Strudel Day

A couple of weeks ago my aunt hosted Strudel Day.  My grandma's mom brought the family strudel recipe with her from Hungary.  Before my grandma passed away we had Strudel Day every year, and it's a tradition that most of us have been missing ever since.  So after almost a decade with no strudel, my aunt decided to bring it back. 

Making strudel is a complicated task, and it takes a lot of it to feed our large family.  Several people spent most of the day making the delicious pastry for all of us to enjoy.  We also enjoyed bean soup, wine (ok, not me), and an assortment of appetizers.  Everything turned out great and it's always fun to get together with the Schmidts.

My dad and aunt chopping pumpkin

Starting to stretch the strudel dough

It is difficult to stretch the dough thin without creating a bunch of holes!

Adding toppings (oil, apple, cinnamon and sugar)

 
My family traditionally makes pumpkin and cottage cheese, apple and cottage cheese, and apple with cinnamon and sugar strudel.  This year they also tried a couple with meat and cheese.

Maiken helping to remove the heavy edge of the dough

which became noodles for the bean soup

Rolling up the strudel

Careful not to roll it on the floor!

Ready to bake!

Finished strudel!

Enjoying dinner, dessert, and family

This poster shows my grandma and two aunts enjoying a

glass of wine and making strudel in "9 easy steps".

Can't wait to have strudel again!

~Kaylee

21 Weeks!

This week I am 21 weeks pregnant!  Baby is about 10.5" long and weighs about 12.7 ounces.  We had our monthly check up last week and everything is still looking good!  My blood pressure is still great, still not gaining any weight, and baby girl's heartbeat was measuring around 150.  Every ultrasound or appointment we have to check her heartbeat, we always get comments about how much she moves.  She makes it difficult to take measurements, which leads to more jabs on my stomach, but we love our wiggly baby.  The nurse we saw said that I should start taking Vitamin D, so I added that to the ones I've already be taking.

I've been sick with a sinus infection all week.  My new strongest craving?  Dayquil.  Too bad I can't take any.  Being pregnant and sick isn't much fun.  We ended up going to urgent care Friday night to get antibiotics so that I could start getting better.

21 weeks!

I started shopping for some long sleeve maternity tops this week and also picked up some summer items on sale for Olivia.  Shopping for baby girl has been so much fun!  I'm trying to make sure I'm only buying a little at a time...

~Kaylee

Halloween!!

I love the holidays.  All of them.  We had a great Halloween and now I have Thanksgiving (4-day weekend!!), Christmas, and New Years to look forward too.  I'm hoping all the holidays will help these next few months fly by, because I'm ready for March!

A couple weeks ago we went to Bauman Farms with my parents, sister, and her two kids.  It was cold, but it wasn't raining.  The kids did a lot of activities and we all indulged in apple cider and donuts.

Tim, me, Marissa, Nola and Maiken on the hay ride

 

My parents on the hay ride

 

 Isn't she adorable?!?

 

My sweetie and I

 

The night before Halloween we carved pumpkins.  Tim and I started a garden this year and grew our own pumpkins!  We need to start them earlier next year so they get a little bigger, but it was still fun to grow pumpkins to carve. 

 

Nola put a tattoo on her pumpkin

Angry Birds, his favorite

Playing in the pumpkin goo

Tim and I with our pumpkins

Tim's Pac Man pumpkin, my monkey, and Marissa's owl

On Halloween Nola and Maiken went trick or treating.  I've been sick so I didn't get to go with them, but I snapped some pictures before they left.  We had a ton of kids come by the house.  I was hoping to have a little more candy left over...

Nola the owl
 

Maiken the Power Ranger, Nola, and all the pumpkins from our garden

 

Hope you all had a great Halloween!

  

~Kaylee