Holiday Inn Express in Morton

Grace likes doing butt busters.

What a ham!

Eden and Grace with one of their favorite people.

We're Alive and HOT

Settling Down

I thought I better update after a month of moving and unpacking. I finally feel like I live somewhat normal. As of now we are renting and the place is fully furnished, so we don't need a lot of our stuff.

We thought that all of our belongings would fit into this 26' beaut, but on that cold, snowy Monday morning we made a quick trip to Morris to pick up a 12' trailer to follow the Expedition. I wish I took a picture of our train. Rustin and Grace drove this pulling the Saturn on a dolly. Eden and I were in the Expedition pulling the trailer. There was not an empty hole for nothing or no one. If we had to do it over we probably would go with a different company. This truck was not designed for Minnesota snow! It was stuck atleast 6 times during our hauling. Most of them in our alley.
This was one room of the house on Monday morning. All of them basically looked like this. Grace was getting a little frustrated at having no room to play and nothing to play with.

As you know we picked the worst week in 100 years to travel to Illinois. Ah, the memories! We made it to Jackson, Mn monday afternoon and decided we had enough sliding around for the day. At one point I almost rear ended Rustin. Thankfully I slid right up next to him. Lets just say it wasn't fun driving. Grace got a little swimming in that night and we got up bright and early to maybe make it all the way. The roads got much better closer to Iowa and we made great time until we hit Cedar Rapids. It started to snow and accumulate and we knew we had 3 hours left on good roads. After talking with Il people we decided it would be wiser to stay in Coralville(Ia City) than to get stuck somewhere between Moline and Peoria. At that point I thought we would be staying there 2 nights. Grace would get in plenty of swimming! Unfortunately she got the flu sometime during the night and it lasted until the next afternoon. I think this was God's way of telling us, you are going nowhere... just stay put another night. By Wednesday afternoon Rustin was going crazy so he went out and dug out the vehicles. Since Grace was still sick, we took separate walks to the mall by our motel. By the evening Grace was better so she was able to go swimming one last time. We were on the road by 7 on Thursday morning and made it to Tremont by 10:30. After seeing all the vehicles in the ditch, we were glad we waited the storm out. The rest of the day was spent unloading all vehicles and we are finally all unpacked!

We bought a new camera, so Grace gets the old one. She is very excited. I think she shows some promise.

self portrait

Since we've moved we started Eden on baby food. She gobbles it right up and is usually asking for more.

Grace is still the one who can make Eden laugh/smile the best.

We Are................................................................

MOVING!!!!!!!!!!!

That's right, we are moving to Tremont. We feel God's direction to move south, and Rustin found a job at Sun Ag, so in three weeks we will no longer be Minnesotans but Illini. This has been a couple months of ups and downs and much prayer, but we have a peace and are excited for a new venture. Rustin's last day of work is the 28th and then we load up the next week and go. Thanks for your continued prayers!

Let's Roll

You'll have to ignore the background noise and abuse, but Eden can now roll from back to front and front to back. She just all of a sudden rolled from front to back at my parents over Christmas. We had a nice time down there. Short as usual. We celebrated Schmidgall Christmas the week after. One night we were all snowed in because of a blizzard. Worst one I've been in yet. Good Times. Here are some px of the past few weeks.

Grace is standing in this snowbank at our house. This was before Christmas, so there is about 12 more inches on top of that.


Grace helping the men scoop off my parent's drive. Later that day it snowed another 6-8 inches so they dug out the snowblower.

all ready for sledding

the 3 2010 babies
Eden, Mia Dill, and Avery Hughbanks

Grace Eden Olivia Mia Grayson

Grace received a decorate your own cupcake set from Bob and Jenny. She loves it!

This is the only px I took at Schmidgall Christmas because ReKeeta has a way better camera. As you can see Eden's cheeks are holding up the glasses not her nose.

the Projector

Grace likes to snuggle with Eden in the morning when we let her.

Thanksgiving

ONE OF THE MANY BLESSINGS OF THANKSGIVING!