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Thursday, March 24, 2011

Project Life - 1st week of March cont'd and 2nd week of March

Making lunch early in the morning.

Caleb dancing with a cutie while at a Fasching BBQ.

2nd week of March

New haircut - the lady straightened my hair for the day.

Dinner with my family at the Village Grille.

Caleb is trying to catch the popcorn James tossed.

Jared just misses the popcorn I threw.

For some reason Telsa is just a little irritated with us.

James resting after his dental work.

Half of James' mouth is numb and he isn't able to even purse his lips very well.

Project Life - 1st week of March - FASCHING

 Fasching in Germany is like Carnivale in Italy or Mardi Gras in New Orleans - the big party before LENT.  This is just one of the many bands we saw today.
 Even the children get involved in the dressing up.
 Adults dress up as well.
 Jared eating the popcorn that was thrown to the crowd.
 The popcorn that was thrown (candy was also thrown).
 One of the floats - 2 large buildings
another band all decked out.

Sorry for so long no blog... Project Life updates.

LAST WEEK OF FEBRUARY



 
 Visiting Brian and Diana - they are moving back to the US soon and we need to get our fix in.
 Jared and Evan go out with Brian and James for some geocaching.
 Weird ducks they saw while geocaching.
The cache was in the top crook of this tree.  Foiled again - I don't think anyone climbed up to get this one.  Too far up there.

Thursday, February 24, 2011

Another week in our life

Home with a sickie - coughing, aching, sneezing, sniffling - poor Jared.

James broke his middle toe when he stubbed his toe on Caleb's heel. Ouch!
Today I match the cat! Black and white anyone? She doesn't look very happy does she?


Caleb is helping Emilee with her math. She was out of school sick for several days and asked Caleb if he would help her catch up. I was so impressed with how well he did his tutoring. He didn't give her answers and asked lots of questions encouraging her to figure out the answer for herself. They worked for 4 hours.




Working on the laptop... fun fun!



Friday, February 18, 2011

CRASH, BANG, BOOM!

Who knew that the back end of a VW Golf was so hard?

I really don't like it when people stop faster than me.


Don't scoff at the crumple zone.

a double air bag deployment... I no longer love the smell of gunpowder in the morning.



Scene of the crime..




Project Life - week 7 BIRTHDAY TIME

WaHOO! 15 AT LAST! Happy Birthday Caleb!

Friends at the party getting ready to cut the cake -L-R Emilee, Caleb & Andy

L-R Katherine (hiding behind Andy), Andy, Jared & Evan

Another creative gift - this time from Katherine (Twitchy McSpazz). Love the little note on the cookies, it says, "Now, who doesn't like cookies."


Brian brought us this push mower and put a bow on it so Caleb would think it was his birthday present - funny man! Don't you just love the look on his face.



A creative gift from Emilee - little bits of everything that Caleb likes and/or is interested in. She really spent a lot of time creating this for him.





Project Life - week 8

Big Bang Theory - one of our favorite shows to watch as a family. Such fun... I do believe I may have my very own Sheldon (or two).

My Valentine gift from James - the Amber edition of Project Life ~ exactly what I wanted. (James you are so awesome - thanks Babe!) I am going to use this album to scrapbook the last few years of photos that I neglected. Yeah, so excited to get rid of this guilty feeling that I have for dropping the ball for so long.



James' car after a fender bender. His car won't start, the trunk won't open, the key will only open the front doors using the keyhole and both airbags were deployed. Going to cost more to fix it than it would to buy a new hooptie. Guess we will start looking. Thankfully, we do have another car we can use.


See the little chains, with the black box and red slot? That is for a coin deposit. You stick a euro coin in and it releases the chain. Then you can use your little wheelbarrow, when you return it and insert it into the chain, out pops your coin.



These 4 wheelbarrows are locked up and ready to be used at the local Friedhof (cemetary).




German cemetaries are so well maintained. Beautiful monuments to the people who have passed before us. Interesting facts about German cemetaries: they pay a monthly fee for their plot, they must be in good standing with the local church or the body will not be allowed to be buried there, if they don't pay the fee or keep the plot well maintained then the body will be exhumed and cremated.


Look closely at the tombstone - 6 people are buried in that spot. On on top of another.