Little Snowman (in German)

Samaria memorized this poem at school...


(this is it in English)
I am a little snowman,
Made out of snow and ice.
My hat is black,
My scarf is red,
My jacket is very white.

Gardening?

So, we had our first go at 'gardening'.
We dont exactly have any grass, so we used these little pots.
We sowed our seeds in April.

We planted carrots!
Only, since i have never done it before, we planted WAY too many!
In mid summer we had to thin out our pots.
We loved watching our carrots grow!

So, last week we 'harvested'.
I use the term lightly!

Aren't they awesome!!

Yah...they are TINY!! haha!
We put them in a bowl & ate them that night.
Still pretty cool to eat something you have grown yourself.

I think next year we will get bigger pots!

the B & B we stayed at was called Salisbury Guest House
in Keswick...about 45 minutes north of us

It was realllly clean and all newly refurbished...really nice!!

we walked Keswick on monday, it was COLD and RAINY!!

but we still had fun...stayed out late drinking coffee and such at a cute little cafe

breakfast monday morning was AMAZING!!
a traditional English breakfast (with continental)

then we took a rowboat out on the lake
(after all, it IS the Lake District)

what a great way to spend our 13th anniversary!
Thanks Mom(s) and Dad(s)
(& thanks to Sam for watching the kids!!)

Trip to Lakes Aquarium

We had an awesome day riding the Steam Train
and visiting the aquarium with the Huddlestons

we felt like we were on Little House

the aquarium is right on a lake, so we had a nice waterside picnic before going in

it had an amazing underwater tunnel...def the highlight of the trip!

in the tunnel there were rainbows everywhere

even on jeff...

judah said the little dinosaur was his new favorite animal

Loads of fun!!!

lil nighties

ok, so we have been watching a lot of Little House on the Prairie ...

(i got all 10 seasons for Christmas last year & we are in season 5)

so i was inspired to make some old fashion nighties for the girls.

my friend helped me out! it was fun & the girls LOVE them!!!

busy 1/2 term

At English schools we have 3 trimesters that runs the school year

from beginning of Sept to middle of July. BUT, every 5-6 weeks, we get a week off.
We get 3 weeks at Christmas and 2 weeks off at Easter. Not too shaby!
Anyhoo...here is how we spent this break which was from 31 May - 5 June...

Praise God for amazing weather all week!!!!!
this is how we ended the week...more on that later =)

Our front garden has REALLY come to life...gorgeous flowers everywhere!

judah loves helping jeff with the trimming, he says this is what "boys" do.

Right before the break we had a lovely baby shower for our friend, Debbie.

it was a really fun time of great fellowship and competitive games! (hehe!)

Then we prayed for her just a few days later as she went off to have beautiful little abigail!

Monday of 1/2 term we did our first English Car Boot Sale with friends!
(like a yard sale but a bunch of people get together
in a designated spot and sell stuff right our of their cars)

Tuesday and Wednesday Jen, Tom & Caleb Cooper came to stay

The blow-up pool came out and the kids crammed in!
so fun...
(yah, we dont have any grass,
so we put the pool on carpet squares...SO GHETTO!!)

Wed - Fri the kids went to an awesome Sports Club.
Friday they had water games...we made almost 200 water balloons!

Saturday we went to Silecroft...an adorable coastal town
about an hour away, with a pretty little beach!

the weather was gorgeous for our picnic lunch

when the tide goes out there is a HUGE sandy area.
the water was a good temperature...
just right for jumping over the little waves!

All in all...a great week off!!!