Schmoyer Family Blog

Just wanted to keep you all updated and let you know that David and I arrived safely in Maple Grove, MN today around 2:30. Thank you for all of your prayers…tonight we are at Dan & Maggie’s relaxing and tomorrow we will go see our apartment and get everything moved in. Hope everything is well with everyone else!

Pray for David and Adrienne as they travel to MN this week- it's a huge deal when you're pregant - she's leaving her family when most of us females want our  'mom's" most.  I feel for Adrienne. She is very courageous. She must really trust David. We will pray reguarly throghout the day.  What an adventure !!!Love nancy/mom

Here are some random comments during the morning chaos

 Mark: "I ddin't get any Mary Kay stuff. I'm not sad"

Glory and Grace did a savenger hunt for Mark's gift .One of the steps was that Mark had to take a SHOWER !!!( That is torture for Mark)

Dad likes the affirmation box. He read thru all 300 plus in one sitting. He said he will re read them one at a time through out the year.  He said you guys can reuse them at his funeral.

Merry Christmas to the most important people in the world.!!!Jerry and I miss you all and especially Jordan, Noah, Gia, Gabriel and Ruby this Christmas. I hope they like their tokens of love from us and think of us tomorrow. WE WILL BE THINKING OF YOU !!!  We love you all so much. You are so wonderful and we are proud of you all beyond words. Love Nancy and Jerry / Mom and Dad

Well, we finally have some snow!! it started raining this morning and then changed over to sleet and ice at 11am. By 2 we had the HUGE fluffy snowflakes falling from the sky. We have about 2 inches of snow with 2-3 more expected over night and tomorrow…. it'll be fun to go hunting tomorrow in the snow!!!

we are looking forward to next week when David and Adrienne and their "family" (dogs) arrive here! we also have our house closing next week so its gonna a really busy week, but for all the right reasons!

well, i just thought i'd make all you warm weather people jealous by telling you about our fun snow!! Ruby can say "snow" and she went outside with me for a while. we made a snow man too! i'll post the pics of her with her snowman/snowfriend pretty soon! she's really cute all bundled up in her snow outfit!!! she's like a big puff ball!

Have a great day and we'll talk or see you soon!

dan, maggie, and ruby

MERRY CHRISTMAS!!!!

Timber is different than Grizzly, you look at her and realize there may be NOTHING going on inside her head! Don’t get me wrong, I love this little dog, she is so sweet and precious, but I think she may be retarded. We got her when she was about 6 months old and therefore she had been in a kennel for about 6 months with other puppies not really experiencing human contact, now we got Grizzly when he was 6 weeks old and he immediately attached to us and is horrified at the thought of being kenneled. They are so different! Just listen to the list…about a month ago Timber got stung by a yellow jacket, not because the bee was after her, but because she was hunting the bee. Anyways, long and scary story for me made short, her throat began to swell shut and she was making awful hacking sounds while whippering about the sting on her face I called the emergency vet because of course it was the weekend and they weren’t open and I was told to give her a benadryl…she survived! About 2 weeks ago David was playing with her and Grizzly outside chasing them around, but she doesn’t understand the being chased part of it so she ran towards David and collided with his big foot. I am pretty sure she was unconscious for a minute and then began to almost violently shake. Luckily no vet was needed for this one just some rest on the couch for her. 3 days ago she decided as she was sitting on the couch that she would attempt flight off the arm rest…she jumped in the air did some sort of back flip landed on what had to be her head and got up instantly limping, putting NO weight on her back leg. David and I were positive she broke it…she hopped around for the rest of the night and most of the next morning and then BAM, she could walk again. Strange little dog. And this morning to top it all off she and Grizz were out in the back yard doing there business and she decided it would be a good idea to dig up an fire ant hill. By the time I realized what she was doing, because she was freaking out, she was absolutely COVERED in fire ants. I ran her inside threw her in the sink and spent the next 30 minutes trying to get them off her feet and face. Again I gave her a benadryl and she is now resting occassionally waking up to freak out about the itching I am sure she is experiencing. I don’t understand my slighly suicidal dog, but I love her…and might I add…none of this has ever happened to Grizzly. She is quite the character. I think after Timber, having a real baby will be a piece of cake…God must be preparing me.

Well Dan and Maggie insisted on taking Ruby home with them after their visit, so we are all in mourning now and grieving not waking up to little Miss Sunshine . What  was our normal routine before the visit? Back to co op and school,and wash etc. It's hard to go back to the grind after that. She is such a little Schmoyer female - beware !! She's got opinions, feeling, ideas and SPUNK to spare. !!Oh Dan - you are in for IT!!…It makes me greive not seeing Jordan,Noah,Gia and especially Gabriel while he is small. GOTTA DO something about this long distance.!!! Pray Mom Mom's house sells this Friday. Even if settlement isn't for a long time - at least we'll have a buyer. ( they are moving to Doylestown across the street from us and much closer to my sister)  Miss you all . It's 50 degrees today , love nancy/mom

I am trying to find a good radio station online that plays only Christmas music. Any suggestions from my computer crazed relatives?

Skip the Taco Bell trip guys…unless you want to end up in the hospital! Dell Taco will have to do…we can hardly wait til Dec 27th!!!

i just read your trip plan and i wanted to let you know 4 out of the 5 state you'll travel in are SUPER boring!!!!! we have driven from Kansas City, MO to Maple Grove and Iowa is really really boring!!! OK isn't so exciting, TX won't be very scenic, and Kansas is……. Kansas.  hopefully you'll have plenty of stories to listen to on your ipod because after a while even your music starts to sound anoying. I listened to ESPN radio a TON on our drive from PA to MN because you get all kids of different people calling in and talking about football, baseball, basketball, college sports, etc… so i was pretty entertained with that! maggie isn't so thrilled with ESPN radio so i wouldn't recommend it for you adrienne (unless you are a huge sports fan, which i'm guessing your not ). so far i have not heard Gray's Ananomy on the radio so you'll just have tape the show and listen to the audio in the car!  

well, now that you have all my worthless ideas you can really enjoy your long drive! we're excited to have you guys in MN and we'll have a bunch of people ready to help you unload so its not just us! talk to you soon!

dan