School in session

Well, since school is in session you'd think I have more time but somehow it didn't quite work that way for some reason *lol*... 

We've been busy being sick for a week and then celebrating Henry's birthday and constantly baking and cooking to feed the family which I absolutely love. So life is good :) :) :).

In the middle of it all we had to find a Homecoming Dress for Inga and that is sometimes a bit tricky to go shopping after school with the two munchkins patiently waiting ;)...

We spent some time at Chuck E. Cheese since we kind of started that tradition on their birthdays

OMG... look at that cupcake dough... makes me want to whip up the next one right now :)

Birthday Celebration in the making... lots of cooking and baking. I couldn't help it :)

Pumpkin Quiche

Henry's Bday Cake (Sacher Torte)

And the loudest 'Happy Birthday' I've ever heard... it was AMAZING

4H has started as well and swimming for the little ones... we are BUSY *lol*. Inga has to go to morning practice 3 times a week that means being in the pool at 530am and every day after school besides FR. We're enjoying our life to the fullest :)

Back to School 2017/2018

Aaaaand, here we gooooo.... 

School started on Sept. 5th... everybody was excited and I had my first day of school meeting with my German friends for coffee and cake :). It was super awesome. We loved it and we survived our first day home alone without any issues :). 

Inga was a bit nervous but it went very well for her and she was super excited about how everything is going when she got home :).

One pic with the three of them :)

Styled and dressed and they're ready to start their school day as well.

It was super cool having the van to myself ... it's still strange leaving the house by myself and I don't have to tell anybody to put on their shoes or don't forget this or that... but now after almost 2 weeks I've gotten the hang of it and I'm not even noticing it being different ;).

First Pickup... kids had a great day and Henry loves school... Zoe gave us a bit trouble the first few days with not wanting to go back but that's forgotten now and they like going to school :).

A must - Frosty boy on the first day of school and we ran into our friend Jen with Grace who also went there to celebrate Grace's first day of school :).

That's how fun my mornings look... 4 lunch boxes to fill but it's fun... I like it... makes me feel good to know that the kids have good food and I gave them a little bit of love on the way :)

Finally got Zoe's desk - it's so quick getting something now. You just walk in and out... getting a lot more stuff done with less effort :).

Nightly pickups are becoming a regular again with Inga going on swim meets with the team... not bad though since I always have my work with me and get some emails done or messages out.

Zoe started keeping her Teddy in the car so she has it at Pickup and I have company all day ;)... sweet

Pony Rides on the Orchard.

Happy Birthday... party time

Inga likes our American Breakfast so we somehow started doing it every Sunday now :)... since Frank was gone I invited my friends over to have some company and they all loved it.

Desk assembly :)... let's do it

Movie Night

Another perk now is that I can go to the events without thinking twice... makeup artists were in town and I got all set with a new look... well... I got to learn new tricks :)... loved it...

Inga's first swim competition was going on yesterday night and we cam to cheer her on. Don't mind those kids... they're goofballs...

Tonight we have friends over for dinner and Zoe wanted to have the beef stew again which we haven't had in a very long time... the house smells so delicious... yum

I also made some cookies and will make more in a little bit that we can decorate. Have to have some fun stuff for the kids to entertain them :). I missed baking a lot... can't believe I haven't baked in so long...

Last End of Summer Fun

We've had a terrific last few weeks of summer and made the MOST out of it :). We're into painting rocks at the moment and then we hide them and also we look for new ones and try to re-hide them as well. It's a lot of fun and something creative for us to do. Here are some of our treasures :).

It was quite tough finding left handed scissors for Henry just before school started and I totally forgot to maybe look for those earlier but anyway... every time we went to the store we went through the whole scissors pile and we actually found ONE that was boy colors before school started ;).

We spent one day at this fun place called CJ Barrymore... my first go-cart ride and Henry came along *lol*... first I drove like a mom but after I ended up being the last one I picked up my game and Henry was super quiet and was just smiling ;)... really fun

Inga tried the zip line - oh my... that was too crazy for me but she loved it

Henry went on his first Laser Tag outing :)

Video Games are always fun

Chapman *lol*

It was hilarious

My friend Marilyn...

The next day we went to the Imagination Station after Inga's swim practice. It was great and everybody had a good time

Then we added another day at Greenfield Village... I absolutely love this place. And we had a great time again... probably heading there on the weekend as well :).

And the Toledo Zoo was also on our list.

We actually found a painted rock at the zoo from Virginia!!! That was so awesome... we'll re-hide it in Michigan :)

It was football time at the Highschool and although it was super cold we made it until halftime so Inga could enjoy the spirit of highschool football ;)

That's how we paint rocks :)

Leftover Heaven... I absolutely enjoy cooking more now since Inga is here...

On the weekend we made our way to the Airshow and look what greeted us right at the beginning? A german bird :)... with Germans on board... it was sooo cool