A walk in the woods with the Grandparents

The Grand parents came to dinner at our house over the Bank Holiday weekend...Finally learnt how to use the automatic shot mode Group picture.... Happy Days!!!.....granny, Jonas, grandad, Thorben,Aideen,Steffen, Elke

The boys up in their forest den....

Tired feet on our walk......

Bloom in the Phoenix park....lovely OPW vegetable walled garden

Lots of show gardens at Bloom had a cottage garden style to them

Flowers Flowers more flowers...

Sunny Days

The internet is too bad at home to up load pictures so i upload new pictures at my parents house, they were in Lourdes last week so no pictures/visit. Pictures of Sunny days

The hammock came out !!

Elke on the trampoline

The paddle pool was used !!

The three kids feeding the hens

Baking scones with Elke

Jonas climbing a tree

Read a statistic recently that 45 % of irish children interviewed between the ages of 7 and 11 have never climbed a tree.

A visit to zoo

Colm, Rebecca, Helen Mc Devitt, Me and Susanne at Helen and Dieters wedding, it was a wonderful day.

Quiet Weekend

We stayed at home most of the weekend as we had been sick with the vommitting thing during the week. We did get around to making cookies.My little helper below...

We painted too.

We all went walking up the forest during the weekend for the fresh air.

This weekend

We re-planted all our trays of seeds and pots.The first batch did not germinate for us.

Our early potatoes have come up and Steffen dug out a salad bed in the tunnel for us.

Myself and Thorben planted our main crop of Sapro Miro potatoes

Our rhubarb looks good for this year, hoping to make rhubarb and ginger jam.

Our wedding anniversary was this weekend, we are 6 years married (17 years dating). Steffen bought me these lovely flowers.

A week away at the Sea

A week away at the sea in Ardmore,County Waterford with Granny, Grandad and Aunty Rebecca was just what we all needed. We enjoyed the simple pleasures of running in and out of the blue sea, net fishing, kite flying, making sandcastles.

Easter Break

We recharged ourselves over the Easter Break

We had a lovely long weekend at home, it was great to just stay at home. Taking the time to enjoy our new house with our family makes us very grateful for all we have. We enjoyed having Granny, Grandad and Aunty Rebecca for Sunday dinner. We hard boiled duck eggs and painted them for Easter.

Chocolate face Thorben with Grandad

Snowing during last week !!!

We found we had lots of frames in the garage we could use.

Some pictures are up....we moved back in last September so it only took us 7 months to get organised again!!

Steffen put up some shelves and a desk for our offfice/sewing space

Reorganised black sacks of second hand kids clothes look so much better in cheap cardboard boxes.

Ikea Billy bookcases are cheap and fit loads in them...jigsaws, boardgames and books
Elke is starting to walk more

Birthdays and Weddings and sunny days

Elke enjoying the sun in the grandparents back garden

Trying to keep the boys hats on is a full time job
Aideen under pressure assembling Thorbens Lego birthday present

Almost made after one and a half hours!

Three candles for our special boy THORBEN

Our hens enjoying the sun in the courtyard

Daddys birthday hug from his three little people

Been meaning to put this picture up for ages, my dear sister Margaret and her lovely husband Andy. This photo was taken after they got married in North Carolina, US at the start of the year.

We wish them a lifetime of friendship and love together.

No gardening pictures this week, we did lots of planting over last weekend 15 raspberry given to us by the folks. Most things have germinated inside the house now in pots on windowsills, we have moved our lettuce trays into the house as the polytunnel was getting too warm.