Hello from the happily newly weds!!!

As of March 9th, 2013 at 2:38pm, we are now Samuel and Esther Schatte!!!!!  

The wedding went very smoothly, and with only one 'hitch' :)

We are soooo blessed to have so many sweet friends and family to pitch in and help!

I'll be posting more pics soon, but here are a few to whet your appetite....

hands and rings....

Mr. and Mrs. Samuel Schatte....oh so happy!!!

We went to the Grand Canyon for our honeymoon....and no, we weren't to wrapped up in ourselves to notice the gorgeous scenery...not the whole time at least... ;)

And now we are trying to settle in to the new 'normal'.....I went around the apartment this morning and snapped some random pictures....

We're really short on cabinet space so, at Samuel's brilliant suggestion, we are storing our dishes in the dishwasher... 

Coffee with my man in the mornings before he has to go to work

Writing Thank you notes in the rocking chair....with a beautiful afghan from Amanda Smith!!!

Two other very special wedding gifts: a handmade sign from Mr. Benner, and a volleyball that Andrew H. got  the wedding party, our parents, and Mr. Hutchins to all sign!!! :)

Monday was my birthday, and my Handsome Husband got me some flowers....and that knife set is kinda special as well...from Matt Marshall, one of Sam's co-workers! :)

Well, that's all for now...We don't have internet at the apartment, except for on our phones, But the clubhouse in the apartment complex has wi-fi, so I'll try to come down here and post some things every so often...and the clubhouse is all the way on the other side of the complex.

I'm definitely getting my exercise here...we're on the 3rd floor, and every day, I walk down and check the mail which is halfway across the complex...I don't think I'll be getting any 'happy pounds'..... ;)

Hope everyone has a very blessed day!!! 

Because of Christ,

Esther Grace Schatte

<3

Girl Party!!!.....and pictures of Bobby :)

This afternoon, Hannah threw a 'girl party' for me! 

We visited, ate pizza, and then played volleyball! :)

Domino's Pizza is soooooo good!!!

Rachel D., Adrienne, Me, Bethany and Ashley C. visiting

Rachel D. and Elizabeth

Sarah, Bek and Baby Benner! :)

Ashley C., Bethany and Rachel D.

Abigail and Kathrine...and the backs of Faith's and Liz's heads... :)

Me holding Bobby

Jen looks like she's hatching some mischievous plot.... :)

Elizabeth and Candace, the 'redheads'

Amy and Bek

Mom, Rach, Adrienne and Mommy chatting

Clockwise: Ashley C., Bethany, Rachel D., Candace, Ashley H., Sarah holding Bobby, Hannah,

Liz, Faith, Abigail, Kathrine, Elizabeth

Candace

Ashley C., Bethany, Rachel D., Ruth

Sarah and Bobby

Candace serving

Kathrine hits the ball

Bek serving

Faith's over the head hit

We even got Adrienne out there for a little while! she can serve really well!!! :)

Go Adrienne!!!!!!

Goodness, if you didn't see the ball...it'd look like I was doing some weird prayer/dance of something! 

Ruth

Bethy serving

Nice hit, Liz!

the full court

Ashley H. serving

all us girls!

Jennifer, Kathrine, Bek, Faith, Elizabeth, Sarah, Ashley C., Bethany, Adrienne

Ashley H., Candace, Esther H., Lizzy, Rachel D., Ruth, Esther S., Rachel S., Hannah

an outtake....

...and another one....

then we got one with the moms:)

Mom, Mommy, Bobby, Amy

Jen, Kathrine, Faith, Bek, Elizabeth, Ruth, Rachel S., Ashley C., Bethany, Adrienne, Abigail

Ashley H., Candace, Liz, Rachel D., Esther H., Hannah, Esther S., Sarah

Afterwards, David came over, and we played with Bobby..... :)

I love the way Bobby looks at his Daddy!!! Soooo sweet!!!!!!!

"This is my drooly face"

"....and this is my serious face"

"...thoughtful face..."

"ok, are we done with pictures now?"

"My, what big ears you have, Daddy!" ;)

"Will I grow up to be as big as you, Daddy?"

Thank you, Hannah for putting the party together, thank you Ashley C. for helping us get ready this morning, and thank you to all the girls who came for being such good friends to me, and putting up with my twitterpation and talking about Sam almost nonstop the last year and a half!!! <3