B-day Pics

few photos from yesterday's festivities.

My cake!

Maya's cake!

I invited all my friends over

the birthday girls

Kenzie always going above and beyond!

A great birthday, thanks to Kenzie and her party throwing skills, the cakes were delicious and fun was had by all!

Birthday in Switzerland!

My 29th has been great! thanks to everyone for the birthday wishes. We had a fun party here with my little friend Maya, she turned 3, I have photos I need to upload. My friend Patricia gave me an outstanding birthday present, I wanted to share with everyone because it made me laugh so hard.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4GBNUkOjrKA&feature=player_embedded

check it out! I may have some photos for you later, but this you can all enjoy now :)

Easter weekend in Bern

We went to Bern over easter weekend. It was gorgeous! Perfect weather all week, beautiful city, great family, and a stomach flu. Haha, it wasn't too bad, just enough to be annoying. but very enjoyable nonetheless.

We got in en easter egg hunt before we left, this is Tim

a lovely garden view

Bode downtown

Big chess game goin on

Bear, in Bern

Me overlooking the city

that same view (minus the obstruction)

love this city

Basel take 2

Last weekend I spent in Basel with my friend Jessica. My first time in Basel was quite brief, this time I got very well acquainted with this beautiful city and the surrounding countries, (I got lost on my bike, ended up in France then Germany then back to Switzerland, all in one afternoon!)

Most of these pictures are from the old side of Basel, I loooved that part of town

Cobblestone streets

me

a nice view of the Rhine

Jessica fell on her bike and hurt her thumb and took a bar to the stomach

So we rode to Germany and called an ambulance, Jessica is from Germany, so we went there for insurance reasons

had to sneak a picture of the cute medic

All was well at the hospital, no internal problems, so we got back on our bikes and rode back to Switzerland. Fun weekend, minus the hospital, but fun to experience a european hospital.

grazing time

hiking in the hills

This spring has been so warm until today, it's now snowing. I feel bad now for laughing at everyone in Utah getting dumped on for the last few weeks. I've made an effort to go running or hiking on a daily basis, at times it's at night, so I don't get to see much but the roads with street lamps. I did take my camera hiking the other day and took some pictures. Here's what I've got to work with.

Started hiking through the forest

then up the hills

well, behind me is a lot of snow, so I stopped here. Not a bad view of Grindelwald

My self portrait shooting abilities

I could live here

And last but certainly not least, a little garden gnome on my way home, played around with my little editing program, such fun

Bern zoo

So there is a cute little zoo, free to the public in the city Bern. We went with the boys and met some friends and their kids and had a wonderful day. It was a hot one.

Picnic at the park

Stairs down to the river for swimming, there are stairs every 100 feet or so

Our friend's daughter, with a very exotic goat

Enjoying the flamingos

A little playtime

Bern is a beautiful city and hopefully I get to see it again before i come home!

trampoline fun

Not often do you get to jump on trampolines with such a nice backdrop.