A "leading role" for Corey...

Corey auditioned for a leading role in the musical, "Traditions of Christmas." It is one of the biggest Christmas plays in San Diego. They perform the play at the East County Performing Arts Center, which is a huge venue! Anyway, she tried out a few weeks ago and had waited about two weeks to find out that she had been selected as one of the 6 female leads in the musical. There are 6 guys and 6 girls that make up the ensenmble and Corey is one of those girls. The girls and guys are paired up and do a ton of singing and dancing!! The ensemble has 12 costume changes!!! There are about 150 people in the musical all together, so it is a big production. What an honor for Corey!!! She is the youngest one in the ensenmble. There is a boy that is 19 and all of the other performers are 22 and older..... and Corey just turned 18 last Friday. I can't tell you how excited she was when she found out. I am so happy for her. She deserves it. She is a truly talented singer and performer. We can't wait to see her in December!! If anyone would like to go, give me a call and I can get you 2 for 1 tickets. They are regularly $35.00 a ticket.

Oh...and more fun...Aubrey and Julia went to the "Traditions of Christmas" auditions as well. They were only able to audition at the singing audtion and missed the dancing audtion. When Corey pulled up the cast list on the computer, Aubrey and Julia were cast as "Toys" in the musical!! How fun is that?! They both did well at the singing auditon. I couldn't believe how brave Julia was when she got up to sing in front of everyone! I thought they weren't going to make it becasue they missed the dancing audition. So, the 3 girls are in it, which is really a fun experience for them!!!

A funny story about Julia...

I had to share this cute story about Julia with you. She says the funniest things sometimes and this was so sweet and sincere I wanted to tell you. A few nights ago Julia and I were saying her prayer. In her prayer she was saying "Bless my family to be happy and help us to have a good day at school tomorrow," and then she said this......."and bless you (you being Heavenly Father) and Jesus Christ to have a good time in Heaven!" It was so sincere. I need to start writing these things down more often because as time goes by I forget the cute things she says!

It's a BOY !!!

i had an ultrasound last week and we are having a boy. MORE BASEBALL!!! we are sooo excited. my mom was here helping with the move so she got to go to the ultrasound with me. the ultrasound tech gave us a copy of the video and it is fun to watch! right after the ultrasound i sent a text message to corey, patrick, and emily and told them. my mom, pat , julia and i all went to the elementary school to tell daniel and aubrey. we went into the office and had them call daniel and aubrey out of class for just a minute to tell them. daniel came into the office first and i said, "guess what, it's a boy!!!" and we seriously thought daniel was going to pass out!! the office staff was asking him if he was ok...he had to sit down. it was so cute!!! daniel and aubrey were both really happy!!!

julia was really cute the other night. i was laying by her tucking her in for bed and she said, "i am glad the baby is a boy, mommy!" and i asked her why and she said, "because if it was a girl, all aubrey would want to do is play with the baby and not me!" i guess she is beginning to feel the crown slipping already!!!

we are all done with the move to our new house. we had a lot of help and it made such a difference! we had 6 missionaries, our bishop, and 2 good friends, danny quidang and patrick pettijohn to help us. we started at about 9:00 am and they were done by 3:00 pm. so it didn't take too long. i don't know what we would do without danny quidang. he is the hardest worker i know and he has been helping us for 3 months to get ready to move and then to get moved in...THANK YOU danny!!!

what would i have done without my mom during the 10 days she was here to help me. she helped me sooooooooo much. i couldn't have done the move without her. she is amazing and such a hard wotker!! mom, thank you so much for helping me. you made things so much easier for me and we got so much done. thank you thank you and i love you!!!

Moving...what a job!!!

I have been so flaky lately about posting! Between feeling pretty awful and doing a HUGE garage sale and packing my house I have been a little busy! We are moving to our new house in 6 days! HOLY COW!!! We are excited and the kids are soooo thrilled to each get their own room! (Well, except Aubrey and Julia...the trouble with being the youngest of 7, I suppose!) Aubrey and Julia will be sharing a room as they do now. My mom is coming this Sunday to help with the final two days of packing (kitchen!) and then help me get things settled in the new house! I don't know what I would do without such a wonderful mother!! She loves to organize and there will be plenty of that in finding new places to put everything! Thanks, Mom!!!

We did a garage sale the last 2 weekends and it was pretty successful. We ended up selling about $1400.00 in all our junk that we have collected for 11 years! We still have a lot left so we are donating it the the high school and elementary school for the rummage sales that they are having. The same junk will look like new junk in a different location, right? Anyway the money has been put to much needed use!! It was hard work but worth it.

I will post pictures next week of the move and the house. If I survive it all!!!

First Day of School !!

Wow...it's been a while since I last posted. I have been feeling pretty lousy with this pregnancy so, I guess that has shown in my lack of getting on my blog! I am feeling a little better during the daytime, for which I am soooo grateful! Night time is still very "gaggy". I do a lot of gagging these days, its pretty gross! But, I suppose that is better than throwing up.

These pictures are of the first day of school for the kids. Corey, Patrick and Emily are not in the pics. Corey started collage at Southwestern College a few weeks a go! It's hard to believe that she is in college. She is going to the same college where Pat and I met...WEIRD!! That could make me feel old!! Patrick was in Hawaii with the Varsity football team for the whole first week of school. They played against a Hawaiian team from a high school in Kona, Hawaii. Bonita (our school) beat the Kona team 38-3. The boys were very happy and Patrick had a fun time! Emily left for early morning seminary on the first day of school and it was dark outside when she left...we were going to take a picture when she got home, but you know how that goes. Anyway, Daniel started 6th grade, Aubrey started 4th grade, and Julia started Kindergarten.

