W42 of Y2

Santa visited the boys at scouts this week. All 3 of them got to sit on his lap.
What did they each ask for?

"A bucket full of dollars and euros"

"A massaging chair"

"just chocolate"

I had to throw in a pic of my 2 tiger cubs with matching sweatshirts!

After Santa left they got to make (and eat) sugar cookies!!



This weekend was the Winter Fair at the boys school.

I had to laugh at Aiden for repeatedly doing the cake walk... he STILL has never won but never gives up. It reminded me of an earlier blog post.


He did, however, get plenty of junk with all the other games and especially loved the dangling donuts!!

Whitney just wanted to get her face painted

Connor, and most of his other class mates, hung out at the Grade 3 booth where they got to throw pies (AKA: pie tins filled with whipped cream) at their teachers face.

He was such a good sport but it was COLD out there! I volunteered to work at the booth for the second hour and my hands were burning they were so cold just from touching the whipped cream. I can't imagine how bad his face must have hurt! He had whipped cream all down his shirt and even squishing around in his shoes. He was smiling the whole time though.

Sooooo appropriate!!

The rest of the weekend plans were pretty much ruined because Whitney had a fever all weekend and a terrible cough. I wanted to go to some Christmas markets but didn't want to take her out in the cold. So, we all stayed home and relaxed this weekend. It was actually kind of nice.

We did treat ourselves and all went to see Tangled. Great movie!

W41 of Y2

This week was all about the snow! It snowed a little just about every day. Aiden especially wanted to go play in the snow every day.

We enjoyed a Christmas Concert on base while we waited to see Santa!!

Annual Gingerbread Houses!!

St. Nikolaus Day!!

Yes, St. Nick came to visit us again this year. Such a fun tradition. I hope he'll continue to visit even after we move back to the U.S.


My little cuties all ready for church!

Connor teaching our cute little friends, Simon & Lasser, how to play the piano at church.

W40 of Y2: Part I

There they go... sniff... sniff! My little princess and her Daddy flying to the US for Thanksgiving.


Thanksgiving was just another day for us. On the way to school that morning we saw the very first snowflake! The boys were squealing with delight!! After school that day we celebrated with Turkey hotdogs and Mac&Cheese. The boys were thrilled! After dinner we brought up the Christmas decorations and decorated the house and Christmas tree.


Didn't they do a great job!?!

The boys actually made these pies all by themselves! They were so proud!!

Connor had a school play this week just for grades 4 & 5. He was one of the main characters, Paul and spent the last 3 weeks practicing. In fact, our whole family acted out the play for family home evening one night to help him learn his lines. He really got into it! Jeremy was bummed he was going to miss it so I promised to take a video of it. I was using Aiden's camera all week (Jeremy took mine) and right when the play started I took 2 seconds of video and the memory was full!! Ugggh!! I frantically started erasing pictures and took more video. I had to do this throughout the entire play. So.... I only got a little bit on video. The whole class did so well!

This weekend was the weekend of birthday parties!!! Friday AND Saturday! One thing that I love about their school is that all the kids play together. We had kids from Grade 1 up to Grade 5 at the parties and everyone just played together and didn't care. That is one advantage of a small school!












Saturday night I took the boys to Fody's. A restaurant that people have told me about. It has an American feel to it and a great atmosphere for kids. After dinner we went and saw a great kid's movie: Alpha and Omega. It was fun to hang out with just my boys! I have to say.... I missed Jeremy and my little princess so much this week - but the boys and I really had a blast! It was fun to just do stuff that they like to do and spend time with them without distractions. I feel so blessed to have such great boys!! They kept me in stitches all week. They are so fun and funny!!





Sunday we had our Thanksgiving feast. The boys really got into helping me get ready for it. They made name tags for each of our guests and colored pictures to put up all around the house. They were really excited for our guests to arrive and to eat the food they helped me make!



All of our guests! They are all very dear to us and we are so grateful for each of them. It was a wonderful evening!

Aiden's welcome home poster for Daddy and Whitney! We pick them up in the morning. There will be a W39 of Y2: Part II this week which will be all the pictures Jeremy took during his family reunion. It sounds like they had a great time. I'm really glad the 2 of them got to go.