Wedding video!!!

Many, many, MANY thanks to David Pennington and Brittany Cronin for all their hard work on this!!!!!!!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLIhkOy2qdI&feature=youtu.be

A Few Wedding Pictures....

Ok, several people have been asking for wedding pictures....well here some are! 

this is all I have time for this morning, but I'll try to do some more next week. 

Also, check out here for pictures of a new addition to the family!!!!! :D

Me and my Bridesmaids...and my bestest friends in the whole world...except for Samuel ;)

Amy, Faith, Sarah, Esther

Rachel, Liz, Me, Hannah, Bekah

Samuel and his groomsmen

Daniel, Mark, Andrew, Samuel, Stephen

Andrew, Samuel, Steven, Peter

(it did make it a little confusing to have 2 Samuels, 2 Andrews, a Steven and a Stephen... :)

We were able to have a quiet moment to ourselves before the ceremony with out 'seeing' each other! :)

All the Hale/Ellis extended family that was able to make it

(Grandma wasn't feeling well, so she stayed just for the ceremony and Uncle Charles and Velma took her home...so they aren't in the picture)

All the Schatte/Ficsher family that was able to make it

Us with Pop and Gram, Mom Schatte's parents...one of the(many) upsides of marrying Sam was I got a Grandfather!!! :)

Schatte family

us with our parents...

we started to take this picture and then realized that the parents were on the 'wrong' sides... :)

with Daddy and Mommy

with Dad and Mom

With Both of our families...we are very blessed that our families are such good friends!!!

Hale family

Wedding Party

ummm.....us!!!!

we both realized that we had been standing up for like 5 hrs and were ready to sit down!!!

And thus began our happily ever after....we are sooooooo incredibly blessed!!!!!

Happy Birthday, Mommy!!!!!!

Love you, Mommy!!!!!!!!!!!!

(In case you are wondering, Mommy is turning 37)

Happy 20th Birthday, Daniel!!!

We are both very grateful for the huge, incredible blessing that Daniel has been in our lives! 

If you're feeling down, Daniel is sure to give you a hug and a smile and tell you that it's ok!!!

Love you, Daniel!!!!!!

recent happenings......

Sorry, I don't have any pictures for this post....I'm afraid I've been very negligent in that respect....

This last week has been very fun! Wednesday night, I spend a fun evening with my sisters during men's meeting, and got caught up on all the 'goings on' on the farm since I've been gone. And then I drove the truck home from the Davis'....that was a little scary, but Samuel has been very patient teaching me to drive stick...I am soooo blessed to have him for a husband!!!!!! 

Friday, Sam picked me up straight after work, we ate supper in the car(pizza!) and headed to Trenton for family night at the 'big' Schatte's house!!! which means a fun evening of volleyball, ice cream and a movie! :D We actually stayed the night, because Sam had to replace 3 parts on the truck, and there's a rule at the apartment that you can't work on cars in the parking lot, even though we have seen other people do it...besides, the tools were all at Dad and Mom's, and I had boatloads of fun spending the day with the girls!!! :D

Sunday was my first time to bring food to a Meal Sunday, which was kinda fun! :) and after church, we went over to Daddy & Mommy Hale's and visited and held Bobby, and caught up!!!

Monday has turned into our shopping day, so after supper, we headed out to Aldi's and WalMart, which are only a few blocks from our apartment! :) 

Tuesday, Esther, Faith and Liz came and spent the afternoon with me, and I showed them all the 'perks' of the apartment complex...which isn't very much, but it's nice to get out and walk around! :) Then, we had supper together, and headed out to GFA prayer meeting, which I always enjoy immensely! :D Uncle Fred gave the devotional, and his are always good in a prick-ish sort of way....last night he talked about resisting God's calling in your life, and how important it is to listen to the Holy Spirit's promptings....which was really neat, because that was one of Mr. Beeman's points in his sermon on Sunday! :)

I'll leave you with a few verses that have been going through my head this morning, as I've been pondering both Mr. B's and Uncle Fred's messages:

Ezekiel 22:30

And I sought for a man among them,

that should make up the hedge,

and stand in the gap before me for the land,

that I should not destroy it:

but I found none.

Psalm 106:23

Therefore he said that he would destroy them,

had not Moses his chosen stood before him in the breach,

to turn away his wrath, lest he should destroy them .

Isaiah 6:8

Also I heard the voice of the Lord, saying,

Whom shall I send, and who will go for us?

Then said I, Here am I;

send me.

Hope everyone has a very happy Wednesday!!!

Love and blessings,

Esther

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