Christmas in Wayzata 2012

Our 2012 Christmas for Maggie

the night before christmas.... December 24th, 2012

a note to Maggie from Santa Claus

...the joy of opening gifts from family and friends....

...seeing her smile is a treat and a gift for us...

2013 Minnesota winter scene....

Ski lessons @ Hyland Ski in Bloomington....

February 23 Ski trip to Silverstar Ski Resort in British Columbia, Canada

1st day of Kindergarten September 2012 at Gleason Lake Elementary school in Wayzata

September 2012, first day of school at the bus stop....

on the way to Gleason Lake Elementary school in Mrs.Ruff's 

Kindergarten class with 16 other kids.....1/2  day daily classes

so that other activities like ballet, gymnastics and playtime

 are still possible....

October 2012

Learning to play soccer in the Minnetonka fall league....

and Halloween (she's a little lady bug)

November 2012

Our unusually warm fall season in Minnesota....

December 2012 -- preparing for Christmas....

our first seasonal snow storm

Meeting Santa claus at the Bachman's annual Christmas show....

.....conversation with Santa Claus.....I wonder what they are talking about....

2012 group photo with cousins Nate,Casey,Bailey and Piper.....

and a year ago 2011....

and two years ago 2010

End of the summer holidays 2012

Summer 2012 was a breakthrough season. Preparation and all the planning to go to Gleason Lake Elementary school is completed and Kindergarden starts the day after labor day holiday in two weeks.

Here are pictures from some summer activities : some new skills learned and others were just exuberant energy and spirit ....

"T-ball" in Hopkins, Minnesota

Playing in the field and ready....

The team with the super coaches.....

July 4th parade in Wayzata, Minnesota.

Gymnastics practices -- maybe a future Olympian perhaps?

Lots of +++ energy on the rings...

Our summer holidays on Mackinac Island with grandma Ama and grandpa Charlie with

the Saxen-Puttkammers.....

Bicycling to downtown without training wheels...!

Trying to play golf at Wawashkamo Golf Club.

Swimming at the Grand Hotel, Mackinac Island.

Riding with Willie in the burley...

Quite time at Meta Mura.....

Baking cinnamon bread with grandma Ama.

A carriage ride on "Rosy" was just one of the week's highlights....

..... then finally the ride home on the ferry......

and the long drive home......

Visiting Washington DC to see aunts, uncles and cousins...

July 6 2012

We visited Washington DC last weekend and met aunts , uncles and our 6 cousins for the first time.

Cousin Genny with Maggie -- we celebrated Genny's graduation from High school. She plans to attend Scranton University this fall.

This is the summer holidays before heading to Kindergarten at Gleason Lake Elementary school this fall in September....Summer is full of gymnastics classes with sailing, golf lessons and T-ball plus learning to write and draw;  swimming whenever possible and on my bicycle without training wheels.... here are pics from May and June....

sailing lessons at Wayzata Yacht Club sailing school.

Golfing lessons with my best friend Beck.

My new cool glasses.....