February...So Far

Fasching

Once again our Stake Primary put on a Fasching party for all the kids in our Stake.  Fasching is a German holiday, sort of like Mardi Gras, where you dress in costume and play games (and drink a lot of alcohol).  We had a lot of fun with the kids (minus the alcohol, of course.)  This was my third and final Fasching party that I helped to plan.  Just one more "last time" event before we leave Germany...boo:(

We split the children into two groups.  I had the little kids upstairs and Hyrum had the older kids downstairs.  Here the children are being wrapped up as mummies for one of the games.

Mommy looking very silly and Julian pulling his best "cheeeeeese" smile.

The older kids were given a bag of icing and cereal and pretzel sticks.  Out of these items they had to construct a scene from a scripture story.  This is Townsend's "Tower of Babel"

Some kids got really creative!  This is a temple that one of the other kids constructed.

Pinewood Derby

The boys had a lot of fun with the pinewood derby again this year.  Last year Townsend's car won 3rd place overall and this year Emerson's car won 2nd place overall.  I'm so glad Emerson got a chance to win this year, it would have been kind of hard on him to see Townsend win again.  They helped pick out the design and helped sand the wood a bit but most of the credit goes to Hyrum...what a great Dad.

The three boys watching the races.  Julian loved watching the cars as they zoomed by.  I missed some of the derby and it turns out I missed a pretty exciting race between the boys' cars.  Emerson had won every race against all the other wolf scouts but then Townsend had also won against all the other cars.  So they had to run a tie breaker to see which of the cars was fastest.  The boys' cars tied two times and then on the third race Emerson's car finally won.

Townsend with his car.  He picked out that Canadian flag idea himself...kind of interesting.

Emerson with his car.  He went with just plain racing stripes.  I was so proud of both my boys!

FREEEEEEZING

The last thing that has been happening this February is that it hasn't gotten above freezing temperatures for about 2 weeks.  All of Europe has been exceptionally cold this year so far.  Not much snow but very, very cold.  We took the boys to Eschenbach to run around on the frozen lake a bit.  The ice was so thick, I really had no concerns about them falling in.

Julian loved riding around on his little "bike" out on the lake.  Once again, you get the super "cheeeeese" face in this shot.

The sun was already going down by the time we got to the lake so we didn't last long in those freezing temperatures.  The boys still had lots of fun running and sliding on the ice.