Thursday, January 24, 2013

Christmas 2012!!

We had a FABULOUS Christmas!  I will let the pictures speak for themselves!!
Kids in their new Christmas clothes

Santa came!
Ethan testing out his new bike


This was the highlight of Christmas--a present for the kids and me--they LOVE the trampoline and spend hours on it everyday!!

New remote control car



Cade loves pirates and that was the theme of this Christmas for him!

New ballerina nightgown

New pirate jammies

Star wars legos--two of Ethan's favorite things!





Fancy Nancy in español!


Skyping with Grandpa and Grandma and opening gifts with them



Saturday, January 19, 2013

La programa navidad de escuela

A couple of days before Christmas, the parents were invited to school for a Navidad Program.  Each class did a little number and it was so cute--at times a little bizarre--some of the numbers had NOTHING to do with Christmas or the holidays (they like had aliens in them), but nonetheless it was so cute.  Here is Kailey's class singing a song in Spanish:


That guy with the bald head at the bottom of the picture is her teacher Pablo and he seriously is the best teacher ever--Kailey adores him!



Here is one of the other classes--dressed in black trash bags singing a song about nothing related to Christmas--Spanish public school is a little bit different from American schools!
 Ethan's class sang a song about Christmas trees and they were dressed up like trees--it was adorable.  He was in the back, so I don't have too many really good pictures of him, but I was so proud of him he sang so many of the words in Spanish!






Wednesday, January 9, 2013

Nuremburg, Rotenberg and Frankfurt, Germany

The last couple of days of our trip were spent in Nuremburg, Rotenberg and then driving back to the airport we stopped in Frankfurt for a couple of hours.  Nuremburg and Rotenberg are absoluetly charming.  Rotenberg is really cool because it has a stone wall that surrounds the city.  Anyways, here are the rest of the pictures:



Another big Christmas pyramid



The kids loved the snow--Ethan and Kailey loved to throw snowballs at me!

Love the German architecture


At night the markets were so gorgeous with the lights

Nuremburg is famous for these plum people--they make people out of dried plums!





Here is Rotenberg--again it is really quaint and charming!







This clock had people come out of it--it was pretty fun to watch.



My kids love to have their pictures taken!

Climbing up to walk around the wall that surrounds the city

View from the wall












Another merry-go-round!

Driving back to the airport we had about a 4 1/2 hour drive, so we broke it up and stopped in Frankfurt at the natural history museum.  The kids loved it and Kailey, as usual, was full of questions and Eric ended up explaining evolution to her and she just was fascinated by it!  The museum had tons of cool dinosaur fossils, which was fun to see.  Ethan is learning about prehistoric times in school so he had all interesting facts to tell us!




They had tons of cool dinosaur fossils.



Taking a nap with the dinosaur



Looking back at our pictures as I have posted this makes me realize just how much fun we had.  This seriously was one of the best vacations we have ever done.  Germany during Christmas time is magical and charming.  I highly recommend visiting!!  Hopefully we will make it back to Germany again sometime!!