News Updated 9/07:

• Introduction
• The Plan for Christmas 2008
• Frank + Bahar's House!!!
• Recent News

NEW PHOTOS!!!

Past Christmas Games

Introduction

Welcome to the Schmidtmann Family (of Rochester NY) webpage. Our family (the Schmidtmann part at least) came over from Germany during the great depression and has staked its claim in and around the city of Rochester, New York. We have managed to keep the family small and in close contact. This website is where we can all view our family photos and keep updated on what is going on with everybody. It also gives us a forum to list our favorite websites and share our different business/recreational websites with each other. If you see anything that you think needs more info, or if something is wrong or missing all together, please email me or Carl to get things fixed. Thanks for stopping by!

Frank Schmidtmann

P.S. - don't forget to scroll down and check out all the other great info on this page!

Christmas 2008 Gift list and this years game: The Perfect Match

Ok. So this will be our 5th year of having fun games at Christmas. The past years have been a huge success - check out the Christmas page for details. For 2008 we are moving on to an interesting game called the Perfect Match (the name comes from the famous Chinese food dish of course) The rules and judgment methods are listed below:

- The point of the game is for everyone to buy two items separately for the chosen individual, but they need to be as interconnected as possible. For example buying Nate a radio controlled car and buying hime a battery pack.

- Try to stay within a $15 budget

- they must be two separate items (not packaged together), the more creative the better (you are not limited to only two items total, but they should match the person you are giving to)

- If they are interconnected, good - if they rely on each other, even better

- The voting will be determined by silent ballet once again, and you can't vote for yourself (and only one vote per person Bill). The vote should be on creativity, how well they define the person's interests/career, and how cool the gifts are.

The published list (so no excuses):

Werner buys for Eric
Joan - Sharon
Fred - Nate
Bill - Andrea
Karen - Bahar
Andrea - Dude
Josh - Carl
Abby - Erin
Nate - Frank
Frank - Josh
Bahar - Joan
Carl - Werner
Rita - Bill
Eric - Fred
Sharon - Abby
Erin - Karen
Dude - Rita

***Also here is the 2008 list for the standard gifts as well (around $50ish):

Bill buys for Sharon
Karen - Rita
Andrea - Erin
Josh - Bahar
Frank - Carl
Bahar - Dude
Carl - Bill
Rita - Eric
Eric - Andrea
Sharon - Josh
Erin - Frank
Dude - Fred

Fred - Karen

Updates on Frank and Bahar's House

So, Bahar and I finally bought a house. Its still being built so I thought everyone would like to see the progress, check out the photos:

House when we first saw it in Feb. and March

As of early April

Also, our new address when we move in in the end of April is:

256 Spring Oaks Lane, Ruckersville VA 22968

Its about 15 minutes north of Charlottesville and only 5 minutes from my job. More postings to follow.

Recent News

9/07 - Bill and Karen come to VA to help finish Frank's basement.

6 /07 - Our trip to Baltimore for the AST DEW Tour

4/07 - Bahar and Frank buy a new house. Check out the photos.

1/07 - Webpage Updated with Christmas 2007 plan, and Past Christmas games - click here!

3/06 - Webpage Updated with new look, NEWS - Christmas plan for 2006

2/06 - Bill's Tool and Die Page is up and running (with correct spelling and everything). Check it out.

1/06 - Carl and Rita move back to Rochester, leaving only the Virginians to hold out from NY.

12/05 - Frank is awarded his second degree black belt in Jidokwan Taekwondo. Check out the pics.

12/05 - Christmas with the family, 2005.

11/05 - Check out Josh's new company website - Prime Crew Solutions

10/05 - Frank has his ebay setup running with his own page - take a look at what he is selling now.

10/05 - Frank, Bahar, Karen, and Bill cruise the Caribbean for 7 days, check out the photos.