Tuesday, December 30, 2008

Christmas and such

OK, OK, I got behind. I'm so sorry! We had a wonderful Christmas! It was full of firsts. Kenny's first Christmas and our first Christmas in our new house. It was wonderful. Christmas eve my parents came over and we made Gnocchi and attended services at our church. After church we came home and rocked out to Guitar Hero for a while. We also tracked Santa on NORAD for a bit.

Christmas day we had to wake up the kids!!! Ari was so surprised at the gifts under the tree and she couldn't wait to tear into them! Santa was good to her and brought her a whole new wardrobe!

Kenny also received clothes from Santa, but he was more interested in eating the wrapping paper than anything else.

Hercules had a stocking full of wonderful goodies as well. Santa was good to him as well.

We had Christmas Day dinner at Nana's house. Dinner was FAB as always. She really went all out and did name cards and the whole shebang. Both the kids had tons of gifts waiting for them as well. Aunt Tawney and Uncle Ricky were there and it was wonderful to see them!

The weekend before Christmas we decided to go find some snow. We didn't have to go far, Palomar mountain was covered! Ari had a blast and couldn't wait to build a snowman and then proceeded to kung-fu it down! Kenny wasn't quite sure what to think of the snow and Herc didn't like it much either. We then put some in the bed of the truck and delivered it to my parents so they wouldn't miss out. They quite enjoyed that I think.
Ari's birthday party is going to be on the 11th of January when Sandy is here!

Hopefully I will have more pics soon. I have a lot of work to do on them!
P.S. Here is a link to my photography website: http://schmahlphotography.photoshop.com/
In there you will find tons and tons of pics! Some are not available for download so if you would like them let me know. Love you all!

Monday, December 15, 2008

Christmas Party!





















Saturday night we attended a Christmas party at my parents community. Both the kids got presents from Santa! We had a great time. Here are some pics!

Wednesday, December 10, 2008

Joe- the stay at home dad

So I'm sure most of you know by now that Joe is staying home with the kids for a while. I'm sure most of you are wondering how things are going between him and Ari. Well, they are going great! Both of them were laughing it up last night. Joe is working with her on colors, numbers, letter, and that sort of stuff. I think both kids (and hercules) loves being home with him.

Monday, December 8, 2008

Weekend of busy bees
























So this weekend we did A LOT. We got the house decorated and christmas pics done. We got a lot of our christmas shopping done too. I feel kind of bad because we are not getting the kids any toys this year. They don't need any toys. Ari has a room full of them that she hardly playes with and we don't have the money to waste so we bought them clothes.

Thursday, December 4, 2008


The two cutest kids on the whole planet! lol.

Ari can now spell her name! The only exception is that she says "u" instead of "i". It's still awsome though!

Kenny is going to be a handful!!! Joe and I will be baby proofing the house soon. Now that he's mobile he's all over the place!

We found out yesterday that Sandy will be coming down in Jan!!! We are so excited!

Christmas pictures are going to be taken this weekend. I will be doing them myself with our new camara! They will be extra special!!!

Wednesday, December 3, 2008

The Schmahls




So I thought this would be fun to start so everyone who cares can check out what's going on with us. Today is just as good as any to start so here it goes!

Yesterday Kenny started crawling!!! My little man is growing up so much!

I finally got some pics downloaded and touched up. I LOVE our new camara.