I have really debated within myself wether or not to start Julia in Kindergarten! She is 4 and turns 5 on November 1st. She is sooooo attached to me and with the baby coming I thought it might be good for her to have something of her own. Socially she is ready and she seems so bright...I just hope I did the right thing. She is so young! I guess time will tell.

Things are crazy busy around here. We are moving to a different house on October 1st. On Patrick's 17th Birthday!! We have 3 more weeks to get everything packed so we are packing something every day! We are getting quite a bit done. It sure is nice to get everything so organized and sorted! We will still be in Bonita, just down the road from where we are now. It's a bigger house and we are excited about that!! I will post some pictures when we move!

YES, it's true.....Schneemann child #7 is on the way!!!

Well, yes, it's true!! Child #7 is on the way! I am due March, 28, 2009. Here is the story: I woke up on a Tuesday morning about 3 weeks ago and realized that I still had not started my period I ALWAYS start on a Sunday night every 28 days (sorry if that is too much information for some of you!). So, given that it was a Tuesday I started to be a little concerned. I was thinking "There has got to be a reason for this!!" I was thinking maybe even pre-menopause (ok, I know 40 is a little early). But surely there was an explanation because it couldn't be that I was pregnant!

So, I called my sister telling her what I was thinking and told her I was on my way to Rite-Aid to buy a pregnancy test. I told her that if I was pregnant that Heavenly Father must have decided that since I was being stubborn he would have to intervene, because that would be the only way that I could be pregnant! So, I went home and took the test and of course that little blue line was there in all of about 10 seconds!! So, I told the kids I would be right back and I went out to the car and cried! I was shocked!! I called my sister and she said, "Hadley, what did you just say to me while you were walking in Rite-Aid?" So, I gathered myself together...(a HUGE thanks to my sister, what would I do without you Shelly!)...stopped crying and thought... ok, I can do this! I may be 41 when this baby is born, but I can do this.

We think that we are in charge of our lives sometimes, but then humility brings us back and we realize that our Heavenly Father has a plan for us and He is in charge. So, I have faith that He will help me. I'm trying to do all that I can do to help myself too!. Taking my vitamins, walking, and eating healthy. I do worry about my health toward the end of my pregnancy! I had pre-eclampsia with Aubrey and Julia and would really like to not have it again. So, I hope that doing all of these things will help.

Corey was in Hawaii on her senior trip at the time, so we called her and put her on speaker and told all of the kids! They all started screaming and yelling with excitement. Corey wanted to talk to Julia, so I gave Julia the phone and I heard Julia say, "Oh my gosh, I'm totally freaking out, I am so excited!!" We can always count on Julia to come up with a great one-liner!! My kids could not be more excited to have another brother or sister (the majority vote is for a boy) and Pat said he is as excited as he was when we found out we were expecting Corey! What a wonderful husband I have (Not that he wasn't in on the whole making of the baby!!) . Some husbands would be completely overwhelmed ...not Pat!!

I will keep you informed as we go and let you know how mom and baby are doing. I appreciate the support that many of you have given us already!! We are truly blessed in so many ways!

i love summer!!

i love summer! it has been such a nice summer so far. i have REALLY enjoyed the down time from our regular crazy schedule!! i have tried to make it just simple and fun. we have spent quite a few days at the beach so far and plan to go a lot more before summer is over! patrick is LOVING surfing and is getting really good!! he has gone a lot! he tries to squeeze it in before or after football practice. by the way...he had such a great time at efy (see prior post for explanation). the experience was life changing for him!! he had so much fun that corey decided to go this last week to efy in santa barbara as well. we hadn't registered her ahead of time so we made a bunch of phone calls and finally got a hold of someone on sunday night. they ended up having room for her so we drove 4 hours to santa barbara on monday morning, dropped her off and then had a 4 hour drive home. she had a fabulous time as well...what a neat spiritual experience that they both had! i am sooo thankful they were able to go!!! corey ended up taking the train home on friday for only $38.00. it cost me $140.00 in gas when i drove her there on monday and drove home. gas prices...uuuuugh!!!

yesterday my cousin joelle, her son aidan and her boyfriend, dave came to our house to stay for a day and a half! i love it when she comes. we are so much alike and spend most of the time laughing!! as tradition calls for we have to make a yummy dessert and watch a scary movie...and we did both. we made pazookies (I don't know if i spelled that correctly but it's a yummy dessert they make at bj's restaurant) and we watched "the forgotten". it was fun and it was really nice to meet dave and to get to know him! today we went to the beach (west mission beach) and had a blast!! although the waves were lousy for patrick and nathan (patricks long time friend that went with us), they seemed to have more fun boogie boarding today! we were by the jetty and joelle, dave, julia, aubrey and i went over to look at the little tide pools and crabs on the rocks. we came home and had dinner and then went to see "journey to the center of the earth". what a fun movie, although we didn't get to see it in 3-d which would have made it even better! after the movie joelle, aidan and dave had to head back to visalia. darn it!! we both wished we could have had more time together because we enjoy being together so much. we are hoping to take a trip to visalia some time before the end of the year ( i promise joelle!! ) so, here are some pictures from today! enjoy!