Spring Sports

This spring has been filled with sporting fun.  Elsa continues to play softball, enjoying playing on the Orange Cheetah team.  They have had several fun games.

 

One of the great things the team did was a team skills clinic after a Stanford softball game.  Elsa got to work on sliding:

catching:

and get some pointers from the Stanford coach!

Another night, there was a run-the-bases night. 

Liam managed to go for a second round!

 Liam is playing on his first soccer team. 

Arne made a great video of the highlights.

The other big excitement in the house is Elsa now has a skateboard! She picked out her board and all its components at a local skate shop.  We now sometimes skate to school, and also go out to the skate park.

What is really nice is when she helps Liam learn. 

Easter Fun 2018

 We had a wonderful Easter Holiday.  We enjoyed a fun egg hunt at my mom's house in Millbrae.

 The kids really do love searching around for eggs. 

 Summer just watches the fun.

 They also like hiding eggs for the rest of us to find!

 This year, Liam also put on a show - showing off his new Easter LEGOs and telling everyone a story.

Liam and Elsa both got exciting Easter Baskets filled with eggs and LEGOs.



The day before Easter, they also got to hunt eggs, at the Menlo Park Egg Hunt.  A yearly favorite that Elsa was particularly excited to attend, because as you leave the hung, you get a big candy.  She picked Skittles. Liam doesn't really like candy (besides vanilla and maybe peanut butter candies), so he gave Elsa all of his candy.

On of the highlights for us of the Easter season is blowing out eggs and decorating them.  This year, on Palm Sunday, we had friends over to do that!  It seems this is also a big German tradition.