Happy Birthday Mom and Edgar!

This past Monday was Brian's brother-in-law, Edgar's, birthday and yesterday was my mom's birthday.  Since they were so close to each other, we decided to celebrate them together with one cake.  We also had a bunch of friends that have had or will have birthdays this week, so we wanted to make sure that they were in on the celebration too. 

I'm definitely not a professional cake decorator, especially when the colored frosting comes in red, green, yellow, and brown...but this was my attempt at a birthday cake.  :)

We had a new friend over for dinner and it happens to be her birthday on Saturday, so we were also able to celebrate with her a bit.  She was kind enough to take a picture of us with the cake to share with all of you.

So, we want to wish a very happy birthday to Mom, Edgar, Diane, Josh, Sarah, and Gus this week!

Happy Birthday Kristin!

Today is Brian's sister-in-law's birthday!  Happy Birthday Kristin!  We hope you had a great day!

We had to go to the grocery store, so we picked up chocolate mousse cups to celebrate.  They were frozen and we just had to thaw them for a half hour and then we could eat the yumminess!

We got a little dorky with the picture this time because we have a new computer since we posted last.  We used the new computer to take the picture so that we didn't have to set up a self-timer.  :)

You'll also notice my bike in the background because we are biking around the Bodensee this weekend!  We're getting everything all set in our bags to go so that we're ready to leave right away tomorrow when Brian gets out of work.  Stay tuned for pictures!

I hope to start updating the blog regularly starting next week now that I know how to use the computer and have transferred all our files over to it.  Stay tuned!

Delay

Sorry for the delay in blog posts recently.  My computer has decided to die slowly, so we recently purchased a new one.  Unfortunately, Brian has to pick it up in the States next week when he travels there on business, so we won't have it here until the end of next week.  I am waiting to put my pictures onto the new computer and then continue blogging because it is much easier to do that than put some of the pictures on Brian's old computer just to blog.  We have many more adventures to catch up on and blog about, but you'll have to be a bit patient with us!

Visit from Dave

At the end of May, our friend Dave came to visit us and see some of Europe for about 2 weeks.  We had met Dave the previous summer on a backpacking trip to the Adirondacks with Nick, Kelly, and Joel.  Nick and Dave were friends at Calvin and we quickly got to know Dave on that trip because we rode together to New York and spent two hours at the Canada/US border waiting to get through.  Needless to say, we were all a bit loopy after being stopped in the car for so long and quickly became friends.

Dave started his trip by flying to Zurich and spending a few days in Luzern before taking the train and ferry to us.  Much of the time that Dave was by us, he spent riding Brian's bike to different places to see things.  Most of it I had already seen, so I let him explore them on his own.  We did take two longer and farther trips with Dave on the weekends when Brian had off.  We went to Cinque Terre, Italy the first weekend and to Salzburg, Austria the second weekend.  We had a lot of fun on these longer trips, but also enjoyed the time we had while at our house.

We went out for dinner one night in Tettnang and thoroughly enjoyed the great German food we got!

We also enjoyed our share of German ice cream.  :)  The first night we even walked in a drizzle to get ice cream just before the stores closed.  We also had some at home, it was that good!

Our next several blogs will be about our longer trips with Dave, so stay tuned for more adventures.  I will also put the pictures onto our Share site so that you can see all our pictures instead of only a few.  Enjoy!