Hobenshield

2009-11-05T16:15:00.001-08:00

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

2009-07-30T00:22:00.004-07:00

2009-07-18T14:06:00.008-07:00

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...

2009-07-18T13:11:00.015-07:00

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

2009-05-20T12:08:00.003-07:00

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.

2009-05-05T22:20:00.000-07:00

Ok Carmi,

You win! here are a bunch of new pics!

2009-03-15T14:24:00.002-07:00

2009-01-02T14:05:00.002-08:00

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

2008-12-26T12:32:00.002-08:00

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

2008-12-26T12:26:00.000-08:00

2008-12-26T12:04:00.001-08:00

Merry Christmas photos

2008-12-26T12:04:00.000-08:00

Merry Christmas photos

2008-12-22T17:03:00.001-08:00

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!!

2008-12-19T13:29:00.001-08:00

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!!

2008-12-12T17:15:00.005-08:00

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!

2008-11-19T12:11:00.003-08:00

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

2008-11-14T12:16:00.000-08:00

Just a quick picture of the kids (Mae, Lynn, Nele, Ben & Amy) in the great fall colours

2008-10-20T22:41:00.011-07:00

Amy had a great laugh on the way home the other day:

Helmut, Sorry you missed out on the fish coming up Hyde Creek. The bears are enjoying it and the locals too.

Mae and Amy are really enjoying each other.

See, they cuddle and laugh together.

with Halloween just around the corner, we got into our pumpkin chopping and created this beauty.

Over Thanksgiving we went out to Hope, and Mae did her first flower arrangement. Amy decided to crawl all over Mel as well.

Michael came over to play with Amy, she was a bit sceptical. Amy was powering around the house and found Mel's tampon box. Good fun.

Mae is really enjoying ringette. It is great to see her having so much fun. She came home all sweaty last weekend with a great big grin on her face. Loved it. Then we took this mug shot of Amy.

The other day we went to Andy and Silke's for a few drinks and Raglette. It was very yummy and funny.

Rosi and Helmut really enjoyed our trip to Vancouver Island. We saw lots of beautiful places and Buchart Garden's is definetly one of those.

A neat little place along the way is close to Cowichan Bay. It is a little shopping area with buildings from Duncan's old China town.

The Ferry is particularly stunning, a great sunrise and a cute little light house along the route.

Mae made a new friend in Victoria. He wasn't very responsive though.

2008-10-05T20:43:00.002-07:00

Kinuseo Falls, Tumbler Ridge. These falls are taller than Niagra Falls, they are 60 metres tall. They are pretty cool, you can see all the spots on the camera from the water droplets, there was a constant mist from the falls. There is so much to see around Tumbler Ridge a person could spend days there hiking around and still not see everything.
Kinuseo Falls again, we had to basically scramble down the side to get down to the bottom. Much easier to get down than back up!
Looking down river from the top of the falls, people rent jet boats from Tumbler and come up the river, the best view of the falls is from the fork in the river which you need a boat to get to.
This was another fall that we walked to called Burbor Falls, it is in between Tumbler and Kinuseo Falls, it was not an advertised trail at all but we saw it in our book so we thought we would check it out, it was quite nice but we saw fresh bear poop right before we got there and we did not have the dogs with us and there were no other people for miles around so we didn't stay long! Hal grabbed this big stick to defend us!! I figured sing loud and get back to the car!

2008-10-05T20:22:00.002-07:00

This is along the Sukunka forestry Road that we drove along to see the falls.
Here is a nice bear that we saw while driving on the forestry road, he didn't seem to care about us he just kept sauntering along...
This was two weekends ago on our trip to Tumbler Ridge (an hour from Dawson Creek).
Quality Falls on the way to Tumbler from Dawson, beautiful falls, I could have spent all day there, it was about a 1km hike off the highway, and on a beautiful fall day.
Hal looking down stream from the falls, there are another set of falls just downstream.

2008-10-05T20:10:00.002-07:00

Just thought I would put some pictures on here showing a little bit of the local things we have been doing. These are of our trip to Sukunka Falls towards Chetwynd. We went there early this summer, they are down a forestry road, you hike down a little path in the bush to find them, it was pretty neat.
Of course the dogs came, Buddy and Briela! They had loads of fun.
This is at the very bottom of the series of the falls.

This was another fall on the same forestry road, it is called hole in the wall falls?? the water comes out of a hole at the bottom of the big rock face that you can see in the picture, I guess it is a hole in the wall! They weren't too creative with the name!

2008-09-20T19:53:00.005-07:00

Mae's first ringette practice with her own gear. Pretty good stuff. Here she is going in on goal for her first goal ever! Then getting a briefing from the coach.
They all had a go at shooting the ring, Bounce it off the wall and back again, repeat.

So we finally got around to paining the play house last weekend. Barn Red with white highlights. Pretty cute! Now its pouring rain and I think we can expect it to remain this way for the next couple of weeks. Mae & Maria had a go at selling Lemonade last Sunday. It was pretty cute. $0.50 the glass. I think they earned about $2.00 each.

Went for a walk the other day as well. Great day, sunny etc. Super shot of the golden ear mountains.

Mae and Amy sharing the love in the morning. Amy loves her big sister.

Amy is a super crawler, and now even walker! She took a few steps on Thursday! Neither Mel or I got to see her first steps. She was at Silke's while we were at work. Anyway, she isn't doing it much on her own yet so I don't expect her to be a walking terror for another couple of weeks yet.

Amy loves chilling out in her Nemo couch and really enjoys it when Mom plays with her when she's in the swing.

2008-09-10T11:37:00.002-07:00

Here are a bunch of pictures from our trip out to Eastern Canada, Nova Scotia and PEI.

Mom and Hal on one of our stops on the Cabot Trail.
All of us on the Cabot Trail.

Grandpa, dad and Hal in Shubenacadie where the Moore's are from.

2008-09-10T11:28:00.002-07:00

Rita McNeil's Tea house, we stopped for tea and dessert, it was really nice. Mom and Dad were not allowed to say that they had coffee in their tea pots!

Inside Louisbourg, the fortress of the northeast corner of Cape Breton.

Louisbourg from across the bay.

2008-09-10T11:19:00.002-07:00

Mom and Dad and Grandma and Grandpa walking under confederation bridge holding hands...

Confederation bridge again, you can see it continuing in the distance.

Us posing by the cow from Cows ice cream in Charlottetown, voted Canada's best ice cream by Reader's Digest, and it was very good ice cream, we had some almost everyday. It started in PEI.

Dad trying to make the lobster grab mom's bum!
Us at Point Prim the oldest lighthouse in PEI.