Are you looking at Jodi's flowers?

Jodi's lilies are looking so good that they would feel at home in Katie and Holger's yard.

Tim

What I am listening to this week...

Maia Hirasawa:

Japanese father, Swedish mother and a whole lot of talent.

I love her voice. I am tickled by her odd pronunciations and occasional wrong tenses. Her over the top voice is really upbeat.

For our foreign cousins... do you ever go to Sweden? If so take a picture of Gothenburg for us.

Tim

Mama don't take my 12 megapixel away...

Kodak has announced that they will no longer make Kodachrome film. If Paul Simon were dead, he would roll over in his grave. And if you are too young for the Paul Simon reference:

Tim

Kick it out!

For last night's Heart concert, we had lawn seats. The pavilion is very small, so the view is good no matter where you sit. To prove that we had a great view, Jodi took this picture so that you could experience the sights with us. If you ever want to feel like a giggling 14 year old again, just have some poor girl sit in front of you with her whale tail fully exposed.

Tim

Trace and Kristina treated Jodi and I to a Heart Concert last night at the LC in Columbus. I have to tell you that it was one of the better concerts that I have seen in the last few years. Even though the songs were more than 20 and 30 years old, they sounded fresh. Ann Wilson still belts out the songs with incredible power and the band really rocked.

Oh, and Sushi at the Blue Ginger to start the evening off! That is how to spend a Saturday night! Consider yourself schooled.

They opened with Barracuda - Enjoy...

Tim

I'd rather dance with you

If you don't absolutely love this video, I feel really sorry for you...

I really love the Kings of Convenience & just rediscovered this video.

Tim

Lance Boyle Update

Lance Andrew Boyle has been at it again... that guy sure writes a lot. One for Jodi and the other inspired by Yazmeen our little bride to be. You can see all of Lance's titles here.

Hello again!

Hello my dears! :O)
I was so embarrassed when I noticed that there were so many new posts and comments in the blog... until that, I thought I'd get an email as soon as something happens here. So please forgive me that I was absent for so long.

Tim, I love your new blog with all your books! I'm gonne think of one myself. And yes, our arrangements for the wedding are all working out well and I'm really really looking forward to August... I can't even tell you. If you like to, you can have a look at our homepage at a new, there are pictures now and a video (you don't have to understand German): www.hochzeit-des-jahrhunderts.de . Also, I was at the barber and this is how my hair is going to look like (you have to look at the bottom cause I don't manage to go on writing under the pictures):
We hope to be proud lessees (right word?) of the apartment of our dreams in two weeks.
There are so many news and stories and plans to tell, we are all very busy, but I don't want to do it here... lack of privacy. But how are you doing?
@ Judee: we got Tom's and your letter, thank you very much (especially from my parents)! And you don't have to be embarrassed because of your try at German (I don't always know what I'm telling either... often I know a word but I don't know what it relly means to native speakers, you understand what I want to say?)but nevertheless it was really funny reading your post! I corrected the text into real German, and then I used the tool to translate this text back into English, here it is, maybe now you get the feeling:
"Jasmin, I wanted you in the blog on German welcome. I can only with the translation tools make the tim blog has put in place. I count the days until your wedding and it does not last much longer. I rise again soon." ;) but thank you a lot for welcoming me so friendly! I'm gonna write you an email soon and respond to all the things you told me.
And could somebody explain these dancing-pictures to me?
So see you soon, I'm going to sleep now,
Jasmin :O)
ps: Tim, I found a title: Superbride me- the truth about getting married
and pps: the invitations are coming soon (translation included)

You asked for them....

Jodi really does belly dance! And you were beginning to think that I was making the entire story up.

Tim

One picture says a thousand words!

Jonathan took this picture of Papa the other day sitting in front of his PC. He never even knew his picture was being taken.

My first try at German

Jasmin, wollte ich begrüße Sie auf das Blog auf Deutsch. Die einzige Art und Weise kann ich dies mit dem Übersetzungs-Tool, dass Tim in den Blog.

