My Big Boy is going to Kindergarten!

September 2008 - First Day of School

4 year olds

It is hard to believe that Brandon is finished with Preschool and is on his way to "big kid school" (as he likes to call it) or Kindergarten. He has grown so much this year and has become a big boy! He now is able to recite and recognize all of the alphabet and is well on his way to couting to 100. This big achievement this year is that he now knows how to write his own name! We are so proud of you Brandon and all that you have learned this year. Here he comes Kindergarten!

June 2009- Last Day of School

Introducing Brody Nicolas

Brody Nicolas Schalliol was born

May 27, 2009 at 1:39 pm

7lbs 1 oz 20 inches

after a short 4 hour labor.....Mommy was very happy! Big Brothers Brandon and Blake are very excited that he has finally arrived and are very big helpers with little Brody!

Brody is famous!!! Just so happened that we were in the right place at the right time and NBC Nightly News was filming a segment for the news that evening from St Joseph Hospital and our nice nurse thought we would be the perfect family to interview. So after a quick coat of makeup and cleaning up the room the camera crew came in and the news anchor to interview and film us about weight gain in pregnancy. How many babies can say that they were 1 day old and already on national television...only more to come in your BRIGHT future little Brody!

After only a short 24 hour period we were ready to head home and see the boys and introduce Brody to his new home. Brody has been adjusting well and is a wonderful Little Boy!

Welcome to our home Baby Brody....we love you!

Lets go Angels!

Baseball season has begun and the Schalliol Boys are Angels Fans.....For Daddy's 34th birthday Brandon and him went to the Angels game. They had a blast eating peanuts and drinking Icees. Brandon loved wearing his Angels Jersey and took all of his Angels gear, including his rally monkey, in his Angels bag. LETS GO ANGELS!

Happy Birthday Blakie!

Blake Matthew is now 3......hard to believe that 3 years since he was born has already gone by. He has really grow into a funny, loving, and trouble making big guy. Blake always keeps us on our toes and definately keeps us laughing! In the fall he will be going to preschool at Friends with his big brother and he is very excited! We are very proud of our soon to be "big brother".

Easter 2009

This year for Easter we went to Palm Desert and stayed at Papa and Nene's house for a couple of days...the boys were able to visit the Easter Bunny at the Mall, be the conductor of the Easter Train, and swim until their hearts content.

The is the Easter festivities at Papa and Nene's Clubhouse in Palm Desert. They do a great job for the kids and have two different Easter Egg hunts. Brandon was so excited because this year he was in the "big Kid" group...the cutest part was when Blake's group went to hunt for Eggs and Brandon happily followed him around encouraging him to get as many eggs as possible! During Brandon's Egg hunt, he found the "golden easter egg" which meant that he had to climb a Palm tree to get it. Because he was one of two "big kids" to find the special egg, he received a gift card to Barnes and Nobles (his favorite, books!).

The weather was warm and sunny in Palm Desert, as always, and we couldn't seem to get a picture of the four of us without someones hand over their eyes or having their eyes closed from the intense sun....this was the best we could do! Only 5 more weeks and our family of 4 will become 5....kind of scary!

Fun with the Schalliol's

These are just some fun pictures with Brandon & Blake...This picture was taken at the Rainforest Cafe in Downtown Disney. Brandon thought this was a funny place to take a picture next to the big gorilla.

Brandon actually took this picture of Scott and Blake...I think he is taking after his mom on his picture taking skills!

Being silly with Dad. Scott really knows how to get the boys excited right before bed time....it seems like he says the words "it is time for bed" and they start running around the house. Bedtime is always an exciting time in the Schalliol house.

Brandon and I were having fun taking funny face pictures....I couldn't bare to share my funny faces so I decided to share a smile with you all instead. We sure had fun and I have never heard Brandon laugh so hard when we looked at the pictures together.

Brandon is 5!

I can't believe that we have a 5 year old....I feel like he was just a new little baby lying in the hospital. Brandon turned 5 on Feb 10th and he had a combined Birthday party with Blake this year even though Blake's birthday isn't until the end of March. We celebrated their birthday at the MY GYM with some of their friends and they had a blast.

Blakie loved the zip line...even though his big brother was afraid of the zip line, Blake jumped right up there and showed his brother how it is done.