Art Showcase

Grace has been involved in an art club at school for the last several months, and Wednesday she and the other members had a chance to show off their work.

She is so excited to have her daddy home and be able to show off everything that she has been doing while he was gone.  Some days I think she just tolerates me because she is truly a Daddy's Girl.

The last month or so they have been doing some really fun projects like this safety pin and bead bracelet. 

She is a really creative little girl and had a wonderful time in Art Club.  I think next we may foster another side of her creativity and start piano lessons...

Play Date Fun

We have been enjoying some beautiful weather this last week (finally!), so my girlfriend Kim called and interrupted my plans for the day and made me come outside to play.  Bummer - I hate being out in the sun when I could be holed up inside cleaning and organizing... :)
Tristan has been begging to go play soccer, so we loaded up the soccer ball, his cleats (because you just can't play soccer without them), his bike, his airplane, and a lunch and headed over to one of the ball fields on post.

It was tough riding on this turf

My fabulous friend Kim keeping the boys busy

Tristan, Lilly and Noah

Michael and Tristan repairing the plane

We had such a great time, and I know Tristan was sooooo happy to get out and play soccer!  Thanks Kim, for ruining the plans I had for that day - your plan was much more fun!

Lost in Translation

Please, please, please, do not read this post if you are easily offended by foul language!  This is not language I would usually post on my blog, but it was entirely too funny to David and I to not post.



We came home one afternoon to find these signs posted on the information board of our apartment:

I do appreciate that they're imposing fines since no one in our building owns a dog, yet we still have poop in the yard, but could they maybe have used a different word in the title??

Oh the joys of living overseas and experiencing the poor proofing of translation!

Asan Botanical Garden, Part 2

Part two of our garden adventure:

Gigantic Bird of Paradise!

They also had a small aviary there.  We attempted to feed the birds, and got a couple to eat, but it seems as though most of them were full.

The kids had a great time running around the maze.

I can't wait to see this in full bloom!

The beauty in this place was just endless!  Really makes David and me miss having a yard to landscape.



Asan Botanical Garden

Now that David is back and the weather is warming up, it's time to start exploring again.  I was told of a beautiful botanical garden not too far away from us, and the majority of it was indoors so it didn't matter what the weather was, so we headed out to check it out for ourselves.

They did indeed have some beautiful flowers - which means I'm going to have to break this post into two parts to get all the pictures in.

 

This is the biggest ficus tree I have ever seen!

 The smell of the hyacinths were absolutely amazing!

More beauty to come tomorrow!