The 4 Schu's

December....an exciting time of year!

One of mom's favorite coffee places is Baristas in Grand Island, so we often will go on the weekend to enjoy a lazy morning at the coffee shop!

Mike and I actually went to a Christmas party and had a decent time, but of course Miss Reeve was up around 3:30am and then up for the day at 6am:(

Walmart shopping with mom! She was so tired!

A good friend Rachel got these name straws for the kids and they LOVE them! Thanks Rachel for thinking of us:)

Mike and I have vowed to do monthly dates, so for this month I chose to have us go to a Nebraska Women's Basketball game. After the game we went to eat sushi and have a few beers! We had a great time and enjoyed getting to see the new arena!

Enjoying a fun night at the Kastens! Katie got this white elephant gift at one of our Learning Facilitator meetings, so her and Kelly tried it on:)

More straw fun:)

I thought Reeve looked cute this day for daycare so I snapped a photo:)

Joden is now at a new daycare and really only has 2 'boy' friends that are from his previous daycare. Most of our friends have girls otherwise:) So, he had been begging me to have a friend over from preschool. Therefore, Stratton ended up coming to our house to play. I also took them out to Dairy Queen for ice cream! The boys did great and we hope to have him over again:)

I LOVE my work schedule because it allows me to attend some of Joden's preschool functions. I got to go see his Christmas party where they made reindeer food and they ate cupcakes, eggnog, and juice. It was so cute because he was the last one to finish his treats-he savored every bite!

The kids and I went to a GISH girls basketball game and they LOVED it! We will have to hit up a few more this winter.

Mike's Christmas party for work. We went and ate at the Holiday Inn and had a few drinks in the bar at the hotel.

The kids are starting to play more like this together:) It is fun to see!

A lady at work was selling these large cookies to decorate for $5 so I got one for each kid. They loved it and it was well worth it-what a great deal!

We also enjoy going to Big Apple Bagel occasionally for a bagel and coffee. Joden enjoyed a chocolate muffin-can you tell?

I thought this was a cute picture of my two boys while we were watching a movie. Can you tell they have the same type of hair:)

Since we were without family on Christmas Eve we decided to go enjoy some yummy pastries at Panera. They were delicious!

All dressed up for church-they looked so cute!

Christmas Eve jammies!

Mimosas on Christmas morning-they were delicious!

Christmas morning at our house! It was just the 4 of us and we had a great time:)

She just loves her sunglasses!

Christmas with my side of the family!

My oldest sister and my niece Avery who is 9!

My other sister Lindsey with her daughter Anslee who is 8 months old.

Of course me and Miss Reeve who is now 2 1/2:)

Avery is so great with Reeve. She got a mini iPad for Christmas and was letting Reeve play on it:)

Just being lazy with dad!

All of the cousins on my side! Avery is 9, Owen 6, Delayna 5, Joden 4, Reeve 2, and Anslee 8 months.

WE HAD A GREAT DECEMBER AND ARE THANKFUL FOR THE MANY BLESSINGS IN OUR LIFE:)

October

These pictures are from our dear friends' daughters birthday party. I cannot believe Miss Chloe Keasling is already 6! Our kids will be in high school before we know it:(

Chloe wanted her friends to bring their costumes to wear. At one point Joden decided he wanted to wear his costume and he busted out in some Spiderman moves! It was pretty funny!

Coffee date with two of my favorite people!

This is one of my favorite pictures! When the weather was nice the door would be propped open at gymnastics and Reeve always wanted to watch the big girls. She would get mad at me because I would tell her we need to go home:)

Dinner at Texas Roadhouse-yum!

Each year we have tried to go to a pumpkin patch with the kids. This year we went to Helgoth's again and had a blast. The day started out chilly, but turned out amazing!

As many people have heard I am working on my doctorate and this is a picture I took of my attempt to organize my research during the writing of my comprehensive exam. Luckily I passed my exam and all that remains is a dissertation. With what I have already accomplished I know I can do this!!

While staying with grandpa and gramie, the kids got to ride a horse:)

I know I am biased, but I truly think she is so sweet:) I LOVE her so much!

This year we tried something new, which was riding the Halloween train at Stolley Park. The kids enjoyed it!

Joden had some funky eyes for several days....luckily he had no other symptoms, therefore I did not have to stay home! Knock on wood, our kids have not had to stay home 1 day since they started the Y in July-that is pretty amazing!

Mike is much more artistic than me, so he always is the pumpkin carver. The weather was awesome so we carved our pumpkin on the porch. Can you believe Mike was wearing shorts and the kids were in short sleeves??

Halloween 2013

Luckily Joden was fine with wearing a costume he already had and Reeve picked out hers at Walmart:) We Trick-or-Treated in our neighborhood and then actually went to Doniphon to a football game so we could watch the kids' sitter, Ella, dance dressed like a Zombie. It was a great Halloween!

November

Mike and I took Joden to see Tarzan, which was put on by Grand Island Senior High. This is the face I got when I asked him to take a picture:) He really did enjoy the show and did a pretty good job sitting still. I thought it was a great show!

Miss Reeve is all about her baby dolls. If you cannot tell she is pushing her baby around in her stroller and carrying the babies backpack on her back. Sometimes she tells us she is headed to one of her grandparents' house:)

First of all gotta love her crazy hair:) Second of all can you tell she is in gymnastics? It is really neat as a parent when you start seeing the gymnastic moves show up at home!

These two really do a lot together. Lately they have been fighting more, but due to being so close in age, they will really be such great friends over the years! They love each other so much:)

Mike is really working on training Reeve to be a hunter, since mommy is not:) So, Reeve is learning how to hold the gun up and explain that she is shooting a buck.

Hulk, aka: Reeve!

We attended Disney on Ice in Kearney at the Viaero Events Center. It was AWESOME! The kids really enjoyed it and so did Mike and I. We got to see Lion King, Little Mermaid, Lilo and Stitch, and Peter Pan.

Mike and I went Christmas shopping this year with our great friends the Keaslings. We went to Lincoln and enjoyed lunch at Mellow Mushroom in the new haymarket area. It was delicious! We did some damage, as we filled the back of the Durango with shopping bags!

Trying to entertain the kids during Mike's month long stretch of deer hunting, which left us home a lot. Joden wanted to play duck-duck-goose. Due to lack of participants, I suggested grabbing some other animals around the house to help out. If an animal was touched I got up and ran around the circle with the animal:) Being a parent allows me to act like a crazy lady at times!

Two things Reeve LOVES: her baby dolls and her sunglasses! She melts my heart:)

Thanksgiving 2013

We devoted our Thanksgiving this year to Mike's family and will spend Christmas with mine. This is the first time in a long time that we had every single person on Mike's side there. It was AWESOME!! We ended up taking all of our Christmas gifts with us so that we could see Mike's family open them. It felt a bit strange, but I appreciated everyone being flexible so that we could see them open their gifts!