Pictoral update--August-ish

Noelle helping Papa get ready to teach his classes at CCU.

Random fact #213: the price you see here (€1, 75=$2.19) is for A can.

Doing better at ballet this year.

Lovin' her first french fry.

The church in Peine invited Brett to preach.

And play softball at the annual Ascension Day (40 days after Easter, but we had to reschedule) game between the churches in Hildesheim and Peine.

A trip to southern Germany...

Brett and Fiona in front of Hohenschwangau, right across from...

Neuschwanstein!! Well, it's very small in the background, but it gets closer.

Alpsee (Alp lake) right beside the castles.

neuSCHWANstein and hohenSCHWANgau. Any guesses what schwan means?

Marienbrücke (mary's bridge)

I think Fiona was confused about there being no princesses at the castles.

Alps!

Neuschwanstein up close

Ready for the last year of Preschool!

What have you been up to?

There's a tradition involving this little statue (elizabeth and her goose) and getting your doctorate. This is our friend, Ronald. He is from a German Mennonite colony in Paraguay.

Celebrating Ronald's doctor-ness at the lake (flooded gravel pit)

Our mother's Biblestudy at church.

Thomas and Sabine came for a visit. She's trying to get transferred to the university here, she's told that her chances are pretty slim.

Celebrating Frank and Johanna's 1 year (cotton) anniversary. They used to live in Göttingen until they heard we were moving there. No, but seriously, we've never actually managed to live in the same city despite being good friends.

Brett is very proud of himself for slimming down the book collection for the move.

Aren't they cute?

Fiona turns 5

Waiting outside for the other guests.

Buddy Sean's birthday is the day before Fiona's so they celebrated together.

The kids had way too much fun and looked like a bunch of sweatballs. Heat must not distract you from fun when you're a kid.

Wearing her birthday crown and gift outside her preschool.

We haven't seen our friend, Sven, in a while and I wanted to document exactly how much taller he is than me. We had a great time talking about God and the world (a saying in German--über Gott und die Welt) meaning a bit of everything.

Going to the Race! Brett had been training for a while. He ran to represent our Preschool. But also notice the street cafè's--lovely part of European life!

One of Fiona's friends, Helen, had her Papa, Marcel, run.

They were pretty exhausted afterwards.

Oh, and I thought this was super mega cute and will treasure it my whole life long. For those of you not keeping up on your World Cup, now that the US is out, Germany is doing really well. Tomorrow they're up against Argentina at 16.

long days...

I was sitting in the living room thinking, "wow, it is still really light outside for 10:30, this would be hard to explain." A picture speaks a thousand words. Interesting fact, Göttingen is on about the same line of latitude as the southern tip of Alaska.