Scheumann Family 2007

The Year in Review

 

 

This is for all of our friends and family, with whom it seems we have less and less time to spend together.  Here is a time capsule from our life this past year.  Hope you enjoy it.  We would love to hear from you.  A link to email is at the bottom…  You may choose to click on a picture to enlarge it or even right click and “Save Target As…” to save the picture in the larger size to your computer.

__________________

 

In January, we celebrated Ann’s birthday.  We won’t say which one! J  We attended the Monster Jam (notice the local boy truck, driving “Bob & Tom!”).  Luke was in awe and still plays with his trucks frequently!  We actually had some snow this year!  We weren’t sure if we would get any significant snow fall, but for a few weeks we had a winter wonderland – enjoying snow ball fights, sledding and building a snowman…  Meanwhile, Ann was busy indoors.  She had the floors replaced in the living room, kitchen and hallways.

 

    

 

 

        

 

        

__________________

 

In February, Matt was involved in 5th grade basketball and continued to take drum lessons.  Abby played basketball at the YMCA and continued to take dance lessons in tap and jazz.  Sandy announced that she was running for mayor of Greensburg!  Luke was becoming more independent, getting up in the middle of the night and helping himself to pop tarts, putting them in the toaster and easting them at 3 am!  We busted him one night…  Meanwhile, Ann continued doing upgrades inside the house, as she had her kitchen redecorated.

 

 

      

 

       

__________________

 

In March, Matt celebrated his 11th birthday.  He continued to play basketball.  Although they struggled during the season, they turned it on in the tourney, losing by only 1 point in the finals!  He also performed in a local concert entitled, “An Evening to Die For” – sitting in on drums for a take on Steve Earle’s “Copperhead Road.”  Also appearing that night was national recording artist Michael Kelsey and fellow Greensburg Guitar & Music students.  Matt and Tom attended the WWE event, “Monday Night Raw” and briefly made it on to national TV!  Matt also did his annual science project (a first place finish!!!), with which the entire family helped.  We took the kids to see Sesame Street Live.  Lukey was mesmerized at seeing his buddy Elmo!  Ann continued to improve our home’s interior, by redecorating Abby’s room.

 

      

 

 

      

__________________

 

In April, Abby began playing softball.  Tom helped coach her team.  We attended a magic show that was pretty cool.  Tom helped chaperone Matt’s spelunking adventure to Marengo Cave in KY for school.  Matt and Tom went to The Great American Ballpark for MLB’s opening weekend series in Cincinnati with Chad and Grace.  Chad hooked us up with a luxury suite that had all the amenities!  We got to watch Ken Griffey, Jr. and meet Mr. Redlegs.  There was myriad food and beverages, along with a desert-and-shot cart that came during the seventh inning stretch!  J  We were sure glad we were able to go indoors, since it began snowing during the 5th inning!  Sandy continued to campaign for mayor of Greensburg, participating in public speeches and taking part in a debate that was aired on the radio.  The family was heavily involved in helping to promote Sandy’s campaign and was very busy with her during this month!  You can read more about Sandy’s mayoral run and see lots of great pictures of us all at www.greensburgmatters.com .  Matt again earned a spot on the Greensburg Spell Bowl team.  Although the team struggled, Matt scored a respectable 5-for-8!  For Easter, we decorated Easter Eggs and had an indoors hunt that morning.  We then went to Church and had a huge family-style lunch with all the trimmings at Grandma and Gigi’s house.  The home improvements kept coming this month, as we had a new garage door installed.

 

 

        

 

 

      

 

 

    

__________________

 

In May, the primary ended and so did Sandy’s run.  We are still very proud of her for her efforts!  Abby continued playing softball.  Matt began playing baseball, moving up to Little League.  Tom helped coach the team.  Abby’s dance classes culminated in the Dixon Dance Revue, where she had two performances.  She tapped to “Do You Believe in Magic” and jazzed to “Zip-A-Dee-Doo-Dah.”  She earned runner up honors for Little Miss Personality!  We enjoyed the warm-up of the weather and had a picnic at the park on the new walking bridge that was installed over the winter. 

