Vacation, Here we come!

We are off for our vacation tomorrow morning! We are excited since it has been a long time since we have really had one. We are in need of some rest and relaxation. We will see how it goes. The weather looks to be cool and rainy for at least a couple of the days so we are taking some back up stuff to do (board games and puzzles) just in case. We will try to take plenty of pictures so I can post them for you to see.

See ya!

Visitors from the North and fun with the Wii

We were excited when we got the call that some of our friends from Estonia were going to be driving through Poland on their way to visit someone and wanted to stop by and say hey. We gladly offered them a roof over their head for the night, fun and a good American breakfast before they had to be on their way. It was good to visit and catch up with the 3 of them. Andri, Brain and Raivo had a fun time playing on the wii and we enjoyed watching them. Did you guys know that Brain is now the mayor of Keila? Very Interesting!


Here are the guys infront of our place before getting back in their car to drive some more! Raivo, Andri, Bryan and Brain.



Here they are playing something on the Wii. It might be tennis.



Raivo and Brain boxing each other. It's a real workout!

Before and After

Ethan's hair had gotten too long! We were calling him "fluffy noggin". Anyway, Bryan gave him a haircut and here is a before and after picture to show you just how much he needed a haircut and how grown up he looks now.



BEFORE.......





AFTER......

I'm FREE!!!

Today was my last day of language class for a few weeks! I am taking about 5 weeks off for the summer and I will start back in the beginning of September. I am grateful for this break. Bryan has been on break already for a few weeks and now we get to enjoy being on a break together! We are planning to take a vacation to Gdansk (on the Baltic coast) at the end of July/beginning of August. We are excited. Also we plan to do several day trips and fun activities during August as well. We will all start back to school of some form in September.

Happy Birthday Bryan!

It was Bryan's birthday on the 24th and we celebrated a bit by having some cupcakes and eating dinner out as a family. We just had a party for him with our team yesterday (4th of July) so I will try to get some of those pictures up in a few days. He had a great birthday and the kids had fun helping make the cupcakes - or as Ethan called them - pupcakes.

Welcome to.....

Olsztyn!

I think this is really cool the way it is done.

Beautiful Smiles

Here is Mikaila with her friend Rebecca. They have a great time together and I just love this picture of them. Pure joy out at the day camp in Platyny. She is just a couple of months younger than Mikaila and they get to play together alot now that we live only a few blocks away. She's the youngest daughter of the Stevensons who are our team leaders(SC).

Newest Additions to the Family

Introducing Curious George the Gerbil! Better known as George.


We think he likes his new home! He was living up in Ethan's room for a couple of weeks until one day last week Jasmine decided to get a little too interested in him and pushed his cage off the dresser he was on! The cage didn't bust open (I was very thankful for that) but the litter stuff went everywhere. We have moved him downstairs until we can figure out a better way to secure him and also something better to contain his mess in.


Jasmine was curious from the beginning but would usually just stare and follow George with her eyes. Here is their first meeting. We will see how it all goes. Do you think we are crazy for having a gerbil in the house with a cat? We must wait and see I guess.

We also added a fish tank as well. We have 5 fish including a one eyed neon. No pictures yet. It was a Christmas present to Bryan from the kids but we waited to set it up unitl our move and once we moved we really didn't have a great place to put it except in one of the kids rooms. So Mikaila got the fish tank in her room (she had the fish theme going already too) and we got the gerbil for Ethan's room. I know we are crazy!

Drugged Cat

Here is Jasmine during our long drive up to our new home. (yes I am trying to catch up on some older photos) We gave her some pills to help calm her for the drive. We thought they would put her out so she would sleep the whole way but that didn't happen. She would sleep a little and then meow for a little and then get tired again and fall back asleep sometimes like this. She was biting at the cage a little and all of the sudden stopped and slept like this for a while. We were all glad to finally get to our new place except Jasmine because she was still a little out of it and we were not able to move into our house for a couple of days so we stayed with our friends and they have a cat too. So needless to say she was stressed for a little bit but she has/was settled for a while until we added to our zoo.

Ethan and Wesley

I love this picture. It was taken while in the states for our medical leave and I think these guys have the greatest smiles! We Miss you Wesley!! And your family! Do they still look alike? When they were younger they looked alot alike.