In the month of June.............

So we have had another busy month and as always I am doing one post for all of it(with a little extra for the last part of May).

Cup scouts. Movin on up.

He graduated from TIGERS!!!! Go Parker!

Schools out for SUMMER!!!!!!

Flowers for the teachers

Mrs Dolan

Mrs Datz

Bike ride.

Trav laughs at my bike because I have a big ol seat and a big ol basket on a mountain bike. Sporty huh?!

Summer school

Water park

These are their boats!?

Castle hoping......again

This is one of the 3 castles in this city.

Slip n slide

Ok so long story short, Sarriah was trying to use Parker as the board..........

It was cool for about 2 seconds when parker got slip n slide burn all over his chest. OUCH!

Farwells

This month we have said our good bye's To Pam Kring and Jerilyn White. Best wishes to both!

And another thing I have farwelled is the FRG. Thats right I quit on Tues.

A night to ourselves

This is the beautiful JAMIE!!!!!! She belongs to Kim and Sean but I would claim her!

Ok so it was just without the kids. I went to my friend Su-ah's babyshower and then out to dinner with a bunch of our friends(Trav too). Congrats Su-ah and Pete!

After dinner we had a night to ourselves. :)

Its raining!

It has been pouring down rain here! We have even had flood warnings. The kids and the dogs get nervous when the thunder starts up.

Cheb, yet again!

Teri, Me :), Sunni.

Teri and I.

Purses are becoming an obsession for me. I just love them!!!!!!! I got 3 new ones. A Vuitton, and 2 Chanel. Happiness is...........

Haircut

Sarriah likes her hair cut every summer so here it is.

This is the shortest it has ever been, she loves it. It looks really cute on her.

Accidents.

So there was a pretty bad accident in my family...... luckily the made it out just fine

So to my 3 favorite little siblings, We love you and stay SAFE!!!!!!!

Dad drive SAFE! I worry about you!

I will try to do next months in multiple posts.

A few.....ok well a whole bunch of stuff.

OK so I made Hermann...... and he was oh so yummy!!!!!!

The scouts were supposed to be in the Memorial day parade here on post....... Well some one forgot to tell us the parade was cancelled. We didn't want the boys to be disappointed so we had our own parade. When we got to the wreath ceremony location Parker was the Tiger scout chosen to place the wreath on the memorial. It was pretty cool!

Parker had his raingutter regatta, his boat was pretty cool but he had a hard time blowing so his boat spent a good bit of time crashing into the wall. He did win one round but its not about winning or losing its about the fun you have along the way.

We went to one of the many kids play lands to help our good friend sebastian celebrate his 7th birthday. Happy Birthday buddy!

Our last stairwell ladies night. All my neighbors are moving away. :( so we had one last goofy night. We ate, chated, and played Wii Fit. I am really gonna miss these ladies. They made our stairwell the BEST. Hopefully the new neighbors who move in will be just as great.

Trav had a trip to AZ for a really cool coarse. He is home now. :)

The kids last day of school is just a few short days away.

I miss and love you all back home. I hope you are all well!!!!!!

Harmann....... well almost

Ok so I'm sure you got my earlier post about my cake mix Hermann. Well we are starting over thanks to my brand new bag of flour that had weevels in it. I was very sad but our new Hermann will arrive tomorrow. If it works out this time I am hoping to bring his offspring to the states so you can all have a taste.

Wish me luck.

Parker has been working so hard this year in school and we are so very proud of all the progress he has made. At the last parent teacher conf. his teacher said he had'nt been doing very well on his spelling test and she wanted to alter them and make them easier so he could get higher scores. To me that seemed like we wouldnt be challenging him and it wouldnt help him in the long run. So I asked his teacher to please let us try again. So we have been working our tails off practicing his spelling words. I am so proud of my little guy I wanted you all to know........... I found out today that Parker got a 100% 2 weeks in a row!!!!!!

Parker is now excited to get his next set of words because he knows he can pull a 100% everytime.

Field Day

Yeah for field day. No school work, just a fun day OUTSIDE! They turn fun music on

all the teachers get really into it. Sarriah and Parker were both outside at the same time so I had to rotate so I spent equal time with each of them.

It was a warm, cloudy day. We only had a few spinkles of rain.

