Our friends have just come from Switzerland and are treating us to the real-deal swiss fondue. Our husbands were very innovative in making little meths burners out of aluminium cans, and nails pounded into a piece of plywood to suspend the pot, and keep the cheese at optimum temperature. So fun!!
Our friends have come here via a 6 month stint in Switzerland, and they made us this traditional Swiss meal. The Dad’s put together an improvised system to keep the cheese warm – big nails pounded into plywood to suspend the pot and cut down aluminum cans filled with meths. Perfection!
It’s a no school Monday (Our school system excels in days off!) so skiing with our friends from NZ it is!!
We have some awesome friends from New Zealand visiting us. We did life closely with them when we were living there, but you always wonder what it might be like when you haven’t seen each other for four years and it’s time to reconnect?
Well, it was great! What was I worried about?! Our kids are the same ages and I realized how much I miss them and what they added to our life. I thoroughly enjoyed our conversations and the adventures we had together. We parent similar so it was easy and wonderful 🙂
Onto the pictures! We skied together a few times – our kids loved showing them around ‘our’ mountain.
We went to the provincial park to figure out if my idea of sliding and having a hotdog roast was going to work as an activity for when our NZ friends arrive in a couple of days. No go. What a mission! The snow was knee deep, and the slope I had in mind was no where near steep enough for sliding. Oh well…..now we know.
Our 4th child is 6!!! We bought him playmobil for his gift and it was neat to see everyone play together with the one toy.
My summer-turned-winter baby is having a birthday!Some money from Grandma and Grandad!Our kids like to close their eyes when they are opening presents. I think it makes the surprize that much more exciting.I love the siblings are genuinely excited for their brother,And that they all played with his one gift! It was sweet to watch.We are having a birthday party later in the month, so for now it was an apple pie “cake”.This goofy girl wears a beanie any chance she can get, even at pie time.
A little girl in M’s class had her birthday celebration at the ski hill to take advantage of some night skiing. I took all the kids since Kent was working, though I wasn’t sure how I was going to manage the crew on my own. Worked out fine. Me and C tromped around the slope taking pictures and the kids did loops on the pomper. Win win!
