April

Ok, so catching up...I'm just going to post random pics and put captions on them...

Mark and Hillary had a small party for Mark's 25th birthday

Will and Emma...3 days apart

Some cute pictures of Emma

One morning, we went early to church to Faith, Liz, and Sam could play and sing together before the girls left for SE Asia

The Schattes came to my family's house for lunch and volleyball, and on the way there, we stopped for a picture in the bluebonnets

the one that made the on mantle :)

volleyball

resting between games

Hannah and Bobby...He loves playing with balls!

I took this picture and then realized Sam looked rather...dead....

...so he did this.... ;)

chatting...one of the things we do best! :)

my niece, Anna

Some Hutchins came later in the evening

Mommy put Emma to sleep

This is one of my all time favorite pictures of Samuel and Emma! :D

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)