He might be on to something...

Our friends over at Viva Pierre brought this gem to my attention.

Enjoy!

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She's a tough one

Marion and Betti's rough housing resulted in blood today.

I guess the good thing that came out of this is that I now know when Marion really knows she has done something wrong. In the time it took me to get to Betti, Marion had booked it into her room and into her tent. She wanted no part of what was to come.

Hopefully that means Marion will not lay on top of Betti and hit her face into the floor again anytime soon.

And my little toughie... she stopped crying and was giggling again as soon as I picked her up. Rugby may be in her future.

Changing things up

You may have noticed things are a little different here.

Well, it took two years, but I was sick of the black background. So I lightened things up.

Brian disapproves, saying the black made my pictures pop. I had no idea I was living with a designer.

Hope this color is easier on your eyes!

And our chocolate winner is....

We have a chocolate winner!

I was going to ask Marion her favorite number but when she responded "A,B,C" I realized that was a no go. Betti just slobbered and pounded on my keyboard. So I had to resort to a random number generator. One of these days those kids are going to earn their keep around here.

Anyway, the results from www.random.org declared Caitlin as the winner!

Congratulations! I'll be sending your gift off in the mail within the next week.

Thanks for participating! I think I'll do a giveaway once a month from now on so stay tuned!

Heidelberg: The Chocolate Store

We traveled to Heidelberg with our friend Kacey and her son Townes. Both of our husbands were working up there so we road tripped it! We decided to explore Heidelberg on our first day there. So with no real plans, we strapped the kids into the strollers and started walking. And walked some more. And then some more.

Turns our our rental was a little further away from the main street than we thought.

So we were a little tired when we walked past something beautiful.

Beautiful fresh flowers?

Eyecatching, gold leaf window display?

Chocolate store!

It was only 10am, but we stopped. And I'm not ashamed to admit that.

The store was even more gorgeous inside.


And we loved the quotes painted across the ceiling.


But the best part, by far, was the hot chocolate. It was thick and delicious and seriously yummy.

Oh. my. god.

Marion loved it in there. The gentleman who was in the store at the time got a kick out of her. Despite my many 'No's, he gave Marion many, many, many chocolates.

I'm pretty sure she enjoyed that store as much as we did.

So if you are ever in Heidelberg, stop into the Chocolaterie St. Anna No. 1. You won't be sorry.

And stop back later today to see who the lucky chocolate giveaway winner is!

Fasnacht

The Sunday before we left for Heidelberg, Brian and Marion caught our town's Fasnacht parade. It is nothing like the big parades you would see in Basel or the bigger cities, but it was fun.

Marion came home covered in confetti.

Popeye's backside.

I don't have an explanation for these guys (girls?).


You go little town!

A beautiful day on the Zurichsee

Suck it, Winter.