Easton lost his first tooth!!

My sons are growing up WAY too fast:( Easton just reminded me of this when he lost his first tooth the other night. He put the tooth in his tooth fairy pillow(under his pillow)and woke up to a 5 euro bill!

Frohe Weinachtan!! (Merry Christmas!)

The Beaudry's want to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!! This was our first Christmas spent without our family, so it was different for sure! On Christmas Eve, we went to church and to the dinner afterwards. We then came home and skype'd with Ben's family. On Christmas morning, we woke up and opened presents(although a few are still on their way in the mail), had breakfast and went to church. Christmas night we had our friends, Toni and Warren over for dinner. I dropped the ball on getting Christmas cards made this year, so here are a few pictures...

Our 2011 trips in a nutshell:)

 I have been horrible about keeping our blog updated!! One of my New Year's resolutions is to be much better about that:) Our first trip in Germany was to Heidelberg. Since we didn't have our Acadia here yet, we had to take a bus and then a train to get there...We went with some friends of ours that moved here the same time as us from Iowa. They had been to Germany a few times before, so they were pretty familiar with everything:) Here are a few pics from that trip..

View from the castle

View of the castle


Our next trip was to this place called "Monkey Mountain" in Alsace, France. http://int.rendezvousenfrance.com/en/discover/montagne-des-singes-monkey-mountain
We went with 3 other families and we all had a blast feeding the monkeys. After that, we went to Strasbourg to do some sight seeing. Here are some pictures from that trip..

Easton feeding the monkey popcorn:)

Bryson trying to feed the monkey:)





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Strasbourg, France

In October, Ben's cousin Melissa and her boyfriend Dan came to visit. Dan suprised Melissa by proposing to her on the bridge in Heidelberg!! We also went to the Black Forest with them. We had a great time with them and it was so nice to see some familiar Iowa faces:) Here are some of those pics..

Ah I forgot to post pics of our house in Germany! We were very lucky to have found a house as quickly as we did. We have some really nice German neighbors who we became friends with, and the school district we are in has the smallest school so we are happy with that. We have fun talking with our neighbors, as they teach us german and we teach them more english! The house has 5 bdr and 3 ba-although I only have a few pics taken:) Here they are..

We are FINALLY here!!!!!

As you all know, we have been waiting since January to go to Germany!! We are so excited to be here, and we are all having a great time so far. The boys and I were a little homesick at first, but now that Bryson is in school and we have our car, things are getting better each day:) We have been here 2 weeks and have already traveled to Heidelberg and St. Goar to see castles and other neat things.