September visitors

In September we had a couple of visitors. Simon's brother Seth came from New York and his friend Rob also happened to be in town the same week visiting. Simon had a couple days free and went to Dachau, Neuschwanstein and Oktoberfest with the guys. Auburn and I did some sightseeing around Munich. On the weekend we all headed out to Salzburg for the day.

Here is a picture of Rob and Simon at Neuschwanstein. As you can see it is under construction right now. Sorry about that guys, it really is quite spectacular without the scaffolding.

We realized on the train coming back from Salzburg that we didn't have any pictures of Auburn and Uncle Seth. He brought his super awesome camera and did most of the picture taking. Here is a couple of pictures of Auburn with Uncle Seth. Hopefully we got some better ones with your camera Seth. I know the second one is blurry, but they were both laughing about something and I think that it is sweet! Thanks for coming and visiting Uncle Seth!

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Bradley L. Hill said…

When it comes to family, there's no such thing as a "bad" photo!

November 26, 2009 at 6:42 PM

Prague

So this week Simon's parents were in town visiting, and we decided to take a little weekend trip. The night before we left we decided on Prague. None of us had ever been there, we didn't have to drive over the Alps, and it was relatively close only about 3 and half hours away. Before we left we had to make sure that the rental car could drive to the Czech Republic, because apparently not all rental cars can, they have to be a certain type. I still don't know why. To make our adventure even crazier, the bag with Simon and my stuff in it somehow didn't make into the car. We did not make this discovery until we were at our hotel. Luckily, Auby's stuff made it and we had our coats and gloves. We did however, miss our thermals it was very cold. I'm sorry that there aren't more pictures of Auburn. She was bundled up in her stroller. Prague is a really neat city and has a lot to explore. Here are some of pictures..... St. Nicholas Church, where Mozart once played t...

reading

Auburn has been asking me to teach her to read. So, I decided to try and just see what would happen. She just barely turned four and I didn't want to push her, but she was excited so we started. I am also not a fan of German Kindergarten (preschool here) and I know that she needed some extra stimulation. Thank heavens for the internet and a knowledgeable sister-in-law. We have been doing word family crafts, a sight word caterpillar and working on phonics. There are so many wonderful resources out there to make learning to read fun. She is really reading now and loves it. She picks up books and reads the words she knows and asks us for the ones she doesn't know. She is sounding words out and totally amazes me. Right now she will read to anyone that will sit down with her. reading to Uncle Seth and Conley This is a common scene at our house, and makes me so happy.

movie of our trip to Mexico

Simon made a video of our trip to Mexico, Guatemala and Belize. Since I haven't gotten around to posting about the rest of our trip (that happened a year ago), I am just going to post the link to the movie on youtube. Hope you enjoy!!! https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CLnUgh7HfbM

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