Schnaderbeck Family

Monday, July 9, 2012

Jessica's Graduation

Hopefully now you are all realizing that I'm catching up on a couple of weeks of pictures. Here is Jessica's graduation from June 15th. She was in a Preschool program at the Tenney Grammar School in Methuen.

Here she is "waiting patiently"

And distracted by mom with the camera.

Here's Jessica with her graduation package.

And they sing a song. . . . She was so happy. She's so sad that she'll be missing her other school for the rest of the summer and next year. She kept asking when she would go back.

Thursday, July 5, 2012

Father's Day Weekend

Over Father's Day Weekend, we went to East Hill Farm in Troy NH.

It is a great family farm, I summarized it as "Dirty Dancing meets Farm". It is all inclusive - all meals included in the room rate. It was wonderful! Snacks and yummy treats the whole day (=bad for waist line).

View outside our window, that's Mt Monadnock in the background.

This is Jessica's favorite spot the whole weekend. She loved the swings!

Alexis came to sit with Jessica.

Alexis wanted to find her toy.

Unfortunately I wasn't paying attention so I missed the photo op of Jessica with Cathy the Cow (who has since had baby June - http://www.facebook.com/easthillfarm)

Cathy was a very large mom cow, now we understand why.

Here's Matt with one of the horses.

Feeding the Donkey.

Matt having a moment with the donkey....

Feeding our favorite the sheep..... BAA!

The PIGS. Smelly!

The other sheep!

The ball court, where Matt played dodgeball all afternoon.

Alexis was a spectator. And Jessica either played on the swings or did crafts with me.

It was great family fun! It was really a great fun.

Monday, July 2, 2012

Jessica's Birthday

Jessica turns 5 today. She had a fantastic birthday party. Everything was great. A lot of little friends from her two schools and then other close family friends - all of whom were fighting over who could sit beside Jessica.

The Cake - provided by Icing Smiles. Jessica from Jessica's Cakes made a beautiful themed "Princesses doing Gymnastics". It was beautiful and quite tasty!

The Venue - provided by Legends Gymnastics in North Andover. Here's Jessica bouncing down the trampoline.

The Fun - Jessica was Queen Bee, she was wonderful and enjoyed having all of the attention. Here's the video of her swinging.... She loved it! http://youtu.be/JAG2JfiywqY

The Friends - Here's a group shot. They were all watching the bouncy house being inflated. Alexis was kind of grumpy because it was warm in the gym.

We're especially grateful to Icing Smiles for helping Jessica make Jessica a beautiful cake! She adored it!

Sunday, July 1, 2012

Happy Birthday Jessica - Age 5 tomorrow!

Here are videos from her birthday party at the Legend's Gymnastics!

Jessica Video 1
http://youtu.be/JAG2JfiywqY

Jessica Video 2
http://youtu.be/H30vVKhJxk8

Jessica Video 3

http://youtu.be/blRFeoq3WLo

Sunday, June 24, 2012

CHARGE Mom Angel

On Friday, I got the news that I knew what inevitable but I really didn't want to hear.

One of the most fabulous CHARGE moms had lost her brave battle with Melanoma. She has 3 beautiful children including Eva who is 1 year older than Alexis. She was always willing to share her experience and offer great advice. For a fundraiser a couple of years ago for CHARGE Syndrome Foundation, she made beautiful bracelets with the name of each CHARGE kid. She made wonderful purple ones for Alexis - and had enough material to make 8. I bought all of them. She was a wonderful spirit.

She always posted about butterflies - it was truly her spirit in another animal. In the past 2 days, I've seen 3 beautiful butterflies and I know that all of the others who knew Crystal are thrilled at we get to have her spirit with us in butterflies.

I'm writing to request if you have any spare funds, to donate to her website - she's been a wonderful inspiration to me and other families with CHARGE.

http://www.gofundme.com/Crystal-Masionis