What we do on beautiful 65 degree Sunday afternoons...

We go to Weltenburg! Weltenburg is an old monastery located on a river's edge. We've been there a few times (I blogged about it last February - click here to revisit) and today, since Brian just finished a month long rotation, and I just finished a month of single parenting, we wanted to get out of the house and have a lazy day of enjoying the sunshine on this early fall day. We headed to Weltenburg to take pictures and throw rocks in the water (woohoo!) and when we arrived, we realized the hundreds of other people had the same idea. We also discovered that in the courtyard of the monastery, they serve lunch and dinner so after we walked around a bit, we sat at a fest table with some of our closest German friends (I kid, I kid, we had no idea who they were) and enjoyed some delicious food. And on the way home, 3 out of 4 of us enjoyed a leisurely nap. Here are all the pictures - notice how difficult it is to get a decent picture of Luke - he was trying to enjoy the water, watch the boats and throw rocks and I kept bugging him. :) And Hannah scratched the heck out of her little cheek this morning playing with a toy - we have no idea what toy caused the damage but geez! nice baby toy, huh? Hope you all are enjoying YOUR Sunday.

A little old man with a HUGE paddle pushes this barge back and forth across the river.  There are people just chilling in the car as they get transported across.  Call me crazy but I just don't like the look of that!  lol

Perfect rocks for skipping!

Beautiful, no? We couldn't have asked for a better day.

See the huge riverboat behind them?  Very cool.

Awwwww....who's her daddy???  Little twins, even the expressions on their faces, just watching the water.  :)  (Click the picture to enlarge)

The courtyard!  Fun!

They entertain each other quite well.  lol

Hannah in the cool German high chair.

Preschool Break Day 2

Our Day 2 activities have ended with a huge rain shower so I let Luke get his umbrella and head on out. He had a blast and as the rain tapered off, he let the plops of water fall on his head. We're about to head into the tub then off to bed but I wanted to share pictures of Luke and link you to our arts and crafts project of the day - HERE!!

Preschool Break, Day 1

Click here to see what we did today!

Fun with Mom

Today marks the end of Luke's preschool session and the next one doesn't start up until September 8th.  That means he has 8 full days at home with mom and his baby sister.  Can I get a "Woot!"?  I ordered a book from Amazon.com - 365 things to do with your preschooler (or something to that effect) and it was supposed to be here today but alas, it's not and I'm not sure that we'll have it during our week of fun.  :) I plan on taking him to the park with the zip-line, and up to Grafenwohr (another military base with a huge PX and food court) for a day. The Play-Doh, water colors and acrylic paints are on standby. His little pool is in the backyard and is ready to be filled on a hot day (if any decide to come our way). We have books galore and we have the wii (*not that I am saying that is a fantastic activity for a preschooler to do with his time but it does require moving in order to play it so he gets in some activity while I sew or clean or update our blog.) But what I really wanted were a bunch of fun, no thought involved activities that someone else planned for me (the reason WHY I purchased said book), like an outdoor scavenger hunt or how to make a bug out of a plastic cup and pipe cleaners. Now I'll have to think up my own scavenger hunt for him and figure out how to make my own darn bug.  I think we'll make it (it IS only 8 days after all) and I think we'll have fun.  I'll let you know how it goes. And if anyone else has any fun activities for us (especially those from when we were little - like making colored salt with chalk!), let me know.  

Edited to add: The books are here! The books are here! Caterpillars made from egg cartons, here we come!  Woot!

I guess I have neglected you over the past month.

Brian has been on rotation for the past couple of weeks but yesterday he got a day off and today didn't have to go into work until 1:30pm so we packed up the kids and went bowling! Hannah had a miserable night last night and was up pretty much all night long. I don't know what was causing her sleeplessness but she was a mess and man, were we tired this morning! Anyways, she is napping now, Luke is resting on the couch and I have a minute to post some recent pictures of the kids. Some of my favorites are the pictures of Hannah in Luke's baby clothes. :) Last night we walked up into town for dinner and it was a little cool so I put on a thick white BabyGap pants and cardigan outfit that my mom bought when Luke was a baby. Now if only Brian would hook up our external hard drive so we could compare Hannah and Luke's baby pictures. And now that I am going through all these pictures, I realized how little I have shared with you this past month - no wonder why all the grandparents are mad at me! LOL.

Here's what you've been missing! (All the pictures are posting in chronological order.)

Luke showing off his soccer skills

Hannah discovering her toes.

Bath time!

Spike. Can you see it? We spiked her hair after her bath. We're not right. lol

Cruising on the tricycle.

Island girl.

Luke mastering the wii

Hannah looking adorable in her brother's old clothes and having a great time watching her brother play the wii

A storm came through and knocked down everything, including 208 apples off the stinking apple tree.

Hannah's new hat for the fall. It is a little big still but it for this fall.

Mowing the lawn.

Hanging with mom.

Practicing standing. Nope, she can not pull herself up, we propped her up in this position - she stayed there for a minute or so. :)

Ready for our walk into town - another one of Luke's outfits.

Luke bowling today - he had a great time.