June 2022

 June has gone by too fast!  It just seems like everyday it is like where did the day go:). I'd rather that though because it keeps the kids active and gives us all something to do!

Baseball has been a huge chunk of summer!  Joden is playing little league and also a low key travel team called the Patriots.  His team has only won three games, but have come a long ways.  State is in a few weekends, so hopefully we can have some success there!    

Reeve enjoys hanging with all of the little ones at the games:). 

Several members of the Schu Crew have been able to come watch Joden play!  

This is Mason, Aden's brother.  Aden is Joden's good friend.  We have loved getting to know Mason.  He is so cute and makes us laugh.  

For my moms birthday and Mother's Day gift I took her to get her colors done.  Memories are much more my style for gifts:). We had a great time.  I am a summer and my mom is a spring!

VBS was a busy, yet fun week!  Joden is on the God Squad and many people complimented him on how great of a job he does.  We are very proud of him.  I reminded him though that lots of little kids are looking up to him so he needs to make sure he is setting a good example at all times!

Got to have a picnic for Teammates.  It was fun for Mike to get to meet T and then I got to meet her mom.  Come to find out we know of each other from Sidney, where I graduated high school.  Her mom is married to a high school classmate of mine.  It really feels like such a God thing that we are matched together!  

Hear Grand Island is a fun event downtown.  We always go for the Allen Capital Event night and get to hang out with the Kochs and Michels.  This year even more friends came.  We had a good time:)

Reeve stayed later with the Koch girls and lived her best life-ha!

Did the Murph with these gals in celebration of Memorial Day!  It was fun and was not as hard as I thought it'd be.

We celebrated Heather's birthday with a boat ride and some charcuterie boards.  It was a fun night!

Casie turned 40 so we surprised her with aerial yoga and Wasabi.  It ended up being sort of a bust because several of the girls got super nauseous from hanging upside down so much.  

Archery camp for Joden!  He picked this out and had a good time:)

Basketball camp!  Weird that she is in the middle school group now...time is just zipping by!

New Orleans to celebrate 15 years of marriage.  We had so much fun together:). I love Mike so much and love how he is up for all my adventures.  It was fun to learn about New Orleans and how it became the city it is today.  PS-Making time for each other is so very important and I am glad we both see that as a priority!

Pictures include:  Dinner at Peche, a self-guided bike tour, a romantic anniversary dinner followed by a chill night on an outdoor patio, a ghost tour, a food tour, and a brunch at Ruby Sliper before heading out.  

Once we returned it was Father's Day!  These two are pretty darn blessed with the dad God gave them.  It makes my heart very happy to know the example their dad sets for them.  Hopefully it transfers over into their adult lives someday.  

Got to watch the Borowski girls for a day!  We had fun.  Took them to the park, which brought back lots of memories!

Enjoyed catching some friends' games with Avery!  We saw Baylor, Miles, and Brynnslee.

This tower garden has done awesome this time around!

We went to the Riverside pool to help Baylor and Madson celebrate their birthdays.  We had a blast!  You even ran into Brynn there:)

Chocolate Bar date while Yonda cleaned our house:)

Volleyball Camp

We ventured back to the Riverside pool one more time to hang out with Leah.  She couldn't make the party Monday, so she joined us Thursday:). It was a great afternoon with friends and we even got to enjoy an adult beverage!

May 2022

 This is going to be short and sweet because it is already mid June.  Here goes Mays top 10!

Baseball season began!  Joden is playing on a newly formed team called the Patriots.  They had a slow start, but are really starting to come along!

It really was fun watching Joden play soccer this season!  It was combined 7th-8th grade.  He worked his way up to earning some time on the A team.  One reason for that is his grades!  Proud of him and enjoyed this new part of middle school.  Only issue is I am not a fan of the spring weather.  There was LOTS of wind this year!

Orchestra concert night!  Never saw his instrument come home, but he did great-from what we can tell-at the concert.  Love that he like sports and fine arts!

We went to Mexico for Shannon's 40th celebration!  Why not throw a trip in the mix of all the craziness of the end of the school year?!?!  There were 19 of us.  We had a great time together.  It honestly was busy and we did not necessarily all just hang together the whole time.  It felt like lots of us were often going in different directions.  Crazy enough, 4 came back with Covid, but luckily tested negative in Mexico!

Came back mid week and then had Avery's graduation party that Saturday.  The first grandkid on our side is officially a high school graduate.  Proud of Avery and excited for what the future holds for her:). 

