Making a Spider...

Logan has been telling me what he has wanted to be for Halloween for many months now. The only problem, it has been something different each time. Earlier this week I asked him and he said a spider, so I got to it and made him a spider costume before he could change his mind again. I hope he still likes it Saturday. My mom gave me a bunch of fabric a month ago and in that bunch of fabric was some nice black sweatshirt material. I used this for the pants and the hat. I bought the t-shirt on clearance and the socks were Todd's (he does not dress up much, so we put them to better use). I also had to buy the Googley eyes for his hat, but his costume came to less then $4.

Malia's failed attemt at walking outside...

I tried to get malia to walk outside. She took a few steps but gave up.

Bramble Park Zoo

Last Monday we went to the zoo with Todd's Grandma and Grandpa and his Aunt and Uncle. The kids had a blast there feeding the many animals you can throw food at.

Malia trying to feed the ducks and geese.
My full nest... aren't they cute.

The two bear cubs born in January of this year.

Right before feeding time... they were looking for their food.

What a weekend!

I went to MN on Wednesday. I had one goal and two events that were planned while I was there. The goal was to find a car and the events was my little brothers graduation and open house. That was it, lots of playing outside, swimming in the hotel pool and playing with cousins. The drive there was great, we left about 6 am and did not have to stop for the four hour trip. About an hour after we got there I heard the cry of my oldest daughter, my first thought was, oh, now what, she cry A LOT. After meeting her at the door I learned that she was crying for a legit reason, she was bleeding from the part of her nose between her eyes. Her brother was swing a stick and Hailey got in the line of fire. After cleaning it up we found the source of the blood would need a trip to the ER to put back together. This trip was short, only taking 1.5 hours. On Thursday my little brother graduated and as that night went on Hailey cut looked like it was getting a blister under the glue. I call the ER and they told me to bring her back in, so at 11pm, after we got the other kids back to the hotel and calmed down with their aunt, we headed back to the ER. We were seen after sitting there for 3 hours and were out of there an hour later. It turned out that there was something still in the cut and it was infected. The glue was peeled off and the cut was sliced back open and allowed to drain. We are hoping for not a huge scar. The rest of the weekend was just busy. Saturday was Eric open house and Sunday was Brendan's birthday party. There was no car bought this weekend, but my car made it back home and hopefully soon I will have a new to me car (OK, big SUV that fits the whole family and drives through snow)

There will be more post about last weeks events, there are a lot of pictures.

Done with Third Grade

Friday was Gabriel's last day of third grade. He finished off the year great, too bad it took three quarters to figure out what worked best for him. We both agree that we are going to talk to his teacher before school starts and set things up the same way we did this last quarter. We have a goal of all A's and B's this next year, his dad says C's are passing, but I would like his striving for A's. He is amazing and I know he can do it, he just needs to not get discouraged.

Today he gets to go to a pool party. It makes me very nervous, I have never left him at the pool by himself and I know he is a great swimmer, I am just having a hard time letting him grow up. He is a great kid.

Spring Kids Pictures by the river and Kemp Bridge.

Gabriel at 9.5 years old. He is a great helper and is playing baseball this summer. We start the second week in June.
Logan is 5 years old. He loves to play outside and he gets to play t-ball this summer. He also starts the second seek in June.
Hailey is 3 years old and loves to keep up with her brothers outside and try to hold her little sister.
Malia is 9 months old. She loves the grass and trying to eat it. She is getting so big. She is working on her 4th tooth, crawls, climbs and tries to stand by everything.

Fearless Friday- Glutten-Free Donut Muffins

We resently found out my youngest daughter reacts to food with wheat and oats in them. She is still young enough to eat mostly baby food, but is starting to eat some of our food (I like to grind up food I make). She is also starting to eat finger food and breads. My attempt to make something I could eat with her I found a donut muffin recipe. The only thing I did differently is substituted the all-purpose flour for Glutten-free all-purpose baking flour.

After baking these muffins they turned out very light and airy, like the combination of a popover and muffin. The kids loved them and asked me to make more. The little one loved them too, but I think next time I will not put powder sugar on hers as they were quite messy.

The Schlemmer Grandchildren

Last year at this time my parents had five grandchildren... in a year they doubled.

Wordless Wednesday

(she was mas she could not be in the tree)

For more WW

Easter Sunday

Gabriel (9.5 years old)

Logan (5 years old)

Hailey (3 years old)

Malia (7.5 months old)

Syhre kids Sunday morning before church. We went to church and then to Todd's Grandparents for dinner and a Easter egg hunt. We also celebrated Logan and Hailey's Birthdays with them.

Gabriel wanted to take a picture, so her is the three younger kids with me. He even got us all lokoking at him, what a great job he did.

Logan is 5!

My second born is 5 today. I do not have a newborn picture of him because I did not have a digital camera yet and they are all on film.

One year with Aunt Stacy at Rainforest Cafe. Aunt Stacy's Birthday is tomorrow.

Logan at 2 years. That year we moved to South Dakota, he got his first set of stitches and a new baby sister.

Three years!

Four years... yeah this is not in April like the rest of them, but I do not have those pictures on this computer and we are really hoping for warm weather.

This is in South Carolina this past March... he is showing off a shell he found while crabbing.

HAPPY BIRTHDAY BUDDY!!!

Hailey is Three!

One Week

One Year

Two Years

My third born is three today... she was born on 4/5/06 at 7:08pm.

Vacation Pictures

I figure since my album is done and being sent to me this very minute... OK it wont be here till next week, but I thought I would share some of my pictures. I made my album using Blurb, I won a free book from them through MomAdvice. I had so much fun creating it and plan on making more. Anyway, My husband and I took our family to South Carolina for a week. We had a blast and getting back home and trying to get back in the swing of things has been its only down side, I think the blizzard the beginning of the week and the snow that is coming this weekend just is not helping.

Malia-7months

Looking out from the look out tower

At the SC Aquarium. Logan was having fun with this penguin, every time he put his hand up to the glass the penguin would dive down and touch it through the glass.

This would be grass sliding/surfing at Wannamaker Park, we loved all the county parks around Charleston.

Gabriel with the lion in the back round. This was at Riverbanks Zoo.

The Boys (Mark, Aidan, Gabriel and Logan).

Gabriel, Hailey and Logan

Hailey walking down the beach, she could have stayed there all day.

Gabriel, Logan and Todd looking for shells, they found quite a few.

Ms. Malia just loved the sand. She would dig her little feet down into the sand and then wiggle her toes together. She also loved trying to eat the sand and we had evidence of that for a few days after.

These are just a few pictures, there was many many more.