pictures from last week...

Picking Bronwen up from school

Playing in leaves

Dancing to street music

Morrison Senior, Junior, and Juniorer

Dinner on the canal with Oma & Opa

Terrible view ;)

More leaf fun!

Bronwen's master piece (real oil paint)

Presenting the painting to Steve for his birthday

Steve's surprise birthday brunch

Alex, Bronwen, & Lisa

Awwwww!

Bronwen's first theater movie...

I took Bronwen to see One Life, a family friendly animal documentary (no one dies) essentially about life and love in the animal world.  Bronwen was so excited and she made it through the entire movie. Days afterwards she talked about the different facts she had learned from the film, she really paid attention. 

B & I before the movie

The film was part of the international film festival so she got to walk the red carpet too:)

In the theater

So excited she was flapping her wings

Germany

We drove 1800 km over the last 6 days from Gent to Frankfurt→Vilseck→ Cheb (Czech Republic)→Stuttgart→Heidelberg→Cologne→Gent. Wheew!! We are exhausted; living like nomads is a lot of work. The drive was so beautiful with all the vibrant Fall colors and fortunately we are blessed with the best “road trip” kids, they really amaze me with how well they travel.

We had a great visit with Steve’s Uncle Walt, Aunt Erika, and cousins Tammi & Ryan. It was my first time meeting all of them, but it certainly won’t be the last time we see each other. It’s nice to know we have family on this side of the pond.

Here are a few pictures in very random order...

My happy boy (happy to be out of the car:)



Heidelberg, Germany



Cologne (Kolner Dom)

Alex running free in a park in Heidelberg

Steve Sr., Gloria, & Aunt Erika

Brats & Sour kraut

Cousin Tammi & Bronwen

Steve's wild boar and potato ball

Schnitzel & potato croquettes

Bronwen, Gloria, Erika, Steve Sr., & Walt

Morrison Clan

Opa & Bronwen

Hotel Diva

Professional shots from the Venetian ball...

Courtney

Sofie and Joris

Steve and I

Random misc. pics...



Flower market (day after the venetian ball)



fun shots around town

Alex and auntie Em:)

Alex and the giant pretzel Emily brought back from Octoberfest

Venetian Ball...

We started the night off at our place with cava and appetizers and of course some photo fun...

Emily, me, Courtney, and Sofie

  

Fun before the ball (me, Steve, Court, Joris, Sofie)



waiting for the tram (we were quite the spectacle)

Tram ride to the ball

Actors (we think) escorting people into the ball

We waltzed the night away...

"the ball"

 There was a dessert competition, next year I'm in!!!

Dessert buffet

Em, Steve, Jill

 Professional photos were taken and will be available on facebook soon...

Sofie and Joris

Only in Belgium... Eating and drinking chocolate isn't enough so they've developed a fancy contraption for snorting it, no joke!  So of course, when in Rome...


 

Having fun in character

Beautiful harp music

There were extraordinary costumes and masks

Proost!

 I turned into a pumpkin at midnight (my babysitter's curfew)...


Good night!