of fun activities, one is feeding the giraffes. I fed the giraffes a lot but Kelly thought that the giraffe tounges were gross so she decided that I could feed them for her. Here are pictures of my mom, dad and Trent as well as me looking like a giraffe and Kelly enjoying the heat of the day!

While we were in Colorado, we attended the wedding of one of my good friends Anne Gollan(Volkmer now). She and her husband Mike had their reception at the Officer's Club at the Air Force Academy and Kelly and I had fun meeting my old friends and hanging out with them. Here is a picture of Kelly and I and a picture of me, Anne, and my other good friend Amanda Jackson.

Finally, the week that we were in Wyoming, Kelly's brother Sean graduated from high school. Here are some pictures of him with parents and grandparents.

More pictures coming as soon as I can find the charger for our camera.

Catch-up

Hello everyone!

I know it has been a long time since I have blogged and I apologize. Not allowing everyone to get there "Jeremy and Kelly Schoonmaker blog" fix must have been hard.

We have been pretty busy, I finished finals and started my work for the summer doing research and doing Physics homework help. The research is going well despite the fact that my advisor has decided to pretty much triple the amount of work that I need to do on my senior thesis. It is okay though since that means it will just be that much better. The homework help has been fun as well and has been a lot of help in keeping me thinking about physics and re-teaching me some things that I had learned in earlier classes.

Kelly is doing really well and is excited to be on her 35 week of pregnancy. We are gearing up to have the baby and are both really excxited about seeing her. Kelly has started a few projects in preparation for having the baby including a wall hanging, hypnobirthing, and moving to a new apartment. Between the three she stays very busy.

We spent some time out of town in May visiting my parents and Kelly's parents. I have pictures that I will include in the next few days from a trip to the zoo, a wedding, a graduation, baby clothes and birds! Stay tuned!

Crib Pics

Those of you who would like to see pics of the new crib, you are lucky, because here they are.

Kelly crazy happy about the crib and starting to build it.















Trust a crib maker that can not spell?
















After about 4 hours of building here it is all built and nice!















Kelly very tired but happy that it is done!
















A few days later after the room is clean. We also
bought a mattress, sheets, and a blanket my mom sent.
















Those of you who are observant can learn a lot from this previous picture. You will see that there is a "tuning fork" of galaxy classification published by the Spitzer Space Telescope in the background. A must in any new baby room.

The Crib Fiasco

There comes a time in a pregnant woman's life that is often called "nesting." Kelly hit this stage hardcore a few weeks ago, and no corner of our house has been safe from cleaning or organizing since. The desk (shown in the post below) was a product of this. Since we bought the new desk it has been time for another new piece of furniture...the crib.

Kelly has been really wanting to buy a crib for the past few weeks, and after extensive(and those of you who know Kelly well will know that this means lists upon lists) research into what crib to get, we(she) decided on one that she really liked. We ordered it and Kelly has been patiently(impatiently) awaiting its arrival. Well, today I got the e-mail that said it was ready to get picked up. After looking over the size and weight, I, being the man, decided I would be able to hoist it into the car and get it home.

So, the trip began about 3:30pm with Kelly picking me up from school. We drove down to Wal-Mart, had to stop to get something to eat (neither of us had eaten since 8 that morning), and went to get the crib. As soon as they wheeled the flat cart out that had the crib on it, Kelly went BERSERK, laughing uncontrollably, she was so happy. We got the crib out to the car and to our dismay, it did not fit.

At this point in time I would like to say, it was darn close. My manly 3-d sense of packing was sooooo close to right, only about 3 inches off. Unfortunately, the size of the crib can't shrink 3 inches, so we were stuck. Lucky for us, Drew Barnes drove over with his truck to bail us out. We load the crib into his truck and head for home. Right as we are pulling out of the parking lot, we see a motorcycle accident. Not a bad one and not anything that had to do with us, so we drive past back on our way to Provo. Unfortunately, the road that we were going to take was closed, so we kind of randomly drove around for about 20 minutes all the while Kelly giggling like a mad woman.

We finally got home and started to put the crib together. After about 10 minutes, we noticed that in one of the legs, they did not drill the holes for the legs in the correct places. We thought if we could just sand about 1/8 of an inch off the top, it would work well. Trip #1 to Home Depot to get sandpaper followed and we got home at about 7:30. After about 40 minutes of sanding, our sandpaper was smooth and it wasn't getting any closer to fitting. Trip #2 to Home Depot to get more sandpaper. We did finally get it sanded down enough that we could get the screws in, but not well enough that we didn't have to really get mean with the screws. In doing so, I stripped one of the screws pretty good (lets hope it never needs to come out) and scratched up a small piece of the wood. Kelly, being the wonderful person she is, told me it was no big deal. So, we got the thing put together (though after we put the drawer together we realized we did it wrong and had to take it apart and put it together again). After it was together, we had to vacuum, move the furniture and clean the house.

7 hours later, the task was complete. The crib is built and ready for a mattress and sheets. Kelly could not be happier, though she is exhausted. Oh the joys of parenthood. And to think, I wanted to do homework tonight.

New Desk

Kelly and I decided to spend a bit of our leftover wedding money (giftcards) and we found this beautiful desk that we really like. We already have a desk in our spare bedroom, but since that is getting converted to the baby's room, the desk has to go. The problem is that the desk is falling apart and won't fit out the door and etc. so we decided to get a new one. (By the way, if anyone wants a desk that only needs a little work to be useable, let me know) Here are a few pictures of Kelly building it (for those of you who don't know, building furniture is one of Kelly's most favorite things to do which is good since I am not exactly a "handy man." She takes care of most of the repair type things(lously lack of masculentiy)) and some pictures of it totally setup and looking good.