Our Family Frankfurt Temple Trip

The other day at play group we had sunshine and sat a couple of hours soaking it up......

Well we soaked it up a little too much and this girl got her first red faced sun burn

 

We made it to the Temple!  It always feels nice to make it.  WE went with our friends from Belgium that are in our ward.  The Havrenne's, Marlies and Ezechiel and their beautiful family.

About 7am in front of Temple

 

Love the flowers!

I am so grateful these kiddos are my family for Eternity

 

Love these faces ;)

This is Jade and Arya together.  They are 10 days apart.  When they aren't right next to each other we always have to double take because they look so similar...from a distance.

 

 

 

Before we make the long car ride home...We roll down the hill and lay on the cool grass

Frankfurt temple

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Gideon was so sweet.  Just a random act of kindness, he made me a really cool lego ship with 2 hearts on it, one that was mine and the other one his and then he wrote "I love mom" with Legos. 
....Did I mention I love being a Mom to my wonderful boys?!  Thanks Gideon!

 

So Bridger and I went to a butterfly house in Koblenz with our friends Sabrina and Daxlee Atwood.  These are our pictures before my battery died.  not very many but a few.

Bridger and I both got these butterfly's to crawl onto our hands.  It was a lot of fun holding a butterfly.

There were a ton of different animals and critters.  Spiders, snakes, birds, bees making honeycomb and many more things.  It was a really fun place to go and visit.  Hopefully I will take the rest of the crew here soon and get more pictures 

 

So Arya turned 8 months a couple of days ago and she just started getting her two bottom teeth in.    She is 19lbs and 7 oz but was a little sick and had been throwing up so I am pretty sure she is at the 20lbs mark.  She is 29 inches long and her head is 17.5 inches around.  She loves to crawl Everywhere and is very curious about Everything.  She is starting to understand a lot more now.  It is so fun to see this stage and how much she grows up everyday.  I love this stage of life.

 

Bridger finishes Pre-school this week and has really enjoyed doing that with his friends Brock and Alyssa Brimhall, Sadie and London Olsen and Daxlee Atwood.  He has grown recently too.  He just looks older and started to sing a song from Gideon's play and has a beautiful voice. 

 

Gideon is sad to see school coming to an end soon.  We don't get out of school till the 13th of June.  I say Boo to that.  but he loves it and that makes me happy.  He really enjoys his teacher and friends in his class.  He is looking forward to reading books this summer for the library reading program they have.  He has also grown quite a bit lately too and is getting taller. 

 

The days have been cold and rainy here lately.  It hasn't gotten above 50 degrees for a while but the sun shined anyway today.  It was so nice.  I love that the sun shines early in the morning and sets late at this time of year.  BEAUTIFUL!!  Maybe I am just sunshine deprived.  The German's say that this was the darkest winter in 30 years and cold too so they don't think our summer will be that nice either.... *frown*  I am looking forward to more sunshine in my life in the states.  I hope it shines often in Cheyenne. 

We are looking forward to my brother coming to town here in a couple of weeks and to go on our road trip camping in Switzerland.  I am looking forward to that. 

Gideon's First grade School play "Nuts!"

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Memorial Day Hike

We headed to Irrel Germany on the border of Luxembourg

We stopped at the West wall bunker to walk around a bit for our WWII History for the day.  We really want to go back when it is open so we can get a tour of the bunker.  It goes multiple stories down into the Hill and was used on the front during the Battle of the Bulge toward the end of the war.  I look forward in learning more about this bunker and being able to explore it soon.

 

 

Then we headed to Devil's Gorge and hiked for the next four hours.

WE love this area.  It is beautiful with lots of trees, Rock formations and a river.  oh and ticks.....I do not like ticks!

 

Checking out the river from the bridge

These big rapids they call Wasserfalle.... I guess the water is going down hill but it ain't much of a waterfall.  If only they could see the Payette river in Spring :)

 

Climbing on rocks on the way up the muddy trail

 

Beautiful ivy creeping up the tree

 

King of the rock!

Beautiful!!

Climbing on more rocks

There were slugs everywhere.  Orange ones and black ones.  Yuk!

 

We came across Waldschanke, a camping area for groups, while hiking back down

cool little place

Down by the river

I love how Arya is peek a boo-ing behind us

 

Happy Girl!

Bridger's feet and ankles were killing him by the end of the hike.  Guess it is time for new shoes.  Poor kid.  but the rest of the time they enjoyed the hike.