Scrapbooking Mania

Here are 5 scrapbooking pages that I finally got to do. Not to mention I have 2 sick chicldren w/ ear infeactions, teething (molers cutting thrpugh the gums) snottttt coming out of everywhere. But thank God for healing & meds. hehe. So here u have it!

Btw logzie. The one with the round circle I had already started before I moved here, but u inspired the rest ;) except that my circle is a whole lot smaller than yours...darn. Oh well. I think it still needs something but oh well.

passport or no passport part 3

Attempt #3. 6:15 am- get ready, get diaper bad ready, snacks etc, put on makeup, blow dry my hair, wake up kids, load the car, woah, 7:45!!! it didn't take us this long to leave last time. Oh yeah isten to the radio, pray & speak for a smooth morning, no "staus" (traffic jams) favor with the ebassy & smooth ride back. As I spoke for a great day to happen, so it did! Here are some pictures of our trip. Onthe road to Vienna; entering the City of Vienna @ 9:45, good timing Steve!!
As we are driving through the City we passed by a sex shop store. WHAT!!! It was funny but it's not funny..really. But I decided to take a pic & show it to u guys. haha!

This picture of this big white ornate building is the palace I was talking about last time. It's called "Palais Coburo" It's right behind the US. embassy...well the embassy is kinda on it's side. If u see the pic w/2 guys walking, right infront of them there is a round white sign with an eagle on it. That's it my friends &.....it was NOT closed!!! Praise the Lord!! We got there & were only in there for 45min. It was a smooth transition. It was kind of weird, to see all these Americans in there. You don't know what to think. it was kind of nice. You wonder what are each of these people here for? hmmmm. And then there is this other line for people from other countries residing in Austria that want to go to the U.S So they all get questioned, why do you want to go to the U.S. Glad it wasn't me. haha!!

So in 1wk we shall recieve Audrey's Passport. Def. a faster process to do get in Austria than in the U.S, except for the minor incidents. hehe! This other picture that you see of something laying on the side walk is Audrey's glove. That happened right outside the paking garage. Yip as we came out of those glass doors, she lost her glove. We didn't notice until we got to the embassy. Thank God we found it!! & it wasn't dirty either. hehe.

Afterwards we went to Starbuck's for some coffe. It was a treat well deserved. For a successful day & ofcourse, u can't go to Vienna & not go to Starbucks & get a MOCHA!!!!! yummyyy. We gladly enjoyed that! Then we walked for a little bit in the city. We found a great parking spot & headed to Burger King. Not my favorite but they only have them in Vienna & Germany. It wasn't bad, I must say. Then back to Wels we were. Kids asleep in the car & 2hrs of peace & quiet. Hope all you fans enjoy my glob I mean blog. :)

Can you guess why I took this picture?

Can u guess where this is from??

I got this great idea from "logzie" So I thought it would be great to play this game. Maybe hmmmm all of us can post something to guess?? So here u have it. Maybe somebody can come up with a points system. What do you say gals. giddi up mate!!

The rest of part 2

Okay so that picture of the Stau was taken by I don't know who. But it was here in Austria & apparently it was taking in the summer. Ok I confess. We downloaded it b/c we didn't remember to take a picture of the Stau that we were sitting in. Darn!!

Ok so here it's the picture of the semi truck that caught on fire. Aparently I think he was falling asleep & hit the side of the cement divider. It started sparkiling & caught on fire b/c it was right where the tank of gas was. Thank God nothing happened to him. As you can see it was still dark when this happened. Dark but early in the morning. You see there is a law here that semi's trucks are not allowed to drive at night & on the weekends. Only some with a special permission. N-ways. The reason why I said..notice it was still dark is to proof that people here work slow. If it happened at 5-6am why were they still working on it til 12 noon. IDIOTS!!!!!!! sorry just had to get that out of my chest. Feel better now. hah!

