The Schmidts

Sam loves birthday parties and most of all his birthday party. Since he is our first child he has had a party every year, this may have to change after we have a few more kiddos. We did it on a Saturday. We had popcorn games, free play time, and lunch. He loved it and is excited to be FOUR years old. Sam's friends who came are Manomi Fujii, Cardon VanKomen, Violet Larsen, Tate Stevenson, Owen Tracy, Ella Skinner, Megan Dryden, and Oscar Reichwald

During my time in Germany I had the opportunity to be a friend to a fellow military spouse having a baby here while being stationed elsewhere in Europe. We became friends and stayed in touch. Caroline and here family live in Budapest, Hungary and were leaving soon to their new station. We decided to make the trip and visit them. But we didn't get a picture with them, ugh! Budapest is a beautiful city. Caroline had us over for dinner and watched our kiddos while Justin and I went to dinner and on a boat tour. They gave us a great recommendation for the restaurant. I had duck.  This trip may be one of our most memorable. As we arrived to the airport we found out I had booked our flights for the wrong day -- yep the wrong day, and since we booked our rental car with our flight it was not ready for us when we arrived. We spent way too much money fixing those issues and then on top of this we had a fender bender, not our fault but because of the language barrier and not knowing t

The Zambrano's invited us to join them to see a Circus held in Ramstein Village. It was really fun. The clown was also the door greeter and snack bar attendant. Each family member worked several positions. Sam loved it! He especially loved when the clown threw popcorn on Josh. I obviously did a poor job capturing the fun.