life got crazy

life is insane, so if you keep looking for more Germany pictures (yes there are more), they are soon coming, but first, we must be off to Hawaii before another blog comes!

as for now, enjoy this sneak peak of the blogs to come!

Germany Part II

Germany was probably one of the most joyful places that I have ever been to, besides the wilderness and the redwoods. These three places should definetly be in your bucket list. One of my favorite places to visit was the Marianplatz. It basically is a big shopping market place....or more of an outdoor mall. There is this huge government buidling in the middle of it all (picture below). This building was SOOOO huge and so detailed. there was not a single inch of it that was not covered in some carving or elaberate design. On the middle of it is a big clock that dances, chimes and turn at 11,12, and 5. Luckly mom and I got to see it! SO COOl!



The green part of the building is where the characters of the clock were.

Since so many people are there every day, there are these creepy looking people every where trying to get money. this lady was so weird and moved like a robot. I was happy to get this picture with her...although i stood so far away from her because I was too scared to get too close. tehehe!

An up close shot of the dancing clock

Basically, there are bikes EVERYWHERE!!! EVERYONE rides a bike! So funny! they even have thier own 'lane' of side walk to ride on!

THis was at the back of one of the palaces. Very cool. There was a whole line of these masive sculptures along the side of the castle.

This is the back garden veiw of the castle from the previous blog. SOOO beautiful and quaint.

They have the most quaint gardens with cute tree paths off to the said! it was like a maze!! it made me SO happy!

Part of the paths of the garden

Me in the tree paths.

This is at another castle that we went and walked in the gardens at. The grounds were so big and SO beautiful. we went there around sunset and there were just people running around in the garden. So awesome and lovely

Dad standing in the gaurds place infront of the castle

Me in the back of the castle in the garden. Good timing mom! :)

Mom and dad did a jumping picture too!....and though it may not seem like they are off the ground but they did jump up! Good job :)

ROY!

I LOVE this picture! So romantically happy!

Germany Part ONE!

Soooo! we finally have had something exciting in our life to blog about again. Europe was the most happy and wonderful experience of my life. Ever. Everyone at some point in thier life needs to go to Germany. It was SOO great. I loved every second of it, even the part of being stuck in the airport for three days and even having wet feet for 48 hours straight (you'll see why in blogs to come)! This is just the first batch of pictures to come. This was our first day in germany and mom and i stumbled upon this castle and it was so huge and so beautiful. The pictures are in backwards order....sorry! and dont worry more blogs are to come.

OUr car was brocken so i had to push it back all the way down this big row of cars.

The beautiful front view of the castle! so awesome!

Mom and I liked this statue. It was in a trophie room, and this guy is totally checking out his muscles! haha!

Buisness class! oh ya!

Ice Blocking

Today Summer and her little charge, Hallie, went ice blocking.

Ally and I tagged along. Ally liked helping to pull the block back up the hill...


But wasn't a huge fan of the downhill ride.

Mostly because she had visions of her favorite downhill ride...THE SLIDE

She loved it!

But better than the slide, THE SWING!

Although swings aren't as much fun when Grandbill isn't there. Who else can say "Don't kick you me!!" and then stumble all over and fall on the ground better than Grandbill.

After all he has been doing that for nearly 30 years!!!!

It was a GREAT day at the park!

For Krista and Charina and everyone else too.

Tis the season!

Krista, your tree is alive, well and productive. This is it's status after our second picking this week. We've frozen 7 full quart bags of cherries.

And they are YUMMY!!! Can hardly wait for the pie!

This is one of Summer's great photos from the garden at the old house.

Hope all of you are having a GREAT SUMMER!!!! And hope these reminders bring some happy memories to you...from us with love!

LA Trip and Mom's Birthday!

OK!!!! Happy birthday to mom!!!!! I got up early on the morning of mom's birthday and after much trial, I made her some delicious crepes!!! We loved them! YUMMY!

"peaches...."

I think that mom had a pretty good birthday. I even shniked and got her some cherry pie....although it wasnt all that great, sorry mom :(




These are all of mom's presents combined! And not to mention, we did get her a nice sink...although, it was quiet the hasel to get it in!

I went to go visit the Linde family this week!!! YAY!!! it was so much fun, and i am so grateful that I can go fly over there to visit. Daniel is pretty much the most happy and fat baby ever. He was also so happy and delightful, I like him! Ally is more precious then ever and her laugh is a crack up. She still is getting used to walking without her cast on. By the end of the week she actually got pretty good at walking and even some attempts to jumping! LA was AWESOME!!!

This is Ally looking at the Elephant display at the Natural HIstory Museum. I think that all of us LOVED this awesome museum. Jame and I definetly agreed that it was worth the money. Ally loved all of the awesome animals, they were great. I liked the awesome rock display that they had. There were so many different minerals and gems, it was awesome. I forgot how much i really do love rocks!

They had a sweet rain forest room that kind of freaked out Ally, but it was way cool.

Friday night we went to the Santa Monica Pier. I had so much fun and it was really funny and enjoyable to see all of the different people there. I was suprised at how completely differnt the atmosphere is at night. Totally awesome. Plus, we got the most tasty cotton candy ever. I have not had it in FOREVER!!! Jamie and I pretty much scarfed down the whole thing. It was SOOO good!

On the corner to the pier there were two guys dancing. Such a funny and wierd thing to me. That doesnt normally happen in Colorado. But they were actually pretty good. I liked it.

On saturday we took a nice drive down by bel-air. We saw some of the most amazingly HUGE houses. I got a little car sick but I enjoyed it nonetheless!!

I had such a great time in LA! Thanks for letting me come visit Jamie, LaDon, Ally, and Daniel! It was the greatest.