Shades of Summer

We are just loving how many of the photos are coming in - and boy do you all look fab in those white sunglasses! 

Here is the latest lot of photos

They are coming in fast! Shades of Summer

Some more great photos have already come in this past week. 

Thanks to Phyllis in Switzerland, Karen and her very cute kids in The Netherlands, and Gislea and her very cool dog and Kathrin in Germany. Way to go Ladies! 

Who will be next??

Shades of Summer Europe is on its way ...

And we are already getting photos in, thanks Ladies!

Barbara posted these first lot of photos on her blog already from the girls in Germany

Here are Nina, Anne, Maike und Erin

Look out for some more photos over the next couple of days!!! 

Shades of Summer 2010 European Edition

Well it's that time of year again.

Elizabeth Kartchner's Shades of Summer is back and again this year we will be doing it here in Europe!!!

This year to help me out, we have on board Barbara Haane from Germany. You can check out her great blog here

Here are the details

1. You can't be moving this summer (because the package gets lost or doesn't get forwarded) or traveling extensively.

2. First, you take a photo wearing the sunglasses and email it to us and Liz

3. Second, you will ship a small box with the sunglasses in it to the next person on the list we will  include in the box.

4. You must ship glasses & list of addresses with in 2 days of receiving them.

•The first 300 peeps to email me are included in all the fun.

•If you can follow the above rules email me at ShadesofSummerEurope@gmail.com in this exact format:

Name

Street address

City, State, Postcode

Country

Are you in? 

Then drop us an email ShadesOfSummerEurope (at) gmail.com 

You can find out more about Shades of Summer on Liz's Blog 

Week in the life - Thursday

So i am rather behind.

I did take the photos but a cold and a very busy weekend got in my way. 

So here i am playing catch up 

Our thursday from last week

Dylan found his Wiggles hat and was almost going to wear it 

But then thought his rain jacket was the way to go.

Alexandra didnt forget to brush her teether before school 

And off to school we go 

It was 9 degrees when we headed out to school that morning. 

I then headed back home after drop off and attempted to do a tidy up 

Tried to make Quinoa brocoli for dinner - only i ate it

It was even warm enough for the kids to play outside in the evening 

Phyllis came back from the State and had lots of goodies for me including some great party bags for Ali's bday this weekend 

and 2 real simples too 

And the sunset at the end of the day

Week in the life - Wednesday

Today started off really well but by the afternoon i was feeling rather off color so the photos stopped. I did though remember to take my sunset pic though

So Wednesday started off well. The sun was shining so we decided to head outside and do some gardening. Before i got out there i did some ironing and had a nice chat to my Grandma.
Kids entertained themselves



First plan was to take out all the stones out of the garden

Dylan has decided it would be fun to keep throwing them off the balcony so we had to get rid of them - too dangerous with kids walking near our balcony on their way to school.

Then we got to work planting the strawberry plants and tomatoes too.



We were very excited to see plane flying in the sky too



No TV week  - 3rd day in went really well too



no kid asked for it at all today - except when we were at a friends place in the afternoon.

Slowly at around 3.30 i started to get a sore throat and by the time i got home all i wanted to do was go to bed. Some how made the kids some sort of dinner and then headed to bed once Rolf got in. I feel asleep at 8.15pm

Week in the life - Tuesday

What a very busy day Tuesday has been.


We all got up a little earlier than usual and got ready to head to school. 


As there is no TV in our household this week, watching the news has been the one difficulty so have resorted to the internet



Alexandra again today did not want to go to school and was complaining of a "tummy ache" to try and get out of it. But once we got in the car she had forgotten all about it. After a quick drop off, we got there by the way in record time as the local schools are on spring break i headed to get some diesel and go went to go meet up with Fiona and Logan








Fiona and i had made very last minute plans to drive into Zurich to pick up my seamless background paper and then head to toys r us.





We ended up detouring via IKEA for some lunch and some shopping too






Before we knew it what was going to be a quick trip ended up being a whole day outing and it was time to head back to Zug and pick up the kiddies.


On the way home from school with the kids we dropped into the Garden Centre.



When i got home there was a lot in the car, and took quite a number of trips to get everything inside



we got home just in time before the rain hit. I really thought we would of had a chance to do a little gardening when we got home - but that will have to now wait for Wednesday





Was able to get Dylan a Zhu Zhu pet while out today - he was happy to have one too now



Wasnt able to wait for exact sunset as I had to head out to Mahjong but was able to capture this



Played Mahjong and really had a lovely time