Halloween 2012

Grandma was here to do the pumpkin cleaning and carving.  Lizzy didn't like getting her hands dirty cleaning out the pumpkin, but Katherine did!

Then we had some costume practice.  Lizzy liked Mommy's old ballet costume as a martian but in the end we decided it was too cold and she went as a doctor. Lizzy also helped make pumpkin muffins for a Halloween party at school.  We added Haribo gummy bats.  After all, we do live in the land of the best gummies!

Grandma comes to visit and we go to the mountains

This is quite late to be posted, but my computer died and I couldn't access the photos.  Grandma came to visit for two weeks in October and we went to the Harz Mountains in the middle of Germany.  They are famous for Hexen, or witches in English, so of course we found a cackling witch to bring home.  We visited the medieval town of Quendlinburg, which had a great castle and tiny streets with picturesque buildings.  Then we carried on to Braulage, where we stayed in a Ferienwohnung, or holiday home, which had three bedrooms, a living room, two bathrooms, and a kitchen for only 65 euros per night.  What a deal!  Braulage is a cute town, but was rather quiet.  We took the gondola to the top of Wurmberg and walked all the way down.  The girls walked the whole way and we all stopped for some beer and sausages at a little hut halfway down.  We pretended we were riding our brooms and Grandma stopped to take pictures of mushrooms.  We even found a pacifier tree in the forest, but Katherine wasn't interested in leaving her's behind!

 An autobahn rest stop picnic

 Good thing Grandma is so small!

 Headed into a small shop with tiny glass jars-Great idea, Mommy!

 On the gondola to the top of Wurmber

 Grandma's idea to take a picture here ;)

 A sunny rest

 Riding our witch brooms

 "But I don't want to put my paci on the tree."

Waiting for the glockenspiel