Thanksgiving and Christmas Decorating

 

Fall Celebrations and Halloween Fun

In our new neighborhood, quite a few young families do a version of trick or treating, and so we joined in this year. Sadly it was really cold, so we had very very few kids come by. Eva and a friend braved the cold and collected a sack full of candy. It was special to get to connect with a few families in our neighborhood!

Random October pictures

new glasses!

Gregory and I unexpectedly had an evening when both kids were away, so we made fajitas and pico de gallo!

Nath started playing for a different team on loan. It is fun watching him play in games!

Eva took advantage of our grass on a warmer day.

Nath finally got an actual computer for school and leisure. The hand-me-down laptops just weren't cutting it anymore.

Gregory found some great spots in our forest for pictures.

Our church shares facilities with another church, and the other church bought a new keyboard. It is quite fancy, and for a few weeks in a row, a group of guys would gather around it after the service and play around with all of the settings!

 

Family Pictures

 We had pictures taken in our local forest this year! Our photographer was really nice. Tanja Heissenberger-Münster.

Our Peaceful Garden

And the grass is in!

It was a lot of work for Gregory and Nath to dig out the weeds and level it.

As a reminder, here is how it all started...

Now Gregory can get on with life! hahaha

Enjoying the Outdoors Nearby

Eva's monthly church kids' program met on Saturday, and they made kites! So naturally, she needed to go kite flying on Sunday! We have a perfect field for it nearby.

I have two labyrinths within walking distance. I have likely posted a picture of this one before, but I had to post another. It is so beautiful and reflective here.

I try to take daily walks in the forest, and on this particular day, the view of the Vienna skyline was stunning.

 

New School Pictures

It is challenging to type a paragraph in Word when you haven't yet learned to type...  Here we go.

Eva's enjoying time with new friends at her new school.

Sometimes (really just sometimes) it can be helpful to have a big brother who is at the same school.  Working on homework...