Snow Day

Here in England a bit of snow can shut the whole country down. Apparently this is the worst storms in like 18 years, or something crazy.I think where we live it was not as bad as down in London. But for one week in February we had a "snow day", followed by a couple late days, where everyone goes in 2 hours late. The kids loved it!!


Trenchard Square covered in snow.


Jaxon Snowboarding.


Mckinzie and Brianna sledding.


Liam loving "Frosty".

A day in Germany

Last year a few friends and I did a day trip to Germany for some pottery shopping. Only to arrive and find out the store was unexpectedly closer. There was nothing we could do to get them to open the door for us:( So we tried again this last week.(I did email them ahead of time to make sure they were going to be open.) After releasing all our kids to our great hubbies, we set off at 4:30am for our flight. At the counter we were shocked to find out they wanted a note from my Dr. to fly, and in the next 15 minutes. With a quick call to some husbands, Doug found someone at the hospital who could fax a note. With only minutes to spare before they closed the flight, we were off.


Once arriving in Germany they kindly upgraded me to a 10 passenger van.(Not quite what I was thinking when he talked about a big car with lots of room.) We were safe and had plenty of room:)!! We drove two hours to the Waechtersbach outlet.


After some great shopping, we found out at the checkout that they don't take credit cards. Who doesn't take credit cards??? Some quick borrowing from each other we rounded up enough money to buy all our goods. We carefully packed the dishes into our carry on luggage and hoped it wouldn't be more than 22lbs each bag.


Next we headed back closer to the airport for some Crystal shopping. That's were the fun really began. We got great deals and gorgeous wares. The store was incredibly accomodating. Staying open for an hour after closing for us and preparing to pack and send us the crystal in the mail. Thank goodness they ship, because we were out of room in our bags.


The lady from the shop found us a great restaurant and drove us there to keep us from getting lost.


The food was incredible!!(Annette Madsen and Vicki Wilkins at dinner.)



After dinner, we headed to the airport where we figured three of us were about 14lbs over our 20lb limit. Allison bought a new handbag, while we stuffed cups in pockets and moved a bunch to Camille and Annette's bags. About 10 trips to the scales to get it just right. They finally let us through security. Where we rearranged our bags back the way they were and headed home on the midnight flight. WOW what a day!! Thanks ladies:) (Allison Stokes, Me looking HUGE and Camille Cranney.)