Saturday, December 15, 2007

Baby, It's Cold Outside

In keeping with my new found Christmas spirit we decided to enjoy our "Snowman Cakes" this evening. Honey gave us these great cake molds that are in the shape of Snowmen (is[s]nowmen capitilized?) What a good time we had, but don't tell anyone that Joe had a good time with yet another Christmas activity.

It all started off inocently enough. We frosted the snowmen with white frosting first and then let the kids go crazy.

While it may look as if Levi is shouting in protest of Daddy offering assistance, the fact is he was screaming Levi words of joy! This picture merely represents a glimpse of the euphoria that Snowmen Cake can bring on!


Suprisingly enough, the snowman that Mommy helped Noah make did not match nor have the trendy styles that are all the craze! (I'm kidding with this, I love my wife and her keen eye for fashion and assure that we all in the Schelling house match)


Levi mistakingly assumed that the cakes were really ice-cream which resulted in...


...the knowledge that this is not an activity that should be done after a bath rather before a bath!



So in the end this is the results. From left to right, Noah, Daddy, Mommy, Levi. I suppose we should have saved these die to the fact that some one some where could say that these are fantasic works of art, or as Noah said right after this picture was taken...

"Ya know Daddy, the best part of all of this is that we still get to eat them!"


Thanks Honey for the molds!








Monday, December 03, 2007

It's Beginning to look alot like Christmas

So we at the Schelling home decided to cut down our own Christmas tree this year, we went to Hart Tree Farm in Rockford and I highly recommend it we really did not see one bad tree. As you can see the boys were just so excited they couldn't contain themselves!




Noah wanted to get this Charlie Brown Christmas tree though





So after about five minutes and the wind wipping us so hard and Noah saying "how bout that one to every tree we walked past", we picked a tree, Daddy told him that he could help him cut it down so here goes nothing!




As you can kindof see Noah is trying to help Joe carry it, that did not last long though.

Well after Joe's fingers about fell off trying to tie the tree to the roof of the van(b/c of the cold) we headed home to set the tree up and decorate it. We had to stop and get some hot chocolate at Noah's request first though. So after the boys decided it was more fun to play with all the ornaments the actually put them on the tree, Joe and I finished it, and we even put up the stockings - not bad for mister Scrooge himself huh?


Merry Christmas to all and to all a good night! From the Schellings

Tuesday, November 06, 2007

Welcome to the cruel world

If you look closely, very closely, you will find that there is a new addition to "friends in blogdom". I encourage everyone to click on "The Colemans" to see where not only do I get my dynamic beauty, but also why I am the way I am. So welcome to the cruel wold Colemans. Lukee Fag!

Sunday, October 21, 2007

How Many Cans

So this is a record in quick posts, so everyone can rest at ease. Which makes me think, can you rest at anxiety? I would think that its a given that if you are at rest, you would then be at ease?

Anyway, Luke and Julie came into town this weekend and we had an opportunity to take the entire clan (Micah, Chole, Jude, Noah, Levi) to a local orchard.


Here is the whole crew of us (minus Jude who was sleeping at the time, I think we left him in the Ida Red section of the orchard). Looking at this picture it is hard to fathom that we have gotten to this point in life. This morning in chruch Luke and I were talking about the free and "easy" days of gathering together at thier house on Newburg at 11pm to drink coffee until about 2am or so. Now, dirty diapers, day trips to orchards, discussions regarding our children's apperant bent to frustrated us in ways never thought possible. For crap sake, we both own mini-vans. How far we have come. We will catch up with a third child someday...hey maybe we should visit St. Louis again so we can take Interstate 55. (ha, ha)

Chole, Levi, Micah, Noah the future of America

This is Chole and Levi after being caught kissing under an apple tree.

Here are the two oldest boys. Micah looks as if he is being forced to enjoy his time with Noah while Noah looks thrilled to spend time with someone other than Levi.

Julie and Emilie



Finally, the two that are important...well you can't see them behind Luke and Joe, sorry

A little housekeeping
I added a link to Noah's school along with a link to Luke and Julie's blog (mostly Julie's) and a link to a dear friend of our's blog. Her name is Michele and she truely is one of the most talented persons we have ever met, not too mention pretty cool! Please check out her blog, it is what this blog dreams of looking like.

