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Jenn

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About Me

I was Jenny Nevitt from Chillicothe, IL, but then I married my best friend Aaron Schilpp from Hopedale, IL, in May 2000. We then moved permanently in May 2001, to the lovely, family-friendly city of Appleton, WI, and we now call it home. We have 2 beautiful children~ Abi who is 6 and is in kindergarten, and Isaac who is 2 and is already CRAZY about drums, basketball, and cars (every waking moment!) I'm currently a stay-at-home mom, but don't let that fool you~ there are still not enough hours in the day to get all the jobs done! I do various volunteer work, and love to keep myself busy with painting the walls of our home, or the homes of other family and friends, amongst all the other jobs I have as a wife and mom... :-)

My Interests


My family... I also love interior design, architecture, home design/remodeling, painting (mainly walls, now starting canvas'), most impressionist art (Monet is my favorite artist), music, theater, visiting big cities (not living there though), traveling, bargain shopping. I love the Fall season, (I think snow is pretty, but I hate the hassle of it all), and especially love touring through old house museums, as well as other museums too...

I'd like to meet:

My Savior Jesus Christ, of course... ~~~I've also got "pen-pals" of sorts~ a family in Germany with our same last name, and we have been e-mailing for over 5 years now. We just got to meet Stefan, but I would love to visit Germany and get to meet the rest of their family. ~~~I guess I'm open to meeting anyone~ doesn't mean we have to be friends though...

Music:

My all time favorites have always been Third Day, Newsboys, Rich Mullins, TobyMac, even a new recent fan of Skillet, and many other Christian alternatives out there... December Radio, NeedToBreathe (I LOVE their song "Washed by the Water"), Robbie Seay Band, Mercy Me, Paul Colman, most worship music... Aaron calls my music taste "very U2" :-)

Movies:

I'm a huge movie fan... I love, love, love the "Bourne" movies... "The Game" is probably my all-time favorite... I love the suspense! "The Prestige", "Batman Begins", "Tombstone", "Ocean's Eleven" are also favorites... surprising to me "X-men"'s, "Napoleon Dynammite", "Dumb and Dumber"... "You've Got Mail" is my all time favorite chick-flick... "Pride and Prejudice", "Ever After", "The Notebook", "Princess Bride", "One Fine Day", "Sleepless in Seattle" & "Runaway Bride" are probably the other current favorite girly movies. And just added, "Enchanted"~ Abi and I love that one too! "Nanny McPhee", "Meet the Robinsons", "Curious George", "Monsters Inc.", "Finding Nemo", "VeggieTales-Jonah", "Toy Story 1 & 2" (I use the excuse of having kids...) Classics like "An Affair to Remember" and "Wizard of Oz", along with a few other B/W movies... I CANNOT stand horror, old Westerns, or old war movies, along with the James Bond series (though I can tollerate them more than the westerns or WWII movies...)

Television:

I do occasionally get to watch "Without a Trace", "Law and Order"s, "the Office"... Aaron has me hooked on "Heroes" (I don't think I'd like it if we didn't start from the very beginning. It's difficult to follow if you miss even one episode...) And of course, most interior/exterior design shows, house flipping shows, etc on TLC or HGTV~ "Design Star" was a fav I'm NOT a huge fan of almost all of the reality TV shows out there (especially "Big Brother" ~soooo stupid!...)

Books:

I've always liked John Grisham books, and now there is another author similar to JG that I've found~ Robert Whitlow~ I've loved each of books I've read so far! I don't really get to read books as much as I'd like to... I'm more of a "Better Homes and Gardens" or "Parents"/"Child" magazines reader... not much time to just sit down and "curl up with a good book" anymore

Heroes:

my husband, my parents, my in-laws, a few missionaries we know personally. Those who lay everything on the line to serve and protect my family without even knowing us... **Anyone who does what is right, despite pressure not to, or even when it's not what is "popular".

My Blog

should’ve stayed home

I've been sick the past few days, but thought I was well enough to get out and run a few errands today.  At my last stop, I thought Isaac and I could go look for some new "threads" for Easter Sun...
Posted by Jenn on Thu, 06 Mar 2008 09:20:00 PST

Dear Santa...

I know that this may not mean as much to everyone else as it does to Aaron and I, but I am so proud of Abi...  She's come a long way this year~  first, starting kindergarten in September, an...
Posted by Jenn on Sat, 15 Dec 2007 06:45:00 PST

its finally happened...

I always wondered if it would, and today it finally did happen~ (begin humming "it's a small world after all...") Isaac and I were doing some grocery shopping this morning, and as we approched the che...
Posted by Jenn on Thu, 11 Oct 2007 07:08:00 PST

sweet dreams...

well, here it is ~ 2:30AM ~ and I can not fall asleep for the life of me!  I've really been having a hard time decently falling asleep for a couple of weeks now, and I honestly do not know w...
Posted by Jenn on Thu, 19 Jul 2007 12:57:00 PST

school daze

Abi starts a kindergarten class tomorrow... it's not exactly kindergarten all the way, but a "summer school" to help get ready for a new teacher and classmates.  She's thrilled about it, and I am...
Posted by Jenn on Mon, 18 Jun 2007 06:54:00 PST

7 of 28

This past Saturday, Aaron and I celebrated our 7th wedding anniversary... Tomorrow I will be turning 28 years old... so I realized that I have now been married half of half of how old I am... a 1/4 of...
Posted by Jenn on Mon, 21 May 2007 09:21:00 PST

"hi there"

that's what I've heard pretty much non-stop today from Isaac~ actually it's more like "hi-daa", but "hi there" is what he's trying to say... when we were shopping at Kohl's, any unsuspecting woman sho...
Posted by Jenn on Wed, 02 May 2007 11:28:00 PST

rainy days

I love it when it lightly rains... I like it even more with some thunder mixed in (though I dislike it when it comes with lightning...) The sound of the rain, and even of the cars driving on...
Posted by Jenn on Fri, 27 Apr 2007 09:34:00 PST

digital memories

over the past few weeks, Aaron and I have been sorting and organizing all our photos (on the computer as well as the printed out ones) and the mound of videotapes of the past 5 years...  we've e...
Posted by Jenn on Mon, 19 Mar 2007 08:26:00 PST

snowy morning

kind of cute thing happend this morning... Aaron and I were outside, digging out the driveway and sidewalks from the huge amount of snow that was dumped on us through the night.  Aaron was runnin...
Posted by Jenn on Sun, 25 Feb 2007 10:41:00 PST