New Nephews: Ryan, Jaden & Cody

Our summer seems like a giant traveling vacation.  The first stop on our tour was Spring, TX for the celebration of baptism for our new nephew, Ryan David Schleicher.  Ryan is the second son of Jon's brother and sister-in-law, Matt and Kim.

I finished my first 1/2 year of teaching on May 21.  It was a huge learning curve and I am excited to continue to teach 7th and 8th grade English at Raymond Central High School.  I am also the new high school varsity volleyball coach.  Following my final day of school, we immediately drove 14 hours down to north Houston.

Anyway...back to Ryan.  Jon and I drove to Spring on (Thursday) May 24.  We had so much fun visiting Matt, Kim, Ian, and baby Ryan.  It was a wonderful family visit as Mom and Dad Schleicher and Beth and Andy Hanson (Jon's sister and brother-in-law), and Elaine Walquist (Kim's mom) were also in Texas for the baptism.

Jon's boys :)

We just love this family!

Jon is pretty proud to share his middle name with Ryan

Very proud grandparents!

Two grandmas who love their grandchildren VERY much!  Precious

Can you tell we like to take pictures?  There are just so many wonderful memories we wanted to capture.  Jon and I took it as our personal mission to spend as much time with Ian as we could.  For a three year old, who is used to having his parent's life revolve around his schedule, we knew the transition of a brother could be a rough one for Ian.  We had a great time entertaining him!  Ian's third birthday was at the beginning of May, but we had our own birthday party for him.  Ian got an awesome Thomas the train set from Grandma and Grandpa.  It was well played with during our visit.

 He opened a toddler scooter from us and was a little unsure of it at first.  He did enjoy standing on it with both feet and having someone push him around while he steered :)

Finally he took it out for a ride in the driveway

Ian loved airplane rides

 Since Jon is one of Ian's sponsors, we gave him a sprinkler for his baptism birthday.  He named it Caterpillar Blue!  How cute!

 Matt and Kim's neighborhood pool opened on Saturday so Jon and I took Ian to swim in the little pool.  He had so much fun playing with balls and splashing. He especially liked watching Jon do flips off the diving board.

Jon loves taking Ian to the tennis courts.  They had fun hitting balls and they played this game where they pushed the ball back and forth with their racquets.  Jon told Ian this was called "Racquet Control".  Ian thought that sounded so cool that he would yell, "Racquet Control!" at the top of his lungs.

While we were there, we also helped make meals and of course had some great conversations, games, and laughs.  The four female guests in the house managed to work together to create a meal on Sunday after Ryan's baptism remembrance.

Ian is a wonderful big brother.  He loves to give him kisses and was eager to introduce us to his little brother, Ryan.  Ian was proud to wear his big brother shirt while Ryan displayed his little brother shirt.


When Jon and I left Texas on Memorial Day we had two nephews.  On June 2, we had FOUR!!!  Jason and Amy had their twins on June 2.  We are so happy for them!  We were in Kalispell, MT for Ashlea (Chelsea's sister) and Ben Anderson's wedding on June 1, and Jon was actually able to visit the twin boys in the hospital on his way back to Nebraska.

 When Jon visited, the twins were in the NICU while doctors monitored an infection they had received during labor.

Cody Andrew

Jaden Michael, the first born

 Before going into the NICU, Jon found some tape for a sign he had made.  If you look closely, his shirt said "Holy TWINS!"

Proud Uncle Jon

Jon and Lindsea (Chelsea's sister) posing with Jason and Amy.  

Very happy brothers

Lindsea had gone with Jon back to Nebraska so she was able to hold Cody on my behalf.  ;)

We are very excited to go back to Billings, MT to meet the twins (again) and celebrate their baptism in July.

Time is like the wind...

Well, 9 months later, here is a new post.  I will try to recreate our lives these past months for those of you who we may not talk to regularly.

As I was thinking about the past months, I came to realize that time is like the wind.  It comes and then it is gone.  It never stays long enough and it always keeps moving, bringing more adventures and people into our lives.  We are blessed to have these pictures and our memories to document the passing of time.  We love spending time with all our friends and family and you are a very important part of our lives.  It has been almost an entire year since Jon and I began our adventure together.  In some ways our wedding seems like ages ago, and in others it seems like yesterday.  It has been a year of changes, many of which are documented here.

 I graduated from Concordia in December while Jon worked at the Lincoln Racquet Club teaching tennis.

