2012 A New Year

 2012 Events so far...

Brooklyn had a piano recital with her teacher Michel Muller.
As you can see he is quite tall and Brooklyn feels about half his size.
But she played very well for her recital: a Bach piece, Mendelssohn and Chopin.

 We had our friend Julie Heyland visit us from Calgary.  It was so fun to go to the mountains, Interlaken and Chamonix.  We rode cog wheel trains and went up to the top of the Jungfrau mountain.  We also sped down in Chamonix on a luge sled.

Another favorite visit was to the Cailler chocolate factory.  Reina is holding up toasted almonds from a gigantic sac that we were allowed to sample.  The best part was the sampling room at the end of the tour where you could eat your fill of chocolates- honestly I was a little sick of chocolate by the end.

  Here is Kelsey at the hospital.  She had to stay overnight for her tonsillectomy.  She was very brave and we are so happy that she can breathe much better now and no longer has sleep apnea.

We found some really cool caves in the mountains to visit.  It felt just like we were in a British Columbia rain forest outside the caves, and inside the kids LOVED seeing all the rock formations and walking by the underground river.  The billboard below shows a little bit about what we saw inside the caves.