Ich habe den Countdown der Tage, bis Ihre Hochzeit. Es wird nicht lange. Ich spreche zu Ihnen in Verbindung setzen.

Judee

PS, I hope this works or I'll really be embarrassed if I'm saying something terrible!

Dress Rehearsal

Jodi's belly dance troupe will be opening for a dance recital. One of Jodi's troupe members is the dance instructor and she invited them to show off. The best part is that we got to attend the dress rehearsal. I think that might be more fun than the actual recital. I love to watch little kids trying to take a step towards being grown ups.

Tim

if i could write...

I really enjoyed creating the book covers, so I decided to launch a public blog and post more. I created an alter ego named Lance Andrew Boyle as the creator of the blog and author of the books. Take a peak.

 if i could write.

If you have ideas for books that you could write, leave them in the comments and I'll create a cover for you.

Tim

The sound of Swiss cows

Ever wonder what cows sound like in Switzerland? Wonder no longer!

Dad took this video behind the Royal St. George Hotel in Interlaken. 

Tim

A day in the life of Abbey Road

Check out this video of a complete day of people crossing the street on abbey road (think Beatles cover). The song is nice and the video is pretty cute. I would definitely be one of those that pose.

Books that I Could Write

A Change for the Spring

Welcome back to our blog. I thought that you might like a fresh look for the spring. New design, new image and a couple new functions.

Followers are the People that follow our site. If you want to be a follower of our site, just click on the button. Want to learn more? Click here.

How do I say this? With our international following, I thought it would be nice to have an easy to use translator at hand, for when you are looking for that one word that you can't remember.

Would you like the blog to notify you via e-mail when somebody makes a new post or comment on our blog? If so, I can add your email address to the list of people notified.

If there are any other changes that you would like me to make, or if you don't like these changes... just post a comment to this thread.

Tim

What I did on my Spring Vacation

If you would like to see a slide show with highlights from our recent trip to Switzerland and Germany..... look here!

One Stone

I'm sure that many posts and pictures will come out of the trip that Dad and I made to Europe. However, there is one memory that keeps popping into my mind. Some how, Einstein's name came up and Uncle Jo made the comment... "I see that you have heard of One Stone." One Stone is the literal translation of Einstine's name.

My mind being what it is, I keep wondering if Einstein only had a single testicle and if he was born that way. Is this the reason that he was such a genious? What if he were named Dreistein and had three testicles.? Would he have been an idiot? How about Ohnestein....with no testicles, would we all have personal jet packs and vacation homes on the moon by now?

Do you think that Uncle Scott might have five or six testicles? How does he walk around with all of those things? Can the number our testicles change as we grow older? I seem to be a bit smarter now than when I was younger. On the other hand, Uncle Scott doesn't seem to have changed at all. Nobody could every accuse Uncle Scott of not having any balls. 

It's a confusing subject to be sure. Grandma has lots of balls, but she is smart as a whip and has no testicles at all. Wait.... Grandma is smart and has no testicles... there is a connection there someplace, I just can't seem to put my finger on it....

Think I'll go scratch myself and think about this a little bit longer.

Tim (Grosststeine)

Did you know that Jasmin has a book?

If you have not noticed yet, we have a new member to our little family blog. Jasmin Hillen is the daughter of my freinds Jo and Jeanette Hillen. I first met Jasmine a while back when I was visiting Katie and Holger.

Jasmine has the distinction of being the only person that I know, who has illustrated a childrens book. The book was written by Gabriel Sturm and is called Justus is Traurig ( Justus is Sad) and was written to help young kids deal with death.

Check out Justus is Traurig online to see Jasmin's work. If you are really lucky, I will show you my copy (With a nice note from Jasmin of course!).

As a side note, Jasmin will be married to Gabriele's son in August. Her new name will be Jasmin Sturm (Jasmin Storm).... I could get used to a name like that.

Tim