So we shall try to make it to Vienna on Friday. We were planning on going tomorrow but it;'s been snowing for 2 days & the cleaning crew can't keep up with the snow. So yes, there are Staus (stalls) in the highway as we speak. In different parts of the country & states. So hopefully the weather will lightened up by tomorrow & we'll make a run for the goal!!! Yipeee!!!

part 2 Passport or no passport

Welcome to the slooooooooowwww country of Austria! That's right, slooooow. Today was our 2nd attempt to go to Vienna to get the paperwork in for Audrey's passport. There will have to be a 3rd attempt. That's right, you heard me a 3rd attempt. WHAT!!!! So we got up at 6:30am for nothing. We got ready, got the kids ready & out the door we were. We thought 8 o'clock is not bad since it's a 2hr drive. As long as we make it by 10, we're in, baby. As you remember in my prev. blog we got there but the office was closed. This time the office wasn't closed. However, we were stuck in a 5hr stau (traffic jam) What the crap!!!

So we found out as we're driving that there's a stau ahead. How? Well, here they have a system, that if your listening to the radio or a CD & there is an accident or major traffic jam somewhere, you get interrupted by the news. No way of turning it off unless you push the off button on your CD player. It's a good thing but annoying when you want to listen to your favorite music w/o any interuptions. They said it was a 3km stau, so we thought maybe an 1hr. But no. we were stuck for 3 dang hours. There was people peeing on the side of the road. Quite funny & gross at the same time. I didn't look though, I promise. lol.

Back to what happened. Oh, well then they announce that it's not a 3km stau anymore it's 10km stau. WHAT!!!! A semi truck aparently caught on fire or there was some kind of accident at 6AM!!! WHAT!!! how long does it take to move this monstrous vehicles out of the way! All they need to do is move the problem to the side & tow whatever needs to be towed away for crying out loud!!!! Do you guys have no such thing as semi towing trucks????!!!!! aaaaauuuggghhh!!! Yip the frustration rose up as Audrey whined the whole time. That's right. Not a break at all. Whine whine whine!!! So we finally, with a load of semi's & cars in front of us, managed to exit at the next exit & tried to go around the towns to get to Vienna. But it took like 1/2hr just to find a road w/o traffic. So we drove & drove & intstead of going NW we are going SW. UGH!!!! hehe! So we took pictiures of the towns that we drove thru. Then we had to turn back around to the same exit, stuck in traffic, again for another 45min. This time it was to go home.

We pass the bridge & ahead we see cops directing traffic, or pretending to direct traffic b/c it was NOT necessary to have them there. They made the traffic worse. The round abouts pretty much take care of itself, really. My questions was....hmmm...why weren't the cops directing traffic where the accident was & removing the problem??? How is it that 4 hrs later or more this problem is still there. I just got to laugh. This country needs to prioritize in focusing on the prob, right away, not when they feel like showing up. Something I'm learning about living in a foreign Country. So 1/2tank of gas wasted but really enjoyed listening to Keith Moore. haha.

Passport or no Passport.....

So today we decided to go to Vienna to go get Audrey's passport processed. We got up @ 6am took a shower, got all of our stuff ready & the diaper bag. Woke up the kiddos got them ready. By 7:10am out the door we were. Picked up some pastries for breakfast & on the road we were. It's a 2hr drive to Vienna. I have to say the drive there was smooth. The kids did great. Maybe cuz they were tired. haha

We arrive in Vienna by 9 something. Parked in a parking garage trying to find a photo place to get Audrey's picture taken. We were way off. We were like on block building 245 & the shop was in building 10. Hello...why are we walking to this place I asked Steve. That's going to take like an hr to find. So Steve goes to get the car as it was the right thing to do. Then we drive until we find building 14. We found a great parking spot. I say great, b/c it is really hard to find parking on the side of the streets. Much better I said. We walked for 5-10 min. Found the shop. Got Audrey's picture taken & paid & arm & a leg for them. 25Euros. bah that's like $32 USD. Yikes!!!

So then we find the U.S embassy. I have to say, I don't think Vienna is pretty but that side of town is nice. It's in a nice building & an old palace lays on the side of it. The palace is white & beautiful & very high. I don't know if it's a museum but it seemed like they might rent it out. How cool would that be to rent a room there or apt. It has a nive view. It's sorrounded by really nice ornate 100 yr old buildings & a nice park accross the main street. This I would like to check out later.

