This and That

Omelettes for tea. thank you henny pennys...

Our friends Orla and Ciara came to visit us from Spain

We went to visit her when she stayed with her folks in New Ross, they have some beautiful horses.

Thorben holding a moth in New Ross

We went to the christening of my godchild Caoimhe in Rathvilly, Caoimhe with her mum Sarah

Elke and Daddy

The boys in their best clothes and behaviour at the church

 Our neighbour Frank gave us some jars for jam making. We hope to make jams for christmas presents this year.

Nice brown bread Steffen made.

The kids looking cool...upside down glasses..!

A walk in Russborough among the trees.

Grannys scones with jam on a sunny day with the folks

Drying our onions and garlic, we planted them last October 2011.

A new addition to our flock, a neighbours Cockeral who had lost all his ladies to a fox.

Our three kids

Walking up the forest with the folks

Back from our trip in Germany

We have been away for 2 weeks or so in Germany visiting Steffens mother Irma who is living in a nursing home. We took a ferry to the Uk and stayed with cousin William in Greenwich. Also on the way we stayed with friends in Belgium.

Thank you Volker and Ann for having us stay!!

We had great weather in Germany and went to the outdoor pool most days there.

Jonas with Granny at the nursing home Summer festival.

Steffen with his mother

The Irish Klauers with Irma.

 Irma playing cards with the boys!

Icepops and ice cream......

 Aunty Heike with Elke.

Damien BBQing

The boys with their favourite dinosaur T-Rex at a museum in Frankfurt.

Lego construction in Cousin Williams flat in Greenwich with Stef and Okey. Thanks William for hosting us again.

About to get on the last ferry home. The travellers...!!! still smiling....

An eventful week

Thorben, Steffen,Elke, Jonas and our German visitor Brend

Jonas helping his sister walking up the forest

The forest behind our house..what a beautiful back garden we have!!!

Thorben up a tree that i climbed as a child at Granny and Grandads

Elke looking pretty

The planting of the baptism tree ...the three helpers!!

Our weeping willow from Aoife and Ger

Steffen hit his finger with a sledge hammer while driving in a support post, 3 hospitals later it is fractured and stitched

A picnic up the forest

The three

The Klauers get Baptised

At the weekend we baptised our three children Jonas 5yrs 3 mths, Thorben 3 yrs 2 months and Elke 17 months. We had a wonderful day with our family and friends.

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.