We are very happy to hear that Maria and Dennis' mom both had successful kidney operations! You are always in our prayers. We love you.
Love your cousins in America
The 15 Cousins
Wednesday, August 29, 2012
Monday, June 25, 2012
Thank you so much for the birthday package!!!
Thank you so much Svenja and Maria and all my other cousins for the wonderful birthday presents...I love schleich animals sooooo much!...and the boys do too. Also thank you for das kindmusic, we listened to it today while driving in the car. And of course, thank you so much for the wonderful picture of all 8 cousins! It was fun to tell the boys all of your names. We love you!
Wednesday, May 2, 2012
Last year we spent 6 months in St.Nazaire,France. Dennis was working over there and everyone spent the summer holidays at our place. had a lot of fun!!!
Dennis & I in our favourite restaurant"la plage" |
Jannika, Dennis & myself |
Petra(Dennis' Mother), Jannika at the Beach next to our apartment |
Capital of Bretagne: Rennes |
Tobias, Svenja & Gina, a friend of mine |
Dennis |
la plage |
Svenja & Moritz |
with Svenja at la belle ile |
Dennis Mum and me at the beach next door |
Monday, April 16, 2012
We had a nice visit from Tobias and Svenja all the way from Germany!
Tobias and Isaac
Tobias and Theo
Svenja and Isaac, Tobias and Theo having some fun.
Mareo, Emilie, Luci, and Cobi drove all the way up from San Diego to see Tobias and Svenja (thanks to Luci who out of the blue mentioned that she wanted to see her Theo :)
And here is the happy reunion of Theo and Luci--best cousins.
Cobi crawling
Isaac wanted in on the love too :) --Isaac also loves to give big hugs and kisses.
Tender moments
Sweet Luci
Adorable Oscar
Messy Isaac
Tobias and Luci reading a story by Stan and Jan Berenstein
called "Junk Food".
Isaac and Svenja were pals :)
Svenja pushing Cobi and Isaac
Beautiful Svenja
Mareo flying Oscar at the museum
Svenja, Omi, and Tobias at the museum
Svenja and Omi at the museum
Tobias treated us all to an Indian food restaurant called The Bombay House.
It was delicious! Thank you, so much Tobias!
Leaving the restaurant...can you spot Tobias?!
Svenja and Tobias at the Great Salt Lake.
Tobias, Omi, and Svenja
Mom (Birgit), Tobias, Omi, and Svenja
Tobias and Geromy
I asked Svenja if I could take some pictures of her--because, well, she's so beautiful :)
Christina and I both agree that we see a lot of Barbara in Svenja.
Tobias with Oscar
Mom and Svenja doing Omi's hair
Easter egg hunt time! The kids found the eggs and put them in a little shopping cart and at the end after following the string all the way around the backyard they were led to their Easter baskets.
Me (Annamaria) and Isaac opening up an egg
Theo and Luci running around the path
Luci found her East basket first :)
Isaac finding his Easter basket
Theo finding his Easter basket
Oh my! Someone stole the children's shopping cart and eggs!
It's Tobias!--get him! (I'll upload the video soon :)
Sweet Oscar laughing--Tobias took these next few photos.
Omi and Oscar
Svenja and Oscar
Precious Luci
Christina drawing a rainbow with the egg chalk the kids got in their baskets...Christina always drew rainbows when she was little.
Tobias and Theo
Tobias, Mareo, and Geromy
Svenja, Oscar, and Great Grandma Elisabeth
After the Easter egg hunt we went inside to enjoy Mom's cheesecake...it's so, so good!
Omi and Tobias
Mom (Birgit) giving Tobias a hug--Mom really appreciated that Tobias and all of us LOVED her cheesecake!
Theo, Isaac, Oscar, Luci, and Cobi (Luke and Ezra would have liked to be here too).
Annamaria, Svenja, Christina, Geromy, Mareo, Tobias....hopefully in the near future we can get a picture with all of the cousins together!
All of the same people with the kids and Omi and Mom (Birgit).
Annamaria, Svenja, Christina...our last picture together before we said our good-byes.
After Tobias and Svenja left with Mom, Geromy and Omi and Mareo and his family left I was able to get some fun pictures of Oscar and Theo :)
Happy Oscar
Joyful Theo
Theo getting a horsey-ride on his Dad's (Peter) back.
And here is Isaac enjoying the sunlight and soft, new carpet.
Thank you, so much Tobias and Svenja for coming all the way to America. It is such a wonderful thing to have a positive and healthy relationship with family. We hope to continue our relationship and to get together often.
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