Hope's Way

Today we went to Bainbridge, IN to a retreat center called Hope's Way. It is a campground for special needs kids and their families. We were really impressed, they fed us lunch and then they had games, a playground, horses, bounce houses, hayrides, and a ton of other stuff.........and the best part was it was all free!! Here are some pics from the day.

Checkin' out the chickens and goats.

Alli refused to get on a horse by herself so I took one for the team and rode with her. That helmet rocked.:)


JJ had no problem riding by himself.

The horse riding must have tired her out because this was about 5 minutes later.

While Alli slept JJ panned for gold in the Old Western Town. He used his finds to buy a root beer and popcorn at the saloon.

Ryan's just happy he didn't have to get on that horse!

Vacation Pics

Here are some pics from the trip so far..........

JJ before he got his medicine.

And after he got his medicine.

It's not the greatest picture but here are the dolphins that are in the ocean outside our condo, they are there every morning and evening.

At the beach

Vacation

Well, we made it to South Carolina, a few days ago actually. We are at Edisto Island and there is no Internet access in our condo so I'm borrowing a computer for a few minutes to do a quick post, no pics but there is a reason for that.............so far this vacation has been....eventful. Let's see, on our way down on Thursday Allison started running a fever and had a terrible runny nose, on Friday I called the pediatrician and begged them to call in a prescription. We finally get here on Friday and at dinner JJ starts saying he is cold and, you guessed it, he's running a fever. By the time we get back to the condo he's crying that his throat is hurting, he ends up having strep throat. So on Saturday I call the pediatrician again and begged for another prescription. That same day Allison falls and hits her head on the coffee table and has a black eye. On Sunday we're out on the beach and I dropped my camera in the ocean. It can only get better, right?:) Actually besides all that it's been great, weather is in high 90's but we're loving the beach and the pool, hopefully I'll get some pics posted later!

Air Show

Yesterday I took the kids to the Indianapolis Air Show at Mt Comfort airport. It's not something I would normally be into but it was actually really cool. It was just practice so we didn't see the actual show but we saw some awesome stunts and the kids got to see lots of planes and helicopters, they even got to sit in a few.

Some of the old bomber type planes opened up underneath and the kids could go under there and look around.

Here we go again

Today Alli followed in the steps of her big brother and had tubes put in her ears. I was so proud of how well she did, we had to wait forever and she handled it like a champ. In fact a few hours after surgery she was back to normal, you never would have known she'd had surgery this morning.

Here she is on the way to the surgery center. More cheerful than I was at 6:30 in the morning!


After waiting a couple hours we resorted to putting on lip gloss.

And here she is right after surgery, it was so sad for me to see her laying there passed out with her little oxygen mask!

Cubbies

Well, tonight was the last night of Cubbies, we had a really great year. However, we are all ready for a break! To celebrate we had a little ice cream party........

The leaders were starting to turn on each other!


Then we finished the night with a little silly string fight...............

Totally fun!!!

Let's Eat

Ok, so I have been seriously slacking on the blogging lately. There just hasn't been much exciting happening at the Schmidt household. So here is a boring but cute post....

Allison LOVES ranch dressing, she would eat just about anything as long as she could dip it in ranch dressing. Here is what she did after dinner when she thought nobody was looking.....