The Schmidts

A random Sunday morning before heading off to church we snapped a photo. We look pretty good. How blessed we feel to have each other.  Squadron Christmas party  Squadron kids party. Sam was so excited to see Santa -- ready to let him know what he wanted. We were pleasantly surprised that he came in a C130J!! What, what!!  Christmas markets  Sam's Joy school Christmas program. Ella Skinner, Megan Dryden, Violet Larsen, Sam, Manami Fujii  Homemade bread for neighbors. This is a picture of everything Sam left out for Santa. Santa wont go hungry and he'll have "a good variety" says Sam. Christmas has just begun to get really fun at our house. Sam had very specific things on his list and not too many. Christmas was magic for him! Santa got him the sword he wanted. It makes noise when you swing it. Oh, and Santa got dad a sword so Sam had someone to play swords with. A very smart Santa. He also...

For the Thanksgiving break we went on a trip with many families from our ward. It made for a great time. The plan was to go sledding, but there was not enough snow and so plans changed. Despite the change we had a blast. We stayed in a chalet with the Bronson's, Bodily's, and Brown's. In this chalet we had a great common area and in the common area all around the top were windows which allowed us to view the Alps at all times of the day. There were other families staying in other places near us too. We all shared plans and ideas for fun and gathered when we wanted to. We all split up during the day to do our own traveling but came back to have dinners together and games after kids were in bed. This was our kind of vacation.  Lake Konigsee  Sam and Lucy Bronson  Fort in Salsburg, Austria  Boat ride on Lake Konigsee  They played the trumpets for us where it echoed back beautifully ...