The Schindlers

Sunday, April 24, 2011

Happy Easter

1 Corinthians 15

The Resurrection of Christ

¹ Now, brothers and sisters, I want to remind you of the gospel I preached to you, which you received and on which you have taken your stand. ² By this gospel you are saved, if you hold firmly to the word I preached to you. Otherwise, you have believed in vain.

³ For what I received I passed on to you as of first importance^[a]: that Christ died for our sins according to the Scriptures, ⁴ that he was buried, that he was raised on the third day according to the Scriptures.

This was our passage at church today. What a reminder about what things are of “eternal value”. Here is how we have celebrated Easter today….

Last night Madeline, Will & I made our resurrection cookies. We couldn’t wait to get up in the morning and unseal the oven.

They were empty on the inside just like the tomb!

He is risen!

Then we headed on over to the Love’s house where the Easter bunny had hidden all the neighborhood eggs!

The Easter Bunny Letter

Maddie on a Mission

Look at all those eggs!

Could the day get anymore fun?

Then it was time to get ready for Sunday School and Church!

Happy Easter from the Schindlers! We are off to the Love’s for lunch!

Saturday, April 23, 2011

Rice Cereal

Today Will enjoyed his first taste of cereal. He actually seemed to like it and was very good a mushing it up in his mouth and swallowing. Madeline gave him the honorary first bite while Nick watched via Skype from Montgomery.

Somebody is ready and excited.

Here it comes brother.

This is different…

I’m not sure about this, I think I might even cry….wait…..

I love it. See my smile Mommy?

Look I swallowed it!

More please.

Eggcellent time

Our neighbor Brenda invited the neighbor kids over to dye some Easter eggs. Her own boys are going hunting so she continued the tradition with Pierce, Drake, Madeline, & Will! She even had the cutest decorated cookies for each child. Madeline loved it and especially loved playing with the boys. We hung out over there while the storms swirled around St. Louis. We were so blessed to not have anything come our way!

All ready to go. Maddie picked out her own outfit & dressed herself. I’m so glad you can’t see the purple socks in this picture.

Pierce & Drake listening to the directions.

Watching the crayon demonstration.

Can we say EXCITED!

Look at the good looking group. What a fun neighborhood! Thanks Brenda!!!!

Monday, April 18, 2011

MOPS

Today at MOPS we made these cute cupcakes! This one didn’t even make it home. Madeline enjoyed a nice snack in the car.

Saturday, April 16, 2011

St.Louis Adventures

So we bought another piece of furniture off ebay. As usually it was a bit of an experience. The free shipping was by greyhound bus. So off we headed to the nearest station, St. Louis! In order to celebrate this fun adventure we decided to use one of the groupons we purchased. We went to eat at Pam’s Chicago Style Hot Dogs. Let me just say YUMMY! They have about a million different types of hotdogs and everything you have every heard of being fried. I tried the deep friend snicker. I totally wanted to take a picture of it but before I knew it…it was GONE! It tasted just like a chocolate covered funnel cake! HEAVEN. Yep, we will be back again!

Waiting for our food.

GONE!

I love the hotdog but the cheesy fries are the best!

Sorry Will, only milk for you.

First Real Haircut

Saturday Madeline and I had a little girl day at the beauty shop. I got a highlight and cut and Madeline got a cut and style. She was such a big girl. She request strawberry shampoo and was disappointed that they were all out, then she asked for orange, but had to settle for some boring fancy kind. She didn’t stop talking the entire time she was in the chair. She told Miss Leslie all about everything!