Alicia's Princess and Pirate's b-day

 Alicia's château

 Princess and Pirate's table

 the cake

 some pirates

 some princesses

 some more

 the biggest pirate of them all (the other pirate in the family didn't want his picture taken)

The Queen and her Princess

More pictures???

I was going to post some pictures of when we went to go visit the "grottes" in Réclère. But you seem to already be overwhelmed with what I have published. So maybe I'm good now till Christmas ;-).

Europapark and bowling

On the way back from Alsace we went to Europapark

 It's only a 2 hour drive from home and the kids really like it. Brandon especially likes all the roller costers.

 Alicia thinks driving the cars is really exciting and keeps worrying about having an accident.

 Brandon thinks this one is too boring for him and driving with no hands was the best way to get any excitement out of it.

 Hervé who is scared of horses and only likes them in his plate thought these horses we just perfect.

 On one of the rainy days we went bowling.

Alicia thinks picking just the right colour of ball is very important. They put up little plastic things along the sides for the little kids so the ball never goes in the gutter. 

Fete de la Cigogne

We went for a couple of days to Alsace to see the storks, buy wine and stop off at Europark.

The village even has a party for the storks (any excuse is good to drink a good glass of wine).

I was actually quite surprised at all the storks on the roof tops.

They didn't move very much, almost seemed like docoration someone put on the roof.

more pool

What would summer be without the pool

Alicia diving in.

Brandon of course has to show he can dive much higher and farter.

Poor Brandon, he mommy makes him work even when he is on vacation.

Summer come and gone

School started again just over a month ago and boy is this new school year stressful. Summer came and went so quickly. Here are a couple of pictures.

Alicia dressed up as a fairy for a birthday party.

 1st of August Brunch. A big tradition where you go to the farm and eat all local products.

Bread, jams, meat, eggs, soup, desserts, etc.

 It was really good and the weather was perfect.

Even a tour of the barn to check out some of the animals that helped in the making...

From cold to hot

Oh the pressure to post new pictures.

What a beautiful sunny week.

We filled up the pool last weekend. It was so nice out this week that the temperature was up to 27 yesterday.

Alicia was right in there.

Brandon needed some coxing to get in.