Happy Holidays

Whoa! I don't know about you guys but I have been crazy busy... Christmas, Christmas, Christmas. Paris.

If you haven't heard, I finally did caught that flu bug. It was a nasty little thing, It stuck with me for a whole week. But I finally got to venture out with Rachael after the sickness to go to Lyon to pick up her step-sister, Christina, from the airport.

While in Lyon, we got to stop at Starbucks. Yay! First Starbucks stop since we got here! 

Christmas day was extra special, Rachel and I went to the Stoner's for breakfast and to open Christmas presents of course. I was spoiled with so many nice things this year from the people back home and people who are here! I also got to skype with my family and call everyone!

The day after Christmas we headed to Annecy to show Christina one of the beautiful towns here in the French Alps. It was also my first time going to Annecy, myself. And it was beautiful!

Then we made a last minute decision to go to Paris, do to the fact that we couldn't all fit in our car. I hopped a ride with our dear missionary friend, Jodi, to help her move to Paris. The timing couldn't have been more perfect for the two of us.

So after I helped Jodi move into her new place. The Stoner's, Christina, and I ventured out into Paris, to Notre Dame, Versailles, Eiffel Tower and so many more places...

After all this business, I skipped New Year's eve to spend the evening in my warm welcoming bed. But sadly, the bug or something similar to it, caught up with me again. Feeling much better now but taking it way easier so I can finally get rid of this sickness at last...

So happy New Year! God Bless you in 2013!

Fête des lumières

So last weekend Rachel and I headed to Lyon to see the "festival of lights". We woke up bright and early last Saturday to 14inches of snow but we headed to the train station anyway hoping to caught the 7:20 train out of Albertville but unfortunately the early train was cancelled. So we just headed over to the cafe to wait for the next train..

And naturally the second train was cancelled too. Apparently this is the most snow Albertville has got over night in over 25years or something. No wonder the first two trains were cancelled but lucky us the 12 o'clock train to Lyon was still going. 

Our wait for the third train was totally worth it. We ate at a McDonald's, found a starbucks, went shopping, and saw the biggest light festival of the french alps! 

It was a great start for the french alp Christmas season!

Merry Christmas! 

Happy Birthday, mom!

Happy Birthday, mom! I love you! 

p.s. Don't worry. I am taking my vitamins and staying hydrated. I should be over this cold in no time. ... Just spending all my extra time calling you at random hours of the night, while trying to calm down four hyper active kids, and spending my other extra time taking naps and watching boy meets world on youtube...don't worry about me :) hehe. I love you! 

Tis the Season to be Jolly

Merry Christmas! The Christmas season has finally started! I hope you all survived Thanksgiving, Black Friday, and Cyber Monday. I did. One of the draw backs from being in France is not participating in black Friday...It was a sad day. Cause I am a big black Friday shopper! But I have tried to start my Christmas season off right by decorating my room, watching Christmas movies, and of course Christmas shopping. And lots of Christmas music!  

My room decorations.

Christmas decorating with the célibataires :)

Merry Christmas! 

Happy Thanksgiving!

Hope you all are having a wonderful Thanksgiving. We celebrated Thanksgiving yesterday. At first I wasn't very excited about it. Spending my thanksgiving dinner with close to 90 people that I have only know for two months now. Didn't sound exciting to me. ..But when I woke up yesterday morning to people cooking in the kitchen I felt like I was at home. And I hurried to go get the kids to take them to the thanksgiving craft time, that Sarah one of the missionary teachers had organized. It was so cute all the girls making pilgrim bonnets and boys with their pilgrim hats. 

After craft time with the kids, I went running with Rachael we are trying to stay in shape during our crazy time in France. It was like we were having our own turkey trot run ;) After our run we spent our day in preparation for Thanksgiving meal. It was so much fun. We all ate so much food. And I think the Brits, French, and Dutch really liked our American traditions. 

Happy Thanksgiving! 

#nannyproblems

So every once in a while I will post something on twitter about the kids (mostly Josiah) followed by a  hashtag that looks like this #nannyproblems. Usually get lots of response from my tweets that have to do with my nanny problems. And when I get real bored and need a desperate need of laughing at other people's problems similar to mine. I look at other nanny's problems on twitter. Which make me laugh a lot because I can relate in so many ways.... I just want to share a few with you. 

if I hear "you're not the boss of me" one more time, it's bed time #nannyproblems

I should get mom of the year award even though I have no kids of my own... #nannyproblems

It's only 8:09 and I have already managed to dip my hair in pancake syrup #nannyproblems

Terrible 2's are a real thing...  #nannyproblems

I love how I try to sneak to the bathroom by myself. That is always a fail. #lifeofananny #nannyproblems

I feel like all these tweets could sum up my life this week (Let me remind you it's only Tuesday) So you can understand why I look them up on twitter just to laugh, right?!

Happy Birthday Sis!

It's my sister's birthday the first time I have ever been away from her on her birthday  It sorta feels weird to think she is going to celebrate her 21st birthday without me. But I guess we are both gonna have to survive cause I am also gonna miss her 22nd birthday too. But before I start thinking about next year already...

HAPPY BIRTHDAY RACHEL! 

I love you! And miss you! And hope you have a wonderful birthday! 

p.s. And I hope that you absolutely love the gift I picked out for you. hehe.