Ethan’s Choir Debut at FamilienTag

 

At Ethan’s school they offer various after school classes/activities for the kids.  It changes every semester and this semester he is taking creative building, table tennis, choir, drawing, and soccer.  He loves them all…except for Choir.  Apparently he is more of a dancer than a singer.  We feel like it is a good experience for him though, so I continue to take him.

Anyway…his choir usually has performances on Sundays so we have never been able to attend one…that is until now.  Eltville (our town) was lucky enough to host FamilienTag (Family Day) this year and they asked Ethan’s choir to perform at it.  It was a lot of fun to see him up there, but as you will find, he was less than thrilled.  He’s a cutie though.

Surprise Pictures

As I was uploading pictures from our camera to our computer, I discovered some pretty cute ones that I either didn’t know existed or had completely forgotten about.  Just wanted to share

An Evening Stroll With Two of the Cutest Kids

James is on the swing shift this week and next week and so it is just me and the kiddos in the evenings, which can make for some pretty long evenings if we don’t have anything planned.  Tonight we decided to take a walk down to the river.  It was a bit cooler today and so these cuties were able to try out their new fleece jackets that came in the mail yesterday.

Hiking in our own backyard

We had so much fun hiking in the Alps that when we got home we decided to put our hiking shoes back on and go hiking in the outskirts of our own town.  We’ve known about this hiking trail since we moved here, but hadn’t had the chance to go yet.  It was a perfect day with beautiful weather.  You will even notice in the pictures that there are signs of Autumn being here now.  I love this time of year with the leaves changing color and the sounds you make from walking on fallen leaves.

Garmisch Part 3: Alpspitz

During our “free time” we decided to head to the top of the Alpspitz which is the second tallest point in Germany.  The Zugspitz is the tallest, but it cost 3 times as much to go to the top of it and there isn’t anything to do up there.  At the Alpspitz they have hiking trails and activities for kids.

Garmisch Part 2

During the day, James and I had classes we had to attend and so we took Ethan and Tybee to child care.  Ethan had a blast at his.  They went hiking, saw a “candy castle”, rode up a ski lift, went to Munich to see some animal town, watched movies, etc.  He didn’t want to leave he had so much fun there.  Tybee, on the other hand, did not have the same joyful experience.  This was her first time being left with someone else for an extended period of time.  I’m not sure who it is was harder on, us or her, but she did not enjoy it.  However, some good did come out of it because she now goes to other people a lot easier than she did before.

Garmisch Part 1: Tybee’s First Swim

At the end of August our family was lucky enough to go on an all expense paid trip to Garmish, Germany for a marriage retreat.  It was a lot of fun and very profitable for us.  The resort/hotel had an indoor pool that we decided to take Tybee to for her first experience of swimming.  Unfortunately they had a rule that she had to be wearing a flotation device.  She did not like this rule.  As you can see in the pictures we eventually took it off because she was really not liking it.