Schultz year in review

Schultz year in review

Happy Birthday to Leila!

November 30th was Leila's birthday and we had some of the family over to celebrate. She liked her cupcake but like Kai on his first B-day, didn't really eat much of it.


"Dad, I just got up, can you put the camera away!"
Last month the Schultz men got to go hunting with Grampa Schultz and Uncle Robbie and we had some luck. For those of you squeemish out there, I put up the picture which the deer was mostly out of view!
Dad, Kai and Leila playing with the computers camera

And this month Kai had a chance to meet Santa Claus too at the local coffee shop. His favorite part was when the elf gave him a lollipop afterwards. That was really the only way I could get him to sit on his lap, with the promise of a lollipop afterwards!

Halloween and Schultz family visit

Below are Halloween and pumpkin patch pictures as well as a few pictures we took when the Schultz's came to visit. It was Kollin Schultz's birthday and lucky for us he happened to be in the Philly area for a hockey tournament. It was great to spend time with Grandpa, Robbie, Di and Kollin and RUSTY!!! Just tonight when Kai and I were talking about bringing his new stuffed elephant Dumbo over to MiMi and Pa's house, Kai said, "Show Dumbo to Great Grandpa?" So he definitely loved seeing everyone and still thinks about you! Love you all, enjoy the pictures.

Great Grandpa Rue playing games with little Leila Rue, his namesake.
Who's having more fun?
Kai and uncle Mike
Kai with cousin Kollin waiting patiently...
...to help blow out the candles!
Kai was a parrot for Halloween
He kept saying, "Bwwaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaakkk
And he used his Elmo basket that Aunt Adrienne got him
Little tiger cub, Leila
Post trick-or-treating
Kai REALLY enjoying his lollipop!
The Schultz family at the pumpkin patch



Leila looking cute as ever


No wonder her kids are so cute!

Harvest Season!

Hi everyone! Kristina just told me it has been months since I updated the blog and I didn't believe her, but as usual, she was right! I can't believe it is October 14th already. Only two days before the 16th, someone special's birthday (I hope you all know who!). I know Kai and Leila will want to wish him happy B-day this weekend.

Anyway, so I posted a bunch of pics. from the past month. The ones immediately below are of us getting our pumpkins this week, and then the others are just random cute pics of the kids. I even posted one of my soccer team from this year, the reason the time seems to be getting away from me over the past two months. Hope all is well with everyone, Happy Fall!

Summer Fun - Lake Carey and Baseball games!

We went to Lake Carey last month and spent some time on the Lake with the DeCarlo family. The kids had a great time, swam a lot, threw lots of rocks into the lake and best of all, slept beautifully!!! Must have been the mountain air! Here are some pics of our week at the lake. At the end, there are also some pics of Kai's first baseball game! Grandpa took him to the Phillies game and while he didn't last the whole game, he did a great job and enjoyed it. Maybe not as much as grandpa, but we expected that! Enjoy

Kai swimming with Nan and Leila swimming with mommy in the background. After the first couple tentative days, the kids jumped right in and loved swimming in the lake.

Did I startle you, Leila???
"Yeah, BREAKFAST!!!!
This was our morning routine at the lake - Play Dough with cousin Luke!

Look at those piercing dark eyes! So pretty!!!!!
Hiding in the bushes
Casey pretending to be Kai, or was it the other way around?

None of those rocks you see in the lake behind Kai were there before we got there - Kai threw all of them in!

Adrienne bought Kai a balloon with his favorite face on it! And you can see how excited he is about it!
Breakfast with the boys
Mommy and Leila
Play-dough artist at work
Adrienn and Leila, Mommy and Kai - "say cheeeeeeeeeeeese!"
Here are some pics of Kai's first Phillies game. Here he is with Grandpa's hat on. Oh yeah, it's a little blurry because someone smudged the lens of the camera. I'm not going to name names, but he is under 3 years old!
Sitting on Daddy' lap. Kai had his own seat for some of the game, which he stood on mostly. The rest of the time he sat with Daddy, which of course he didn't mind (neither did Daddy!)
Daddy and Kai next to the Michael Jack Schmidt statue in front of the ballpark
Kai and his souvenir that Grandpa bought him, a Phillies teddy bear - which by the way he slept with that night!
Kai and Grandpa. The planes were flying by real low past the ballpark so he enjoyed watching them which is what he is pointing to in the picture. He definitely had fun, and so did we. Thanks Pa!!!!!