Water fight

Log Ride at Six Flags

Six Flags

Botanic Garden

today we went to the Botanic Garden in Highland Park to take pictures and enjoy the great weather...

Bees have an entrance door...

I am taking pictures of Bill taking pictures...

square trees

Military Museum in Wisconsin

I am not a big weapons fan...this was weired, seeing all these "dead" weapons, like a cemetery for military crap. A nice thing to do with the children on a sunny afternoon...lol.
...while driving to another outlet mall, we passed this eerie place and Markus got really excited, so we stopped to take a look....

this is for Papa...

Sunset

New Smyrna Beach

we all bought kites...

it is a very empty beach, not a lot of people, perfect for a family vacation...

Sandcastle

Maria, my sister-in-law and Marlon, my nephew are building a sandcastle...

Markus and Marlon

here are my brother Markus and his son Marlon on the porch of our rented house in Smyrna Beach. The location was amazing!

Marie-Elise

for my graduation we invited my family to come and join us. I didn't want to make a big deal out of it, but Bill said that it was a big deal! So I wanted to invite at least my sister Sabine to come and join us, because it would be nice to have family there besides Bill...well I found out that Bill had invited my WHOLE family to come and join into the festivities...he also rented a house on the beach in Florida, so we could all fly there and spend a week as a family in our own beach house with plenty of room.
Papa ended up going to the hospital a day before the flight....
Markus came with his wife and 2 children Marlon and Marie-Elise. The graduation was great and it was great to have family there to cheer me on, which made me feel really special!
They let me know that it was a big deal and that they are proud of me and my achievements.
Here a movie clip of Marie while at the beach in Florida. Here parents and brother are having a water-balloon fight while we are watching!