He and his wife, Sarah and their family also used to live in Münchenstein (they moved away not long after we did) and we were members of the Reinach Branch. Two of their five girls are the same age as Jordan and Daniel and we used to do a lot together.
Anyway back to Niggi - he and his friend Gilbert (who apparantly lives in Münchenstein) were in Heiden (10 km away from us) staying at a hotel and were here in eastern Switzerland for a weekend of mountain biking and wanted to know if they could pop by and say "Hi". Of course, we said yes!
They came, we gave them some refreshments, showed them the house and our lovely view which they were duly impressed with (the view I mean) and after about an hour of chit-chat they left, taking Roland with them. Roland had offered to show them a route that he knows and off the went.
Roland, Niggi & Gilbi
While the hubster was out, Jordan and I went grocery shopping for the weekend and for the bank holiday on Monday. We'd planned to go on a picnic with Renée and Wolfgang and kids so we needed to get some stuff for that. It was t-shirt weather - finally!!!
I have so much more energy when the weather is nice.
Sunday was uplifting. The hubster gave a talk about the Holy Ghost in sacrament meeting which I thought was really good and I gave sharing time in primary, also about the Holy Ghost!
It made me realise that I don't pay enough attention to the whisperings of the spirit. I could receive a lot more guidance if I invited Him into my daily life. We, as members of the church, have a wonderful gift available to us and I'm sure we could decrease some heartache if we applied more faith and attenttion to listening to the spirit. I want to improve that part of my life. Why should I take the hard road when there is somebody there willing to guide me to my destination? I'll let you know how I progress.....
A lot of the young single adults were missing at church as they were attending a camp/convention, and Melissa was one of them. I missed her! Krystyna and Curdin went to attend the YSA Sunday meetings (Curdin is our stake pres.) so we took their two youngest boys home with us and fed them. As we all got out of the car I realised that it was 6 boys to 1 girl - me! Where's my Melissa!! I'm soo glad I have at least one girl!
Aaron was with Samuel and Jordan with Elias. The weather, as I mentioned, was great so we decided to have to have the first mini barbecue of the season. Mr D, Jordan and Elias got to work in the garden while I started making the rest of the food.
Jordan lighting up
The hubster and Jordan
Elias and Jordan
Our marinated meat - it looked disgusting - but was actually really tasty
For me, the highlight of the day was sitting outside in the garden with Roland. The kids were all busy and it was just the two of us. I really love one-on-one time together where we can just talk. We celebrated our 21st wedding anniversary on the 20th and we didn't get to go out and really celebrate it, so the time spent in the garden together kind of made up for that. In his talk he said the best thing he'd ever done was marry me; wasn't that really sweet of him?
On Monday we went to Obersee in Näfels (Glarus) with friends of ours. They were minus one (Eric) and we were minus two (Melissa and Aaron). Aaron decided not to come with us but spend the day with Samuel and Eric instead. At the moment, our family activities are only with two of our four children. I guess that is part of them growing up and leaving, although I must say I don't like it! It's happening far too quickly!
Anway......we made the hour drive to Obersee and were greeted with fantastic views of the lake and mountains. Why anybody would want to leave this country, I don't know!
The lake wasn't overly large and the signs told us that it would take 90 minutes to walk around. Well, we were in no hurry......
We stopped off in two places - once to make a fire and barbecue our sausages and meat and secondly to let the kids swim in the lake. We spent a lovely afternoon there and came home feeling rather lazy and a little sunburnt! We had good food, good company and wonderful weather!
Obersee
A wind-swept me with Renée
There was still a mound of snow on one of the hillsides which attracted the kids like bees to honey.
Joel, Jordan, Noemi and me
Me, Renée, Noemi, Jordan, Wolfgang and Honey, the dog
The hubster collecting wood for the fire
Jordan cutting a stick to be able to grill his sausage with
Our humble fire
Jordan playing with the fire when he knows he shouldn't ....tut tut Jordan!!
Daniel, Joel and Jordan freezing their butts off!
The view from where the kids were swimming
The view on through the valley
Jordan with a wise old man....
Well that was our weekend! It was busy but good. Now everyone is back to school and work. Melissa is happy as she now has a new boyfriend (they got together over the weekend) so she is on cloud 9!
Have a lovely week!
Hugs all,
Rebecca
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