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.

Random Pics

Here are some random pictures of our time geocaching while in Oklahoma.


Ethan found this one!



Getting a read.



It was a little windy and cold when we first got there and we did not take our coats with us so we were quite chilled the first few days.



Ethan kind of looks like he is on his way to trouble.

That's Incredible!

While we were on our short medical leave to the States we made a trip over to Tulsa to visit Bryan's brother and his girlfriend. Bryan's parents were with us as well. Jeff wanted to do something special for the kids so he treated us to "Incredible Pizza"! If you don't know what this is, just think of "Chuck E. Cheese" and then multiply that by 10 and that is how huge this place was and how much it had in there. Here are a few pictures from our time there. The kids really had fun. Including Bryan!


Mikaila wacking the moles!



Ethan riding a "roller coaster"



Mikaila is getting help from her PaPa.



Ethan playing a jet ski game and he did really well. He had to stand up to play it but he amazed me how well he did.



Here are the kiddos feeding the machine to count all their tickets.

Google Image Search Fun

So here is a little bit about me in picture form. I have seen other people do this and thought it was neat and interesting to see what came up. I did this by typing in exactly what I wanted and picked the first picture that came up on the google image search. Try it and see what you come up with for your info!


City and State I was born in:



City and State where I currently live:



First name: I didn't pick the first one because I picked the most decent one!



Last Name:



Favorite Food:



Preferred Drink:




Favorite Smell:



A place I have lived:



A place I have worked:



A place I want to visit:

The Proper Attire for Dinner at AGM (for Ethan)

Here is Ethan on his way to dinner one night while we were at our Annual Meeting a couple of months ago. We got him these goggles for the pool but he did not want to wear them swimming. Later that night while getting ready for dinner he decided he needed to wear them to dinner.

New Family Picture

Intemann Family - May 2007
Infront of our new house.

Cowboy Ethan - Where's My Horse?

We picked up some cowboy boots while in Oklahoma! They are ones that Ethan's cousin had outgrown and Ethan loves them just as much as he did. Thanks Wesley!! Not sure they go with sweatpants but oh well. He sure is happy about them!