Olsen Happenings

I have great plans in store to update you all on the Olsen happ's over the last couple of months. Really I do. But to be honest though, thinking about all the blogging that needs to go down over here intimidates me. So for the time being here is a brief synopsis of our new Euro life:

First off I would like to inform you all that we are now finally in a house. A house to call home, a place of refuge from the storm. It is a lovely house nestled in a small German village about 10-15 minutes from the Air Force Base. All our neighbors are either Germans or livestock. The girls are loving all the animals. When it's not raining or freezing here we like to take walks around our cute village and visit all the animals. We like our house. It was not easy finding a house here. We came at the end of the big moving season so there was not much to choose from. But we found a cute house with a big yard that has a plum tree and an apple tree that completely drowned our little family with its fruits. We had a jolly time making applesauce, apple crisp, and apple everything. Let's see, what else.... Sadie started preschool which she absolutely loves. London turned the big 1 year! We celebrated with our usual Mexican nacho fiesta. Mark is loving his job and works with some cool people (yo Dave!). I turned 27 years; found a few wrinkles but no grey hairs. Phew! We have a great ward and are meeting lots of super nice people. Mark and I just got called to the nursery. Marks sister Kristi and her husband Cade are over here in Europe till December so we get to hang out with them sometimes. It's always nice to have family on the same continent.

We have been traveling a ton. I cant wait to tell you all about the time we took London to London. Or the time we drove our little family 10 hours to Italy. Or all about our adventures in France, Switzerland, Belgium, Luxembourg, Austria and Germany of course. We are loving all this traveling! But it can sure be exhausting dragging two little girls everywhere. We have a few more trips in the making. One of which is to Hungary. Why would anyone go to Hungary? We will find out and let you know. Does anyone have a place they love over here? We will go there in your honor. We accept all and any ideas. Or heck, come over here and we'll all go!

Here is Londy modeling at a beach in Italy. We told her in was inappropriate but she just wouldn't listen. It's how the Europeans do it.