Back to my story. So we get to the US embassy. We go in, up the elevator & there's a door that is like a vault door. & a camera on the side of the door. It's more of a lense & a key pad. We thought we were on the wrong floor. But we weren't. So this is the best part. We are "geniouses" really. I repeat geniouses. Who gets up that early in the morning w/o doublr checking the holidays. We know the hours of operation, but forgot to ck the hldys. So right on this vault heavy duty door is a metal gold plaque looking thing with all the dates & holidays that the offices are closed. Yip, they were closed. Monday the 15th of Jan..it's MLK b-day!!! ugh!!! Couldn't believe it!!! So ofcourse we laughed & then got some Mc'ds & drove back to Wel's.

By this time it's 12:30. The kids fall asleep on the car & we get to a "STALL" yip that's right. A 2hr stall. Kids woke up & the whining began. Well aparently there had been an accident earlier in the morning. a semi truck flipped over & tehn caused a car & another semi to crash. I don't know whagt exactly happened after tha. But I have to say..Austrins are SLOOOOOWWW. This was going to take them all afternoon to clear up. So we had to detour thru another town. Finally we got to the city of Linz & went to this small mall nxt to IKEA. Had the kids play & walk for a while. Then we got some food items fr a grocery store in there. I know the kids were tired. I tried to go to H&M to look at some sale items clothing & ot's like a curse. It's impossible to go in there w/o having one or both kids to start whining or crying. UGH!!!! For once I would like to go into this store & look & buy what I need w/o this. So today I really wished for that moment, why did I have kids. I love them, they sure can make me soo mad in minutes. I hope that soon for once I can go in with peace & quiet. Needless to say I knew they were tired. As soon as we got home they were as happy as can be to run around & play w/ each other.

We ate dinner, kids were in bed by 7. And by 7:30 we were watching Seinfeld. Ofcourse I fell asleep cuz I was soo tired. So I went to bed at 10 & couldn't sleep so I decided to write about my day. See ya!

I don't know why the pictures din't come out in order. blogger is so weird. here are some more pictures..Oh and the cupcakes din't turn out pink instead if red. We didn't have ebough red dye. hehe.
Here is Audrey with her Birthday dress. She looked sooo cute.

So here you have it. We have not had snow like guru has. Although I have to say I am glad. Compared to the winter they had last year. But I was glad that we had a little bit of snow. Andre ofcourse is ecstatic about it & wants to go outside immediatley, as soon as he sees it's snowing. So this time it stayed for a day. sort of melted the next day & was a sheet of ice the next day. So here is the nini that Steve & Andre built. Andre loved it! so here is the picture

Then we have picture #2. Audrey had to be given a breathng treatment b/c of this cough wheezing junk. It's not asthma but is junk collectede in the back of her lungs which makes her breathing passages narrow & causes a wheezing. So we had to do this for 2 wks. She did not like it at first but got used to it. Thank God she is healed!

Pic #3 & so on are pictures of her b-day party. She was a lady bug. It was a small party but nice. At least I got some pictures. We had a good time. Although it wasn't the same. I missed all of you guys. My inlaws didn't come. but it was better this way. It was a good time of fellowship. I'm glad I'm not sad anymore b/c it was probably the hardest thing that day to have a party w/o my friends & fam. But all is well. So here you have it.

Happy New Year to all!!!

So I haven't blogged in like foreveeeer. So here you have it. I hope you all had a great Christmas? I did. well it was ok...ok it was freezng cold in my MIL'L but we survived, that's why we left a day early. haha. Christmas seemed like it just passes me by. Although I didn't prepare for it & I did not stress about it. So that was good.

It's been good seeing David & April. We'ved had a fun time together. Although we'ved only played games 1x. But it sure makes up for all the 4 mo of not playing any. haha. We'ved sure have had lots of holidays here. The 24th, 25th & 26th is a holiday. So you know what that means. Stock up on MILK!! cuz all the stores are closed!!! Yip none are open for 3 days in a row. & that's everything!!! So it's pretty quiet around here. Then afcourse there's the New year. So another 2 days of store's not opening. But I think we got enough to live off for 2 days & feed our guests. haha.