 

 

        

 

 

            

__________________

 

In June, we celebrated Luke’s 4th birthday and he played constantly with his two best friends:  Alex and his Power Wheels Chevy pickup truck!  He had a Spiderman party and we indulged in Spider Wars in the living room!  J  Luke began playing T-ball at the Y, with Tom as their coach.  They were so funny to watch!  Luke is a natural and could hit the ball harder and farther than anyone else on his team.  Thanks to his big brother and sister, he has advanced skills for just turning four years old.  Abby continued to play softball and Matt continued to play baseball.  Needless to say, we got to know the ball diamonds very, very well this month!  The kids got out of school, but not before receiving some special honors.  Both Matt & Abby achieved the Honor Roll!  It was unusually warm for June and it was during this time that we opened the pool!  Ann’s work rented out the Children’s Museum one night, which was really neat.  Luke loved the dinosaur exhibit, Matt was thrilled with the space exhibit and Abby thought the full-size replica of the Indy car was the coolest!  Matt had fun showing Grandpaw & Grandmaw Bryan how to play Nintendo Wii bowling!  Who says you can’t teach an old dog new tricksJ  Luke also learned how to ride his bike, although Tom did have to engineer an old pair of training wheels onto it…

 

 

        

 

 

        

 

 

      

 

 

    

__________________

 

During July, we hit the pool pretty hard.  The kids were all in the 4th of July parade again this year, with Lukey driving his Chevy truck, Matt riding his Stingray and Abby helping Grandma walk the puppies - while Sandy broadcast the event over the radio.  We had our annual Fourth of July party again this year.  Tom got a new stainless steel grill to kickoff the event!  We swam, cooked out on the grill, and played corn hole and volleyball.  Chad and Tom again dominated the corn hole tourney play.  Matt’s best friend Brayton and his parents (our good friends Mike & Natalie) were down - along with their other two kids.  As the day progressed, the weather didn’t want to cooperate with us and it didn’t look like we would be able to get in many fireworks, as it stormed pretty hard in the early evening.  However, it did hold off and it was the best display yet!  Sadly, it may be our last…as the field behind us began being developed as a new housing edition…L…which caused a ton of dirt to be in the air every day, and land in our pool every night!  Matt and Tom had their hands full trying to keep it clean this season.  Keith, Rosie and Megan came in from New York this year, which made it extra special that all the grandkids could be together again.  Sadly, we never got the kids in the same frame for the annual grandkids photo – we’ll have to work on that during the upcoming holidays!  Matt caught Sandy in the height race this month.  The fair came to town shortly after Independence Day.  We spent many evenings out at the fairgrounds - riding rides, seeing the animals and eating the yummy fair food.  The kids again sat in the back of Tom’s truck (parked in the lawn of WTRE) to catch candy during the fair parade down Park Road and came home with a shopping bag full of treats!  Later that day, Sandy electrified the crowd in the grandstands by singing with Mark’s band.  We were very proud of her! 

 

          

 

 

      

 

 

     

 

 

       

__________________

 

In August, the kids went back to school.  Matt started 6th grade at the Jr. High, Abby began 2nd grade at the Elementary school and Luke went to pre-school at the YMCA.  Matt and Tom attended a local pro wrestling event at the old armory in town.  It didn’t quite measure up to the WWE athletes they witnessed earlier in the year at the Conseco Fieldhouse…but it was still fun.  Matt especially enjoyed heckling the “bad guy” wrestlers up close.  Abby played soccer again this year.  Tom co-coached the team.  Matt began playing football.  This month also saw us take our annual family vacation.  This year, we decided to stay close to home, since the kids were already involved in sports.  We took day trips to the Indy Zoo, the State Museum, Six Flags Kentucky Kingdom and topped it off with a trip to Holiday World / SplashinSurfari!  The kids got to feed a giraffe and pet sharks at the zoo!  We also had our first “camp out” in the back yard.  I don’t know if Tom will be able to do that again with out an air mattress!  J 

 

        

 

 

        

 

 

      

 

 

    

__________________

 

 

In September, we celebrated Abby’s 8th birthday.  She had two parties – one with family and close friends and the other with her girlfriends and classmates (a karaoke party!).  Abby continued to play soccer and participated in the annual “Punt, Pass & Kick” event.  She took home 2nd place overall in her age bracket!  We are very proud of her, as she works hard at improving herself each practice.  Abby also began taking dance classes, again choosing to take on tap and jazz.  Her tap class will be a competition team this year!  Matt continued to play football, earning a starting spot at defensive tackle and beginning to take snaps on the offensive side as well at the tackle position.  We traveled in Grandma and Gigi’s motor home for Matt’s first game and tailgated before it got started.  This was the first of what we hope will become a tradition in the coming years!  While the ladies were away at scrapbook activities one day, Tom took the boys to the park for some R&R.  Abby took part in a cheerleading clinic and got to cheer during the varsity homecoming football game one Friday night.  As a possible precursor of things to come; as Abby cheered, Matt took the field with his football team during halftime for a quick scrimmage.  Grandpaw & Grandmaw Bryan were on hand for the action, as well as Grandma Owens and Gigi.  The family was very proud of those two and hoped to one day see it played out once more in a few years…  Tom earned Employee of The Month for a record third time at his work.  During the Tree City Fall Festival concert on the courthouse lawn, Abby got up on stage and sang with the headlining act, a Beatles tribute band.  Unfortunately, Abby didn’t know the lyrics, but looked great just the same!  J

