This year in a step towards being more environmentally friendly (guess what yr4 have just been studying !) I thought I would do a blog post with a few photos from our year instead of sending Christmas cards with photos in them.
Year in photos 2015
I am also going to make a donation to a charity ..... the charity I have chosen in Tree of Hope for Jess. http://www.treeofhope.org.uk/jesss-potential/ Jess is the daughter of a friend at work. She has cerebral palsy and is hoping ot have SDR (selective dorsal rhizotomy) surgery to permanently reduce the muscle tightness in her legs which will give her muscles a chance to work properly so she can walk and play with her twin sister and older sister.
2015 has been a busy year, as usual.... looking through the photos I've just pulled together it seems to have been the year of the theme park. We've had annual tickets to Legoland so the kids have been there quite a few times, we also went to Playmobil land when we were on holiday in Germany over the summer and we finished the year at Disneyland Paris, will need a year off next year.
Steffi turned 10 in Aug and Markus turned 8, they are growing up fast ! We had to apply for Steffi's secondary school place in Oct so that she can start next Sept. Luckily we live just across the road from one of the two secondaries in Fleet so we aren't too worried about being out of catchment :-).
For the summer we went to the Lakes for a week to catch up with some of my relatives that we haven't seen since my parents moved south and we went to Germany for a couple of weeks to see Florian's aunts and uncles in the Bavarian mountains.
Florian's mum has also recently moved to Fleet so we now have Grandparents from both sides around to help out ... although sometimes I'm sure Florian feels he is the one doing a lot of the helping, but we couldn't manage without them as they pick the kids up a couple of days a week meaning that I can travel as needed for work.
We wish you all a very happy Christmas and send our best wishes for 2016.
Love
Jo, Florian, Stefanie and Markus xxx