Saturday we had Audrey's 1yr B-day party. I have been trying to plan this around All of Steve's fam & the holidays. So much for nothing. Steve's parents & sister did not come. His mom's excuse was that they had to prepare for Snday's service. Give me a freeking break. We have a 250 member church & our pastor prepares the night before. I don't know what a 7 memmber church has to prepare for. And all day????hmmm. Well it was mmore my MIL. Bob would of come & Lindi. But I wasn't smart enough to have made the invitation at the table. rrrrr. WHATEVER!!! I tried. Their loss. Lindi could've come but she's too much influenced my MIL. & feel's stuck in between 2 people. whatever!!! snap out of it girl!!! But it was better that they didn't come, really. We had 3 couples over. I wasn't planning a big party n-way. It turned ut better this way. No stress & fun conversation. Except for the anti- battery operated toys lady. whatever!!!

It was fun. Audrey got 2 battery operated toys & i'm quite happy with them. Although I was sad for 2 days, b/c I couldn't be with my friends that I miss soooo much. I was strong & held my tears back & enjoyed the moment. Audrey was sooo cute in her ladybug outfit. We tried to make ladybug cupcakes but there wasn't enough red dye. So they came out pink & added black polk a dots. They turned out quite cute. I will post pic's once I downoad them today.

Well last night we had a great New Year's eve service. It started at 8pm til midnight. We took the kids with me. I put Adrey down in the pastor's office before church started & she knocked out right away. whew. She never woke up. Thank God!! We let Andre stay up until he crashed but he never did. He was having so much fun & he did sooo good. I'm impressed. The 1st half was basically a talent show. People did skits, sang, said poems, jokes & comedy. It was quite a fun night. Then after 10pm we headed over to the street corner cafe that the church has. And we ate. The church members ea brought a dish & dessert. It was quite nice. Then we headed over to the sanctuary abt 15 til midnight & sang & welcomed in the New Year. The best part about was the traditional Austrian New Year. As soon as midnight hits we all say Happy New year to everybody & then they dance the waltz. It's the coolest thing I have ever seen. I mean everybody was dancing. It was so nice. Of course then you got all dizzy & i can't dance the waltz, so Steve & I kept on stepping on each others shoes. haha. quite funny. Andre loved it as well. He likes to dance & wants me to hold him. So it worked out quite good in this night. Then we left the church at 1am. Judy the pastor's wife took the kids home & put them to bed & we headed over to see the fireworks. It was out in the boonies & it was COLD!!!! We got home @ 2:30am & went to bed at 3. So we are pretty pretty tired today. But hey..how often do you get to stay up this late right??? So Happy New Yeat to all & a prosperous Year!!!

some pictures to share

A Christmas Carol

So on Thursday we went to see a musical/play called a Christmas Carol. The story of scrooge. The truth is, I didn't wanna go see it. Hanna, the pastor's daughter kept on asking me for like a week if we wanted to go. So I finally said yes. It was in english performed by English/British people. The cast was of 5 people. We didn't get very good seats cuz we didn't reserve them earlier, but the play in itself was awesome. There were no mic's just the 5 of them playing all the parts. They did an amazing job & ofcourse they could sing. It was the pastor's & their 2 kids, Steve & I. We got a babysitter (a really good babysitter). She came abt 3:30 & then Steve & I left cuz it started at 4pm. Got there abit late b/c it was in another city but not too late.

The play was 2 hrs long w/ an intermission. The cool thing abt it was that you had to ck your coats in. They gave u a card w/a # on it, & then u showed that card at the end & u got your coats back. That was cool. Afterwards we decided to go out, all of us to eat since we were starving. So we went to this Italian restaurant. Supposedely is one of the best in the city of Wels. It was. except for the salad. That was ok. But we had lots of fun. Glad we had a baby sitter who knew what she was doing. She's a keeper!! Ofcourse afterwards I had a massive headache b/c there are no non smoking restaurants so everybody smokes. I heard this is going to change. I hope it's soon.

