Hello to all! As usual I feel super behind in blogging world! Seems impossible to find the time to sit down and type out a blog! One of these days I will have it all together...or maybe not! Ha! Life in the Schoen casa has been great! We are enjoying being out for the summer and loving all of the sweet time we get to enjoy as a family! We have also been super busy with visitors, road trips, and me working on my principal internship. I have to accumulate 160 hours of principal work which is kinda crazy to get while taking care of two 3 month olds! I am doing my internship at Grape Creek so I have to drive out everyday during summer school for a few hours and then hurry back to feed babies! It has been crazy and I will be happy when it is all said and done! It's one of those things that I committed to do so I might as well just suck it up and do it!
Go Bulldogs!
Since it's been awhile since I last blogged, things have changed a little bit in our household! I am not the only one with a new job for next year! Derek accepted a job at Miles for next school year and will be the head girls basketball coach and head cross country coach. We are THRILLED about this new opportunity and know that God opened this door wide open for our family! The drive will be about the same as it was to GC everyday, so thankfully we are staying in our house! We have been praying and praying about this situation for a long time and feel completely blessed to be starting the next chapter at Miles. We also feel very blessed to have been a part of Grape Creek for the past seven years and are glad to be leaving on good terms. We have been blessed to teach and coach some truly great kids over the past seven years and have made lasting friendships at the Creek. God is good!
Father's Day
This past weekend, Derek got to experience his first Father's day! What a blessing it was to FINALLY get to give Derek a Father's day present! I have wanted to give Derek children since the day we said "I do" and I am so thankful God allowed that to happen this year! The twins and I got Derek a new red shirt for him to coach in at Miles and a bible with his name on it! Inside, we wrote scriptures that talked specifically about fathers and husbands to help encourage him as he strives to be the head of our household! We couldn't ask for a better man for the job!
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| Go Bulldogs! |
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| Tucker is a little bored |
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| Doesn't get much hotter than that! |
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| My sassy girl and her bow! |
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| Sweet daddy time! |
Baby Presentation
Derek got to experience a double blessing on Father's Day because we also got to present the babies at church that day! I cannot tell you how long I have dreamed and hoped for the opportunity to present babies in front of the church! I would picture us standing up there and our sweet names on the projector and just pray that God would fulfill our desires! Of course I was emotional during the entire service because I am just SO THANKFUL that God has blessed us so much. I still am just in AWE of our sweet babies! I LOVE them SOOOOO much!!! The presentation went amazing...Tucker was a little bit fussy because they woke up earlier than usual, but it wasn't too bad. The presentation was even more special because we got to have our Grumpy pray over the twins as their elder! So precious! Our cup continues to runneth over!
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| Is the bow too much??? |
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| Dressed up and ready for church! |
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| We've waited so long to see those names up there! |
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| Our happy family! |
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| Receiving their bibles |
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| Grumpy was juggling! |
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| Such a happy day! |
Tucker and Adelyn
In case you were wondering, the babies have been doing great!!! They are extremely happy babies and for the most part, really easy! They are sleeping great during the night and even slept from 9:00-7:00 straight last night! They usually nap two long naps during the day and may take a couple of cat-naps too! They are still breast-feeding well and are continuing to grow! Tucker rolled from his tummy to his back on June 8th and has done it a couple more times since then. Adelyn rolled from her tummy to back on June 15th twice, but hasn't done it again since. They already seem a little competitive because Ady works SO HARD to roll over and doesn't want any help doing it...ha!
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| Whatchu looking at??? |
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| You talking to me??? |
The twins have gone to bible class twice and LOVED it! Tucker watches every thing the teacher does and Adelyn likes to watch Tucker...haha! Most of the time they are both really well natured but Ady has come out with a little temper lately...especially if she is hungry! I think she has a little of her mama in her! Tucker is still attached to mama, but is doing better with letting others hold him. He still gets upset sometimes where only mama can calm him down, but that is getting few and far between. Both babies love their daddy as well and are enjoying all of this time that he is home!
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| What is that on my head??? |
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| We LOVE bible class! |
This past week, Jordan and Jaxson have been in town and we have spent a LOT of time with our cousins! Both Jordan and Jax LOVE the twins! Jaxson is especially into every single thing about them! They love being helpers and bringing the babies their bottles, paci's, elephants, and blankies! Both of them love holding the twins and helping feed them! The cousin love is too cute!!!
One year ago...
I continue to wake up each morning and wonder how in the world I could ever be this blessed! We have the two sweetest twins in the whole world who brighten each and every day! It is so hard to imagine life without these two and the joy they have brought to our lives!
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| OUR JOY! |
Since summer began, I keep remembering where we were a year ago at this time. How different our lives were! This Saturday marks exactly one year since we began the in-vitro process! I can VIVIDLY remember each detail about this week last year! I can remember the fear I felt inside, worrying that it wouldn't work or worrying about the pain that we might go through. I remember the tears I would cry each night, scared to go into the unknown of IVF. I remember the LOVE I felt from the elders and family and friends who prayed over us before we left for San Antonio. I remember the nervousness of our first doctor's appointment, the scariness of my first injection, and the sense of achievement I felt after every shot, blood draw, and ultra-sound.
What a roller-coaster of emotions last summer was! And how AWESOME is our GOD!!! To think He could create such BEAUTIFUL LIFE out of our brokeness and bring us so far out of our despair! His plans are SO MUCH bigger than anything we could ever hope or imagine! I look at Tucker and Adelyn's sweet faces and just cry out my thanksgiving to God! Thank you God for not answering my prayers immediately during those six years!!! Thank you God for waiting and doing things your way! Thank you God for healing my heart and taking your time to create our precious babies! You alone are faithful and trustworthy and you are WORTHY of our praise! I am still amazed that people can ever deny the existence of God once they have experienced the amazing miracle of pregnancy and childbirth. Only God can create something so wonderful!
