Happy Thanksgiving!

Matt and I had so much to be thankful for this year!!  We have a healthy and very happy little family, our extended family is doing well, we have jobs that we enjoy (YAY for Mattie teaching ART!), I am almost done with school!, we have a roof over our heads, and the Lord as our guide.  Thankful is an understatement :) Overjoyed, thrilled, pleased, grateful,  brimming with appreciation.....you get it!

We enjoyed a fabulous feast with our family here in Texas. Last year we got to spend it with my entire family in Illinois.  Can't wait to see what next year brings!

 

The Schmejias on Thanksgiving



Grandma love!

Harps is thankful for her Grandma and Grandpapa

And her Tia Brigid

Gobble-Gobble!



GASP!!!! Harper ate turkey for the first time!!! (we are raising her as a pescatarian)

Needless to say, she liked it! After each bite she would smile and go "MMMMM!!!!!" and do the sign for more.
We've created a meat-eating monster ;)

Once a year won't hurt her!

 

Goodbye boys :(

As many of you know, last Saturday we said goodbye to our mini-donkeys Bob and Tobias.  They were great pets that we had the pleasure to own for several years.  It was a hard decision to give them up, but Matt and I have been giving serious thought to moving.  We felt that before we find a new home for us, we had to find the boys a good home to live together.  We did.  They are now living on 16 acres in Georgetown.  They have three other donkeys to play with and many goats to befriend.  The family is great and we will be able to visit the boys whenever we'd like. 

Here are some pictures of out times with Bob and Toby:



Beautiful picture my sister took.



Playing tug-o-war with the door mat.



Last February when it snowed.

Come on in boys!

Tobias and Harper when she was about 2 weeks old.



They are saying hello to their 3 new girlfriends!

3 new forever friends.



Off they go!

We love you boys and hope that your new family loves you just as much!

Happy Halloween!!

We celebrated Halloween this year by going to Tia Brigid's and Tio Eddy's house to trick or treat!! Our neighborhood is not ideal for trick or treating :( 

We went to Grandma and Grandpapa's house first so they could see our Harper Bug!

Next, it was off to Tia and Tio's house for some ghoulish-good fun!

She didn't know what to think of the bones

Harper quickly got comfortable in the cemetery

The first and only house we went trick or treating at. 

Another cemetery



Daddy looks scary!



We ended the evening by 8PM.  It was past Harper's bedtime and we don't want to see what happens if she goes to bed really late (think Gremlins! ;)

Happy Halloween!!

Our Own Pumpkin Patch

No time to go to a pumpkin patch this year.  So we brought it to our home! 

Beach Baby!!

We took our first family trip to the beach this weekend.  We had a great time in Port Aransas with Harper and our friends the Harveys and the Sullivans.  We ate, drank (milk of course!), played, and laughed. Fun was had by all, take a look!

Taking a stroll

Corbin and Harper "playing". 

Harper loved to dig in the sand!

She worked up quite a thirst playing. And eating sand. Yuck!

Give your daddy back his beverage!

Corbin got to hear a Dan Sullivan original

Harper liked it too!

The Harveys are getting eaten by a shark!!

Getting all dolled up for a night out!

The Detentions

The kids had a blast hanging out at the bar :)

Encore, Encore! We want more Detentions!

On our way home we enjoyed a treat from McDonald's! Yum!