Then on Friday morning Judy (pastor's wife) she picked me up @ 8:30am to go to the city of "roarbach" abt 1hr away to have breakfast w/ some people from the church that live up there. A church is going to be started up there & some things needed to be talked abt. Then we got back abt 2:30pm & @ 6pm we had ti be at the church for the Bible School Christmas Banquet. That was nice. Saturday I stayed home w/the kiddos, ALL DAY. whew! By 5pm I was sooo exhausted. Quite a busy weekend. then today church. Andre & I watched "The Polar Express" for the 2nd time. He likes it & watches the whole thing w/o getting up. pretty cool. The baby was watching it too...well some parts, she played w/ toys really. We ate Cheetos that we got from the comisary in Germany. That's right there are no American chips here. But that's ok. I forgot how cheezy they were & messy. hehe! But Andre loved them.

Steve just got home from the evening srvce & I'm ready to lay on the couch & watch another episode of Seinfeld. "Theese Pretzel's are making me thirsty" it's a line from one of his episodes & u know..they have t-shirts w/that line on it. There's aso t-shirts that say "Hello Newman". Steve found them on line. Funny the things that he looks for. Ok well I better go now. It's 9:00pm on the dot. See you guys later!!

My weekend! or may I say, what a weekend!

Friday Steve took Audrey back to the doctor b/c she was coghing really bad again & had all this mucus junk! UUUGH! So she was on antibioticcs & a decongestant. 2 days after the antibiotics were done she gets the same thing again. Well the doc said she has very narrow bronchial passages, like bronchitis & asthma but is not asthma. it's this junk collecting in the back of her lungs. And she ca't breathe she was back to the wheezing. I took authority over this. I am so done having my kid sick! So he said after 10 days to take her back & they will put her on a breathing treatment. So she's back on meds & to a successful recovery in Jesus Name!!!!

That evening we had a Ladies Christmas Banquet in a town called "Roarbach" an hr away. I must say it was pretty "cold" up there since it was up in the mountain. The dinner was in a hotel that this couple from the church has. There was about 40 something ladies. We had fun. We had 3 dishes to choose from. I chose the chicken as did many others & it was sooooo salty. OMG you couldn't even eat that. Although the other dishes I hard were pretty good.

Saturday I was extremely tired cuz we got home @ 1:30 & then Audrey woke up 1x in the middle of the night. Then @ 6:15. What the heck!!! Then well she wasn't feeling well all day. But I managed to do all the laundry & clean since on Sunday after church we were going my MIL"S blah!

I enjoy going to Canton, it's really pretty down there, it's just that my MIL can't handle children & stresses about every little move they make. I felt like smacking her & shaking her & telling her to stop "shitting bricks" excuse me but I had enough for 1 day. Bob is cool & Lindi well she's soo controlled by my MIL that she just sits there like a person in a nutshell & can't get out. But she's cool. She expect Andre to act like an adult. His 2 lady!!! & of course his going to be curious abt touching stuff. That is why we are his parents & teach him & tell him NOT to touch specially Omas' pretty's well is mostly crap what she has. Any way, Andre touched a little packet of cleenex as I told him not to touch she slaps him in the hand & yells to him to touch anythng in this room!!. Those were her exact word.s I was pissed, FURIOUS & almost blurted out something but I knew I needed to control my self b/c it was not going to be nice.

I told Steve he better step up & defend his family next time & tell her to relax & that we are taking care of getting on to our children. Other wise I will tell her not to ever touch my children plus some more. I didn't talk the rest of the evning or nxt day. I just let her rattle her mouth & made sure that me & the kids were out of her sight & way. Soo boring. So instead of Staying till Tuesday we left Monday evening! Thank God!! Besides it was freaking cold in the rooms where we slept which were the bed & brkfst rooms in the second floor. The pipes had frozen 2 wks ago &b the heating system didn't work so we had heaters. You needed layers to sleep. Mind you it was in the 20's & the house is made out of brick..that's it! It hurt just to sit in the toilet b/c it was soo cold.

So this was my weekend! rrrrrr.
:) happy dance that we're back!!! It was nice reading all of your blogs & ckg my emails again! I hope u guys read this!

