Stockholm

Stockholm is Fabulous!

Weather is great, city is great. Yesterday went to a kids story museum, aquarium with a lemer exhibit that you walked amongst the lemers, an outdoor museum the size of a VERY large park, complete with a zoo!

Today, I think we're off to the Marine Museum and maybe a boat ride. Food is very expensive, even the grocery store! Oh well, it's only money:*)

Zipline

Park Sunday Morning

Last week, sunny high 60's. This week, snow:*(

Vashon Island, May 2005

Ava eats dogfood from summer 2003

A French Ad...guess what it's for?

JUMP

Pics from Easter thru the weekend

Oh, John bought Ava a trampoline, thus the trampoline in our garden!







Oh, John bought Ava a trampoline, thus the trampoline in our garden!

Happy Easter

Sorry for the missing photos, but we've been far too busy having fun the last month or so. Ski week, long weekend in Champagne, long weekend in Belgium(this weekend) and lots of playdates this last month.

So my new month's resolution is to get back to posting photos!

Happy Easter everyone,
kt

A day in Speyer

Anne's brother-in-law Nate did a soccer exchange in the town of Speyer "a few years ago" and kept telling Anne and Ken how cool it was. Well, we all went today, and didn't see much, but we did see the "Winter ade" parade, which means So Long Winter. It was fun, and the best part was the end, when we walked to a park and watched the SchneeMann go up in flames. It got going so well, that they finally had to move the kids in the cardboard boxes away from the area....

A few notes about the photos....

We bought these sticks for the kids made by the old ladies. They're to stick pretzels on....
The tree people remind me of H.R. Puffenstuff.
The little girls are doing their "spring cleaning".
I liked the girl playing saxophone getting ready for holiday with a suitcase on her back.

Medals Ceremony

As a family, we scored 2 golds and a silver. And I personally give the most improved skier of the century award to John, who went from a very LOW beginner the beginning of Dec. to a low-mid level intermediate the middle of January....GO JUAN!!!! (and I think Ava gets that leg thing from Zia)

Magic Show Assistant

At the end of ski week, before the awards presentation, Bill the Magician(who was in my class) did a show. And of course, he needed an assistant. And who better to assist(suck up) than Miss Ava....

Happy Birthday Zia

This is from 1961, back before I, the MUCH younger sister was born. Wasn't she cute???

The Tantrum 2005 Part 1

Pulled this off the external hard drive....a classic! Some of you only ever viewed the photos...this is her story.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VW8XDdMIVEA

The Tantrum 2005 Part 2

The sky is falling

That's "it" crying in the background. Everyone felt so sorry for her that they gave her their candy...working the system at it's best:*(

We'd like to see the Queen please

Happy 5th Birthday:*)

This way, the light won't hurt my eyes

Jewelry by TiaTio, Outfit by Zia

Ava's birthday started last week, so she's wearing her necklace from Tia and Tio, and her sweater and skirt from Zia...thank you all!!!

Fasching continued

Fasching, not Carnival in Southern Germany

They take their parades seriously here! We went to our 2nd Weil Der Stadt Fasching Parade yesterday. John didn't get to go last year, as he was in the states. Well, it didn't disappoint. The floats and entries were once again FABULOUS! And Ava "braved" the masks about 1/2 way through...

First shot, before the parade. The rest are as the parade went on...