Kindergarten Latern Party

 Monday was Sydney's kindergarten yearly Latern Party. Complete with Laterns that he kids each made the past week  in Kindergarten. Ashlyn is using Syd's from last year.

 Here is Sydney and her best friend Ela singing before we go on the walk in the forest with the Laterns.

 We started at 5 pm and it was still bright outside. That wasn't to much fun for the kids because their lanterns weren't that brigth in comparison to the sun, but they still had fun walking through the forest.

Here are the girls at the beginning of the walk.

After a 30 minutes walk we were back at the kindergarten where we started and had pumpkin soup and bread. Sydney liked the soup and Ashlyn the bread. After eating the kids play at the playground and the parents talked. Close to 7 pm everything was over and it was finally dark. So on the 2 minute walk home the girls were finally able to use their lanterns the proper way.

Finally

After 7 and a half years of living in Germany, being married to a German, having 2 kids born in Germany - I finally got my German Greencard.  

 Yeah,  no mare paper work every 3 years, just have to update my passport information and picture when I renew my passport.

October 3, 2012

The 3rd of October is German Unification Day.  We decided that we'd head off to a palace in a neighboring city, to visit their Fall Fair with the annual Pumpkin Exhibits.

 Here is the Palace in Ludwigsburg (Blühendes Barock in Ludwigsburg).

There were pumpkins everywhere - the paths were lined with pumpkins.  Here are some of the larger pumpkin creations.  This years theme if you haven't caught on yet was Swizterland.

Every possible sort of pumpkin was also set up on display waiting to be bought by the crowd.

There were some rather creative pumpkin sculptures.  The picture of Ashlyn in the middle pointing at a sculpture is the best picture we got of her all day.

Sydney's favorite part of the day was the hay.  There was an area set up for kids of all ages to play in.  Ashlyn was very unsure, but Syd loved it.  The middle picture of Sydney and David is my favorite picture from the whole day, the expressions are priceless.

Rosenstein Museum

One activity that we did while Destiny and her family were here was we spent an afternoon at Rosenstein Museum.

Here are the girls outside the museum hanging out with the Lion.  Ashlyn was terrified of the Lion she kept telling us that her bum would hurt if she sat on the Lion.

Inside the musuem they had stuffed, perseved animals everywhere.  There were glass boxes with wildlife scenes, individual animals, diplays of animals groups, and hands on nature exhibits.  The kids had lots of fun running around and looking at all the animals.  The best displays for the kids were any that had buttons and need to be pushed. There was also a rainforest room with a treehouse that the kids loved.

Kindergarten Start Fall 2012

Here is a picture of Sydney on her very first day of Kindergarten, January 10, 2011.  In Germany kids start kindergarten with 3 years old and have 3 years of Kindergten before starting the 1st grade.

Here is Sydney's latest picture from Kindergarten September 18, 2012

Sydney & Destiny

Destiny and her family came back to Germany in August to visit - Sydney couldn't wait for them to get here.  

 Here are the girls together at Destiny's grandparents garden - they loved playing together on the trampoline. 

We spent an afternoon at Killesberg Park.  This is a huge park with playground, tons of flower gardens, a train that runs through the park, animals (flamingos, llamas, goats, pigs, donkeys and horses), and much more.

Here are the girls and their matching dresses. Sydney insisted that they needed matching dresses again this year for Destiny's visit.

Hard to believe it's been an entire year since these pictures.  These two have a very special friendship that exisits even when they live on two different continents.

Vacation - Part 3

After 6 days with Oma and Opa we made our way to Jahnsdorf.  In Janhsdorf lives David's Opa, aunt and uncle, their 3 kids and their families, and another aunt.  The girls love coming here. The girls love going to visit Sarah, Vivien, and Samuel.  From the minute Syd took her shoes off we rarely saw her without Vivien.

We had great weather so we went swimming several times.

We went to a huge playground that entertained the kids for hours.

The girls had fun doing anything and everthing that involved their cousins.

Saying good-bye was easy this time cause the girls knew they would see their cousins again in a month.