More ice pictures!

Jason and Tiffany had to spend the night over here as the road was icy last night. This morning her truck sports icicles!The tires are 'frozen'.And be careful 'stepping up'!
And Dan's Z is all frozen up too!

Poor neglegted child :-(

Ice in Texas, and yes, also in Abilene!

When I'm brave enough I will go out and take a picture, or two or three. For now, check out Kristy's blog or the Abilene Reporter News!

Have fun :-)

Rick on playground and other funny stuff!

Kleiner Mann ganz gross.
Hier bin ich wohl eingesperrt!Und der Papa bleibt zuhause im warmen und schlaeft. Okay, er war halt auch krank.
Genau wie Tante Kirsten! Die hat's ganz schoen erwischt!
Tina und Rick leisten Kirsten ein wenig gesellschaft :-)
Hmmm, bei was ist Rick da erwischt worden? Kann nicht so schlimm gewesen sein.

Lion at the Skate Park!

Here he goes down the hill with Tina and Jason watching!
Lion gets a work out while Jason sits and watches!
Believe it, there is a Skateboard!
Going on the "ramp" one needs some help from the cousin.

Little brother stands aside and watches.

If you can't skateboard, you do the next best thing and roll down the hill!
Jason first, and Rick right into his arms for a tickling round!
Jason will always be the oldest cousin, but who is displacing Rick as the youngest?

2007!

Yes, we are still here and going strong. My sister thinks we haven't done anything since my last posting, but we have been way to busy to post anything. So, I have downloaded pictures and will put them up now. No time though, so I won't write anything on each picture.

There are some from News Years Eve, which we celebrated with friends, and we had some "fire crackers". Then we have pictures of Tina and me reading (where is the fire in the fireplace?) And Tina's pasttime, she always has to scratch Dirk's back when she has a free minute. Poor Girl!

Then there are pics with Lion, Jason & Rick; Lion on his skateboard (Tina and I are sunning); and pictures when we are watching TV...and are out to eat, (yes, we eat all the time) :-)

Enjoy living through us. We are renting out some kids too!!!

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At the Playground!

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It is New Year's Eve. After breakfast I decided that some kids need to run and get some fresh air, so we went to the playground!

Es ist Silvester. Nach dem Fruehstueck dachte ich es waere eine gute idee fuer ein paar Kinder etwas frische Luft zu schnuppern, also ging es zum Spielplatz!

I hoped Rick would fall asleep, and he did on the drive home. Tina got to sleep too, but I, as always, kept getting interupted. Oh, well.

Ich hoffte Rick wuerde einschlafen und er tat es auf dem Heimweg. Tina hat auch geschlafen, aber mir ging es wie immer und ich habe nicht geschlafen.

Horse Cutting Event & Tiffany's Christmas

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After we, Sandra, Clayton, Rick and I, brought Tina to the Airport we went to the Texas Frontier Museeum http://www.frontiertexas.com/ Then we went home for lunch were we found out that poor Tina was still en route to Dallas because of bad weather somewhere in Texas. Didn't know there were 22 Tornadoes that day.
We all went to the Taylor County Colliseum for some Horse Cutting, as you can see Rick enjoyed himself tremendously. Then we went to Starbucks and had some coffee while Rick slept.

Tiffany came up for the weekend and received her Christmas gifts.

Texas Roadhouse and Fort Griffin

We just had a nice windy day at Fort Griffin, and then we went to the Texas Roadhouse for a good meal, followed with Coffee and Cookies at the Sullivan's!

Visit to the Zoo and more Christmas

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Nicht nur im Zoo sondern auch mit Weihnachten!Wird spaeter nochmal geaendert :-)

Sandra and Clayton are here also!

Lion & Rick my nephews!

We didn't think Rick, the little one, would go to the Santa, but it was Lion we had to talk into going :-)

Wir dachten ja nicht das Rick, der Kleinere, zum Nikolaus gehen wuerde, aber es war Lion den wir ueberreden mussten :-)

Aber dann wurde das Bild ja doch schoen und wir mussten es kaufen. Wie oft kommen die Jungs den auch an Weihnachten nach Texas?!

Merry Christmas!

Yesterday was a great day. We, as in Lion, Rick and I, went to Walmart at 8:30 a.m.!
Gestern war ein klasse Tag. Wir, Lion, Rick und ich, waren schon um halb 9 Uhr morgens bei Walmart!

Then we went home, and played around. Lion wanted to play Monopoly, so we did (startet the game on Saturday evening already!)
Dann gingen wir nach hause und haben etwas gespielt. Lion wollte Monopoly spielen, (das hatten wir am Samstag abend schon angefangen!)
Afterwards we ate lunch and then the boys, Tina and I went to the Mall!
Dann gab es Mittag essen und danach gingen die Jungs, Tina und ich in den Mall! Santa was there and we took a great picture of the boys and him.
Der Nikolaus war da und wir machten ein Klasse Bild von den Jungs und ihm.
Finally we had our Christmas. Of course it was the German tradition and we had it last night!
Endlich hatten wir unser Weihnachten. Natuerlich auf Deutsche art am Heiligen Abend!

Der Besuch ist muede, und ich auch!

Noch Abends nach dem ankommen. Rick hat Jason's GameBoy spiele gefunden und die werden alle gleich ein paar mal ausprobiert!

Dirk ist froh seine Kinder wieder bei sich zu haben.

Fruehstueck - Rick will das die Pepsiflasche auch auf dem Bild ist, und das Telefon mit dem er gerade Oma anerufen hat! Ist alles drauf!!




So geht das halt wenn man von Deutschland nach Amerika reist. Die Kinder sind schon um 4 Uhr frueh wach und machen die Mama und die Tante auch wach. Die Maenner schlafen halt einfach weiter.

Nach einkaufen und Mittag essen muss man dann erst mal schlafen gehen :-) so ein kurzes Mittags schlaefchen ist dann ja auch ganz gut. Tina und Rick gehen ins Bett und Lion und Kirsten schauen sich Buddy der Weihnachtself an. Kirsten schlaeft natuerlich auch erst mal ein! Lion schaut sich den ganzen Film schoen brav an und schlaeft erst nachdem Kirsten wieder wach ist! Einer muss ja aufpassen!

Besuch aus Deutschland!

Zu Weihnachten gibt es dann in Texas besuch von Deutschland. Gestern abend sind sie angekommen!

Snow Day!

Yeah! We are off from School today, of course we have to make it up in the spring, oh well, at least I can spend my parents last day here with them :-) Here are some pictures!Yes, my dad chopped this wood for us. He also helped Dan get it at the Recycling Center. We have to get him to do some work around here. Now, can we have a fire today???

Towne Crier

Yes, we went out to eat again!

As Kristy's parents are visiting from Virginia and mine from Germany we decided to go to the Towne Crier Steakhouse for some Chicken Fried Steak. Well, some of us liked it and some don't...just isnt' real steak, but good!

My Dad now likes to walk with a cane, as he got one for $1...need I say more?!

Papa infront of the Towne Crier ~~~~~~~~~~ Kristy's parents

Mike and Kristy's parents ~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Mike and Kristy

Kristy and my parents





http://www.townecriersteakhouse.com/