Flower girls

Trip to Idaho and Utah

Uncle Alex drives a big DHL truck. Elli thought this was very cool. Abby and Alli giving kisses. Kids discovery museum at the Gateway in Salt Lake. Abby driving a jeep. Elli on a horse.

Old Timer's Festival

May 1 is the day when some old folks like to dust off their old cars, tractors and planes and take them for a spin. Sally loves to squeeze between our two car seats to keep our two little old folks happy.


Someone drove their tractor to this distinguished event.






A little blue tractor just Elli's size. Either they didn't have child labor laws or this was owned by one of the seven dwarfs.


This old tractor was made by Porsche. It can do a potatoe field at 120 miles/hour.

Holland Tulip Trip

We went to Holland in April with Uncle Herb, Aunt Jane, Troy and Carissa. We had a great time. This is Keukenhof the famous tulip gardens next to Amsterdam.

















Uncle Herb was great with the girls.


We took a boat tour through Amsterdam.




Troy and Carissa both fell asleep as soon as they had a few minutes to sit down.


I think the girls liked the hotel more than anything else.


We visited Vollendam - Century old windmills, wooden shoes and cheese. Cheese just gets better with age.

Play Mobile Park

This Play Mobile Park is over in Nuernberg the city where Mom and Papa are. We spent a few hours here on a weekend we went to visit them.

Play Mobile is basically the German version of legos, less stackable and more action figure based. The figures in the park are about 100 times normal Play Mobile size and roughly 1000 times as much fun as well.






Somehow a big plastic zebra is a whole lot less intimidating that a real horse. We'll try the real thing again this year at the company picnic.