Ronas Notes

Chicago Weekend

And one last trip before Dustin comes... I took the kids to Chicago to visit my friend Stephanie and her family and to celebrate her daughter Lena's 4th Birthday. The kids got along super great... we barely saw them, they were so busy playing!

Zoe loved her animals... the little kitten Oliver in particular.

Ready to party

It was a princess birthday party

Stephanie with all the little princesses and princes

One night watching TV before bedtime

Cash's Birthday

Aaand, another birthday, correct :)... since we're home we had at least one birthday party per weekend ;)

And another Greenfield Village trip with our german friends

Calder's Farm

We had some fun at a farm with friends

and we celebrated a farewell for one of our German Friends who will spend a year in Germany but fortunately will come back to us next summer :). I will miss them a lot but we had a great time together with all our german friends to celebrate their farewell and also their 12th anniversary :)

Cutting the cake :)

Enjoying the sun

Greenfield Village was next on our list:

Of course a pool day as well

And some fun times with our neighbors grandchild who was visiting

Fun with Friends

We made it home safe and sound. I think I got a migraine during the flight from AMS to DTW... I never had one but it was very annoying. Luckily the kids did AMAZING. They're def. great travel kids :)

The next day we met our friends at the splash park to catch up and have fun with our locals

The weekend after our arrival we had already our next birthday party. This time Austin turned 3 years old! Amazing how fast they all grow... crazy

Flight back 'home'

Sorry... I somehow didn't want to find time to blog in the last few weeks. Reality has me back and school starts soon... I cannot believe Zoe will start kindergarten already! But I think it'll be just fine. Zoe seems to be very ready for school and Henry too even though he says he doesn't want to go to pre-school I think he'll be fine as well.

Here some last pictures of our Time in Germany. Zoe and her cousin Leia... gosh how much I miss that little smiley Girl

My Dad serving one scoop of ice cream!!! Sita and I both wanted walnut so he gave us the leftovers and of course we didn't articulate what kind of 'scoop' we wanted... so he took the smallest scoop he had and was cracking up on the way to the dining room until we saw what he was laughing about already... we were cracking up... it was fun!

Jup... almost every night I drank some sort of alcohol... it was so much fun just hanging out and chat and enjoy the patio or enjoy company in the living room... we had a great time

Time to fly 'home'... Dana was supposed to fly out at 640am. Well, when we came to the airport at 8am Dana was back in the airport terminal again trying to rebook her flight since it got cancelled :(... they rebooked her to the next day so my Dad and Meike took them back home again after dropping us off so they got to spend another day with Meike and Dad and had a smooth flight back home the next day while we left like planned.