August 2019 First day of school, Brooks, Goodbye kristie, Bummer castle buring

 The climbing forest near our house.

Chloe found a friend.

First day of School 2019 Rex is in 4th grade and 9 years old! 

 Chloe is in 6th Grade and 11 years old.

Ike is in Kindergarten and 4 years old.

Ike got stung by a hornet.  His poor eye was swollen for a few days.

USO activity.

 Kristie is moving back to the states.  I am going to miss her and count myself lucky to have met her.

Aubrey Kristie and I have had many fun times.

Rex and Mac got a new little brother and got to hang out with us for a bit.

There was a lot of fun with these three.

Chloe's art project I spied on the back to school night.

Riding my bike one evening I just had to stop and enjoy the beauty of our village.

Brooks is HERE!

Ike is STUCK.

Castle burning. Chloe got a ukulele lesson from Stevie.

Waiting.

Then it pored rain when the fireworks were supposed to start.  Some of them were able to go off, but it wasn't it's normal spectacle.  

Chloe's modern fish.

August 2019 Back in Germany before School starts.

 Family hike by the Neckar river.

 Paddle boarding on the Neckar River

 This is the last day before the stitches.

 Ike was out riding his bike. Mike brought him his helmet and implored him to put it on.  As Ike craned his neck back to say he was a good bike rider and didn't need it he had a great fall.  Only doctor Dan could put Ikey back together again.

 We went to this place with the alpine slides and some other rides with the Horners.

They had this witches pot you could ride in.

Alpine slides.

And  climbing area.  They all had so much fun.

We also went to Holiday park for a few hours.