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This one is for you dada - we love you and miss you!!

London

I left my camera card in the computer so the only pictures we got in London were from Tara's iphone. They are out of order and I don't feel like putting them in order. So randomly here is our day in London...

Stopping to eat a Ben's cookie for Brad and Kristine. They were awesome!

We let the boys run around covenant garden. They were so cute trying to figue out why the music was coming from the speaker even though the guy was playing a few feet away.

There was a protest about what is going on in the Gaza Strip. Tara of course wanted to be apart of it!

We thought we would do a picnic for lunch - easier with the boys. Well of course they both run away in opposite directions so we were eating on the run. At least we weren't bothering other people if we had gone to a restaurant.

Chipotle in London!! I was so excited to go. They forgot our chips and it tasted a little different but was so excited to have a burrito the size of my arm!

We finally figured out our system for riding the tube with our stroller. My arms were sore that day from carrying the stroller up and down all those steps.

Thanks Tara for being brave enough to go to London with 2 toddlers!

My turn to host!

We have just enjoyed a wonderful week with Tara and Tyler in England. I have tons of pictures so I am going to write about it in several posts. We enjoyed two different trips to Bury during the week. One without kids!

The first thing with the kids is to let them feed the ducks. It was so cute hearing them say quack quack!

We let the boys play at the park and then walked thourgh the ruins and flowers.

We went to the market and stopped for a pastry for lunch.

The boys were exhausted afterwards. It is only about a 15 minute ride home but Tyler would not stay awake. Tara even tried feeding him a banana which he couldn't even finish chewing!

On Tuesday afternoon we got sitters and hit the town for some shopping and tea. It was pretty rushed but we had a great time.

Julie showing Tara how to do tea.

Thought it would be fun to get one last picture of the kids. They didn't think so.

The Rest of Germany

Here are some pictures from the rest of our time in Germany. I didn't have enough room to bring my big camera so the other girls have better pictures but here are a few from the point and shoot.

In Trier, Germany's oldest city, we saw the oldest Christian Church.

Chase not wanting to pose with mommy.
Our boys.

In front of Porta Nigra - Roman ruins over 2000 years old.

We went to Ramstein for some shopping and to visit with Christy and her girls.

On Friday night Tara and I went out to watch the crud tournament.

and ended up riding a mechanical bull...

We took video and when we watched ourselves we were going so slow. It didn't stop us from being sore though!

On Saturday we went to Eifel Park with the kiddos. There were tons of fun activities - blobs, slides, alpine slides and roller coasters.

On Saturday we went to Bernkastel. It was a beautiful day.

William was always doing this when we wanted to take a picture. He would say something like "take a picture of the birds." We then told him he needed to do a serious face.

It was so warm we stopped for some ice cream. Someone didn't complain.

We were pretty tired but had to check out Berg Landshut on the way home.

After a long day...

We also had lots of time to play in the backyard, yummy food, constant toddler correction, much laughter and some serious biblical debates. Tara was an awesome host with people sleeping everywhere. Meal times were always interesting trying to get all the kiddos fed but it made for some fun memories! Thanks Julie for going with me and to Tara for everything. Hopefully we will have half as good a time in England.

Mini Texas Reunion

Tara, Julie and I were all stationed in Texas together (along with many other great friends) back when our dogs were our kids. Since our husbands are all on similar business trips we decided she would show us Germany and we would show her England. I have a ton more pictures to upload but these are for you babe..

In Trier

In BernKastel

Bubbles

Dada requested some more pictures of little man. I had the camera out to get a picture of our 10k today but forgot the memory card. I was pretty proud of myself for running the 10K with a stroller in 63 minutes. Anyways, our friend Shanna came over for dinner and brought her bubble machine. Chase loved it!

P.S. Ugh - a large spider just ran across our living room. I am not ready for the guys again in my house!!

Mothers Day in Holland

A crazy friend and I decided to take our 3 toddlers 4 countries away to Holland for the weekend. It was a pretty long drive but we had a lot of fun once we got there. We just crashed in our hotel the first night. They had a great play area where we could let the kiddos run around. In the corner of the play area was a ball pit. There were 3 pre-teen boys laying in the pit throwing balls at the top. Before I know it Chase wanted to go in and he laid down and started throwing balls in the air as well. I thought it was so cute. Poor guy is around a lot of girls this summer! Our first stop was to head to the famous Keukenhof Gardens. I didn't get as many pictures as I would like because I had to hold Chase a lot of the time but I did try.

They had a little petting zoo. Whenever I squat down to Chase's level he imitates me. Chase with his buddy Kelte are checking out the sheep.

For some reason a little boy in front of all the flowers isn't as cute.

The crazy moms!

We also stopped by a pottery place but didn't dare bring the kids in. Thank goodness for DVD players!

On Sunday we decided we would just do stuff for the kids. We went to the park then the indoor water park.

The water park was great but it was hard to get pictures. I was impressed how it was geared towards kids of all ages. There was plenty to keep Chase busy. The yellow slides in the background were perfect for him!

Look at that belly!!

After naps we headed back out to the amusement park. Again I was impressed with the number of activites that Chase could

Yes, even while doing something as fun as riding a train he had to have a dummy in his mouth.

And what is a trip to the continent without a chocolate pastry!

A special belated Happy Mothers Day to our moms! We love you and miss you!