long overdue post

I just realized that I haven't posted for a month. It has been a busy one. We just return from a vacation to the US. We had a family reunion with Simon's family. It just so happened that my cousin was getting married the week after and all of my family was coming into town so I decided to stay an extra week. Simon had to get back to work, so I flew solo with the kids home. All 20 hours of travel. I was so nervous about it, but the kids were angels. I really felt everyone's prayers with me. If I could just get Conley back to his schedule that we would be great.

I'll post some pictures of the Utah trip another post. I still have to sort through them.

But in the meantime here are a few pictures of some events of April....

The Friday before we left, Simon totally surprised me. He took the day off and had passes to the Munich Zoo. It was a perfect day. Auburn was so excited about everything and Conley seemed to enjoy himself as well.

Every Wednesday we go to this indoor playplace with friends. The last one was in April and this is Conley riding the car. My kids love this place!

Comments

Bradley L. Hill said…

That's wonderful news! Best of luck in getting back on schedule. We love you, and thanks for the post!

May 5, 2011 at 11:02 PM

faith said…

So we were in Utah for most of April and our travel time was about the same duration. Kind-of funny, isn't it? :)
Hope you all get back into a good routine soon!

May 9, 2011 at 8:29 AM

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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