Monthly Archives: September 2012

After the excitement and business of the previous few days, Sunday was a welcome change.  We went to church and then stayed at home doing pretty much nothing. 🙂  Well, Chris and I did nothing.  The kids were busy playing … Continue reading →

Sarah turned 11 this summer, and as most of you know, she is a HUGE Harry Potter fan.  She has read the entire series four times total, in both English and German. So it seemed pretty natural to have her … Continue reading →

In case you haven’t noticed, all the events from the last three posts all occurred in the span of 3 days.  On Saturday, day 4 of this crazy busy week we had two huge events, a soccer tournament for Sophie … Continue reading →

July 6th was the big celebration for all the kids in Alexandra’s preschool who were moving on to kindergarten.  They do not call it a graduation, thank goodness, but it is definitely a goodbye party. It is also the last … Continue reading →

Since the kids and I celebrated the Fourth at Julie’s, we felt like we missed out on our family celebration.  So we celebrated on the fifth. 🙂  It’s not like we do anything super special, but it’s the tradition that … Continue reading →

This year’s 4th of July celebration with friends was a rather subdued affair.  It was also the goodbye part for our good friend Julie who was moving back to the States with her kids.  She has moved away once before, … Continue reading →

On the very last day of June, Sarah had her violin concert for the year.  She has made a lot of progress and worked really hard on the song she played all by herself.  She practiced for weeks, and for … Continue reading →

To celebrate the dedication of our new ward building, a week of festivities was planned.  It was a little much, in my opinion, as we were expected to help out in several different areas, but never asked if that was … Continue reading →

Every time I told this story I just had to laugh.  It is just so full of stereotypes, how could I not?  You see, my avoids-team-sports-at-all-costs son broke his finger playing basketball, at Young Men’s.  Don’t worry, I didn’t laugh … Continue reading →

During Christmas vacation Chris got us the extended version of the first three Harry Potter movies and we watched them all.  There were lots of fun extras included that helped explain the story much better.  Sophie was surprised at each … Continue reading →