Europowells: More Catching Up

So, while I was jollying it up in Scarborough, Matt entertained Jon, Rachel and Jake for the weekend as well as being in charge of kinders. It was unbelievably hot so they escaped up a mountain and found a cache

On finding a cache!

Within a couple of days of my return we had Helen, Emily and Rosie visiting for a week and in the middle of that was Katerina's 5th Birthday. It was really hot weather and I really thought that having a birthday on a Saturday with an afternoon party might have been rather hard work but it went really smoothly and it was good having Matt here to help do things too.


She just wanted a green number 5. Not sure it's my best cake :-/

Opening pressies

Favourite friend William at her party

Too excited

Bag decorating

Trading gold coins for treasure

Best lil brother

Best friend Wendy

Kindergarten friend Milena

cake

water fun

As usual I was exhausted after her party and still made jam as all the berries were going mouldy!

Spent a lot of at Furtherbad with Helen and her girls

Emily and Alex at Tegernsee

Panorama from bridge overlooking Tegernsee from Gmund

On BOB

Matt took charge while Helen and I had some fun

Helen and I on well deserved bike ride!

Helen and I both travelled up to the airport together to fly back to the UK. Me to Birmingham and she to London.

We had a lovely week in sunny - yes SUNNY and WARM Devon. It's so much more relaxed when the weather is good. Alex just loves his Grandad and could potter all day like him. We went to the beach, swam in the sea and went up on the moor -Darkmoor as Katie calls it!

Driving the "new" tractor

Walking down to the beach

Following his favourite Grandad

fun at the beach

Dad wishes he'd got changed

Rusty driving the tractor

Bigbury beach with the cousins

building a boat

Swimming in a pool

In Grandad's greenhouse (note he has his slippers on!)

Gutter tor with Grandad John


Good cache treasure

And then one of the reasons for going to England was the fact that I ordered Katie and Islabike which is her first bike with gears and super light. It was delivered to mum and dad's and I didn't unpack it so it was fairly easy to transport in the box it was sent in.

Demonstrating how light it is

First test ride

I'm not sure who loves her bike more - us or her! It is so gorgeous. We went for a ride to the Jazz beer garden which is 11km away and she rode it there and back. Very impressive. She loves using the gears. It has seven and for the first couple of rides she could go from 1to 7 quite easily but not back. Crucial for a hill. She's got it now.

Then I went gallivanting off again for a weekend to Newcastle which was good fun and while I was away Matt took the kids to Märchenwald which is a fun place near us.

On a ride!

This last week has been a little more relaxing. Went to a Berry picking place and Katie and Wendy (5 going on 15 attitudes at he moment) decided to run off in the maize maze and could we find them? over and hour later they come out with someone and the only thing is Katie is miffed as they wouldn't let her get her stamp on her paper! No fear those two!