We all did a lot of nothing on Saturday. 

We had stake conference on Sunday morning. Chad was good. I was not so good. I stayed home and let Eden get a good nap while I worked on primary stuff while Chad endured the headache of trying to concentrate during a meeting that you are trying to understand in German but can’t quite follow so you have to listen to the English as well. I have gotten next to nothing out of our church meetings since we have been joined by our sweet bundle of joy and wiggles. Chad is great and usually takes her and tries to entertain her. Try I as I may my head just hears lots of words and fails to string them together to form ideas. Sadly, I do not think the meetings being in English would help much.  We always blame our short attention spans on the German. And our bad spelling too.

The Todds came over for dinner in the afternoon. We ate really well. Food is so good. We also played Mother May I. The kids couldn’t get enough of it. Chad and I seem to like to make fools of ourselves, in front of not just friends but complete strangers as well, (like when we were waiting for the ferry leaving Mainau Island).

We decided to draw the solar system and lots of cool looking aliens on the sidewalk with chalk. Eden was playing in the grass and eating her fair share. We thought it was safe enough. Then the next thing we know both Jarrod and Jenna are hovering over her as she gags. How sweet. After a few minutes of their parental instincts kicking in I went and grabbed her. She more than gagged this time. Eden and I went up to the apartment to change and she managed to throw up a nice little pokey twig. It was pretty thin like a blade of grass but not so smooth for swallowing. Poor girl! I guess we’ll need to be more aware of what she is trying to ingest.

Chad and I had hoped to use our long weekend to get out of town and hike through the Cinque Terra in Italy. We decided that staying home was better than searching for hotels along the way that were booked out and might not accept a darling baby girl like Eden.

We ended up going on one of our “Must do Swiss trips”. We met up with our friends Jarrod, Jenna, Lexi and Mia Todd (who had Kelsey Price in tow) in Konstanz. We took a sunny, relaxing ferry over the Bodensee with a stop in a cute little town for ice cream and on to our destination Mainau Island. The island is a big bunch of beautiful flower gardens. I can’t imagine a better way to spend the day. The weather was perfect and the flowers were beautiful. They also had the most ideal playground ever! I had so much fun, even though I came away with a nasty wound from getting my had pinched in the rope ferry. Elisa was dying for an excuse to play with the kids on the toys. I guess I walked across the rope bridge too. She took a little chunk out of her hand unfortunately. But, Elisa, it’s not my fault that the iodine stings. That is what I get for playing with the big kids.