Spring and Friendship

Things have picked up speed around here lately. Spring hit and we have been busy, busy, busy. Larry had a weekend with the boys in Pfalz wine region. I had a weekend in Amsterdam and Den Hague with April, Christine and Veronica. Now we are packing to leave for Euro Disney!

So here are a few pictures...

Alianna's Circus Day

Alianna had a wonderful circus week. She trained hard all week to learn her trapez act. As you will see in the video, her practice paid off! All of the children did wonderfully. Great job Alianna!

Making the most of our time here!

Our time home flew by! We were able to see some friends and luckly all of our family. We loaded up our suitcases and ate our way through Michigan. Sabor Latino, Chop House, Red Robin, Noodles, LaShish, Prickly Pear are just handful of our favorite places. We were able to spend our first morning at Zion and celebrate Palm Sunday. Doctors, dentists and other necessary activities also had to be fit in. Hopefully our next visit home will be a little more relaxing.

Alianna's favorite tree has survived so far! We were told the fire department is holding off on riping up our garden! We do have new smoke detectors and fire doors. The hofladen (vegetable/fruit stand) is up and running and it is strawberry and aspargus season! Landon is enjoying his time in school. Alianna's school has a special week coming up; Circus Week! They will spend 4 hours a day for 5 days training with a real circus family. They will then perform a real circus (2 hours), under the circus tent! It will be very exciting I'm sure.

My german lessons have resumed! Ok, maybe I'm not that excited. I hate having the pressure of the language hanging over my head all of the time. But for the sake of setting a good example for the kiddos, I'm hanging in there.

So last weekend was a long weekend and I finally made it to Keukenhof Gardens in the Netherlands. It is the world famous spring garden. It was amazing! It beat all my expections and I can't wait to go back next year! We have many vacations coming up too. Larry just left this morning for a quick trip to a friends family vineyard. The guys are hanging out for the weekend touring the vineyards and wine tasting. In two weekends I head out with my girlfriends to Amsterdam. The following weekend we are surprising the kids with a trip to Euro Disney and then in June we are heading back to the North Sea followed by two weeks in Marbella, Spain in July! Life is good!

So following is a new slide show of our recent travels since we've been back.