Happy Halloween!

From our SPOOKtacular House of Horrors to yours.
Have a safe and fun Halloween!

We did it wrong, baby...Next Time...

When Matt & I get married to each other, again,
we're gonna do it like this. ;)

Silly Family Fun - Too Tired To Do Anything Else...

Well...they're not our most attractive family photos
BUT we were having fun and I think you can
see the love in the middle of all the silliness.
The pictures that Matt aren't in are funny to me
cuz those are the ones where he was actually snoring
beside us while Isaac was crawling all over him.
We were playing around with Eli's camera.
Obviously, we've not figured out how to set
it so that the time stamp isn't on the bottom right.
SO...here were are in all our end of the day,
sweaty, dirty, tired glory just hangin' out.

Favorite Coaster

Matt, Eli & Phillip's Favorite The Maverick

Cedar Point

Okay so...we went and we're back
and OH MY GOODNESS, the stories there are
to blog about...just you wait...

Anyways, more to come but here's a pic of the
favorite coaster among The Schantzes...The Maverick.

Did I happen to mention that it was spontaneously
a "Needler Family Trip" minus only the Papaw who
is (I'm pretty sure) REALLY glad that he stayed home.

There are SO MANY stories to tell and not all of them pretty...
Here's a teaser to get you to check back in
the next couple of days when I get a chance to blog it all...

Warning...this is potty talk...

Okay, so...of our party of 13, 3 members,
not all small children had near brushes or hardcore run-ins
with poo in their pants...let's just say we nearly shut-down
the hotel pool...TWICE.

OH...and there was underage drinking involved...here's that pic.
Isaac, cash in hand buying everyone a round jell-o shots
(oh, stop, I'm kidding he was getting a popsicle).

Eli is so stoked!

mR. eLI...FOURTH GRADER (can't believe it)
has taken a new and intense interest in his dress
(he NEVER really cared before) and so
school shopping this year has been quite interesting
especially since his feet are huge-o-mongous and
we're shopping men's sizes now for his gi-go-normous footsies.
So, anyways...skater shoes...apparently, is what he dreams of
and after much looking and debate, we ordered these today.
You woulda thought it was Christmas Morning.
I figure that he's more like me than I realized if he gets
this excited about shoes. That's my boy!

More Movie Fun

Fun flick...great thematic messages. Isaac sat GLUED the
entire length of the movie and was very emotional (clutching my
neck for dear life) during the climatic scene when wall.e was trying
to fight to save Earth. This was our 4th of July celebration before
Eli left for camp. Dinner and A movie...that's our gig.
Ah, I LOVE us...there's no one else that I'd rather be with.
Me and my boys...that's perfect.

After the Ride at the Zoo

SO, after the VERY spoiled riders
had massages to rejuvenate their
oh-so-tired muscles, we had a nummy lunch
at the riders tent and went to see some animals.

At the zoo, we went to a great
concert sponsored by Radio Disney
featuring a band called Everlife.
where we rocked out!

Then we cooled off and played at
The Enchanted Mill...

THEN...WE SAW...
Lions and...

Tigers and...

Bears...OH MY!

We had a great day and got some fantastic pictures.
Here's some of our favorites!

We ended our day with dinner and
a special show where we got
soaked by this dolphin!
This was Isaac's favorite part. He's still talking about it!
He keeps saying, "Dolf--Fin"
We wish you all could have been there!