Huttenfest Oct. 29, 2011

Ollie and Annie with their Bavarian hats on for Huttenfest.

Up at Uncle George's Hut

It started out as a nice fall day...

with delicious Bavarian fare

...brew

cookies...

Annie and Oma Annelies

Dinner in the hut

Oma and Uncle George enjoying the fire and reminiscing

Huttenfest 2011

Uncle Benny and Ollie checking out the first few flakes of snow

Sadie hunting for sticks

Warming up in the hut

Another way to warm up in the hut

especially when it looks like this outside:

Uncle Benny, Anthony and Uncle Thomas enjoying the snow

Annie and Lisa making the first snowman of the year, on Oct. 29th!

Ollie and Snowman

Snowman's drink of choice

Uncle George and Uncle Benny

Annie, Oma Annelies, Uncle Thomas and Ollie getting ready to hike back down to the house

Early Halloween

Our 2011 jack-o-lantern family

Annie's elephant jack-o-lantern she carved with Uncle Benny and Theo

Girls showing off their Mulan dresses

We had a snowy Oct. 28th this year!

River Valley Club Halloween Party

Ollie as Davy Crockett

Annie as Laura Ingalls Wilder

Ollie and BFF Annabelle

Fall 2011

Signal Hill Hike

Sisters!

We found a field of milkweed pods.

Attack of the milkweed seeds!