 

 

        

 

 

      

 

 

 

          

 

 

          

__________________

 

 

In October, we celebrated Tom’s birthday.  Only one more year of “livin’ young” until the big 4-0 hits!  Matt is still playing football (easily the longest season of our year!).  He is now playing both ways, on the offensive and defensive line.  We are very proud of how quickly he has caught on during his first year of football.  Matt continues to take drum lessons.  The family attended Abby’s Family Fun Night at school, where her class sang a few songs before we ate dinner and played games.  She continued to take tap and jazz dance lessons.  Ann again helped her best friend Amy facilitate her annual Halloween party.  Abby also attended and enjoyed games, crafts and lots of food!  We took the kids to the pumpkin patch again this year.  Who would have thought we could have so much fun in a field of gourds?  Ann and the kids decorated the front of the house in an autumn motif.  We carved pumpkins and went Trick-or-Treating in the neighborhood, bringing home lots of candy!  Luke dressed as Spiderman and Abby was a pirate.  Matt decided he was too old to dress up, but not too old to ask the neighbors for candy!  J  Many of the kids’ friends came out to the neighborhood this year, making it especially enjoyable…and the weather was perfect!

 

      

 

 

      

 

 

      

 

 

    

 

 

      

__________________

 

 

For her birthday, the girls fulfilled one of MaryAnn’s long-time dreams by treating her to a long weekend when they surprised her with a trip to Nashville to see the Radio City Rockettes at the Grand Ole Opry in TN.  One night during their trip, they got to go on a horse and carriage ride – the highlight was when the horse passed a big “toot” and the little boy who was helping to drive the carriage let us know that it was Hank the horse and not him!  J  Matt finished playing football, as his team ended the season by defeating the Greensburg A1 team in overtime to capture the Mid Southern A-League Youth Football championship!  The weather has gotten very cold and it became a challenge to sit through the final few games!  Matt continues to play drums and Abby continues to take both of her dance classes.  Abby brought home straight A’s on her report card!  Luke was the leader at Preschool and was treated with visits from Tom on one day and MaryAnn and Sandy on Grandparents’ Day.  We took our annual pilgrimage to the courthouse to take a Gigi a Diet Coke during her elections broadcast.  Around the house, we finished winterizing the outside by raking up the leaves and jumping in the piles!  Inside, the air has been filled with the sounds of the piano, as all three kids have taken an interest in it.  Matt has become very good.  We also picked up “Mount Toymore” – the never ending toy pile in the play room!  We finally decided to clean it out and keep only the toys they actually played with…lately, the kids have really been in to the Geotrax train system and spend hours each night setting it up.  Keith, Rosie and Megan came home for Thanksgiving and to celebrate Christmas.  MaryAnn and Sandy prepared a wonderful meal, with help from Chad and Keith – who made a deep fried turkey!  We spent a lot of time visiting with Keith & Rosie, watching the Cowboys and Colts win, exchanging presents…and we remembered to get our annual grandchild picture at grandma’s house (we forgot last year!).  We also had the family pictures taken at Artistic Studio again and the girls did a great job – especially considering our crew!  J  Actually, the kids did pretty good…but quickly broke down in to wrestling matches frequently…so they went with it!  J  You can see the end product below...and can follow the link below to see the complete set of pictures from that photo shoot!  Finally; Ann and Amy again braved Black Friday this year - actually leaving before midnight, wearing hideous headgear, hitting a dear and staying out for 18 straight hours of shopping and fighting crowds!!  Now that’s dedication…

 

 

        

 

 

      

 

 

        

 

 

      

 

 

      

 

 

     

 

 

         

 

 

      

 

 

 

To see the complete set of pictures from our latest photo shoot, please follow this link!

