Schultz Family Reunion -- Part 1

June 6, Day 1:

Since we were all in Washington anyway, Wendel scheduled Oliver's blessing for that weekend. We started at his house on Sunday. (Well, we were all staying in hotels and went to his ward for the blessing and then his house for a lunch). Here's a few shots that I snapped:

Arranging the boquet of (mostly) wild flowers for Ashley. This is serious business! and of course, Connor didn't want to be left out.


The Chiefs, er I mean Chefs.


IsaBeth. :) haha, J/K this is Isabel and Bethaney.


... Meagan and Mamie


Mom and her granddaughters... most of them. Isabel, Avery, Linda, Abby, Sophia.


Connor is so close to walking! He grabbed Geoff's leg to get his attention so they could walk.


Connor had many words of wisdom for Oliver, having just been there a mere 7 months prior!

"Now listen, Oliver, when you get out of that chair....

There's going to be alot of people like those guys....

that want to pull you around by your hand, so you can walk!

Right, mom?"

"But that doesn't sound very fun...

It sounds like it's going to hurt!"

"Yeah, You're right, I don't want to do it either!"


No, not really, I don't know what they were talking about. But they were so cute together. :)

I got a few moments to hold Oliver, though it was tough breaking him away from Mamie. She loves babies these days.


Is Dad blocking a punch?


How can you resist that smile???? the cute little curly tongue. My mom loves him :).



June 7, Day 2:

We decided to see some things downtown, but by the time everyone got there, it was time for lunch, so we had to walk all the way down to lunch (the Crab Pot, I think?). It was quite a ways. And Ron and mom ended up getting tickets because they parked on a street during restricted hours that weren't posted very well... *argh*. We always seem to get a ticket at these dang things....

But before that happened, we found a fun carousel to ride outside of the restaurant with games and fun things to do with the kids.

Some fun sculpture benches. (Connor, Isabel, Avery, Abby, Sophia)

at the pier with Bethaney and Gramma.


Mamie, Geoff & Isabel


Meagan and Avery


Isabel, Abby, Sophia


Britney, Avery, Connor, Ron


Bethaney doing the Dance, Dance Revolution.


Here's the group (well, everyone except me who is taking the picture....)
Ron, Connor, Linda, Isabel, Mamie, Sophia, Abby, Bethaney, Avery, Geoff, Meagan.


Playing with the finger cuffs they won with the tickets...


Avery shows off her newly acquired bling.


Then, later that night, in the hotel room after we went swimming.

Meagan and Connor. So cute!


Bethaney and Connor. Adorable!


Part 2 will be coming soon....

Shrimp Fest!

We're building a second home in Brinnon, WA -- A tiny little town on the West side of the Hood Canal. It's much less populated because it's *that* much harder to get to it from Seattle. But, it makes a great destination location for people that like to do outdoorsy kind of things.

Brinnon's one claim to fame (for now, until the resort is built) is Shrimp Fest, which happens every year on Memorial Day weekend. We've been there for it before but I haven't blogged about it until now.



They have these belt sander races that our neighbors really get into. Ralph is the main referee (under the tent). Ray inspects the decorated sanders, and everyone else loves to watch and cheer. It's pretty funny how much they get into it.






One thing we found out is that Connor LOVES shrimp. We bought a basket of shrimp and fries for Ron and it turns out Connor ate most of them. (We took the breading off, but still!)


This slide reminded me of childhood (if only it were yellow). Any time we went to the state fair, this was the only ride we ever did. and we did it 2 or three times. "super slide!"


Connor had his first pony ride. A little silly, I know....


Outside of the Quilcene Museum. We had always heard about it, this time we decided to go. It was better than I thought it would be! luckily it was free, so I didn't have to feel jipped.




It never fails. When we go to Brinnon, Ron is ALWAYS strapping SOMETHING to the roof of our car. and it's usually me that forgets it's there and somehow dings the body a bit. :P oh, well.


We let Connor play in the dirt for the first time. I told Ron he should at least PRETEND like he wasn't letting our child swallow rock after rock... ew.






I wonder where Connor gets his tongue from? hmmm....

9 months...

Connor had his nine month appointment today (today he is 9 months, 2 weeks, and 3 days old!). He measured ~31" tall and weighed ~20 lbs. that puts him in the 96th percentile for height and 60th percentile for weight! :| The doctor said not to worry about it if he's healthy and eating -- which he is. He just wiggles and squirms and moves so much that he burns it all off, I guess. And it probably didn't help that he's had the stomache flu all last weekend and didn't hold anything down. He weighed 21 lbs at 8 months, so it's a minor setback. I'm sure he'll be back up at 1 yr again. His head was in the 70th percentile for size, but I don't remember what it measured. Maybe I'll look it up when I get home.

We had family pictures taken on Monday evening by Krissy Allori Photography. She's a local photographer that does REALLY good work! and, she's also Ron's boss. (Long story, but she didn't want to take our pictures because she thought it would be a conflict of interest... she set up a contest so we could enter and try to win it instead... a little wierd, but oh well). The pictures turned out AWESOME. I was totally bummed, though, that Connor had been sick, so he wasn't smiling in any of them that I've seen so far. (She set up a sneak preview on her blog for us to see). Krissy is in the process of posting all of the proofs to the gallery so we can review them and buy the ones we want. Maybe there will be a couple in there that are smiling. I gotta hand it to the kid, though, at least he wasn't crying his baby eyes out. He's such a good kid! We count our blessings every day that we have with him.

Once the pictures have been purchased, I'll post some here. They're really quite cute!

Playdates at the park

Posting pictures. Verbage to come soon! :)