Keep this on the Fridge

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PIcture of my cookies & Chocolate Bundt pound cake

No date tonight

Or is it mate your date? haha! Well today is supposed to be our date night but we will be staying home since the familia is not well today. I caught the virus yesterday, so I started with the runs then Steve caught the virus it seems, again. Not puking only the runs. ALL NIGHT LONG & all day today. I'm exhausted. I'm fine now. Well this is not an exciting topic, but I'm sickn tired of being home. for 3 days. I had to get out of the house yesterday, so we went to buy formula. How exciting. But then it began. So we came home right away.

I was looking forward in getting out this evening but it's not going to happen. So maybe if Steve has enough energy, he can go & pick out a movie or movies. I still don't know where there is a video store. I saw one in downtown Wels, but I know there has to be one close here.

So this morning it has been raining, so I baked some "DOUBLE CHOCOLATE OAT COOKIES". Thank God I had enough ingredients. They came out soooo yummy & very easy to make. So here is the recipe for you guys that want it or gor you that wantt to read my blog. hint hint.

Double Chocolate Oat Cookies

1 pkge (12oz) semi sweet chocolate pieves divided. (I used choc. chips). About 2 cups
1/2 c. (1 stick) margarine or butter, softened
1/2 c. Granulated sugar
1 egg
1/4 tsp vanilla
3/4 all-purpose flour (why do they call it all purpose) Why not just baking flour or flour? hehe j/k
3/4 c. Quaker Oats (quick or old fashioned, uncooked) duh!
1 tsp baking powder
1/4 tsp baking soda
1/4 tsp salt (optional)

Preheat oven to 350 f. Melt 1 cup choc. pieces (I used choc chips) in small sauce pan;set aside.
Beat margarine & sugar until fluffy; add melted choc, egg & vanilla.
Add combined flour, oats, baking powder, baking soda & salt; mix well.
Stir in remainig chocolate pieces or chips.
Drop by rounded tablespoons onto ungreased cookie sheets.
Bake 8-10 min. Cool 1 min on cookie sheets, remove to wire rack.

I used parchment paper, it's great, cuz didn't have a cookie sheet & my stone had cookies already.

makes about 3 dozen cookies. ENJOY!!!

Whew!!

So last weekend was a blur. It was busy but fun. I did good on the lady's fellowship. So they told me. Everybody said they liked what I shared. Some said it ministered to them. So that was good to hear.
Saturday Iw as running crazy like a chicken with no head. But the babyshower turned out a success. Babyshowers are not a common thing here in Europe so everybody that cam had lots of fun & stayed late too. It was a good way of getting to know more people. This is something that the church will start doing for all the first time moms. That;s cool. Yeh church pays for the food & we host it or whomever has space in their home or wants to do it. hehe! So that's cool.

Well Saturday night when Steve came home Audrey started throwing up. Well the first time right before he got int he car. & 2 more times in the middle of the night. UUUUUGGGHHH!! What is this. So ofcourse we changed sheets, clothes etc. The morning came she was as happy as coud be. Did not eat much but she did. Then she had the runniest poop that could run up her back. So I gave her a bath, then we went to church. I thought she was over this. So then Steve starts with the runs right before we get to church. & During church. But it got better. After church Audrey threw up again. She did however drank all her bottle. hmmm.

Yip that was the start of this DANG virus. So Steve went to bed as soon as we got home. 1 hr later the hurling begun. GREAT!!! BUt Audrey din't any more. She did not take any solids yesterday but did drink her milk. Then later in the afternoon she had a runny diaper again. 2x's. Great!! But she was happy all day until the evening. Good thing it was getting closer to bed time. Then a 5:30 am she wakes up crying. But gladly, she went back to sleep til 8am. She woke up sooo hungry. She ate her breakfast, no dairies drank her bottle & 2 hrs later she hurled again..all over the rug in the kitchen floor. So I clean her up change her clothes, still doing laundry. Then Andre starts with the runs. UUUUGGGHH!!! I can take it any more. My house smells like crap!!! literally. Then Audrey had a HUGE I mean HUGE runny diaper. Went through all her back, onesie, shirt, jeans & sox. Good thing Steve was here during his lunch to give her a bath. Man I am exhausted & I have a headache, for 2 days now. I need a break.

