Making memories

Just had to say goodbye to my brother and his family. This is normally hard, but right now my emotions are multiplied by around 100, so needless to say, I've had an afternoon of many tears..... 


One of the hardest parts of living away from your home country is of course exactly this: Being far away from your family and friends....and here, time is not helping by healing as it would in most situations, but it is actually making it worse. So after 4 years of seeing each other maybe twice per year (if lucky), I must say, I feel I'm almost reaching the point of breaking every time I have to say goodbye.


We have been lucky to have them here with us for the past 9 days. Just wish we would have been equally lucky with the weather (it rained probably 6 out of these 9 days!).....but we have been spending this time making some precious memories =))) Here some snapshots:

We spent last Saturday picnicking by and swimming in the lake of Geneva

My brother tried to show Cindy how to blow bubbles

Chris & Cindy became really good buddies ;))

....we snuggled a lot!

Here we took Cindy down to see and to pet one of our favorite neighbors =)

....lots of BBQ'ing!

An absolute must for a 2 year old visiting Switzerland: Watching the cows =) 

We are neighbors with a huge play park, so we went there yesterday afternoon 

Clearly, little Cindy had lots of fun  

...so many things to play with that she was almost confused by all the options =p

Cindy and I, feeding the chickens

.....and they had little baby goats that were so adorable that I wanted to steal one and bring it home!

....we also went to the Zoo La Garenne

....and Cindy found a little friend.

Ice cream! Another summer must have =p

On the picnic blanket.....

Isn't she lovely? Already 2 years old!!

Friday snuggling =)))

Chris taught Cindy how to bake! Can guess which bread is hers?? ;)

Playing in the grass

.....fallen soldiers after a full afternoon at the play park! Ha haaa!

xox