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On October 14th, at 5:44pm, Emery David Schmidt came into this world, 4 weeks early! Here is Emery’s birth story! Let me back it up to how we got to that point of having our son an entire month early. The first weekend of October, Anthony + I went down to Dallas for the OU/Texas […]
Anthony + I are officially homeowners to the most charming, completely renovated home in The Village! I’ll have more photos to share soon, but I know I need to document the entire process of getting us to this moment. We started looking at homes in February of this year. After using one realtor + not […]
We’ve been holding in a little secret for 27 weeks! Coming this November – baby Schmidt. 🙂 We are thrilled that the little one is healthy, active as can be, + already bringing so much joy to us. I knew that if we were lucky enough to have a baby, that we would go the […]
Leaving my Zumba classes was one of the hardest things. I taught at multiple gyms + had some amazing students. It is by far the thing I miss the most about New Jersey, as I’m still not teaching anywhere in Oklahoma. One of my weekly classes involved Hunter + Joseph. Both have very *big* personalities […]
One year ago, I accepted an offer at the North Side YMCA in Oklahoma City. When I got the call from Chris, the executive director, on Wednesday, July 12th, offering me the position, tears immediately welled up in my eyes. I knew that it was going to be a tough decision, with Anthony not having […]
I had been in my current role for several months when I had an employee ask me, half joking, if I was staying or leaving, by the way my office looked. At one point, it was a closet, now it’s my office. I have zero windows + cinder block on all walls. It was drab […]