__________________

 

 

  What a whirlwind way to wind up the year!  During the month of December, we took the kids (as well as Grandma and Gigi) to Connersville to catch the Polar Express!  The train took us to pick up Santa at the North Pole and then he rode back with us, meeting all the kids.  It was pretty cool, as this was the first time on a train for everyone except the two elders.  We had to snuggle up with blankets, as it was very, very cold that night with no heat on the train.  So besides meeting Santa, our favorite part was getting the hot choc-o-lot!  J  The next day, Ann and Abby took their good friends Amy and Bailey to Conseco Field House in Indy to see Disney’s High School Musical on Ice.  We attended both of Ann’s work parties:  “Cookies with Santa” (for all the patients who gave birth that year) early in the day, followed by the annual employee party with the White Elephant gift exchange.  It was again catered this year by our good friend Allen Smith.  As usual, we had a great time that night…but Ann was not as lucky as last year…as none of her employees gave her a lap dance!  LOL!  Lukey and Abby were thrilled to meet Santa again during the cookie party.  Luke again asked for nothing more than a flashlight and workbench (that’s my boy!) from Santa.  Abby, on the other hand, had no less than 42 items on her list!  Unfortunately, she completely forgot everything and froze when she met Santa both times!  Good thing she was able to email the list to him…  Tom was bestowed with the honor of Employee of the Year (which also came with a nice check!) at his work.  Tom and Matt took Luke to his first wresting match, held locally at the Greensburg Armory.  Luke was thrilled with his front row seat for 8 “cage matches!”  We made a pair of snowmen about midway through the month (a first for Lukey!), as we got our first significant snowfall of the season.  That was followed up with back to back trips to the Lafayette area to have Christmas with Tom’s sides of the family.  The first one was the Bryan Christmas at Grandmaw & Grandpaw Bryan’s house in Rossville, where we got to meet up with Dan & Sharon, as well as Nathan, Steph and their 2 girls.  The following weekend was the Scheumann Christmas, first at Grandma & Grandpa Scheu’s log cabin, followed by the big party held at John and June’s beautiful mansion.  The attendance was a little down this year, but still easily had 50 Scheumanns, including our 91-yr old Granny Scheu!  As the school semester wound down, Matthew was psyched to perform in his first band concert; unfortunately it was snowed-out…  Thankfully, Grandma and Gigi were able to go when it was rescheduled for 9:30 the following Tuesday morning!  We were thrilled that Grandmaw & Grandpaw Bryan were able to stay with us a couple nights, including Christmas Eve and Christmas Day!  On Christmas Eve, we went to the annual Owens Christmas party to celebrate with Ann’s side of the family.  We then rushed home for our family’s traditional routine:  The kids changed into their new Christmas jammies, sprinkled reindeer dust in the front yard and then set out cookies, milk, cheese (it’s an Abby thing…) and a bottled coke for Santa.  This was followed by a reading of ‘Twas the Night before Christmas by Tom, putting the kids to bed and then Mom and Dad waiting for Santa to come.  The kids were up so late that night and then popped right back up at the crack of dawn on Christmas morning, of course!  The kids were really good again this year, judging by all the loot they pulled in!!  J  The coolest gifts included:  Matt’s iPod and Guitar Hero III game, Abby’s Hannah Montana guitar/mic/stage/amp/docking station setup; Luke’s tool bench, 4-Wheeler and the complete GeoTrax set; Ann’s popcorn collection and Tom’s baseball w/ Pete Rose autograph (Thanks Chad!!)!  During Christmas vacation, Matt and Abby attended the Damon Bailey Basketball Camp, held at the YMCA.  Matt didn’t want his picture taken afterward, as he learned he “Was an IU guy, Dad!”  J  Luke worked on his Alvin & The Chipmunks “Bow-Chicka-Wow-Wow” dance.  J  This is something you just have to see…  Then, to wind up the year, we had our good friends Mike, Natalie and their three kids down for New Year’s Eve.  The guys again stomped the gals in our regular euchre endeavor.   All the kids made it to midnight this year for the first time and enjoyed counting down to 2008.  It has been an exciting year for our family and we thank you for following our family’s chronicle.  We hope you enjoyed following it as much as we had in creating it. 

 

From the Scheumann family to your family, we wish you a healthy and prosperous new year…

 

 

          

 

 

          

 

 

          

 

 

          

 

 

          

 

 

          

 

 

        

 

 

            

 

 

          

 

 

            

 

 

            

 

 

          

 

 

            

 

You can follow our 2008 Family Chronicle on our new blog located HERE.

 

Thanks for checking out our 2007 Family Year in Review website.  You can see much, much more at our main website here:  www.scheumann.us.  You can email us at scheu2112@yahoo.com.