Then Reeve graduated from 5th grade!  No more elementary kiddos in our house.  Looking forward to two in middle school.  That night we also celebrated my dads 69th birthday!  We enjoyed dinner and a beautiful night on their patio.  Grateful my dad made it through heart surgery several years back and is still with us today:)

Last day of school obligatory picture.  It was another strange school year, but ended pretty well.  On to two in middle school next year!

This was not fun at all to clean, but definitely was grateful for this after picture!  Ready to see what round two of the tower garden is like:). 

We then had a fun end to the month with a trip to Colorado to visit the Andersons and see their new house for the first time!  They were great hosts and served us delicious food:)

The Lord has done great things for us and we are filled with joy. 

Psalm 126:3

April 2022

April is Reeve and I's birthday month and overall it was a fun-filled month!  We enjoyed time with friends, family, and went to lots of kid activities.  I know God does not want us to be over busy, but one thought I often have is that I would rather them be involved, interacting with others than being home and tempted to often be on a screen.  It is definitely a challenge of this era of parenting!  Another thought I often have is that I sure hope they are learning what it takes to work with others and also are sharing God's love at the same time.    

Enjoyed another fun night out with our dear friends the Halpines and MOnsons.  We enjoyed pizza at a small town bar and then Mike, our DD, got us to another small town bar pictured above.  

The next day Reeve finished off her last volleyball tournament of the year at home.  They ended up pulling out first place.  It sure was fun to watch them:). Looking forward to seeing how they continue to learn the game and progress.

Reeve is the back to back champ of our March Madness bracket challenge.  She earned dinner at Wasabi!

Mike completed a loose version of 75 Hard :). That is what he called it!  Proud of him for his hard work and dedication.

April 9th was my 37th birthday and we had a simple, yet great day!  We began the day by volunteering for Race for Grace in Grand Island.  Then we had a happy hour beverage with my family.  It was much busier out than we thought it would be, but come to find out it was prom for two of the high schools in town.

Fun with my students!  I have said this a lot, but I really do love my job:). One perk for me is that my students choose to be in the pathway I teach, so they want to be there for the most part.  Pictured above is them teaching direct instruction lessons.  In a nutshell that means they model a task for them, then they do it together with guidance, and to finish the student should be able to do the task on their own.  Below is our trip that we finally got to take to Wayne State College.  We have tried the last several years, but due to Covid we could not go:.  We had a blast and it was so great to hear more about the college that our students receive dual credit through!

MIke's dad brought a box of his old things and we found this picture in the box.  It looks SO MUCH like Joden!!  He was a few years older in this picture, but it was a holy cow moment.

Joden played middle school soccer this year and it was often pretty chilly.  The first game Reeve and I watched from the car and for some of the games I sat outside for, I had to dress like I was going skiing. When Joden played Heartland soccer I always said fall soccer typically was much better weather!

Joden had a pretty good year!  Soccer is combined 7th and 8th grade so I was not expecting him to make A team.  At first he was just on B team, but by the end he got to play half of the A games, as well as the whole B game.  Due to hard work and grades he was able to move up.  Proud of him for that!

Reeve and I got tickets to the Husker volleyball spring game here in GI and we got an autograph from every Husker player.  It was a super fun night and we really enjoyed getting to say hi to all the players;). They were very friendly!

Baseball began this month.  Joden is on a newly formed team called the Patriots.  They are a group of kids who all played city league last year.  The goal is for them to play this year and next together before several of them can try out for legion.  So far they have not won a game, but hopefully they will continue to grow as the season goes on.

These are the parts of adulting that I don't find enjoyable.  Our dishwasher has never been amazing and it is annoyingly loud.  I decided I better clean it out and boy was it nasty!  

We hosted Easter with whoever was up for getting together!  It ended up being the Ankenys and my parents.  We had a low key, yet very enjoyable day:)

For the last five years we have ended April with dance recital and Reeve's birthday!  Due to her birthday being during the week, we went to Kearney about a week early to stay in a hotel in Kearney that is new and has a water park on the inside.  The girls were great and we had a wonderful time:).  I also made sour dough cinnamon rolls for the first time and they were yummy!  

The day of her actual birthday she enjoyed a huge breakfast, fun at school, and dinner at Wasabi.

To round out the month Reeve had her dance recital!  It was long, but they did do a really great: job). Proud of the hard work they do all year to perform at the end of the year!  Next year she is going to try out team dance.  It will just be one year due to middle school sports starting in 7th grade.