Thursday, January 13, 2011
A couple days before Christmas, Alexis found a little tiny hat outside Safeway! She thought it was one of the "Elf's" hats so she left a special note for Santa and wanted to return the hat to the Elf. Santa had left her a note telling Alexis to keep the hat as a gift!
Wednesday, January 12, 2011
Saturday, November 20, 2010
My sweetie pie and I!! 
Alexis and Grandpa watching the Cougar vs Vandal game! We won! Can you see the angry Vandal in the back!
The results of what super high winds can do....this tree had fallen and as you can see, uprooted it and the cement, & the lawn!~
The tree landed on the house, lots of damage here!!!!!!
This is Alexis' trampoline in our neighbor's yard, hung up on the fence and a tree! We had 85-107 mile per hour winds! 
We have been enjoying the new Walmart in Pullman, mostly that it is nice not having to drive to Moscow.
As you can see, Alexis saw this Christmas tree and the first thing she thought of was to put it on her head!
I am so proud of her. It is exciting during Thanksgiving week when people come up to you and say what a delight it is to be around your child!
So, I am thankful and blessed to have Alexis in my life! I am the luckiest mom! I love you, Alexis!
Alexis is getting pretty flowers put on her toenails~! 
We had so much fun getting our "mommy ~ daughter pedicures together!!Sunday, November 7, 2010
We went house to house. Alexis had so much candy! And a ton of fun! Happy Halloween
It is kind of a yearly tradition that we have always done.
We usually always go to the mall for trick or treating. But this year with the Halloween being on Sunday, it was more like a weekend affair. So it was the mall on Friday night, and house to house on Sunday night.
Alexis' first time doing house to house this year and she had a BLAST! So, I am guessing that next year, she will want to do the house to house also. She got bigger and better, and more candy!
YUM YUM!
Adoption Awareness month November 2010
Julie's Adoption story
So, I was told it is National Adoption Awareness month. I never knew they had this.
I don't know if you all knew that I was given up for adoption as a child. I thought I would share a little about my story.
I came to live with the Schultheis' when I was about 3 months old. My parents, Gene & Shirley wanted to have more kids and so they "chose" to adopt a child, lucky for me!
My mother was a social worker. She had kept visiting the Catholic Charities in Spokane and checking out all the babies.
And she was drawn to baby Florence (Me!) She kept coming back to me and hoping she would get me.
They finally told my mom that she needed to leave cause they weren't supposed to get attached to one baby. Back in these days, you didn't get to choose which baby you got.
My mom put in a letter to Catholic Charities to request baby Florence even though this was frowned upon.
So, the day came that they got to find out which baby they were getting and it was a different name. They were sad but they thought that is was God's will.
My parents mentioned about the letter they wrote. And it wasn't even read until this point. They ran into the desk to see if the letter was there.
And then they told the the birth of the baby....it was my birth date. Turns out that they did get baby Florence, ME!
I was told my whole life that I had a little bit of Native American in me. I was proud of this.
When I was 18yrs old, I found my birth mother. Janice, lives in Bellingham, WA. She had a total of 7 children. And I was the first of the 7. She had me at the age of 16.
I had searched for my father from the time I was 18 until I was 30 years old. Finally, the day came that I met my dad and his wonderful wife!
I also found out that both my parents were Native American. In 2002, I became a registered Lummi Indian!
And I am also proud Nooksack Indian.
I am no longer in touch with my mother. There is too much emotional pain there & I don't foresee much of a future for her and I!
However, I am so blessed to have such a wonderful birth father and his wife!
And great parents.
Once I had my child, Alexis. It was the best day of my life. I have felt close with my families but I have never experienced having that special bond with anyone else. And it is so cool that we look so similar!
I feel so complete now.
I love having such a large family! I love my parents, and my birth father, his children and my birth mother's son as well!
So, adoption has been amazing for me. And wonderful.
After marrying my husband last year, he has a son and I am anxiously waiting to meet him and be a mom to him. As his birth mother isn't actively involved with him!
It was interesting.
Overall, it was a great party. There was 1 girl who came to her party that told Alexis that she only came for 1 reason, she wanted cake. And that she didn't like Alexis.
It broke my heart. My daughter is so sweet.
There are so many life experiences to go through. And one of them is that there are going to be random people that will not get along with you.
My advice to her was: Have lots of friends, be respectful to everyone, and follow the golden rule, treat others as you want to be treated.
It's so hard to let them go through life and all you want to do is protect them but sometimes you have to let them experience the good & the bad. To prepare them for a lifetime of ups & downs.
I love you Alexis!
Next year I want to go all out with her costume. She is only a kid once.
:)
Wednesday, November 3, 2010
Jessica, Duane & Kat got to trick or treat with us this year! We had a blast!Wednesday, October 13, 2010
Tuesday, September 14, 2010
Saturday, September 4, 2010
Labor Day weekend, Chris, Alexis & I went to the Lake Cabin at Chatcolet Lake. We got to meet mom and dad up there.
It was a wonderful time.
For me, it brought back so many memories of when I was growing up. Memories of going to the lake with some of my dearest friends! My parents didn't have a tv or phone up there when we were kids. They wanted us to have a good time AWAY from all that.
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