http://www.schwartzfamily.org A blog for our family. Sat, 30 Jan 2010 15:34:20 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Jacob was not spared the stomach virus. He woke up at midnight last night moaning and groaning and two hours later I was changing sheets. He really wanted to go to his classmate's birthday party today but there's no way. William is at a wrestling tournament two hours away in Newport, ... http://www.schwartzfamily.org/2010/01/30/saturday/ Nikolas and his favorite ornament Originally uploaded by Kathy Schwartz We had our first Pennsylvania Ornament Party yesterday and all the kids made ornaments and played in the snow. http://www.schwartzfamily.org/2009/12/20/nikolas-and-his-favorite-ornament/ Nikolas Originally uploaded by Kathy Schwartz At Phifer Ice Dam Dec. 4, 2009. http://www.schwartzfamily.org/2009/12/05/nikolas/ DSC_2180 Originally uploaded by Kathy Schwartz Brian and I went to the Liberty @ East Stroudsburg quartefinal playoff game last night in East Stroudsburg. We had no idea the Liberty High Marching Band played in the Rose Bowl. And I soon discovered why at half-time. It was simply amazing. They had ... http://www.schwartzfamily.org/2009/11/14/liberty-bagpiper/ I walked around downtown Jim Thorpe last weekend for the second of three Fall Foliage Weekends. We really do live in a beautiful place! Click here for more pictures. [caption id="attachment_69" align="aligncenter" width="600" caption="The perfect autumn picture of a street in Jim Thorpe, Pa."][/caption] http://www.schwartzfamily.org/2009/10/23/fall-foliage-in-jim-thorpe/ We took our fifth annual trip to Ocean City, Maryland on Sunday, Aug. 2. When we left Jim Thorpe it was raining buckets, literally. The rain followed us all the way through Delaware and started to slow down at the tip of Maryland on US Rte 113. The bad weather ... http://www.schwartzfamily.org/2009/08/09/the-beach/ My mom was a stickler for how to do things "right." She was a perfectionist and what other people thought about her and her family meant a lot to her. So, she spent a lot of time doing things "right." I sometimes wonder what she would say about how I ... http://www.schwartzfamily.org/2009/06/20/things-i-do-that-would-drive-my-mom-nuts/ [youtube:http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1PONGv_O6d8] http://www.schwartzfamily.org/2009/06/20/nikolas-sings-happy-birthday-to-himself/ My five boys Originally uploaded by Kathy Schwartz All the boys sitting nice for a picture -- amazing! http://www.schwartzfamily.org/2008/12/21/my-five-boys/ Nikolas Originally uploaded by Kathy Schwartz We took the kids to Cabelas today to get Grandpa a gift certificate. They had never been to that store/zoo/restaurant/amusement park. It's pretty amazing -- life-sized animals staged on a mountain, real fish swimming under the watchful eyes of stuffed life-sized bears, and an ELEPHANT. ... http://www.schwartzfamily.org/2008/12/21/nikolas-at-cabelas/