My house is a wreck, it seems like I'm never going to finish doing laundry & then there's my favorite part..putting the DANG clothes away!! I need a house keeper for a day...hmmm well more like my mom. I hope this is over soon. This DUMB virus has to go in Jesus Name!!!

Ok so there you have it. I guess I better go clean my kitchen now.

Poop snow & the rest of my week

Good morning to you Austrian residents. We greet you with poop snow. Yip it's dfef. winter I guess. The temp is gowing down gradually & quite rapidly this week here. It really has been nice. Maybe it will warm up & back to fall weather. Or not. U know once it snows in the mountains it stays cold. Brrrrrrr! Is all I have to say & hope that my winter clothes arive this week!!!

Well today I have to major grocery shop. That means I have to go to 3-4 stores betwen 4pm- 7:30pm. before they close. Then we might go tot Metro. Metro is like a "Sams". I sill havent gone. Hanna is going to watch the kids tonight & spend the night since she doesn't have school tomorrow. So maybe instead of a date we might just go to Metro. We did wanted to carve pumkins as well. We'll see how that goes today. Oh how I wish Steve was off today. Yesterday was a national holiday so everybody's off & everything is closed. UGH! Bummer. I could of done my grocery shopping yesterday. But oh well. How I miss Wal-Mart. hehe!!

I have major cleanig to do. I sort of did some cleaning yesterday. But I ahve to clean my ceilings & clean out all spider webs. Since tomorrow night I will be speaking at this lady's fellowship & Sat we are having a babyshower here in my flat. I don't want to be rushed so I want to do all my shopping today. I might have to get the gift tomorrow. Well that's pretty much all for right now. I really need to take a shower, dang it!! I have to wait til Steve comes home for lunch. AAAAUUUGHH! Ok well smell you later!!

A great day!

Ok. so I will not write the rest of what happened last week b/c it's Tuesday already & it sure was a busy but fun week. I will however talk about my last 2 days.

Yesterday was Steve's day off, so we decided to go for a drive. We went to Lienz a city about 20 min away. That is where IKEA is. So we decided to got to IKEA & sit in the food court to feeed Audrey since it was noon already & had Andre play in the play area. It's actually a really cool play area for the kids. They have a slide a wood track with wood trains & trucks, stuffed animals etc. We have become memebers of IKEA, does not cost anything & once you sign up, you get this card in the mail & you can go anytime during the week & you get free cup of coffee. So that's what we did. They have good inexpensive food & pastries. I love it! b/c u the kids can play & you can drink your coffe.

So now..Andre asks for Judy everyday.This is the pastor's wife. He tells me everyday "go see Judy?" & runs to get his shoes. It's so funny. So yesterday we told him we would call her so he could say hi & we did. She is really nice & loves children & my kids so that's a blessing. Wait..this phonecall turned into a bigger BLESSING! She asked me to bring Andre over & to leave the carseat. So I assured her this is not why we called but if it was not a problem with her he would love it. They live in the country & right up the street there are sheep & chickens, so we take hime to see them almost everytime we go over. She takes him outside & plays with him. That's just soo awesome & so God!

Ok, back to my story. We get there & talked for a little bit. Peter Robertson was there. The guy from Australia. He has been traveling around AT, but is staying with the Lambert's. Totally cool funny guy. So it turned out that Steve ended up taking Peter to the city so Judy wouldn't have too. I stayed with Judy & we just talked the whole day & laughed! Then Judy asked me if I wanted to leave the kids there & me & Steve go out, instead of Thursday. I said sure, however I did not have enough diapers for the rest of the day. Long story short. Steve came back w/o Peter went back to get diapers & then to pick up Peter. Then she said to just leave the kids overnight so we wouldn't have to wake them up. OMG!!! I can sl eep in! Yessss! Pastor Fred was in a meeting all day & wanted to just hangout with everybody. So we ended up staying & eating dinner there talked & laughed..it's so funny when you have a guest speaker & pastor together. They have the funniest stories. so we laughed all night, then watched Ocean's 12. Then it was past midnight. OMG!! I can't belive we stayed that late. But it was a great time of fllowship. We wwnt home w/o the kids. Came back in the morning to pick them up. Stayed for 2 more hrs. Funny how there's soo much to talk about. Then we came home.

