Heidelberg

Heidelberg castle

Maulbronn

Papa is visiting a monastery in Maulbronn today.

Kids Market

Lenexa has a market where kids can sell their craft. Slime, bracelets, paintings, anyone?

Here are the new entrepreneurs!

Hummy & Pita

Papa is now in Germany. We're enjoying Mediterranean food.

Maman's lunch buddies.

Owl

We have been hearing an owl at night for a while now. Neat to finally meet the bird who lives in our magnolia tree!

Hello there!

Alex discovered the owl first.

Maman asked her to get rid of squirrels!

Wait: there are two!

Flying away!

Taking a bath at Marilyn's house. How cool is that?

Strasbourg

TGV ride from Paris to Strasbourg.

Mamy is happy to meet Little Eric.

And her favorite son-in-law of course.

Segway to re-discover downtown.

Cathedral for the win!

Paris

Papa is enjoying himself in Paris for a couple of days.

Summer home: Versailles.

 

All by himself in Le Louvre.

Little Eric likes the Eiffel Tower!

Wichita

Kate's graduation party is taking place in Wichita. Alex stopped by Tyler Jae's house to say hi.

Tyler is going to be a senior.

Who feels the need to be on his tippy toes?!?

Vietnam Café

Papa may be in Europe, but we're going to enjoy lunch at our favorite Vietnamese restaurant.

Jack had never been to Vietnam Café. What?!?

Best Vietnamese food in town.

Normandy

The orchestra group made it to Normandy.

We finally made it to France! Yeah!!!

 

Sandwich on Omaha Beach.

Can you see the Mont St Michel in the background?

Majestic!

Now the whole family has been there!

Jellyfish

Maman received a surprise gift from Quebec today to thank her for supporting the mine for seven months while finding a replacement there.

Gorgeous jellyfish blown glass made by 
an artisan on Magdalen Islands.

Blown away by the kind words and art piece.

Capybara

Sophie has done it again: bring another stuffed animal to the house.

Meet Capy the capybara.

He likes to drive. Maybe Sophie will too?!?

Pool

Alex typically goes to the pool with his friends. We're honored he hung out with family tonight!

Sophie is excited to have a more competitive playmate.

Taming the Alex to do handstands.

Let's race!

Rocket time!

Handstands for the win!

Orchestra Trip

Papa is back at it: chaperoning the high school orchestra students going to France and Germany for two weeks. As luck has it, their flight was delayed by one day - like four years ago...

Shawnee Mission South high school orchestra group

Father's Day

This is how Papa celebrates Father's Day.

Lunch on the patio

Nap

Pool time!

Car

Guess who is getting a new car (in 3 years)? Alex named it Oreo: white in the inside, dark on the outside.

Sophie is thrilled to drive something other than Kermit...

Branson

Alex took Kate and Hannah to Branson for a couple of days.

Titanic Museum

Aquarium & Table Rock Lake

Happy birthday Khuê!

Pool night

We had a real spring this year. Which means it's barely warm enough for the outdoor pool. We're still going!

Sophie likes to dive for rockets. Apparently Maman is 
not very good at this. When will papa be back at the pool?

Time to dry up before the pool closes at 7pm.

And then it's watering time in the backyard. 
Harry the neighbor's cat supervises the daily chore. 

Greek Fest

Greek Fest was super popular this year. A good thing we came early!

Who is ready for Greek food? We are!

 

Delicious food made by volunteers.

Clowning around: was it before or after the ouzo?

Don't even think about taking a picture... Got you!

Folk dancing and music. Opa!

Family Pics

Papa has tried to get a professional family picture done for years. Now that Alex is going to college soon, it's about time we get this accomplished. Will we have enough wall space for new portraits?

Thanks Marilyn for taking our picture.

April took us to her family field.