Tim’s Baptism, February 8th

Hello all,

just a short update of little Tim. He has got his baptism on sunday, two weeks ago. It was a very nice celebration. We went to church a 10:00am and after that to lunch in a nice cellar near Neunkirchen. Lunch took us nearly 3 hours and after that we went home to our house. Family and friends (in total 19) stayed til eveing and it was really a wonderful day. Tim has got a new ride from Jo an Jeanette. Jeanette, Marion and Silke are Tim’s godmothers. My brother Bernd is his godfather. Sorry that I’m short on time but I think I’ll get a cold and don’t feel well since today morning. So I will write mor when I’m okay again.
Holger

This is my picture for that family photo thing we are doing.










Anyways it has been too long my McMurdo friends. We need to catch up(meet in person)!!!
School is going good, getting a little busy as it is test time(ugggg I hate tests)!
I see Lea almost everywhere on campus since she is now living here. We are always running into each other at the Z(the worst food ever).
Life is good as always and well I must say I can't complain.

That is about all for me, How about yall, how are yall doin?
What are yall doin?

Anyways back to studying(facebook) haha.

Josh

Truth in Advertising

I am in Cincinnati all week for a seminar. Everytime we go out, we pass a beggar on the corner, with his sign. It has allways read..."Help a homeless veteran".

Last night when the cab approached, he had the same sign. When he decided we were not going to give him anything, he flipped the sign over and it read....."What I really want is beer"

I almost gave him some money, just for his honesty and sense of humor.

Tim

Life is Rough

Jackie says he leads a pretty tough life.... Poor cat, I almost feel sorry for him.

The End is in Sight

Here in ohio, we have had below freezing temperatures for over two weeks & it has gotten very old. On most days I see single digit numbers on the car's thermometer when I start it in the morning. Not this morning. When I started the car, the thermometer read 22 degrees... practically a heat wave. the high today is expected to be 37 degress.

Where are my sandals?

Tim

Ice Boobies

As you are all aware, my brother Scott gave away a set of molds to make a boobie ice sculpture during our Christmas gift exchange. Being the men that we are, we needed to see a boobie ice sculpture. I thought you all might want to see the results.

Tim

p.s. One boobie ice sculpture mold, for sale cheap. Only been used once. For inquiries, contact Judee.

2008 Picture Book Contest

Introducing the first ever Annual Family Photo Contest!

Everybody in the family, including our German cousins are invited to send in 10 photos. We will pick the best of them and use them to create a 2008 photo book. Anybody that sends in 10 pictures will recieve a copy of the book.

The only rule? They must be your favorite photo's taken by you or somebody else in your family. Also...you must have a high resolution copy of the picture so that it will print well. If you don't know what that is...just ask.

How you submit your pictures? Easy, just post them here in our family blog. I'll post mine this week so that everybody can see how it's done.

Any questions? No? Good...let's see those pictures!

Tim

Happy New Year

Hello all,

happy new year to all of you. We’ve returned from our 1 week trip to North Germany yesterday afternoon and had a wonderful time there. Little Tim was unbelievable. He didn’t make any trouble during this long ride so we’ve traveled more relaxed than I ever expected. We prepared his food in the car so he was satiesfied. You must know that the most important thing for him currently is to get a regular meal! :-)

Wether was great – no rain during the whole week. It was cold but the air was fresh and I think it was doing good for all of us including this little guy, although he slept most of the time when we went for a walk. I think you can see it at the picture with his red cheeks.

I’ll have another day off tomorrow and have to be back in the office on Thuesday. So I’ll try to relax the rest of my vacation because the next 4 months will be very exhausting.

Attached please find some impressions of our trip and of course some of the most fotographed baby in the whole world (I really believe).

Merry Christmas

Hello dear friends,

here is someone who likes to wish all of you a merry Christmas and a happy new year.



Secondly I would like to say sorry for not doing more post on the blog but I was completely overloaded with work. Now my vacation has started and therefor I’m feeling pretty well. On Saturday next week Katie, little Tim and I will go to north Germany at the coast of “North Sea”, somewhere northwest of Hamburg for a week. We’ve rented a house with Jo and Jeanette (and of course Aldo) and hopefully will have a good time. I’m really curious how little Tim will look, when he’ll see the “big pond” for the first time. Anyway, we’ll wave to you.
Our Christmas tree this year is smaller than usual because we’ll leave on December 27. But that doesn’t matter. Katies Mom told us years ago that she’ll have another Christmas tree not before she’ll have her first grandchild. So some weeks ago I said to her: “Hey Mom, it seems you’ll have to buy a tree this year”, and she did. I’ve been there today and she bought a really big one.
Commonly we’ll visit my father on December 24 in the afternoon and then go to Katies Mom in the evening to celebrate Christmas eve. This year we decided to stay at home. We don’t want to pack all the things you need for a little boy in our car. So we’ve invited the family to our house. I think I will put something in the pizza oven in the back yard and we’ll have our celebration here. Little Tim is absolutely fascinated about all the lights in the tree.

Please let me not finish without wishing you a warm, happy Christmas, a wonderful 2009 and thank all of you for your friendship.
Holger

Most Beautiful Baby....Ever!

I mean really...have you ever seen eyes like that before?