The Schnittker Family

Farmer Boy

Nick put Evan into this adorable bib overall outfit today and sent a picture to my mom saying that he was ready to help out on the farm. She responded saying that they could definitely use his help. As of today, they are up to 22 baby goats and are bottle feeding 2 of them.

Happy New Year!

Sleepy Boys

Uncle Hoss and Evan taking a nap together.

Christmas Caroling

Every year my family, along with a few other people from their church, go Christmas caroling to a few houses in their neighborhood as well as in town. They always make up a plate of cookies to give to the person and then sing 4 or 5 carols to the person standing at the door. I always look forward to caroling with my family, but haven't been home for the last several years when they have done it. Nick had never been caroling before and I wanted him to have that experience. We were not going to be there on the night that they had originally planned to go caroling, so they decided to go to a couple of houses while we were there so that we could be involved. The first house that we went to was a friend of my Aunt Marca and Uncle Chuck. Then we went into town to visit my Great-Uncle Bill, a Pearl Harbor survivor, whom I hadn't seen for a couple of years. It was great to see him and to introduce him to Nick and Evan.

Standing on the front porch singing Christmas carols.

They invited us inside to get out of the cold.

Singing to Uncle Bill on his front porch.

Noah, Aubrey, Nathan, Dad, Nick and Evan singing to Uncle Bill.

Uncle Bill meeting Nick and Evan for the 1st time.

Me, Evan and my Great-Uncle Bill. It was so nice to see him again.

Chuck and Uncle Bill are both veterans.

Aunt Marca, Uncle Bill, and Dad

Nathan and Aubrey

Chuck and Aunt Marca saying goodbye to Uncle Bill. He was really excited to see all of us!

Evan and Papaw are worn out from all of the caroling!

Crazy Cousins

My mom had to watch my brother's three kids on Monday, so Nick, Evan and I hung out with them for the day. Boy does my mom have her hands full with those three! They are full of energy and always into something. We thought that she could use a little help, plus she wanted to hold Evan as much as she could.

Nick trying to put a brush through Aubrey's tangled hair.

Mamaw holding Evan while Noah was trying to get into the picture.

Noah

Nick putting Aubrey's hair into a ponytail. This is quite a hard task because it's hard to get her to sit still.

Nick braiding Aubrey's hair. Good job Uncle Nick!

Caleb

Noah, Caleb, Aubrey and Evan

Caleb and Noah being goofy!

Tom Family Christmas

My mother's family gets together every year at Christmas. This year we went to my cousin Cary's brand new house which had plenty of room for everyone. The Tom Family seems to grow bigger every time we get together. Evan is the newest member of the family, but we recently found out that my cousin Beryl, who unfortunately couldn't make it to Cary's house, will be having twins this spring! My Grandpa Tom, who already has 12 great-grandchildren, was really excited about the news. He said "We're just going to skip 13 great-grandkids and go straight to 14!"

Aunt Jeaneen sitting with some of the 10 of the oldest great-grandchildren. Evan and Avery (who wasn't able to make it to Cary's house) were the only two not sitting at the table for lunch.