I know that no one is on here anymore but I log on occasionally and was tired of seeing my old post. I do miss Pleonast and hope one day it makes a comeback!

Since my last post, things have changed dramatically in my life. I moved up to teaching third grade and had the most trying year of my career all while being pregnant. I had the most beautiful daughter, Evelyn LaRue, and was able to quit teaching full time and go into subbing part time. :-) I am so insanely happy being home with my daughter more. Eventually I hope to quit working altogether but for now this is working out well for us.

I know I am posting this for my own sake but now at least I can look at a different post when I log on.

Oh and for those wondering about the little girl I posted about. She wound up having both kidneys removed about a year after she was sick. She is on a dialysis machine while she sleeps. They cannot do a kidney transplant because the disease she has attacks organs and they are afraid it will attack her new kidneys. They are always fearful it will start attacking her other organs which adds lots of stress on her parents. She has a disease that usually targets older people so they have had a hard time finding a solution for her because they rarely see it in children. She has good and bad days but has managed to stay out of the hospital for long periods of time. I did however see her while subbing this past fall and now she has a port in her chest. She is not out of the woods but is doing okay for right now.

Maybe I will get back to posting on here more. If anything, maybe just for my own records. :-) Hope all of you are doing well!

I have posted this on my Facebook but I thought I would make my Pleo a little happier too. This weekend I happened to see Stephanie Meyer, the author of Twilight. It was pretty funny. I thought she was really nice. She did mention that the "New Moon" movie is much better than the "Twilight" movie. She actually got pretty excited about it. Thank you for letting me share my funny moment.

http://www.azcentral.com/12news/schoolsolutions/articles/0131super6-CR.html

Sorry I have no idea how to do a link.

We drove to Munich our second night in Germany and stayed there for one night. I was able to gather my mom and brother's pictures. Here is Munich...

A picture of us being silly as we were walking around at night!

Marienplatz at night

Olympic Park in Munich

A large tower in Olympic Park. We traveled almost to the very top!

View from the top of the tower

My family. My aunt Robin and her friend Scott are also in this picture.

Toby taught me the trick of taking pictures looking straight down when you visit tall towers. Word of advice....don't look at the picture until you are on the ground!!!!

Marienplatz in the daytime.

Entrance to the Marienplatz

Marienplatz...I just love all the flowers. They had these all over Europe. While in Austria, someone told us they take them to the basement in winter and put them back out in the spring. Wonder if I can do this to my house.

Almost forgot about the BMW museum. We took some extremely silly pictures!

This is a church we visited but I cannot recall the name. I just loved the sun coming in through the windows!

Next up is my favorite city we visited! Hopefully those will be up very soon! Have a wonderful weekend!

Between everyone we took about 2,000 photos. I am going to post only a few at a time. These pictures are of the first day. We landed in Frankfurt and immediately got on a train to Stuttgart. Once in Stuttgart we packed a small bag for a few days and left for Rothenburg (aka the Christmas city). This is Rothenburg. Might be my second favorite city we visited.

Yes, we were excited to be there!

The wall surrounding the city.

Entrance to the city.

I want to live in one of these houses.

Us on a covered bridge.

At the top of the city. It was very tight quarters up there. We visited MANY towers!

Stay tuned for the next installment.