Win It Forward

win it forward…first five comments win! I think this is an awesome game! So I decided to post it and we’ll see what happens… Do you want to win something? Read on… Here are the tagging instructions: The...

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Indoor Hobbit Garden

You can take the farmer out of dirt but you can’t take the dirt out of the farmer. We thought it would be nice to grow an indoor garden because we miss our garden back home and Elora talks about it all the time. Everytime...

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A Snowman Named Degobah

As it has been snowing so much we went outside during one of Ollie’s naps to play in the yard for a few minutes. (don’t worry Grandparents we checked on Ollie a few times) Elora always wants to build a snowman even...

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Snowy day, time to play

It has snowed pretty much every day for two three weeks. So we took Elora out for some sledding on the Rote Berge (the big hilly park near our house). Elora really liked sledding and kept singing “Casey Jr coming down the...

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Finally Legal…

So we’re finally legal residents of Vienna. Here’s what it took to get here. The process was very lengthy, but if you want to get a glimpse of the bureaucracy, take a look. I’m curious if the US is worse...

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More zoo time fun

It was a cold, blustery day filled with hufflumps and woozzles, so we decided to head to the zoo. On the way there we saw a team of no less than 3 grounds workers cutting down an old tree outside of the zoo.The more educated...

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Restaurant Fun

Karen came to visit me during the lunch hour of one of my classes. Actually it’s a lunch-hour-and-a-half, because good meals require lots of relaxing and talking in Europe. Elora was passed out by the time we found a place...

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Van Gogh Exhibit

There was a Van Gogh exhibit here that I really wanted to go to, but I kept forgetting until the last day… so off we went to the Albertina to see it and there was a huge crowd. It was awesome though, because they have to...

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Valentine’s Day Cookies

On Valentine’s Day Elora and I decided to make some cookies for Chris. Elora loves making cookies, because she is allowed to stick her hands in the flour and sugar, but mostly because she gets to eat the dough (we always...

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