Push ball relay

Fill the water and knock out the ball

Sack race

Sack race

Bouncy ball relay

I caught her dancing

Sarriah, Arianna, and Falicity.

Parker and his class.

Parker and his boys.

I'm so sad this school year is almost over. The kids have the worlds greatest teachers!!!!!!!

Hermann

Ok so we were just given our first baby Hermann. My friend Tiffanie delivered him to us today. I am very excited to start the 6 day journey which will result in my Hermann having 2 babies of his own.

This is Hermann day 1. I will give another update on day 3 when we feed him.

So..... as you can see, Hermann is a cake mix. He will grow over the next 6 days then we will give his babies away to good friends and our little Hermann will be baked.

Its a German thing and I am so excited about doing it.

Lets just hope I dont do it wrong.

So it's been awhile.........

So, it's been awhile since I have posted anything and I have been questioned as to why...... Well it has been a busy month for us over here.

My friend Nadine and I threw a baby shower for our great friend Kim.

We have been doing alot with the scouts. I am the new Den Leader. YIPPY!!!!! This pic was taken on our nature scavanger hunt.

Look how big the dandy lions get on the river bank.

We spent alot of time together. This was our picninc on the Rhine. We took the dogs and had a blast.

I went to AWAG again this year. SOOOOOOO much fun. It was at the Edelweiss lodge and resort again this year. Here is the view from my room.

This is my favorite AWAG class. Taste the exotic. They bring a whole bunch of weird fruits and they teach you what they are and how to use them. I took a whole mess of classes this week but this was a great one.

These are 2 of the wonderful ladies I met at AWAG.

We went for a German car show. Pretty cool!

A few great shots.

I took the kids down to the river the other day for a little photo shoot. Not only did they cooperate...... the pics turned out really great.

I really do have beautiful children!!!!!

I love his dimples!

Look at those eyes!

This pic is very Parker...... What can I do with this rock????

My little model!

There are alot more but these are my fav's.

Starving with out gas in Italy????!!!!! Yeah thats right. ITALY!!!!!!!

We are home from Italy! Yes we was there. (jumping up and down!)

We drove to Pisa on Sunday. It was a 9hr drive but oh so very worth it.

After we arrived we got our gas coupons, checked into our CAMP site, and asked about the commissary. HA HA the commissary is closed Sun & Mon. So no groceries to fill our empty cooler. GREAT! So our next question was where in the closest restaurant because we were starving..................... well it was around 4pm and the restaurants dont open till 7pm! Hence the starving. We though we would go get gas while we were waiting for FOOD. We were on E. Yup not open! Hence the NO GAS. So we went to set up our tent, it went up with out a problem. Thank goodness! By this time we were all hungry/ravished and awnry! So we went down town to walk around. We ran into a little pizza bakery and downed a small pizza in about 2 seconds just to hold us over till we could get a real dinner. We found a quiet little place right off post with wonderful service and lots of PIZZA.

I am sure of 3 things.

1. Italians love pizza.

2. Italians cant drive to save their lives.

3. Between the hours of 1pm and 7pm, they DONT eat!

Day 2

We got up early (finally got gas) and headed to PISA. The city itself is nothing to write home about. Its beautiful yes. But a city non the less. Then you see it....... and you cant look away. It rises above everything else. The leaning Tower of Pisa. The whole plaza of miracles is just breath taking. They almost dont look real. It is true, no matter how many pictures you see it never can compare to the real thing.

WOWWWWWW!!!!!!!!!

We spent a good deal of time here before we stopped for lunch. PASTA. Very yummy.

We then did what the travel book said to do.................we left it all behind and headed to destination #2 CARRERA! Home of the marble quarries. Michelangelo used these quarries. The mountain is so scared but still in use. AMAZING!

The mountain.

The city. Look @ the water.

Ok so after CARRERA we had to go back to Pisa one last time to see the tower in the dark........

Day 3

FIRENZE AKA FLORENCE

I LOVE FLORENCE!!!!!! Trav hated driving in florence. CRAZY! We spent like 8hrs walking the city seeing as much as we possible could which was alot. Our feet hurt. We had a great lunch right beside the cathedral. LASAGNA. :)

We saw as much as our feet would allow.

See all the pics below. We saw ALOT!!!!!!!!!

DAVID was so beautiful. Truely amazing.

P.S. Ice cream in Italy is mind blowingly AWSOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!