Last year when we were visiting Glacier National Park, I wanted to visit The Calgary Zoo since we were so close. However, we just couldn’t convince the kids it would be worth another 2-3 hours of driving to get there. We decided we would fit it in this year since …

Regular blog readers will already know that Michaela is also writing some things in German on these blog entires. They are italicized in blue. Just pointing that out so you don’t think I had my fingers on the wrong part of the keyboard (LOL). After Em’s volleyball game on Sept …

Last Sunday we went up the Going-to-the-Sun Road on the Montana side of Glacier National which is a SPECTACULAR 52 mile, two-lane highway built back in 1932 which spans the width of Glacier National Park from east to west.We entered on the east side and went almost all the way …

Seven years ago this summer, we were anxiously awaiting the arrival of our German foreign exchange student, Michaela, who lived with us for a year from summer 2002 through summer 2003. I’m guessing many of our blog readers, real life and internet alike, probably don’t know we had an exchange …

Do you remember the Hawaii album I mentioned awhile back? I’ve been trying to work on it a little bit each day. So far so good in regard to my stated goal to keep it simple. Now, I know some of you are already rolling your eyes and you’re probably …

After pulling this off from a tree in the park right outside our condo, he tried to scare everyone with it telling them it was a snake. The only problem with trying to scare us is that we had already read on the way here that Kauai doesn’t have any …

When we booked our airline tickets, my brother didn’t think he was going to go with us. A few days later he decided to come along, but by then he couldn’t get tickets on the same flight as us so he flew United while we flew Delta. He’s traveled with …

We’ve been studying the ancients this year so who knows what these guys are pretending to be. This fall they were dressed as mummies and pretended to be King Tut and Ankhesanamum. Since I’m not at home right now, I don’t have pictures to post of that time period and …

oContinuing to answer DeEtta’s question here. Last winter we had talked about going on a cruise with the “L” family, but our families wanted to cruise to different areas so it didn’t work out. Last summer, they started making plans to vacation in Kauai this winter and we tentatively made …

DeEtta recognized a few extended family members in some of the pictures and she asked who all came on vacation with us. The short list of who is here with us is my parents, my brother, and the “L” family – homeschooling friends of ours from home. Grma & Grpa …