The Schmitz Family

OK I know it has been 9 1/2 months since the last update and I told myself I wasn’t going to wait that long. Not to sure if anyone follows the site anymore but I just updated Sierra’s and Tyler’s page and I am getting ready to update the Misc. Page as well. Hopefully I can keep up with this a little better this year and at least do an update once a month.

Here is a look at two of the pictures that we had taken recently.

Photography by Gretchen Adam

I decided to do a new look for our website. We recently had some family pictures taken and I thought now would be a great time to update the look. I will update the site soon with a few more pictures as I get them. Our family portraits were taken by Gretchen Adams, who does family portraits here in the Bay Area. If you are looking for someone to take some great Bay Area Family Portraits give her a call.

I know I also said I would be posting some more pictures of the San Diego trip, but I really just haven’t found the time. That’s what I get for taking so many pictures. I will try to go through them soon.

I updated Tyler & Sierra’s page with pictures from the Pumpkin Patch and a couple from the San Diego Zoo. I will be updating with more from our San Diego trip in the next few days or next weekend. Hope everyone has a good and safe Halloween.

I know it has been 6 months since I wrote in here and I told myself I would try to write more often. I thought now would be a good time to write and let everyone know that there is a new addition to our family. His name is Gunner a white Lab and we got him Tuesday 7/22/08 at 8 weeks old. It was a surprise to the kids and they are really happy to have him.

We just returned from Vegas for Summer’s 30th Birthday where we spent 4 days with some close friends and Summer’s family. We had a great time.

I’ve been busy for the first half of the year helping my best friend start a business on line to help find lost pets. The website FindToto.com is like an “Amber Alert” for lost dogs, cats or any kind of animal. What we do is take the address from where your pet went missing and for a fee we will notify your neighbors by phone of your missing pet. FindToto.com can notify up to 5000 neighbors in less than an hour which is a lot more ground than you can cover posting flyers. That is where a lot of my time has gone after work helping to get the company off the ground with the internet stuff. Help spread the word !!

Things will be busy for the rest of the year with the new puppy and FindToto.com but I will try and make every effort to update the site more often. At least with some new pictures of Gunner as I get them.

I have updated Tyler’s, Sierra’s & the misc page of pictures from our trip to Lake Tahoe. We were is Tahoe during Sierra’s birthday for our yearly Tahoe trip with Summer’s family. On Sierra’s birthday we took her to Reno to Circus Circus to play and had a great time. She loved the Circus act and playing all the carnival games.

Gary Schmitz

Here are a few shots from the new camera. Click image to enlarge.

I updated both Tyler and Sierra’s page with new pictures from our trip to the pumpkin patch at Smith Family Farms here in Brentwood. I also updated the Misc. Picture page with pictures from the month. I purchased a new Nikon D80 DSLR camera and plan on taking more pictures. I went from using a Sony Cyber-shot to the new one, it’s a big difference.

Nikon D80

18-135 mm lens

Nikon D80

Sony Cyber-shot

Updated the Misc. Picture page with a couple pictures from my Deer hunting trip with Summer’s Dad. This year it was a little cold, you’ll see from the snow on the ground.

I updated the misc. picture page with some pictures of Summer’s 29th Birthday. More pictures should be updated after the weekend. Have a great Labor Day weekend !!