1hr later Hanna call me, the daughter & asked me if I wanted to go to the mall with them since she's looking for jeans. She didn't want her mom to help her pick them out, you know teenagers. Funny. So I said sure. Then she text me several times & said why don't you all come so Peter wont be alone. lol. So that's probably the catch. So all did. The boys went to this other mall across the street & we went to look at boots. Cool, ends up Judy bought me a pair of boots that were on sale. Totally not expected. They are not real leather but they are nice. PRAISE GOD!!!! I really wanted a pair & was going to get some but I had to wait a little bit longer specially since you have to look around for the right kind. But this was the coolest! She said she wantd to get them for me for my b-day! My b-day was over 2 mo ago. I assured her she did not need to do this & she said she wanted to get them for her friend. (me) What a blessing to know that we can get along with the pastor's & hook up with their vision. ok thanks for reading this book! hehe!

Busy, busy, busy

Lateley, I have been pretty busy. Well, yes & no. We'ved had A guest speaker come from Australia. He mainly focuses & ministers in praise & worship. He's cool. Well that was last weekend. My busy week started like this. Last Thursday, for the first time in maybe half a year Steve & I went out on a date. Hanna which is the pastor's daughter watched the kids. Well, basically put them to bed. we had a really nice time. We went to an Italian restauratn in downtown Wels. I had a Calzone, oh my, this was the biggest, humongous, gigantic, calzone I have ever seen. It was so funny. It was as big as the largest pizza you can buy folded in half. MMMMMMMM...yummy. Better than Zio's. Yip. there you go I said it. I love Zio's but this was better than the calzone at Zio's. it's a serving for 3 people. So here is a pic of it.

Friday, we have Bible School. I was helping out with the children, but there weren't that many so I went home. I think that was last Friday. hehe! Then on Saturday, this girl from our church came over her mane is Petra. She is pregnant, due in like 2 wks. Her husband is in bible school, so she gets bored, just like I do. So she came over, about almost noon. She brought some yummy pastries. We had a good time. It was nice to get to know somebody else from church. Now I have to say, nobody has better pastries than here in Europe. Then, later that afternoon Petra & Inwere going to go for a walk with this other girl named Anna, but the kids were still taking a nap & I didn't have the car seats. Steve was at the church teachig in BS. Then my phone was out of minutes. I could recieve calls but could not make calls I didn't know cuz i didn't understand what the the message was saying in German.haha! I thought the phone was dropping my calls. Kinda funny huh! So I had Petra listen to it & that's how I found out. Petra had to leave to pick up her husband & I could not go b/c of this, Anna called me. She said she would pick me up. Somehow in between me telling Anna to call Steve & have him to call me it all worked out to where I had not my carseats but somebody elses & called Petra to tell her that I was able to go after all. It was good that I got to this b/c I got to know Anna.

After going to Anna's house, btw we didn't walk but Andre & her son did play & had a great time. We came back to the house. I asked Petra & Andy if they wanted to come over for dinner since they live 45min away. It worked out really good b/c that night Steve was going to run sound for Josh's band (Pastor's son) but he didn't have too after all. YESSS! SO this other couple came over & we had a really good time of fellowship.

Sunday was Church. After church, we got invited to go out to eat w/ this fam, that has helped us alot in getting settled 7 everything. We went to a restaurant out in the country, really nice. They paid. Then they decided to got for a walk. I thought cool a 1/2hr walk sure why not. NOP! this turned into a 2 hr walk, with our churh clothesd & shoes. My feet were hurting. OUCH!!! Then after that LOVELY walk we went over their house for cake & coffee. WOW, what a day. Then back to church after the cake & coffee. We had a concert with Peter robertson, this guy from Australia.

I'll have to write another blog about Monday....etc. cuz my kiddos just woke up from their nap & this will turn into a book. YIKES!!!