Vienna skiing at the Park!

Day 2 of the late November snowfall in Vienna! Most of the city didn’t get as much snow as we did. Since we’re on the outskirts, a little higher up we tend to get more snow (and less wind, thankfully). We hiked over...

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Snow!!!!

The beautiful fall weather has left us, but we don’t mind because it started snowing over the weekend! Here is Elora and Oliver hanging their hands out the window to catch the first snowflakes of the season. As you can see...

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Marionette Theater

I have been wanting to take the kids to see a show at the Marionette Theater at the Schonbrunn ever since we moved here. Our friend Jessica said she had really wanted to go as well, so we headed out to see The Magic Flute. The...

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Marion Meets Grandma!

A friend of ours is letting us borrow a swing for Marion. Here she is trying it out for the first time. I am not sure she knows what to think of this one yet! Maybe when she is bigger. Elora and Oliver love it though and always...

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Schonbrunn in the Fall + McCafe

The day before Marion was born, we went for a walk at the Schonbrunn to enjoy all the beautiful fall leaves. Oliver and Karen rode the bus, while I walked from my apartment with Nana and Elora.Oliver at his favorite duck pond...

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Halloween Pancakes – Flashback

So, way back before Halloween, Nana brought us some Halloween shaped pancake makers, along with some other fun stuff. On Halloween, we made some tasty pancakes. Can you count them? 1 pancake, 2 pancake, 3 pancake, muuhahahah.We...

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Making Cookies

They don’t sell chocolate chips in Austria, so instead we buy huge bars of chocolate for 1 Euro to chop up and put in our cookies. Chris decided to let the kids try out the chocolate before he chopped it up. No wonder they...

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Chestnuts of Death

So back in October, the trees all around our house started dropping tons of chestnuts. We saw a little boy and his dad bagging up hundreds of them, so we figured we’d do the same and roast some in the oven. We looked up how...

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Ipstein

I know everyone wants more pics of Marion, but as we are trying to adjust to our new life with three kids, I am afraid we haven’t taken many pictures, let alone found time to put them up on the internet! So here is an old...

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Marion is home from the hospital

We visited Marion and Karen in the hospital every day, for about an hour or until the kids got on the nerves of the grumpy nurse staff.  Elora and Ollie were always thrilled to go and visit. Every morning they’d ask to...

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