The Schmidts

By observation Justin and I figured gardening in Germany had to be fairly easy. We both love to work in the yard and see things grow, so we splurged on a green house. We have found a hobby we both enjoy doing together and that our kids can do with us. With Justin's experience working at his family's green houses and after asking mom and dad Schmidt a few questions we got started. We first planted in the plugs, not shown here. Once they sprouted we transplanted them to the pots/trays shown below. Then after the last freeze we transplanted them to our garden boxes. This being our first year we definitely learned a lot, mostly from failures. One lesson being that squash and corn plants do NOT like to be transplanted, ha. Which we did twice. Oops We also planted them way too early with everything else, and in a spot where tree roots sapped the ground of water and nutrients. Since we do not own a truck, we had a dump truck deliver soil for our garden boxes. Yes, it was

Justin and Sam do a "Boys day out" about once a month. They have included; Bowling Go karting A wrestling competition Elmo show They definitely have a good time Sam obviously loves them.

Justin has a lot of neat opportunties within his job as a C130J pilot in the Airforce and one of those was to fly with the French Air Force during the Anniversary of D-Day. Melanie Zambrano and I decided we could do the drive in order to see our husbands and experience part of it with them. We're so glad we did. It was a 7 hour drive, but well worth it. Justin got to see the C-47 up close. This is the airplane that was flown for D-Day. The C130J comes from this model.  Sam and Justin hung at the beach while I went to the museums. Justin had already visited them before we got there. Harbor at Cherbourg I got a fun mini rental car for Sam and I to get around. Justin joined whenever he could. Glamour shot -- ha, jk, more like "uh I can't figure out this selfie thing" One of the memorials What would I do without my travel buddy? He's my favorite buddy! We took part of a day just to play on the beach.