Monday, October 22, 2007

Yet another birthday girl ;-))

I mentioned in an earlier post that the Lord had provided help for our family...
Last Wednesday it arrived.
It has been wonderful so far.
Anja (YES, we have two Anya's at our house now. We call them Anya and big Anja!) turned 19 today, and it seems like she has been here so much longer than a few days. The kids like her a lot, and she is a lot of fun to have around. It's amazing what an extra set of hands can accomplish. You should see our living room! It was sparkly clean after she was done with it!
She is just a very kind, young lady, and we had fun celebrating her US birthday with her. We took her to 2 very american places this afternoon - Wal Mart first, then McDonald's :-)))
She got such a kick out of the greeter at WalMart and the "hand me a cart" lady, the shelves and shelves of Laundry soaps, as well as the checker bagging our loot! Yep, those things don't happen in a Swiss department store!
The kids very extremely wound up this afternoon, but she took it in stride! Bless her heart!
Here are a couple of pictures of tonight. We had brownies and ice cream after our birthday dinner at McD's.

Nina was not grumpy at all, even though she looks like it in this picture!

And here is the birthday girl ;-)) Shhhhhh, don't tell her I put this picture on the blog!

4 comments:

Hanna said...

Happy birthday Anja! Ich hoffe Du hast eine gute Eingewöhnungszeit und die Dusche funktioniert! Durgol sei Dank! (Psst, schwätzisch mit de Chind öppe echli Schwiizerdütsch...)
Liebe Grüsse
Hanna

Buffi Young said...

Oh my! How wonderful it would be to have that extra set of hands to help!! Enjoy!!
Buffi

Musings from Kim K. said...

Enjoy your extra help. How wonderful that she's right into the mix already with the kids. Great pics!

Anonymous said...

WELCOME to America, Anja! Walmart, McDonalds,...and all the other most unusual places we have to offer...enjoy! Happy, Happy, Birthday! May you enjoy your 19th year...and your future years in America...with your awesome extended Shober family! I will love to meet you someday! Judy Combs