Paris

David and I went to meet some very good friends in Paris and spend the weekend there.  It was so much fun.  

I'd never been to Paris.  Thank goodness David can speak French.  We would have been totally lost without him. 

I really enjoyed seeing all the sites and I especially enjoyed Notre Dame.  

I must admit.  I'm not a big city person.  I wasn't very thrilled about the metro or all the people.  It's a crowded city and I was glad to get on the train and head back to Schaffhausen.  We traveled to a few other places, so stay tuned for more news.

Abrupt Halt

I've been away from the blogging scene.  Since my last post a lot of things have come about.  The race season began and David felt like it was going to be a strong season.  It really did start well.  Then it came to an abrupt halt.  Literally.

During a Wednesday night evening road race (two weeks after I took the pictures of the boys at a similar race) he was cut off by another biker, during a sprint.  The back tire of the rider in front of him grazed his front tire and over he went.  His last reading on the bike computer read 64 km/h or 40mph.  Needless to say, I got the dreaded phone call every wife of a biker does not want to get.  He'd crashed off his bike and was being taken to the hospital.  I threw the boys in the car and drove way to fast to the hospital.  Thank the Lord we only live about 5 minutes away.

Long story short he's OK.  But, his bike is totaled.   

 Helmet is done. 

His clothes are finished.

 He was left with a concussion and some pretty bad road rash.

I'm so thankful it wasn't worse and that he is on the mend.  It was a stressful few days after the crash. He's almost fully recovered and started riding easy rides to get back into the swing of things.  That was 3 and a half weeks ago.  Since then we've had guests in our home and been traveling around with them.  They are gone and we are slowly getting back to normal life routine.  

When I get all the laundry done (Who am I kidding? That'll never happen!)  I'll get back to normal posting.

Races

The summer mountain bike race season has started for David.  We try our best to go to as many as possible.  Before the boys were born I would trek to different parts of the race course to try and get as many great pictures as possible.  Now it's not as easy with the boys.  Ryan is at a stage where I have to really watch him and keep him from darting out into the race course.  I take the pictures I can at a spot that's the easiest to entertain the boys from.  And a lot of the time I end up taking pictures of them instead of the race.  For example -  the pictures below were taken at a Wednesday evening road race.  I didn't manage to get any good ones of David.  But I did get some good ones of the boys.

"Is he coming yet?"

He'll really love me for this picture one day!

Hooray for dad!

Sadly, this is the only semi-good picture 

I managed to get of David in the race.  

Stay tuned for more race day pictures.

Blowing Bubbles

The boys got bubbles in their Easter baskets this year.  We had to wait for the weather to get better to use them and then we forgot about them.  We found them the other day and the weather was just right for blowing bubbles.

Ryan ended up spilling most of his bubbles and chasing after Adrian's bubbles instead.  I'm just glad it's nice enough to go outside an enjoy the back yard.

Introducing Betty

Look what came in the mail today!

Meet Betty.  

That's what I've decided to call her.  Isn't she pretty?  After a long deliberation, I have decided to stick some of my sewing things on Etsy.  We'll see how it goes.  I'm a little nervous they'll just sit there and not sell.  But I've got nothing to lose I suppose.  

In comes Betty.  She is going to help me model a few of the things I've made to help give them a little more of a professional look.

This morning Betty and I had an impromptu photo shoot.  Here are a few samples of some things I'll stick in the shop.

Infinity scarf

(or circle scarf, or tube scarf, or what ever you want to call it.  I've seen it labeled several different ways.)

Vinyl Oilcloth Bag

Lined with a French Vintage Cotton

That's all for now.  What do you think?  Cute enough to sell?

A Tulip Update

Well, it happened.  My tulips FINALLY bloomed.  Here we go.

Here's a bird's eye view.

And view of what part of the front of the house looks like.

 After this picture I had to go inside.  It was raining and the camera was getting wet.  

Easter Eggs

I couldn't find good 'ole plastic easter eggs here.  However, I stumbled upon these that are just as good and I think I like them even better.

They are little metal eggs.  They also open just like the plastic eggs (well almost) so you can hide things inside.

 These, however, came with a bad jellybean look alike.  Believe me when I say they were terrible.  They looked pretty, but tasted pretty gross.  I dumped them out.

I replaced them with these.  Wonderful, Swiss chocolate eggs.

In they went for Easter day.

The weather wasn't so nice during Easter weekend so we had our Easter egg hunt in the living room.  It was still fun.