2 of 52 Weeks

These pictures were taken at the Camp Grounds where we live here in Baumholder. They were taken on a whim.

The girls and I LOVE sushi. Of course being in Germany there aren't many sushi bars like we were used to in Campbell. The commisary in Campbell had a sushi bar right in the store and many days that was mine and Kamryn's lunch. So I found a lady who makes homemade sushi by the order and sells it, really cheap. The only thing is we have to drive about 30-35 mins to pick it up. That might not be bad for most people but when you have a car with 5 kids three of whom are toddlers, 30 mins can seem like an eternity! We did it tho and had most all of the sushi eaten by the time we got back to Baumholder lol. I decided that this would be a great day since the kids were cooperating to have my oldest, who is awesome with a camera to be just 10 years old, take pictures of us all. I am telling you I think the girl has a future in photography!

Pictures from ZOOM

 I finally got the pics over to my new computer. I could not find a link to offer those of you who live here in Germany I will try to find that and add it at a later date. Taking care of 5 kids by myself, and recoverying from surgery still I am wearing my self a little thin these days.The first pictures of course is my 3 adorable little girls. from left Kamryn, Ramie, and Cecilia. Just look at those smiles!

In the second picture is Kamryn and Turner's long lost cousins.........LOL we told Kamryn the whole time that we adopted her from a Zoo and this was her family. She was so mad at first. Then she saw how cute they were and just fell in love with them. She is such an animal lover, even more than me. I keep telling her she should be a Veterinarian.

Third picture are the Zebras and what ever animals those are in the back ground. But you can see how close you are to the animals and how awesome there habitats are, the animals look good and well taken care of, which ment alot to me. You know I am the type that wouldn't take my kids to the circus because I don't condone animal cruelty!                                                                 

Jeff and Kamryn playing paper, rock , scissors to see who gets to slide first. He is such a big kid lol.

My beautiful family (with out the boys) in front of the Giraffes. They were feeding them at the time so they all gathered right in front of us. It seems like they could just walk right over to you. It was really like being in Africa, and it was so hot that day.     

http://www.zoom-erlebniswelt.de/START/home.asp

I found the link to the zoo, there is an option to switch it to English.

1 of 52 Weeks

52 Weeks is a Weekly Meme that I have joined. They say that moms aren't in the pictures enough (which I believe is true) and have challenged us to post a picture of our selves every week for 52 weeks (1 year)! Lets see how well this works.

This picture was taken in June of 2009 in Germany at a large zoo. ZOOM is a wonderful place to take a trip, it is about 2 hours away from Baumholder where we live.
We started our family vacation at Movie Park http://www.movieparkgermany.de it is the Nickelodeon  version of Disney World. They have Dora, Back Yard Agains, Sponge Bob, Jimmy Neutron, just to name a few. We all had a blast, I have pictures but they are on my "old" computer, I am gonna have to move everything. But I will post them when I get that done.
On our way home from Movie Park we saw signs for this ZOOM and we decided to take a little detour and check it out. We were all soooo glad we did that. They have an Alaska part of the zoo where you can see all the animals native to Alaska and its history. Africa, China and North America as well. The thing we liked about this zoo is that it wasn't walking up to animals and starring at them in cages, they had boat rides where the Hippo's, Rhino's and monkeys were right there, it seemed like you could touch them. The Lions were right there as well, there was a huge trench type thing to where they couldn't get to you but there were no fences or cages. It was awesome you really felt like you were walking threw the jungle, the animals looked happy and healthy, the park really tryed hard to make the habitats for the animals as "real" as they could and the animals had plenty of room to roam. 
The vacation was a hit! Movie Park rocks everyone in Germany should try it along with ZOOM out!

Questions and Inspiration

I am adding some new things for all my followers onto my blog. As you can see I have added a "count down" for when we will be coming back to the states.
I am also adding a "questions" link to the end of all my new posts. I really need everyone to ask me questions or leave me a comment about something that you want to hear from me. example: can you tell me a little about the German town you live in?
Or maybe you have read my blog and have some burning questions about the content. This is a place for you to ask me. Please help me make this a better blogging experience for me as well as for those who want to hear what is going on in our family and in my head :-)
Lets hope I can figure out how it all works myself lol!

The process of Recovery

I have been home from the hospital for 4 days. It gets easier everyday, I wish Jeff were here to help......but somehow he always gets to leave right when things get going. Incase you haven't picked up on it I am alittle bitter about that lol.
The kids have been...well as good as kids usually are when their dad is away and their mom is stuck on the couch or bed and can't "enforce" the rules. The boys don't understand what is going on and why mommy isn't up and playing. Yesterday I had my friend Natasha over here helping me all day, she got here at lunch, she was doing dishes, sweeping, and general pick up. Ramie came over to the couch and said "moma how come Matasha is cleaning and you are not". Of course that made me feel like a piece of crap.
I have been doing to much I can tell that this morning it hurt and I wasn't even out of the bed yet.
I have given birth to 5 kids and I am here to tell you, this surgery was 50x worse than laboring a 10lb 2 feet long baby (Cecilia). I have stitches in places I can't even mention and can only see with a mirror. The day I came home from the hospital my "va jay jay" was so swollen it was hard to put my legs together let alone sit down. But like I said everyday it gets a little better. I just hope that by the time we leave it will be better, I could not imagine sitting in an airplane for many many hours in this condition.