Wednesday, October 17, 2007

These Are The Days

So...it sounds as if some updating is needed. How come Emilie never gets yelled at for this!? Anyway since I have not updated since September 8th, lets go through this systematically and with order (I know that was redundant, again, over and over).

So last time we left our super family, we had gone to the beach, started school and painted our kitchen. Since then, we have...
Had a family jam session (Emilie was kinda like the bad drummer in this picture, ya know unreliable and off-beat - ha off-beat that was funny!)

Celebrated a number of birthdays in which...


Levi was frustrated by the concept of being alive for two years without the capability to drive a car yet...


...Noah posed for another picture...

Levi protested being part of a family (really he is enjoying the single most irritating car and truck toy imaginable, thank Gretchen and Marc, you will be getting these back in about a year!) Are my teeth straight? (If you laughed at this, you have been at our house since this evening)


Again, Noah is astonished at how smart Grandpa Kelly is. Seriously, he could show Noah a pile of dirt and tell him it came from an alien tiger who flew in on a boat and Noah would believe him and argue with anyone who disagreed with him. It's pretty fun!






Before, during, and after...KA-POW!!! (what a fitting shirt)


While Levi was off KA-POWing, Noah and Grandpa Kelly pleasured all of us with this great picture. I'm not sure who is happier?

We have also...

Learned how to ride a two wheeler (sans training wheels) And what does this mean?



It means that Daddy had to learn that it is time to join a gym and get into shape


Levi learned how to lick a bowl properly. Yes you Levi, you learned it!

We travled to Africa and took a stroll through the savannah, that was fun, kinda hot though.


While we were there, we had the privlidge to see in person the talented group Tito and Sanchez the amamzing singing giraffes. They were pretty good, but reminded me a bit of Hall and Oats though.
Option #1: After yet another melt down, Emilie lost control and tried to trade him away to this giraffe for a sack of onions.

Option #2: Emilie uses the social behaviors of giraffes to use as a teaching tools for Levi and how to get along with others


In a word, wow!


And yes we painted the living room, and hall, and stairway, and upstairs hall. (Thanks dad, even though he doesn't read this, big props anyways.)




















And finally, we stopped by a little place in Rockford Michigan to remember good times that were had by all. Nothings says love like eatin' popcorn in the corner!


























Saturday, September 08, 2007

Aint It Great To Be Crazy (Boom Boom)

This week, marked two major milestones within the Schelling family. First, we finally painted our kitchen, which was a nice shade of puke yellow/creamy type color. As you can see, we finally feel at home with the standard issue green on the walls. Now we just need to finish with some Mocha/Latte paint (which is a fancy way to say beige) in the living room and we shall have our family colors back in working order.



Also this week Noah started kindergarden. As normal, Noah was excited, but overly concerned about gym class while we were relishing in the fact that we can say "My, look how quick they grow up" and other typical adult things.



To add to the excitement, Noah's best buddy from church is in his class. Here's to the gruesome twosome!

To end this session, everyones favorite...random pictures!!

These are pictures from our recent day trip to Grand Haven

Great pictures because it looks like Noah is surfing. Really he is just kinda standing like that and jumping

The boys ready to hit the road, and to make it further than the local CVS

Big trains equal big fun (note: this is one of the few times that Levi actually looked at the camera at the right time)

Here is a great example of the fact that Noah is usually in charge of getting Levi to look at the camera. Also an example of the fact that rarely does Levi heed older brothers advice

"When I was your age Noah, I once swam all the way to Wisconsin just to eat cheese and brats!"

Let me explain this picture. This was taken on our way home. Levi was muching on some chips and fell asleep. What you can tell if you look closely is that he fell asleep with a chip in his mouth. (Yes, we stopped the van and took the chip out. We just waited until we have a picture of it so we can add it to his slideshow thing that he will have at his wedding)


Here Noah and Daddy work on cleaning my car. Again, Noah usually is good and looking as if he is helping, but leaves right after the pictures are taken

Even Levi gets into the action and once again refuses to look at a camera

After a job well done, Levi rewards all of us with a brief moment of cuteness! What a boy!