Fasching Party

Last Saturday we went to a Faschings (Carnival) Party for the kids. The party was really well organized. The kids all travelled though time. There was even a time machine tunnel to bring them to the various locations.The locations were: the Garden of Eden, Indians and Cowboys, Knights, the Future, a visit with Cinderella, and then the party ended with a disco in the 70s. 

Time Tunnel

Between every location they travelled through the tunnel to their new destination.

Garden of Eden

There were 3 different games here, but the apples were the only interesting thing for Ashlyn.

Cowboys and Indians

The kids could make Indian headbands with feathers here, but they had no interest in this or the hobby horse races.

Knights

Sydney played basket ball with tape boulders into the castle.  Syd sunk every boulder.

Cinderella

 

This is the Grimm Brother's Cinderella where Cinderella's evil step-mother threw the lentils into the ashes so Cinderella would miss the ball seeing as she had to sort the good from the bad ones.  The kids had to sort the colors here, Syd loved it.  Ashlyn not so much, but she did go and get some more apple.

The Future

Here the kids put a robot together and played with the different space balls.

Disco

 The girls loved the disco, both danced and had a blast even when they didn't know the dances.

Happy Birthday Ben!

Happy 1st Birthday Benny!! We wish we could be there to celebrate with you.  Enjoy your cake we look forward to the birthday pictures.  Love you big guy!

First Snowfall

On Jan. 31st we got our first snowfall this winter.  Sydney and her 2 friends (Alara and Andrian) were so excited when they left Kindergarten.  They made snow angels, rolled in the snow, ate the snow, and threw snowballs. It normally takes 20 minutes to get these 3 home from Kindergarten, but it took us close to an hour that day.  Who knew that snow was so exciting?

Canada Holiday Update

I do realize that we've been back for almost a month and still haven't posted about our time in Canada.  So here are pictures from the various activites.

Cousins

Sydney's 4th Birthday Party

Chrsitmas Eve

Christmas Day

New Year's Eve

Hope you enjoyed the pictures and had a great holiday season.

Planes, Planes and more Planes

 Plane 2 of 3 on our 18 hour trip to Canada for Christmas - the girls loved watching the action outside the window.

 Here is Sydney being a copycat - whatever David did she copied him.

 David tried to get some shut eye while waiting to board our 9 hour flight from Munich to Toronto.

 Reading, climbing, and chasing were favorite activites while we waited.

 Ashlyn didn't want to miss out on any of the action and then she passed out right before we had to board the plane - great timing.

 Sydney loves the big planes that you fly across the ocean with - she had her headphones and with the personal TVs - she was all set.

 Here is the tiny 50 passenger plane we flew out of Timmins on. Good bye Canada - we'll  miss the people but not thh snow and cold tempereatures.

The super soft clouds to jump on according to Sydney as we were flying above Germany.  What you can't see the green grass and plus temperatures that were awaiting us - Hello Germany.

Many Sewing projects

For christmas this year we were in Canada - so I decided I'd make the kids a couple gifts. Thanks to Pintrest and the internet and the thousand of people who post do it yourself ideas and tutorials on their blogs I spent a good couple months sitting for hours at my sewing machine. 

 My sister found these cute pencil crayon and noteblock holders here.

 Naturally she wanted one for each of her 2 kids.  

 Next came the Capri Sun purses for my girls, and my 2 neices. These were by far the easiest sewing gifts.

 Then came the ribbon tree shirts - there are 4 girls in the family and one boy - so he got his own design.

 One day my sister told me that she wanted a diaper clutch - ok no problem.  But the problem was she couldn't find a picture  with everything that she wanted. 

So here is my own deisgn - the outside front view.

 inside front view.

Back view complete with zippered pocket - I just realized I don't a have a picture with the wrist strap complete.

 Here are my girls guitars.  The guitars were the most time comsung gifts - maybe it had to do with the fact that I brought them unfinished to canada.  They all were finished before christmas morning - not much before but the kids loved them and that made them worth the long hours of sewing.  

 Benny and his guitar.

 Audrey and her guitar.

 Lilia checking out her guitar.

 Sydney and Audrey and their guitars.  

 Sewing projects didn't end when Christmas morning was over.  My mom wanted her sofa pillows covered.  So here are the results of the pillow covers the fronts were made to match the carpet colors and each pillow had a different colored solid back.

Now I'm done sewing - I told my husband for a month - we'll see how long I make it.

Happy Birthday Sydney!!

Here are some pictures of Sydney over the years. We love you Birthday Girl!

 Happy 4th Birthday!

 3rd Birthday.

 2 years old.

 1st Birthday

Minutes old.