Let's Make Cookies

Today is Thanksgiving -- but we're not doing much for it this year. It's not a holiday here and, with my back problems, I just did not have the energy to make a huge Thanksgiving meal just for our family. Instead, we were thankful by thinking about Christ and Christmas. We made yummy gingerbread Christmas cookies. I'm afraid that most of the frosting wound up in the girls' mouths, rather than on the cookies.

A display of our masterpieces.

Let It Snow

It snowed again all last night and this morning. So the girls bundled up to go play in the snow. Daddy built a really great slide -- that lasted until he slid down and took all the snow with him.

Here are the girls messing around in the snow with our neighbors.

Little pink bundles.

Let's Play!

Anna Claire has been taking a dance class where she is learning lots of different dance moves. She comes home and does dance recitals for me.

Anna is even teaching Mariah some of her moves.

A favorite pastime for both girls is building forts. They get more elaborate each time.

Today we went to a really fun park in Halbinsel Au. Afterwards we had real American burgers at a 50's diner nearby.

Here is my dream treehouse -- over 5 trees!

The rickety bridge over to the slide was just that -- I feared it would not hold my weight. But the girls had no fear.

Wait for me, guys!

Inside the giant fish. Mariah kept calling it "Jonah".

Clever. These old ski gondolas from Davos now make a perfect "train".

How did Daddy get up that high?

Wheeeee!

We hiked down a little trail that leads to the Au harbor. Mariah skipped past the horses.

Hi! It's getting cold out here.