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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Visiting Marion Day 2

We went to see Karen on Wednesday at the hospital. The kids were still as excited as ever and did a good job taking turns holding Marion. Mommy was quite happy as you can see too! Karen says they feed her bread and yogurt for...

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Marion is here!

There are a few photos in this post. Lots more pictures if you click here.She’s arrived! Little Marion Avery Williams was 5 days late, but she’s finally here. She was born on November 2nd at 11am in Vienna, Austria...

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Elora Speaks German

Here is a collection of interesting conversations we have had with Elora, some of which are amusing mix-ups about German.German Vocabulary:Die BlumenDie KatzeDie Doggen We go to the bakery sometimes for a treat. Elora loves these...

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Preschool Volcanoes

Elora and her friend Ellie are not enrolled in school this year, so Ellie’s mom and I decided to have a little preschool activity day together once a week with the girls, and our younger kidlets too. The last time it was...

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Swordfight

The kids decided they wanted to have a big swordfight, and since the weather last week was actually pretty nice, we went outside for the battle.Elora prefers the battle ax as her weapon of choice, and we had to spend some time...

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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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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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