Here are the pictures of Braden running in the Cross Country European Championships. He had an incredible race. He finished 15th overall, 5th in Division II schools and was the #1 runner for Patch. The pictures show him giving it his all to move from 16th to 15th at the finish line!

Homecoming week dress up days included pajama day, wacky tacky day, and decades day. The seniors had the 70's and the freshman had the 20's. Ciarra went to the dance with a bunch of friends and Braden took his girlfriend Emily.

Otis and I went to our last Folk Fest here in Germany. How sad!!!!!

On Wednesday we took the kids out of school and headed to France to watch the USA play Somoa in the Rugby World Cup. We lost but it was a good game and I think we all learned alot about Rugby.

On July 10th, Ciarra had jaw surgery to correct her bite. The 5-6 hour procedure took 8 hours!

While we spent five days in Landstuhl with Ciarra, Braden was in the Czech Republic for a week long hockey camp.

SHHHHH! The tiger is sleeping.zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz...

This is a picture of Knute. He is the polar bear that created quite a stir when his mother abandoned him and a group thought the zoo should not feed him (it goes against the order of life) and they should let him die. He was soooo cute!!

Too bad I didn't get a picture of the goat that actually head-butted Camden and sent him flying in the air!

The kids at the Berlin Zoo.

Our first stop was Checkpoint Charlie.

Here I am finally getting around to blogging again. Last weekend we went to Berlin and had a nice time. Ciarra has two friends, Lindsey and Whitney, visiting from Colorado. Unfortunatly for them, it has done nothing but rain since they arrived.

Otis is home!!!!!!!!!! What a blessing this is for the holiday season!