Matthias turns 37!

Thalfingen Germany on Matthias's Birthday. Walking down the steps for a late breakfast, we all over slept on day two.

Omi cooked the best Goulosh for dinner, here she and Ava are setting the table.

Max is adjusting a little slower and keeps telling Matthias and I..."let's go home." lol

Table is ready to go!

Birthday Boy!

Cousin's Hanspeter and Gudrin joined us for dinner, so great to see them.

Proast to Omi.
Dinner time!
Uncle Stefan the Great!

Baker Gudrin prepared this awesome cake for Matthias...really really good.
Ava was all into the celebration...from a surprise welcome to lighting the candles.

Best gift ever....Soccer game Saturday in Stuttgart, my first European soccer game and I hear its a big one....

Gudrin brought Ava a few costumes to use for Carnival this week....pictures to follow.

It was a great night for all.

Arrival in Germany!!

Scene right before landing, luckly we had the entire row above the bulk head seats. They slept solid the last 2 hours of the flight.

Then we moved to the rental car for a 2 hour drive to Thalfingen

Around Stuttgart....around 1 hour away from Omi's house

Happy Daddy to be home

Tunnels around Stuttgart

parking garage over autobahn in Stuttgart

We're here.....road into Omi's village of Thalfingen

Here we are!

Ava was so happy to be here and helped Omi all night long.

1st attempt at bed time at 10pm

Ava being so done with my camera....she told me...NO, More Pictures!

Matthias, Max and Mommy wide awake at 3am....

Gerlich Family leaves for Germany!

The best trip we've taken so far. The kids did great and we all had several cat naps along the way. Ava is such and big girl and Max, well he did pretty good considering we're in the middle of some mild terrible two's action.

We arrived in Frankfurt right at 9 hours, and the temp was 0°. It actually wasn'nt so bad considering some parts of Germany had -20° earlier this month.

Omi had the beds, socks and toys ready to go when we arrived...we we're all excited to see her. Uncle Stefan arrived just in time for dinner and then he and matthias ran down stairs to his apartment to watch the big rival game between Byran Munich and Stuttgart....soccer that is. Well off I go, Omi's giving baths upstairs...

Ps. House went on the market today and we will have an offfer in about 3 or 4 hours....I KNOW I Knew it would do great!

More tomorrow...its Birthday Day for Matthias°