Waiting for Beth

What is a plus sign?

Trying to teach Sydney math can be a challenging task.

Example: Rob read 9 books today, yesterday he read 8. How many did he read in all.

Sydney's answer: 17+8=9.

Sydney what is a plus sign? "I don't know" she says. Much explaining and visuals went into our lesson: 1. Cole acting as one number and myself as another then making a bridge. 2. Explaining how a marriage has 2 people who come together and make a whole new people (number).

Later that evening....Dinner with friends, the newleyweds are at our home. I proceed to tell them about how I wanted to bang my head against the wall with our math lesson.
Sydney interupts to say...."Did you know that the plus sign is the Pastor!"

Kids are great!

Jan 13th

Tim left early Tuesday morning and is now in Africa for 6 mths. I dont think it has hit us as we are resting from the long hours we put in just to get him prepared to go.

Beth Wagner will be coming this Tuesday to live at our home for 4 months. She will be a part of our family and help me school the children. I am very excited and thankful for the help. I hope she will tolerate my impromptu personality and disorganization.

Cole is getting ready to turn 9 next week. We will have a surprise birthday party for him! It is going to be great!

Christmas

Dresden Chech and Konigstein

Tim is 31

pitcures from this summer and fall

Our Friend Brad A Clemmons:

KIA on August 21, 2006 by an IED in Iraq. Tim and Brad spent many years working together in the AF as EOD tech. We will miss him especially this Thanksgiving. He always cooked the Turkey! He left a wife Becca and children Nick, Zach, Isabelle and ? (one due this April).

We will miss you! Brad is the second from the right.

In May Tim was awarded Distinguished Graduate from the NCOA.

On June 15th he found out he passed the promotion test to Master Sergeant!!!!

More Summer Fun!

Our Summer So Far!!!

My nephew Greyson.

North Sea, Netherlands

Note to self...Dont' visit the North Sea before July!! Mimi, Sydney and Cole found starfish and lots of neat shells. Well, we can say we did it. Tim even looks cold doesn't he. The proof is in the picture even if he will never admit it.

Very true!

Keukenhof. A beautiful place for tulips but....the unusal winter delayed these creations and could only view them in bloom in the greenhouse. Still a sight to see so many kinds. Mack loved to smell them. Now my collection of smelling flower children are complete.

What just happen! How did I fall in? That sheep tricked me!!!!

It was cold, windy and rainy at times. Reminded me of North Dakota

The kids got to see windmill in action. The windmill was grinding stones into a powder...the kind that Rembrandt would use for paints.

Sydney and Cole in Holland with their big wooden shoes.

My first shiner and my first hair cut in the same week!!!

Mack, with help from Cole, took a dive off a tricycle.

Nadine said he was the best 2 year old to ever sit in her chair.

Creating an Egg Tree/ Team Work!!

Michelstadt Rathaus

Easter Egg Market in Michelsadt, Germany

Mack's sweater that Grandma Rose knitted

Turkish rug Tim brought back from Turkey

Cole, his buddy Arvin and Sydney watching "The March of the Peguins" 

Sydney in the snow making angels!