Christmas 2009 in Germany - Part 1

We are going to try being better about uploading photos to the family page here.

Here are some of the pictures from Sabine and my trip to Germany for Christmas.

We flew into Frankfurt and stayed with Sabine's Uncle Carl for a few days.


This is a picture of me in front of the Goethe House in Frankfurt. I posted this to the Facebook page of the Chicago Goethe Institute where I'm taking my German classes.


This is the Christmas Market in Frankfurt.


Sabine with her mom, Traudl, her Uncle Carl, and Carl's wife, Rosuita.


Sabine and I on the observation deck of a big shopping store in Frankfurt.


After driving back to Sabine's parents' house we had an afternoon coffee gathering with some of her family. There were delicious desserts to be had.


We did a little touring around Nurenburg while we were there.


On a tour of underground tunnels where wine and beer was stored, Sabine tried making off with a barrel. ;)


We got to see the Nurenburg Christmas Market, too.


A few days before Christmas we picked up a Christmas tree to decorate.


One of Sabine's presents to her dad was a Chicago Bears cap.


Sabine modeling some of her Christmas presents by the decorated tree.

I'll post more Christmas in Germany photos and then some New Year's in Switzerland photos soon.

Christmas 2008 - Addendum

So we had the Christgiving early Christmas, then we had Christmas, now we have the post-New Year's late Christmas. :) Did anyone take any pictures during the gift exchange? I forgot my camera that day. I don't remember if anyone else had one.

Here are a couple of pictures I took before Ruben and Jose Ruben left. It was great seeing them again, and we had fun the night Jose Ruben stayed over at our house. We played some board games and then watched most of a movie (Jose Ruben fell asleep).

2008 Christgiving - Part 2

As promised, here are some of the present pictures from Christgiving...


Audrey got a big fluffy pink poodle as one of her gifts and she really seemed to love it.


In fact, Jackson seemed to like it, too.


Jackson got some cool ink stamp sets with stamps of bugs, farm animals and Africa animals. And he got a Richard Scarry book (I believe it was Richard Scarry's What Do People Do All Day).


Audrey also got some costume jewelry like this tiara...


...and this frilly pink tutu.


Finally, here is a picture of the four sibs. The last time we were all together was in December 2006, in the same pose. Jackson decided to get in on the fun this time.

Now I'm going to try going back to bed. I woke up at 3am and couldn't fall back asleep so I came to tinker on the computer.

x-mas 2007??

As you can see, the website has been updated to include the 2007 Christmas Lists link (hit F5 to refresh if you don't see it).

Feel free to email your lists to me and I'll post them.

If you're feeling adventurous, you can add / modify your lists yourself by doing the following:

1. click on the 2007 Christmas Lists link.
2. copy and paste the entire 2007 Christmas List into a text editor (Microsoft Word, Microsoft Notepad, etc.).
3. make your changes to the entire list.
   
4. save file as xmas2007.html somewhere on your computer (note .html not .htm).
   
5. log onto blogger as if you were going to create a post.
6. click the upload file button and select the xmas2007.html file on your computer.
7. once the file has been uploaded, cancel the post you've started (since you're not actually making a post, just uploading the file).
8. done.