Franz and Ann » Holidays

Mother’s Day

Franz — Sun, 11 May 2008 20:32:09 +0000

Today is Mother’s Day. It is a day set aside so we can demonstrate our appreciation to our mothers for all they did to make us who we are. Mother’s Day is an important day because most of us don’t fully understand how much our mothers do for us. It is good that at least on this day we stop to reflect on that.

Here is a video that I put together for Ann. Click the play button to view and then scroll down to see a few photos taken today.

I had bought some flowers. It was a bunch of roses with four different colors, read, white, yellow and pink. It made me think about our four children. Like the four different colors in the bouquet, our children are all different but together they make up a beautiful family.

Franz then bar-b-qued some thick stakes for dinner.

Meanwhile Ann picked some strawberries from the plant she has been growing.

We then enjoyed a nice Mother’s Day dinner on our deck.

After cleaning up we enjoyed to video on our TV. I had created a DVD version with full resolution.

Christmas in Gilroy

Franz — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 14:27:50 +0000

This year we spent Christmas Day in our Gilroy home. Greg was visiting during a break from his studies at BYU. Without the little children around, we slept in longer than I can ever recall on a Christmas morning. We were up for some time when we decided to wake up Greg. Here are some photos.

Later we went out for a ride on the tandem. The weather was on the cool side, but much warmer than when we were in Utah.

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Chistmas Visit from Jeff, Lindsay, Hannah and Logan

Franz — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 14:07:12 +0000

Right before Christmas Eve, we had a wonderful visit for a couple of days from Jeff and his family. After we all went to church to hear Ann sing in the choir, we took these photos.

Then we celebrated Christmas together.

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Christmas Visit to Atlanta

Franz — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 13:57:19 +0000

We had a wonderful visit to Atlanta in mid December with John, Amy, Kyle and Natalie. Here are some pictures of the visit.

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We had a great time spending some of the holiday with the family. John and Amy treated us to a concert of Handel’s Messiah with the Atlanta Symphony Orchestra. The weather was nice for most of the visit and John and I were able to get out on the bikes three of the days.

From Atlanta we headed to Utah where the weather was much colder. It was fun to see the snow however.

Christmas Cards and Photo

Franz — Mon, 10 Dec 2007 03:32:19 +0000

We are busy sending out our Christmas letter and cards. At a recent church Christmas party Scott Lance took this photo of Ann and Franz, which we really liked so we included in our Christmas cards.

Click here to read our Christmas 2007 Letter

Thanksgiving in Washington

Franz — Mon, 26 Nov 2007 03:39:59 +0000

Ann, Franz and Greg spent this Thanksgiving visiting Sara and her family. We had a great time, except for maybe the rain and cold. Being from California, we were not quite ready for the cold weather.

Later we enjoyed desert. Instead of pumpkin pie and whipped cream, Andrew went straight for the whipped cream.

On Saturday Andrew ran his first race. He was on a program at his school to included running and so far he has run 50 miles during the year. That entitled him to enter this race in Seattle.

We then made a trip up the Space Neddle. Peter tried to see the moon.

Then he tried to blow the cold away.