2009 Continued

Our trip continued to Izmir, Turkey where we visited the site of the ancient city of Ephesus that is being excavated .

 

From Turkey, we went on to Greece where we visited Athens and saw the Acropolis.  We walked through the town, ate at a cafe, and shopped in the little shops.

 

We departed Athens and sailed north along the Adriatic Sea to Dubrovnik, Croatia!  It was a very beautiful walled city.

 

 

 

 

 

After leaving Croatia, we headed to Venice (Venentia), Italy.  It was pretty awesome to ride the gondolas through the canals of Venice.  It was fun to watch "The Italian Job" after we got home and see some places where we had been.

 

 We flew home from Venice through Paris and then on to Salt Lake City.  It was a wonderful trip!!

Happy New Year 2010 and a look back at 2009

Wow, a new year is here.  Hope you all had a good holiday.  It is always fun to be with family and friends.  I can't believe how quickly 2009 went by. 

2009 was a good year.  We added 3 new grandchildren to our family.  Oliver James Huber born to Glen and Emily last May. 

Emmett Kenneth Godfrey born to Carrie and Matt last June. 

And, Beckham John Huber born to John and Kristen in October.

In 2009 we had a wonderful trip of a life-time.  We cruised the Mediterranean for two weeks and visited some awesome places.  We went with Paul's sister Loralee.

 We visited Italy where we saw beautiful Lake Como and went to Bellagio, we were in Milano and saw The Galleria Vittorio Emanuele and the third largest church in the world Cathedral to Santa Maria.

 

 

 

We went on to Rome where we saw the Colosseum, visited the Vatican, and St Peter's Basilica.

 

We had a fun time on the ship between ports with the group we were with (200 people with LDS Travel).  We made new friends, enjoyed the shows on the ship, and the great dining.

 We continued on and visited Israel where we went to Haifa, Ashdod and Jerusalem.  We crossed the sea of Galilee on a boat, ate at a Kubbutz, we went to the Garden of Gethsemane and the Garden Tomb, the wailing

wall etc.

 

To be continued on another post. 

Lots of Puzzles

A fun things we got just before Christmas was a puzzle holder.  We had seen this at my mother's home while we were in Arizona.  It was pretty neat.  You can organize your puzzle pieces, put your puzzle together on the board, move it around it needed, and pack it away until you want to finish it.  We took a puzzle we were working on over to Eric's and finished it up there and then started on another one. 
Here are a few of the puzzles we have been doing. 

 

 

 

Christmas Morning

It looks like Santa found our house. 

 

 

Our main Christmas gift was a new printer since our old one was dying as we finished up our Christmas Newsletter.

As soon as we were ready we went to Eric's and joined them as they opened gifts. 

Merry Christmas

We have had a nice Christmas and hope you all have had a great one too. Christmas Eve we went over to Eric and Tina's. Sarah was there too. Tina's parents also came from Blackfoot and stayed for a while. It was fun to see the kids do their Nativity play -- Harmony was the director this year. They were kind of silly, but did a great job of singing the songs!!

Doing the Nativity play brings back lots of memories of all the times our children did that for us as they were growing up.

After the Nativity, there was singing putting puzzles together etc.