Late birthday post

As you know, we’ve been moving and busy with the claim from the fire. SO, I haven’t been blogging much this past couple of weeks.

Last Sunday was my birthday. Pat replaced my desktop computer we lost in the fire with a laptop so that from now on when we move, I take my main computer with me.

We also went to Ramstein for the afternoon and walked around the mall.

Then we met with friends at the Kusel castle to check out the Medieval Fest. What fun!

You have dancing prostitutes…

Cute kids….

(this is my friend’s little boy)

Pretty necklaces…

The food smelled heavenly but we passed…trying to save $$ because we knew that we would be eating out lots in the upcoming week (and we DID).

The day almost made up for the loss of my birthday presents we lost in the fire. :(

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Games September 19

This season, we are BUSY on Saturdays with three games!  Last weekend, the Garret’s game was in Ramstein….so it was pretty close to home.  That makes life easy because dh got called in on a case and was gone.  thankfully another mom was able to get Garret to the game on time since I could NOT be with Seth and Emily at their soccer games AND drive to Ramstein too.  LOL

Emily’s coach getting The DREAM Team into position. 



Emily and one of the dad’s on the team! 


End of game tunnel to run the players through….Emily is trying to figure what on earth those crazy adults are doing.  ;)

I didn’t get ANY pictures of Seth’s game. 
Garret’s game….

He didn’t get much playing time last weekend, but here’s some pix from the game.



There were a TON of injuries this game….at least FOUR pretty bad ones requiring a stretcher.  YIKES.  Our team won the game 28-20.

Bernkastel-kues (Weinfest der Mittelmosel)

Last night we loaded up with our church family and caravanned out to this lovely German city for a fest and fireworks.  Our pastor said that it was the BEST fireworks you had ever seen.  He was right!  The town was absolutely lovely…would love to walk the streets when it’s not so crowded!





Here we are, all cozy…the extra kid sitting next to Tyler is his newest girl.  (Stephenie)




Come on DAD (I didn’t have the camera!!!) leave me alone…Garret’s exact words….

UMMM…Garret when are you going to learn that hiding from the camera isn’t even feasible?


Pat was playing with the settings on his camera….as you can see from the first picture of the castle ruins, it’s getting darker.

And darker still….


Either it doesn’t take much to impress me, or this smiley face is WAY COOL.

Night all… I have to get back to my lesson plans!

Parting Shots of Pisa

So much for way cool professional shots….someone should have told my children they were going to be born to a mom who loves to take pictures.  But they didn’t get the memo.





Next few pictures are of some very old, but KEWL building.


(sorry I needed a UV filter but I don’t have one that fits this lens)





 


And this is someone’s apartment building….hoping they don’t mind…

And that’s a wrap!  Four days in Pisa!!!  All in all I think it was a good time with a few bumps, possibly a bruise or two.  :wink: