Gran Canyon

Last but not least we were at the Grand Canyon. We did not go down all the way, but at least a little bit and we came into rain and then saw this beautiful rainbow. The rest are just some more photos from around the Grand Canyon. We also saw Condors at the sunset and as everybody I tried to take a picture and well I have to say, they are not good looking birds, but still graceful in the air...I wish I could fly like that.

Antelope Canyon and Zion National Park

Ok Internet access was not to get in the last days and since the one in Lake Powell broke down while publishing the last post you will get two new posts or photos today.

Bryce Canyon

Right now I'm sitting at the Lake Powell and waiting for the laundry...just like at home.
So far we have only seen beautiful country with a lot of red stones, hehehe. The Valley of Fire was just amazing, especially since we only stopped there because the campsites were all full.
Here some more photos directly out of the camera.

Vacation

Ok I'm back in the USA on vacation and I just wanted to share some photos I have taken so far.

Back to the roots

Well not excatly but pretty close. Today I had my fist day at my old company. Confusing, right? Well to make it short: I worked there for almost five years, then I left to move back to Munich, then after only five month I started working for that company again via a contractor and today I started working for that company again, directly employed, pretty easy right J. It was weird to have a first day at a company without feeling the excitement of starting something new. I mean: I knew my way around. I knew all my colleagues. I knew my boss. I had contract negotiation with a supplier I knew. So I had to remind myself throughout the day that today was my first day. Weird, I know.

Other subject: On Saturday I was invited to a party of really good friends. The occasion was summary of one round birthday and the moving in into their beautiful new home. Well actually they moved in already last year and the round birthday was already last year, but there was also the birth of their second child and somehow these three dates were pretty close together last year, so they made big party this year :-). Make sense, right? Now with explanation you understand that the “gift” issue was a little complicated, but not really, since I had the perfect little gift for them, this (plus the number 33a on top of it to resemble their house number, but I didn’t make a photo of it…):

And yes I made this. Two month ago a good friend of mine gave a workshop on making “flower-cakes” and I was sooooooooooooooooo thrilled with my result of it, that I wanted to make one as gift. The round “cake” looked like this:

It helped that this good friend of mine which owns the flower shop, let me do it at her shop and so I could choose from whatever she had in her shop :-). I decided to stay with roses, blackberries and some green stuff. It was really fun making it, especially since I had such a nice company. Thanks Jasmyn!!!

I’m blogging a lot…

…in my mind. Do you know that feeling? I mean I don’t know how many post I wrote over the last two month in my mind. For example the one about the first glittering snow at night in November or the one after good “Feuerzagenbole” on a Christkindelmarkt and on and on…

Anyway December was very busy and my start into the New Year was just fine, so now we are all together in the year 2011 and I decided to set me no goals at all! Yep, you hear me. No goals. No pressure.     J.U.S.T    P.U.R.E     L.I.F.E
Why? You want to know. Well be honest, the thing is, that most of the goals or targets will not be reached and then I will be disappointed, so the best is not to set any goals or targets don’t you think.
I know that there will some changes this year, but I don’t know which way they will turn out, so I’ll see and make the best out of it, because right now I can’t do anything else.
A new year is something wonderful, because everybody is dreaming of something. What are you dreaming of?

I wish you all a wonderful, dreamful and happy year 2011.

Svenja

Posting

Did you read all my latest post? No, oh it might has to do with the fact that I never put into the computer I just had them in my thoughts and oh I posted a lot in my thoughts…

Oh well, life just starts to relax, since I’m on vacation and enjoy the bad weather of the Oregon coast right now, with nothing to do other then read, talk and sleep, just perfect…

Don’t get me wrong I had perfect weather for the first three days! Sunshine, warm weather, fall colours all over and some fog. Here are some photos I took on my drive from Seattle to Portland.

Have a nice weekend

Workshop

After the summer break it is time for a new workshop.

I’m really happy that the workshop will again be hold in the GenussIdee in Munich-Hadern. This means a relaxed and fun surrounding to create a photo album in a format of 11 x 15 cm. You want to see for you self? Here are some photos from the last workshop.

Since the weather was so nice we took all the tables outside and work there until it got dark.

Then we went inside and continued. And boy, the girls were busy…

These two boys were kind enough to host us even longer in there sweet shop then planned…oh it was so much fun…
Now, do you want to have on October 6th, then hurry and register for the workshop by writing me an email.

Quilts

Two of my best girlfriends each gave birth to a son, so I made each of them a baby quilt.

The first one was for Finley who was born in Hamburg and I knew that the parents are not really in pastel colors, so I decided to do a classic red-blue-colored quilt and this is how it turned out.

The back fabric is a blue and white Vichy.

The second one was for Samuel, who was born here in Munich and for this one I mixed blue with yellow and green. When I gave the quilt to parents I was told that these are the colors they picked out for his room, so it worked out beautiful.

The back is light blue flannel with little cream whit dots.

I hope you all have a nice weekend.

Surprise

This is how I found my sweet little car last night!

Yes, there is a big gap in my left fender…luckily for me the guy who did this to my car, was honest enough and left a note at my windshield with all his contact information, well the information from the company he works for and they told me today that there insurance will cover the cost.



In addition a neighbor from next door stopped by in the morning to ask me if I know who did this to my sweet little car, because he wrote down the license plate from the truck. I told him, that even in this cruel and cold world, there are honest people out there who take the responsibility for what they do and that the guy left his contact information. But I thanked him for making sure, that I have all the information.
Oh, Danyelle could you please send me you husband to fix my car?

Family Time / Familien Zeit

The whole family went again this year for a three day trip to Suedtirol. We stayed in a nice pension near the Kalterer Lake and just enjoyed the family time during our hikes.

What is Luca looking at?

What is the whole family looking at?

OK, what is so interesting that the whole family is taking a million photos?

Hundreds of these…

they were making soooo much noise. We thought they might just sing is a song, no!

Nach alter Tradition ist die gesamte Familie dieses Jahr wieder nach Süd Tirol gefahren und zwar an den Kalterer See. Wenn die Großfamilie auf Wanderschaft geht, dann gibt es immer viel zu sehen.

Was Luca wohl entdeckt hat?

Was sieht denn die ganze Familie?

Was fotografiert denn die ganze Familie da?

Hunderte von diesen Lebewesen…

Das Quarken war soooo laut, aber vielleicht haben uns die Frösche in Südtirol auch nur willkommen geheißen.

Photos

Oh wow, it has been almost a month since I posted last…Well I guess the everyday life just the better part of me.

A couple of weekends my sister in law asked me to take some photos from her family which she wanted to give to her mother. Well needless to say, that I was flattered to be asked and happily said yes. Here are my favorites.

  

Was für ein Start in meine Deutsche Abteilung, gerade angefangen und schon nichts mehr geschrieben…Ich verspreche mich zu bessern.

Vor ein paar Wochen hat mich meine Schwägerin gefragt ob ich nicht ein paar Fotos von den Kindern machen kann, da sie diese Ihrer Mutter schenken möchte. Das habe ich natürlich gerne gemacht und hier sind meine Favoriten.

Charlotta

Malila

Luca