The night before Valentine’s day Quinnie’s friend Matilda came over for a sleepover. The girls had a blast making Valentine cards for some friends and family (I’m still finding glitter and tiny sequins all over the place!). watching a “scary” cartoon Luckily I had an extra heart basket for Matilda (for their morning Valentine’s baskets). […]
Month: June 2015
First Snow!
This winter we finally got some snow! I can’t tell you how excited we all were- especially since we didn’t get any in Köln last year. We spent most of the day outdoors because we knew it wouldn’t last. Quinnie catching snowflakes on her tongue / Ella making snowballs We randomly ran into our old […]
Kiera’s 6th Birthday!
Oh man. I can’t believe how few pictures I have of Kiera’s birthday. I shouldn’t be surprised really- I was barely hanging on after the last few months we’d had (a move, all of our birthdays, hosting guests, Christmas, etc.). I still feel badly though. We’ll make it up to you next year Kiera! We […]
Random Christmas Bits and New Year’s Eve
Here’s the last batch of pics that I have from Grandma and Grandpa’s visit (that aren’t already in other posts). Now that’s a pretzel! Grandpa doing magic tricks. The girls thought they were incredible. The next day I heard Kiera whisper to a friend, “My Grandpa can do magic!” The girls busted me relaxing in […]
Christmas Markets with Grandma and Grandpa
We managed to make it to every Weihnachtsmarkt again this year. It was Grandma and Grandpa’s first time seeing them, so it was extra fun to show them around. I’m going to put all of the Christmas Market pictures into one post this year since I documented each Weihnachtsmarkt thoroughly last year. I’ll give you […]
Bergischer Weihnachtsmarkt im Wald (2014)
On Quinnie’s birthday we went to the Christmas Market in the forest (like last year) to cut down our own Christmas tree. Unfortunately we didn’t stay long because the weather was cold and rainy. We still managed to have some fun before we left though! Quinnie was excited to see Sankt Nikolaus there (Kiera wasn’t […]
Christmas Day (2014)
The girls must have been good this year, because Santa came!! showing each other their stocking treats Quinnie got even more Playmobil guinea pigs! showing Grandma their loot Playmobil Christkind and Sankt Nikolaus. You can read about these German Christmas Idols in this post from last year. American play money. I brought this from the […]
Christmas Eve (2014)
A few days before Christmas we went to Oma and Opa’s house for the traditional Raclette Christmas dinner. I didn’t take any photos of the food this year, but if you don’t know what Raclette is, you can check out last year’s post here. Quinnie got to light lots of the Christmas candles this year […]
Quinnie’s 8th Birthday!
We had a family celebration for Quinnie’s eighth birthday. It was extra special this year because Grandma and Grandpa were visiting from America! One of Quinnie’s birthday gifts was that we’ll be taking her and a friend to Phantasialand (a big amusement park here) when the weather is warmer. Kiera and Grandma helping me make […]
St. Martin’s Day 2014
Another shabbily documented holiday! Oh well- I’ll give you what I’ve got… The girls love St. Martin’s Day. Especially all the time spent at school creating their lanterns and learning the Sankt Martin songs. Kiera proudly showing off the lantern she made at school with Papa (close-ups below). getting ready for the procession around the […]
Fall/ Halloween 2014
You can tell we’d just moved (and our lives were in chaos) by how badly I documented Halloween and Fall (my favorite season no less!). The few meager photos in this post are pretty much all I have to show for it. Halloween was kind of a bust this year again. We have yet to […]
New Apartment/ New Blog
We moved into our new apartment at the end of September, and then lived in chaos for the next five months while I unpacked all of our belongings and did my best to make our new apartment a home (along with juggling the rest of our lives- homework, laundry, cooking, sicknesses, etc.). I had to […]
Goodbye Weckschnapp
When we first moved to Germany, we had only planned on staying at the Weckschnapp for four months while our new apartment was being built. Well, the construction ended up taking seven months longer than it was supposed to, so we’ve ended up living at the Weckschnapp for over a year now. Thank you Tante […]
Goodbye Ebertplatz Park!
As excited as we are about moving into our new neighborhood, we sure are going to miss Ebertplatz Park. The commute to school was long, but it forced us to walk through this beautiful, leafy park, and to pass by the duck pond every day. We will still be able to visit it, of course, […]