Posted in Church, Family, Friends, London on Jul 20th, 2011 1 Comment »
Some friends in our ward decided to go on a group camping trip to a local campsite. Our kids were so excited and even sat through the 2 hours worth of driving (that was supposed to be 45 minutes) in heavy traffic with no complaining! The kids and I set up the tent and played [...]
Posted in Kids, London on Jul 20th, 2011 No Comments »
We’ve tried our hand at dog-sitting and now were able to try out cat-sitting. Our neighbors asked us to keep an eye on their cat, Felix. He stayed at his house and went out by his cat door when he needed to. All we needed to do was feed him twice a day and give [...]
Posted in Chris, Emma, London on Jul 20th, 2011 1 Comment »
If we had ever thought about getting to hobnob with possible future American presidents, London would never have popped into our minds. But, London has a large population of American expats so it’s actually a a prime spot for fundraising. Chris attended such an event for Mitt Romney a couple weeks ago and took the [...]
Posted in Becca, Chris, Friends, Travel on Jul 20th, 2011 4 Comments »
After returning from our hiking holiday, we had a day to reorganize, then Chris and I headed to Paris for a few days. The reason for our Paris getaway? Chris’s good friend from our time at Cornell, Lucas, was getting married. Lucas and Chris This was not the norm in a destination wedding, but rather [...]
Posted in Family, Holiday, Travel, site-seeing on Jul 20th, 2011 2 Comments »
I’m not sure how we decided on this holiday, but I think we will all agree that it has been our favorite by far. Thursday – We flew into Zurich the first thing in the morning then spent most of the rest of the day on trains that continually took us further into the Alps [...]
Posted in Chris, Holiday on Jul 19th, 2011 No Comments »
On a rare occasion the UK celebrates the same holiday as the US. Such was the case with Father’s Day. Our Sundays have gotten a lot more busy these last couple months, but we used what time we had to celebrate. We spent some time in the morning opening gifts. Many were to help him [...]
Posted in Caleb, Gymnastics on Jul 19th, 2011 No Comments »
We are still getting used to the British way of doing things. One of the hardest has been the way the British gymnastics does their ‘seasons’. There is no district, state, and then regional competitions. From what we’ve experienced these last 18 months is that Caleb averages two unrelated competitions a year and he’s done. [...]
Posted in Family, London, Pictures on Jul 11th, 2011 8 Comments »
A couple months ago we had a fun evening at Holland Park with Blue Lily Photography. They are doing a world tour this year and were stopping in London. We loved our time with them in Central Park so had to jump at the opportunity and meet up with them here as well. The day, [...]