A Visit that Flew By!

The pictures are up, I'll work on the wording soon!

April 5-11, 2009

Liege, Belgium

Maastricht, the Netherlands

Huy, Belgium on the Meuse River

Alden Biesen, Belgium (castle)

And...He's Back!

James is back from another TDY.  This time he went to Hungary...and he came back hungry because they like to eat really gross, grizzly meat but he said at least they make pretty good desserts!

Until later,

Emily

Just Call Him "Dable"

I took notice today at what Toby calls Thomas.  Toby calls him "Dable", I asked him several times to be sure and that's his name according to Toby.

Until later,

Emily

First Soccer Game 2009

Thomas played his first soccer game of the season tonight. His team, the Green Dragons, won 5-0. He's on an older team this year but was still in there kicking and running the whole time. We got rained on at the end. He plays until mid-June.

When I arrived at the game, I had a couple friends say something along the lines that I didn't look too happy to be there.  Well, it was my second trip to this area that day (which is a 30-minute drive from my house), and it is a major battle to get out of the house on time with all the gear that has to go on Thomas, and I wasn't too happy about the impending rain either...but at the end of the day, this is why I endure this thing called soccer.  Look at that face!

(For about the one millionth time, Toby was telling me, "I yawnt to go on the side! (slide)"

Until later,

Emily

PS: I was going to get him different socks but then I realized these bright yellow ones made it really easy to pick him out on the soccer field, so the yellow socks are staying!

A VERY Rough Start

My parents and sister (Kate) and brother-in-law (Ryan) started to make their way to Germany last Saturday.  They pretty much had everything that could go wrong--go wrong.

First, as they were at the light right before the long-term parking to the Salt Lake International airport, they had a guy driving a big, pickup truck with a hitch on the back, back up into them.  Luckily, no one was hurt. Second, as they made their way to Atlanta, where their layover was, someone forgot to "send the paperwork" ahead notifying the airport that they were coming.  They landed, but were unable to get off the plane.  Their layover was just over an hour long.  By the time they got off their plane, they knew it was going to be close.  My brother-in-law, Ryan, ran ahead of everyone in hopes that he could catch the plane and hold it for everyone else.  When Ryan got to the gate, the doors were already closed but the plane was still in sight.  Of course, the plane would not come back, but talk about frustrating!  Fortunately, they were able to be re-routed to an AirFrance flight to Paris almost immediately.  However, once they got on the AirFrance flight they realized that they were not booked on the same flights from Paris to Frankfurt!  Nothing could be done while on the plane, and they were told they would have to work it all out once they were in Paris.  By the time they arrived in Paris, they weren't able to get all four of them on the earlier flight so they got to spend 5 or 6 hours waiting in the airport to catch the later flight.  They ended up arriving in Germany seven hours later than intended.  Then, they waited for their luggage, and waited and waited and waited some more. Finally, they found out that their luggage did not follow them on this crazy traveling fiasco and it was sitting in Atlanta still!  Their luggage came out on the same flight the following day and was delivered at about 12:15 PM on Monday.

All four of them were completely wiped out on Monday.  My dad has a bad back which is aggravated by flying.  I think the running through the airport just about did his back in.  He was in a lot of pain the whole trip, unfortunately.

More to come....

Until later,

Emily

We're Alive!

Yes, I realize my blog has been neglected lately.  

Actually, life was  a bit monotonous there for a while.  I know there has been some chatter about me being the Relief Society president and that I must not have the time, but that isn't the case, there just wasn't anything I wanted to blog about...I generally blog about trips we go on, or funny things (or frustrating things) the kids do or when the kids hit milestones (check-ups, lost teeth, etc), illness or mishaps--but there for a while it was just normal yet quite busy.  You know, errands, laundry, cooking, cleaning... and then things kind of got kicked into high-gear as we prepared for my family to come visit for a week! So, that's where I've been or what I've been doing lately.  (Although I will definitely admit that I have far less free time now that I am the RS president).

Until later,

Emily