Christmas Tree decorating!

A few more pictures from around the house, Hal baking and cooking with Conrad, Buddy smiling! he looks mean but he is just excited to have his picture taken!

Conrad and Hal working on the garage... Hal is having too much fun!

A few more at 36 weeks then a couple from the hospital at 37 weeks! By the end of my time there I just hooked myself up to the monitor every few hours!

Some pictures a lady from our church took a few weeks ago.... 36 weeks.

0911

Just a couple more to satisfy your Hobies fix

Ok Ok I know we haven't posted in a very long time (ok a very very long time) but I thought it was finally time to pull my finger out. Here is a short slide show of what has gone on over the past few months, I hope you enjoy. Ryan

0910

The missing pictures - I really hate that programm, I had them all in and after I put the text in some of the pics disappeared. Very frustrating! I have been working on that post for almost 3 hours...

Opa and Amy feeding the fish in the backyard pond. Amy loves that job - rain or shine!

She also loves to play soccer - I can see some real talent (hits the ball with an amazing power).


Another favourite job is watering the plants, again rain or shine ;-) here with Jana

Mae with Maria's bear that she takes places (well, most of the time it stays in bed because Mae forgets it)



My godchild Nadine finished school this year and I was able to go to her prom night (makes you feel quite old)

Night out with Carmie and Susie feels like the good old times...


















Mae and Amy at the Brenzpark (a huge area with flowers, greens and play areas for the kids)

Getting around these days in my parents Golf Plus - not sure where the Plus is as I feel like a sardine everytime. Think thin Meli!!! ;-)

again Brenzpark this time with my brothers little one Jana

my brother Marki

my sister in law Dani looking as pregnant as she is - a few more days to go...

Special activity at school (sweating instead of sitting) - incredible hot day, poor kids really were sweating...

Mae is so lucky that she is able to be a part of her old school class again.


Those 2 girls are sooo cute, wish you all could be here with us.

Jana and Amy always have a blast playing with each other. Barely notice the age difference of 1.5years.

Sunday trip to the castle. Mae loves castles and all the stories that go with them...here Schloss Hellenstein, Heidenheim


Canonball Mae


Cuties...

Nice view of Heidenheim
Ryan, notice the empty space where Ploucquet was? It's huge and looks unreal...


Amy and Knut the neighbors dog


Trip with Josefine,
Mark and our
girls to the
Charlotten-
hoehle (cave).

The kids had
such a blast with the water settings there.

Look how sturdy little Amy is ;-)


At Taddy's place with her little girl Finnia (the big kids Mae and Jona hit it off right from the start and didn't leave his room - glad she is only 8)

Took the bus past Wednesday and was on the phone when I got in. Driver asked me to turn it off and pointed to the sign - I was shocked!! How pathetic is that??

Kinderfest at Mae's school (like a carnival). Motto was 4 elements, Mae's class got 'earth' so they decided to dress up as vegetables.
Can you guess what Mae is?

I just loved the boy dressed as a salad!

They march through the middle of Steinheim in a parade.

Mae's fantastic teacher Frau Hensolt. She is unbelievable nice!

Girl with ponytails is Mae's good friend Lea (lives across the street from my parents). They play together all the time.

2nd and 4th grades had to do a dance

Trying to keep up to date with the pictures now. Here is a slide show from a few outings. The first are from a trip to a petting zoo in North Vancouver and the rest are from our camping trip to Deception Pass and San Juan Island off the Coast of Northern Washington State. AWSOME viewing of Orca's from the light house at Lime Kiln park on San Juan Island. The grey bump is the back of a grey whale that visited the beach at Deception Pass State park.

Ok Carmi,

You win! here are a bunch of new pics!

Here is a bit of a slide show of the New Years Eve party antics

i guess i was to busy to notice the we didnt take ant pics of the finished tree. Taely had the best time with all the stuff that goes on at this time of year. Theres a few pics i did with the pastels Hal got me. thank you Hal its what i needed :)

luv you all very much! xoxoxoxo

Merry Christmas photos

Merry Christmas photos

So Mel decided to go for a Drive today and had a fun time parking at Earl & Tammy's!! 

Good fun for the whole family!

Thanks for the pics Tammy (I think). 

  
  

Merry Christmas!!

Hey everyone! A very merry Christmas. Rachel (and Evan) has had a little baby boy yesterday and that is super exciting. WELCOM TO THE WORLD Declan!! Nice work, Just in time for Christmas!!

So I didn't get any complaints about doing it last time so here I am again. I have put in a little slide show of what has happened so far this Dec. Mae had her very first ringette game, Nikolaus came to town on the evening of the 5th and Mae played a whole tournament on the weekend of the 7th & 8th. That was exhausting!

This is a test: Click here to see pictures from Mel's B.day. Michaels bday and some other random shots of Mae & Amy