Music Time

The kids love music. A day doesn’t go by without Oliver standing in front of the computer begging us to play some music. He’s so obssessive he even wants to see the media player… just to look at the icon...

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Lainzer Tiergarten

There is a nice forest near our house that we like to go walking in. In the forest is a beautiful little place called Hermesvilla that has a museum inside that I have been wanting to see, so I looked up the times it was open and...

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Palmenhaus

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...

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Last Zoo Day

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...

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AIS Halloween Party

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...

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Zoo with Jessica

We are a little behind with the blogging from when my computer was broken. Now that it is up and running again, I have some older stuff to put up. Back in September we went to the zoo with my friend Jessica. She had never been...

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A Day at the Museum

We wanted to go check out the Ethnology museum (it has changing exhibits of different cultures) and Elora was so excited to see a new museum. We got there to find out that it is closed for three weeks so they can set up a new...

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General Conference with the kids

General Conference weekend was fun. Oliver and Elora already love to listen to little talks, stories and hymns thanks to these videos. But since conference is a bit longer, we decided to make it fun. First we built a little tent...

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Presents from Afghanistan

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...

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Frankfurt Temple Trip

In August we went on a trip to the Frankfurt Temple with the whole Vienna Stake. This was our first stake temple trip, and it was a really neat experience for our whole family. It was also fun to have other people from the ward...

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