Beeba's visit!

 Beeba came to visit us! We had a great week together, but it must have been hectic because we only managed to take pictures of our first adventure together, a visit to the Wildlife Refuge near Denver. I think I may have taken some pictures of my mother, whom I really do cherish, but were they with her camera? Because all I have in my camera is pictures of wild animals!

It was a fun adventure and the children keep talking about this trip as well as about their Beeba! Can't wait to see you again in December and this time watch out, we'll be using the camera!

First Day of School: September 4, 2012

 We had some issues standing still for our first day of school picture.Excitement was in the air!

Once we managed to stand still, William expertly crossed his eyes, avoiding the notice of the photographer. What will this school year hold? We have a thrid grader, a first grader, and a "morning class pronghorn, afternoon class non-napping moose".

Soccer Season

 William and his team got to play a short game during half time of the Wyoming Cowgirl's Soccer game!

 They played on the real field with an audience! And Pistol Pete ( mascot) was there, too!

I'm a soccer mom.  Mine is number twelve.

Go Cowboys!

 It's football season again, though I don't remember it ever ending it seems to come around so fast. The first few games in the fall generally have bearable weather, so we showed up. We are trying to raise the kids to enjoy sports to make up for my shortcomings as a human being. The sports-related short-comings. It was a beautiful day and we sat with some friends. I'm pretty sure the Cowboys lost, but they made enough touchdowns to make the cannon go off a few times, which was thrilling, of course!  The half time show was really good! All the high school marching bands from the whole state came.  They all fit on the field. One high school only had one dude in its marching band, but he marched around just the same, banging his beatle kill sticks together.  It's a reality of living in the least populated state. Something about the defense and the offense, a little hot dog in the hair and finally, it was over! Go Cowboys!

Eric: " Will it EVER be Halloween?"

 It's late September and we are prepared for Halloween. We even have some partially stuffed old pantyhose waiting in the laundry room to be turned into a limp body for the front lawn. William wants our house to be the scariest house on the block. Should be no problem, as I'm fairly certain it already is. Just doesn't look that way from the outside.  Books and covers. The block can get a little scary, though.  Just last week Sean and Eric walked by some hunters who had pulled over across the street to carve up their fresh carcass in the public park! We are very in tune with the wilderness, here in Wyoming. May take a little more effort to scare these people. But anyway, we are ready for Halloween and this year the theme is : SCARY. We have The Scream, a Vampiress, and 'lil Darth Vader goin' on in our living room. Not sure what Sean's going to be, but I'm thinking it would be fun to get a duck hat and go to work as a " Quack Doctor", myself.

 Those eyes!

Help! Darth Vader!

Adventures

 Since blogging, we've been to Germany for a two week visit!

 Eric turned 3 years old and we celebrated at Oma and Grandpa's house with " a chocolate cake with a blue moose on it and balloons", just like he ordered.

 We celebrated April Fool's Day - I tricked the kids by sneaking a drop of three different colors of food coloring in the bottom of their glasses.  Then when I poured the milk, I pretended to use the power of my mind to change the color of the milk.  Impressed even myself!!

 Then we celebrated Margaret's 6th birthday.

 We were still in the April Fool's Day spirit...

 It's been soccer season.  Margaret is playing too, but we don't have pictures yet because Sean has been too busy being her coach to remember! This weekend we'll get pictures of Margaret and her pink soccer cleats.

 Sean participated in his departmental Bowlarama...and his team won! Supergeeks!

 We died Easter eggs !

 We participated in an event in which the kids got to hang out with the REAL Wyoming Cowboys!

 We had dinner at fancy locations...

 We went hiking in the beautiful weather...

And I think that's why I haven't been finding time to blog lately!

Shaving

 I haven't blogged in so long the children are shaving.
Thanks to Beeba who sent the toddler bathtime shaving kit for Eric's birthday!

Brothers

Margski!

Go Cowgirls!

Today Sean took the boys to a Cowgirls game while Margaret and I had a lovely girl's day with Shasta and Elena. Eric cheered hard and passed out in the car on the way home. "Go Cowboy-girls!", he shouted!

Sean!

Eric-ski!

Eric's First Ski!

AMAZING!

Beeba and Eric!

St. Nickolaus!

Sankt Nikolaus still comes to our house! This year, he replaced the boots with NEW boots filled with fruits, sweets, and nuts! He knocked on the back door and left some treats - then he knocked on the front door and left more treats! It was a huge success!

Happy Birthday, Matt!

It was fun to all be together for Uncle Matt's birthday!

Beeba's Pre-Christmas Visit!

Remember early December? Beeba came to visit! Here she is entertaining her peeps.

We all went to a Santa Claus pancake breakfast at the Civic Center.

Everybody still believes, though answering their questions has started to require more creativity!

Margaret gave Santa a big hug and made his day.

Pancakes!

Later that weekend we got a tree!

I played Christmas carols on the piano and we decked the tree! We sang all our favorite German songs and I remembered doing German Chistmas Carol Karaoke at the Kindergarten! Haha!

Merry Pre-Christmas!

All the Christmas photos must be on Glenn and Ineke's camera - our camera was on the fritz and I am not sure I have these photos...