Then in January, I began teaching 7th and 8th grade English at Raymond Central Jr/Sr High School.  Jon began working and training with Lutheran Hour Ministries.  In February, we began a young adult bible study, called Young Roads, at our church.  This group has been such a blessing to us and we have met some amazing friends through this group.

Dustin and Jen Will

Valerie Schick and I with strawberry smoothies for the Castle finale 

Kyle Kaldahl, Angela Fick, Joel Kaldahl, and Aaron Sailer at a baseball game

Although this isn't the greatest picture, we often have game nights at our apartment.  These have been so much fun!  This particular game is called, Muscle Bucket, a game Kyle and Jon and some other friends have invented.

We went mini-golfing with Michelle Foley and Aaron Sailer

The five of us attended Alison and Brady Betten's wedding (friends from Concorida) last month.  Valerie was the maid of honor, Nate Meyer, and Breanna Felker.

Jon travels often with Lutheran Hour and has enjoyed meeting many people and exploring new places such as Sioux Falls, Indianapolis, and Minneapolis to name a few.

The Sioux Falls

When Jon is gone, I stay busy with being a coach and a confirmation leader. This year I had a great group of six 7th grade girls.  One of whom was also my student at Raymond Central :)  We have also attended many weddings and have many weddings to come.  One of Jon's co-workers at the Lincoln Racquet Club had his wedding on the tennis courts!

Our good friends Bess Rapp and Greg Jones also attended the wedding with us.

The bride and groom, Joel and Shelly Patrick

We also attended Brady and Alison Betten's wedding (Concordia Friends)

And Criag and Miranda Coleman's wedding (friends from Christ church league volleyball team)

We were blessed to be able to attend Jon's cousin Dana and her husband Matt Hagan's wedding in Palm Beach Florida in May.

Mom Schleicher had quite an adventure at the hotel on Friday.  She is standing in front of a fire truck because the fire department had to rescue her from the elevator!   

Mom and Dad Schleicher after the rehearsal dinner.

Jon and I after the rehearsal dinner.  For some reason we always take pictures after the event instead of before.

Dana and Matt Hagan.

Beth Hanson, Dana Hagan, Veronica Schleicher, and I.  This was the first time I had met Veronica, Dana's sister, so we took a picture of the girls.

It was great to meet all of Jon's aunts and uncles at one place.  It was awesome to get to know them as we played games, went to the beach, and talked at the wedding.
This wedding was the fanciest wedding we have ever been to!  Thank you Dana and Matt for the hours of planning that it took to create such a wonderful day.  We were so happy to see you happily married :)

Some other major events of the year included Thanksgiving with the Texas Schleicher family, Christmas with the Vaudt family in Montana, a new car,

2009 Honda Accord replaced my 1999 Nissan Altima.  We love it!

This picture is documenting the huge storm we had in April.  We had tickets to the Nebraska spring game but it was raining and starting to storm so we still went downtown to park our car in the parking garage because we were supposed to have hail and we didn't want any damage on our new car!  Well, no hail came but we sat in Panera Bread for about 4 hours that afternoon playing games.

Easter at the Nebraska Schleichers, and a baby born!

Lindsea gave up desserts for Lent...

Playing some games.

Our Potluck Easter Dinner.  We had Ashlea and Lindsea as well as some friends over for Easter dinner.  Everyone brought or contributed to a dish.


And a Baby!

 Our very good friends Drew and M'Leigh Olson had a beautiful baby girl, Adelyn J'Nae on the same day as the storm.  We were able to visit them that night and then again before church on Sunday.  She is so precious and we are very happy for them!

Last but not least...

 Jason Schleicher along with a couple kids from his youth group came all the way from Billings MT to share a weekend with us and check out Concordia.  Jon was able to take them to a baseball game.  It was great to see Jason and we enjoyed having company.

 Carson Stokebrand came to visit.  He is living in New York City working on the "Good Morning America" show.  We are so proud of him!

When Jon was in Minneapolis, he was able to catch a Timberwolves game with John Maragos.

 One night, Jon surprised me by having supper ready when I came home from school.  We were even able to eat outside.  What a thoughtful husband!

I hope you enjoyed a sneak peek into our lives.  I know that it is not really in chronological order but instead I tried to group similar events together for you.  This summer will be busy with more weddings, a few baptisms, and many fun gatherings with friends and family.  We hope to see or talk to you soon.  Jesus be with you as you go through each day.  
Love from the Schleichs