Dance Dance Revolution

Pictures from my first dance recital!  The big recital is in July.

Normandy

Last month Brandon went on a trip witth the base to Normandy.  He said Omaha beach is so much bigger than it's portrayed as in movies.  It's so massive.  I'm hoping we can do the same trip next year when Brandon's parents come, Brandon will just be our tour guide.  There's also a dvd of the tour that we can watch on the way down there so we know what's going on.   I think the pictures can tell more than I can!

Well....

I am sitting here thinking I need to do a few updates, but now I am going to go scrapbook instead :)  I will update later this week!  Cody is out of school for the next 2 weeks and one week from today we leave for our cruise!! 

Birthday Boy

Happy Valentines Day and Happy Birthday to Brice!  I can't believe he's 2 already, this time has flown by so fast.  Only two more years and he will be going to Dutch school. 

Saturday we had a birthday party for him, Elmo themed of course.  My friend Heidi made yummy cupcakes and my friend Annie was able to be here to help celebrate.  Brice was so excited when he woke up from his nap and there was Elmo and balloons all over our house! 

Brice's friend Paisley and her mom, Cameron

Brice playing with Titus and Paisley

He really didn't want to use his hands.  He just licked the frosting off

Sweet Ride

Well we finally broke down and decided we needed a new car.  It's been over a year since I've had a vehicle, and with our car in the shop we realized we need two cars.  So here it is!  My brand new mini van that will seat 7 people! 

Time to start traveling and for visitors to start coming!!

London, England

We left the base on a Monday night and drove on a tour bus about 2 hours to the ferry in Hoek van Holland, about 20 km from Rotterdam.  Border patrol checked our passports and we walked onto the ferry.  As we were pulling up we thought there was a cruise ship in the port, but that was our ferry!  It was huge, and about 2 months old.  It had a movie theater, duty free shop, casino, arcade, and 2 restuarants.  We had a cabin to sleep in overnight while we crossed the water, it had bunk bed, a couch, tv, and a bathroom with a sink, toilet and a shower.  It was a lot nicer than we were expecting.  We got up in the morning for breakfast when we pulled into port in England, Harmisch, if I remember correctly.  Our breakfast was included in the trip so that was nice.  When we got off we had a 2 hour bus ride to London, driving on the other side of the road :)  We picked up our tour guide next to The Tower of London, and he guided us around for about 3 hours.  We saw all of the major sites, plus some side streets and learned a lot about the city.  We definitely want to go back in the summer when the weather is nicer and there's no fog.

In our room

On the way to London

St. Paul's Cathedral

Tower of London

Brice fell asleep walking around the Christmas market

Tower Bridge

Here's to a New Year!

Well we ended 2010 with a great Christmas and a great trip to London.  The trip was sponsored by the Chapel on base and we had an amazing time.  It was only for a day but it was well worth it, great people and great friends, and a great ferry ride! 

Brice's first real time in the snow

Christmas Eve

Cookies and milk for Santa



A letter from Santa to the boys.  Brandon kept asking me who it was from.  Um...the return address says S. Clause in the North Pole, and it's signed by Santa, so who do you think?