New Years at the Schattes

For New Years, Sam and I spend the night at the Schatte's, playing games, laughing and talking! :)

And yes, we stayed up til midnight and Steven had bought some firecrackers that he shot off!!! 

Danny being adored....as usual! ;)

We played a game where everyone gets a piece of paper and pen, set a timer for 1 minute, and everyone starts a story. Then when the time is up, you fold over all but the last line, and pass it to the next person. Reset the timer, and continue the story! There were quite some hilarious stories when we were done!!!

Then at midnight, we all headed out to watch Steven set of fireworks

That was really fun!!!

Then we did some sparklers...which are really hard to get clear pictures of! :)

The next day, we all went to Bek and Steven's and got a family picture!

Heading out to the train tracks

S&B's apartment 

Faith and Lizzy telling us what to do....

Then we walked to a park nearby for more pictures...and then some tennis! 

Uncle Sam and Danny

Playing tennis

Sam and Lizzy

Rachel and Faith

the onlookers were rather distracted by a cute nephew....

The Schatte family - 2014

Rachel, Lizzy, Esther, Faith, Andrew

Samuel & Esther(and baby), Mom & Dad, Daniel, Rebekah & Steven

Samuel & Esther(and baby), Rachel, Esther, Andrew, Lizzy, Faith, Rebekah, Steven & Daniel

(Mom and Dad's hands)

Have a Blessed Thanksgiving!!!

Hope everyone has a very happy Thanksgiving!

...getting together with friends and family...

...eating pie...

...counting our blessings...

...praising God from whom all blessings flow...

Now we exhort you, brethren, warn them that are unruly,

comfort the feebleminded, support the weak,

be patient toward all men.

See that none render evil for evil unto any man;

but ever follow that which is good,

both among yourselves, and to all men.

Rejoice evermore.

Pray without ceasing.

In every thing give thanks:

for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus

concerning you.

~1 Thessalonians 5:14-18~

4th of July

Every 4th of July, Aunt Linda has all the extended family over for dinner and a swim!

Peter enjoying the pool

Bobby, cute as ever, enjoyed a cold can of Dr. Pepper on his teething gums :)

Hannah and Aunt Linda catching up

visiting with loved ones

Parker, Sara, Aunt Linda, Joy, Sue and Tim Bob

eating some delicious food

Andrew, Sarah, Daniel and Samuel(this was Sam's first time at Aunt Linda's :)

Sarah's blackmail picture.... ;)

This was Bobby's first 4th! He loved the water, unfortunately, I was in the water as well, so I didn't get any pics.... :(

David

Bobby and His Uncle Sam

more visiting

David, Uncle Roger, Andrea, Chrystal, Addie and Matt

Air Show

On July 3rd, Cavanaugh, the air museum that's hanger is next door to Sam's work, puts on an air show at the Airport. I went with Sam to work and hung out in the break room and read till work was over

the planes that are in the hanger

Yes, sometimes they park cars in the hanger

the inside of the owners to the Rangers jet! :)

Sam with the plane he worked on

filling out his time card

they started pulling the planes out for the show

the air show started with parachuting out of a DC3

one guy had a smoke trail

this guy had a huge flag hanging from him :)

we heard that the flag weighed about 80 lbs

war birds doing aerobatics with smoke trails

they closed the tower down, so they set up their own 'ATC'

flying up-side-down! :)

we sat with one of Sam's co-worker and his wife and children :)

Levi and Lucas

this little guy, Wyatt, was born the day before our wedding! :) He didn't appreciate the loud noises...but when his Daddy put the earphones on him, he eventually fell asleep! :)

P-51 Mustang - this is Sam's favorite war bird! :)

we had pretty good seats!!! 

Sam, Lisa, Levi and Griffin

Joe(another co-worker) playing catch with his son

the guy that drives the fuel truck chatting with Bill, Sam's boss

Bill, and his niece, Lisa

taking off in formation

flying in formation

they had two hot air balloons, but it was too windy, so they didn't go up

7 war birds in formation

flaring to land

An ultralight with fireworks! :)

Then a plane with more fireworks

Then there was a 30 min firework show off the end of the runway!

Sam with the P-51 Mustang :)

Traffic was crazy getting out of the airport, so we just sat in the bed of the truck and chatted with Bill till it cleared slightly....at about 11:30...but it was totally worth it!!! :D