Thursday, December 25, 2008

Christmas

The kids get pjs every Christmas eve. They are always very excited to see which ones they will get. This year they also came with matching slippers.
Opening their pjs
Gavin opening his slippers.
dressed in their pjs
Balin opening his bike from Grandma & Grandpa Luekenga
Adia with her toy from Santa.
We had so much fun with Grandma & Grandpa Luekenga (Sara-Lynn's parents). They were here 5 nights. The kids love spending time with them. I just realized that I didn't take any pictures of them. I am so bummed. We are so blessed to have wonderful family and love seeing them. We miss them already.




Thursday, December 11, 2008

Candy Cane Lane


We went to Candy Cane Lane last night. It's a really fun neighborhood that decorates to the max. One of the houses has a Santa that you can visit. The kids love it. It such a fun time.

I loved this house. So funny. If you can't read what it says, it says " NO, I said the Schmidt house"

Wednesday, December 10, 2008

pictures





So, we took some pictures for our Holiday card ( I know-totally late). Anyways here are some that didn't make it.

Monday, December 8, 2008

Thursday, December 4, 2008

Mayflower Centerpiece


I just had to share this cute Mayflower Balin made in preschool. We liked it so much we decided to use it instead of our other centerpiece for Thanksgiving.

Wednesday, November 26, 2008

Holidays at Disneyland

So, we decided at the last minute to go to Disneyland. It was fun because it was all decked out for the holidays. The kids loved the Haunted Mansion ride because it was "The Nightmare Before Christmas."


Here we are with Mickey

Here is Santa in the Holiday Parade

Here is Jack the Pumpkin King from the Haunted Mansion. We rode it 3 times. The boys couldn't get enough.

Friday, November 21, 2008

Twilight


So I went to the midnight showing Friday Morning with some friends. I thought it was okay. Not the best, but not the worst either. Ovbiously, not as good as the book, but what do you expect? What did you guys think?



Sunday, November 2, 2008

Happy Halloween

Here are some pictures from Halloween.




The boys' pumpkins




Buzz Lightyear-Balin, Unknown phantom-Gavin, Princess Leia-Adia, Wolverine-Brenik
(you can barely see Gavin in the last picture, but he wanted to keep his mask on)

Tuesday, October 21, 2008

Tagged

This is a fun tag.
Here are the instructions.
Go to your 4th picture file.
Post the 4th picture in that file.
Tag 4 people.

Here it is...............


So this is our Christmas picture for 2004. Balin is just4 months old. I can't believe how little they both are!

I tag Terri, Tiffany, Gwen, & Stacy

Thursday, October 16, 2008

She's 1!!!!





Happy Birthday to Adia. She turned one today. I was thinking this morning that a year ago I was in labor. I am so glad that isn't the case today!! Of course in about 3 months. . . I'll try not to think about that. Anyways, yay for Adia!!

Wednesday, October 15, 2008

Just Can't Get Enough

I just love taking pictures of this little girl!!





Saturday, October 11, 2008

wasting time and having fun



So, I bought a Cricut expression and am having so much fun. I like to play with it and cut all kinds of stuff I don't even need. Today I cut out a bunch of spiders and pumpkins and just let Balin & Gavin go crazy. Very fun. I am going to buy some vinyl and see if I can make all the stuff I want to for the girls' room. Just wanted to share how I waste my time instead of cleaning.

Saturday, September 27, 2008

fun pictures






Here is just a few pictures I thought were fun. I love the one with my whole family playing video games. Don't tell Adia that her controller is really unplugged!

first day of preschool


Okay so this is a month late, but oh well. As you can see, he is very excited. He still likes it, so I think we are doing good.!

Monday, September 22, 2008

new furniture

Since we have been in the new house we have not had anywhere to put our clothes that we don't hang. In the old house there were built in shelves in the closet. So, anyways this is what we have been living with the last few months.-Yes those are piles of clothes along our walls.


We finally bought a bedroom set last week. I really do feel so grown up having an actual bedroom set. So, here it is.


Tuesday, September 9, 2008

Sugar and Spice

We just found out today that it is a girl!!! Here are some pics.
This is her face between here arms
This one she has her head turned so you see her ear. She also looks like she has no arms, but they were above her head. We are very excited for Adia to have a sister. Now we just have to think of a name.

Tuesday, September 2, 2008

mission complete

This past week I have been on a mission to find a steam mop for all of my tile. With Adia army crawling I was beginning to notice a grunge line up her shirts. This is after I had mopped with microfiber mop I bought from the janitorial supply. Needless to say, I was grossed out and needed something that would work better, but was easier than hands and knees. I am having to mop every other day with my dirty kids! Anyways I bought 3 steam mops. This is how it went: I first bought the Shark Deluxe Steam Mop. I took it home and initially liked it. Seemed like it cleaned well and Adia's shirt was much cleaner, but it left streaks on my floor.
So, I decided to buy the H2O Mop and try it out and see if I liked it any better. It didn't leave any streaks and made more steam, but was akward for me to use for some reason. But I did think it worked better for me than the Shark, but I liked using the Shark better.
Well, I couldn't leave well enough alone, so I bought the Bissel Steam Mop (which Brenik had said that I should buy instead of the H2O). I kept thinking maybe Brenik was right and I knew I had to try it also. I am a freak, and I know it. Anyways, it was like the Shark with the way it handled, but like the H2O with how much steam and no streaks. So, yeah it was the best of the other ones combined.
Then I just had to return the other 2, but that is why I bought them at Bed, Bath, & Beyond and Linens and Things instead of the infomercials. I knew I could return them if I didn't like them. I even asked to make sure and they told me to go home and try them out and if I didn't like them to bring them back. Well to make this posting even longer, I just wanted to say that I am super happy and have mopped my floors more this last week than I ever have before.

Monday, August 25, 2008

2nd Grade!!

Today was Gavin's 1st day of 2nd grade. He is also going to a new school because of our move. He was very excited and was already talking with a boy while he was waiting in line. I am sure he will make friends quickly because he is so social! I have to say I was more nervous than him.


Adia is 10 months

Okay so she was 10 months last week, but I figure I would post some pictures.