Yes, I know my birthday is in September. But we never got around to celebrating, and if we wanted to have a party before the baby comes and I become germ-o-phobic mom, we were sort of running out of time. So Chris sent out a huge...
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We had never been to the Palmenhaus before, and our friend Jessica wanted to visit for the first time as well, so we headed off to the Schonbrunn grounds to look inside the huge greenhouse that was enjoyed in times past by...
My zoo pass expired the second week of October, so we headed over for our last visit to the Schonbrunn Zoo. This has been my favorite place to take the kids, and we will miss going. With winter coming and the move back to the US...
Halloween is not really celebrated in Austria, but the American International School always has a little carnival for the kids a few weeks before Halloween. Since the baby is due around Halloween and I figured we won’t be...
Our friend John came over yesterday with some beautiful gifts his wife sent to our children from Afghanistan. Elora and Oliver both received a full outfit of the hand made traditional formal clothes from Afghanistan. John said he...
We had a Relief Society activity where we painted shirts and bags. Elora was so excited about her new shirt. She asked every day for two weeks if it was time to go paint it – and finally the day arrived! Here is Elora...
This year the Relief Society (a women’s organization from my church) had a Women’s Day where all the ladies got together and could choose different tours of Vienna. Most of my friends and I decided on the...
Our friends Christine and Elcid came over for lunch last week, and Elora was so excited to show them her lego Shave-A-Sheep game. We actually bought it as a joke for a friend of ours, but the game is so cool we bought one for...
I know, we go to the zoo a lot. But the weather has been pretty good for going outside, and my zoo pass is going to expire soon… so we are trying to enjoy the zoo as much as possible! We went with our friends Ellie...
Elora’s friend Ellie had a wet and wild birthday party a couple weeks ago. It had been such beautiful weather and then the day before it rained! Luckily the sun came out and we had a beautiful day for the party. Here is...