The Shultz Brigade and Strawberries

Hello! Shultz Brigade here! well, at least, most of us are here, a few are still off with Mumsie shopping! Curious as to who the 'Shultz Brigade' is?? well, it's us! All the Smithy Kiddo's still at home! Please don't ask how we came up with such a silly name, but it was obviously derived from staying up entirely too late and watching way too many Hogans Heroes whilst eating chocolates and laughing, and well, you get the point;)
Any-who, today as our dear Mother took half our group to conquer the empty shelves in our fridge I, Commandanta B (aka Beth) took the others to conquer the rows and rows of delicioso ripe strawberries! We had such a fun time (even if our silly hats kept blowing away;) and there's nothing more satisfying then eating the fruit of your own labors, no pun intended:)And here we are! Just itching to get those juicy fruits in our buckets!

The unconquered territory

The Faithful worker
Dear Muad, another faithful worker!"Aww, are we almost done??!"

"I want a BIG one!!"
Ahh, success!

Our un-healthy lunch break

The Smithy's new craze! The Lunch game, Yahtzee!!

Way-to-go Walle!"ARRGG!!! How dare you take our picture!!!"

"On second thought......;)"

Yucho helping out with the cooking! cuties!! And here is our real success and ultimate goal of the day! Strawberry jam!! Yummo!!!

Well, gotta run and serve up supper for the hungry gang/Brigade! "We got supper in the oven, a good families lovin'" (uh, that's a song;)

Farewell from the happy conquerors,

Bethany, Maud, Walle, Madeks and last but not least, Yucho

Our sad little GingerBread house!

Last week we found a mysterious gingerbread house hiding on top of our fridge. We were not sure where it came from or how old it is but we decided to make it anyways!!

We soon found out that the icing no longer worked as glue so we had to kinda hold it together while we built it!

"Hey, maybe it's working..."

"Or maybe not" ;)

"Perhaps now?"
LOL!

Alas, as soon as we put candy on it it crumbled beneath our fingers!!!
He's either disappointed or he has a mouth full of candy ;)

Andrey and his portion of the house

Mel's big eared snowman!

It made me think of the verse in Psalm 127 that says: Unless the LORD builds the house, it's builders labor in vain.

Have a blessed week!

Beth

It's beginning to look alot like Christmas!!

Yeahh!! We finally got our Christmas decorations up!!! Yes, I know were a bit late, okay, alot late but better late then never I suppose!!!

Us kiddies, the 'Shultz Brigade' went in the woods for greenery and stuff to put around the house. At least, that was the stated reason :) In the end we had no greenary and about a hundred pictures! We still got the house decorated later on so I'll go ahead and post our wood pictures too!! Hope you enjoy, Bethany

The lazy onlookersWally our 'Man'Out by our creek/swampYerik making a jumpThe jump is bigger then it looks. Really;)Trying to get a pic. of all the kids jumping at once And again

Wally and me jumping!!
Yuchi's cubby hole The beautiful water Part of the Shultz Brigade

Some mushroom type thingies Maud and I thought were neat looking Wally and barbwire ;)Yucho Madeks
Back at the house getting some real work done

The Deco. Crew
I couldn't beleive how many of our lights DIDN'T work!! Mauds new hairdewAnd mine!!! Does it make you think 'Wives and Daughters'? LOL!"Armani, Yerik, my brave boys"

The finished product!!!
Our Wise Men How do you like our 'Feather Dusters'?

Merry Christmas everyone!!