Doughnut time!!

The kids made doughnuts several times during Christmas vacation. They became experts. (some in baking them, some in eating them) Great group project!!

One of us was especially happy! I think he missed his local doughnut shop!

Family Photo Shoot

Since we were all together for Christmas, and we don't know when we will all be in one place at the same time again, we squeezed in a photo shoot. We had hoped that the newest Kapi (ok, ok, Schott) would be in the pictures, but he decided to stay put until 2016.

 Four generations.

This is not really from our photo shoot, but I love this picture of my dad. He loves being with the kids, or maybe he just still is a big kid.

Christmas Kapi Style

We had a wonderful end to 2015 with all of our children, their spouses, our grandson, AND my dad, Earl, here to celebrate Christmas and New Year's with us. Our hearts were full as we enjoyed the rare blessing of being all together.

Morning snuggles with my grandson

 Christmas brunch

 Trying to corrupt Grandpa. He played along well, with his apple juice.

Which one has a real baby?

Cambodian pants (Grandpa wasn't too sure about those!)

Hot chocolate!

The kids surprised us with this beautiful birthday calendar that they designed and made.

 Lego time!

A new baby!!!

We are grandparents for the second time!

Mélanie and Pierre-David are the parents of

Josias Benjamin Schott

Born January 4th, 2016

Just a few hours old

Summer fun with cousins (and Grandpa!) 1

I never put any summer photos on the blog!! And we had such a great summer! Spending time in the USA made summer unforgettable! The kids got to know all their American cousins, finally.

Clark family get together

With American Kapi cousins 

First, but not last, ice cream of the trip

We got to eat out a lot.

Grandpa likes to buy us doughnuts.

Not sure who is bothering who.

Spending time with Judy's family.

Did I mention eating out?

Celebrating 30 years of marriage!!!

We have wanted to get away somewhere with dear friends of ours, but we never seemed to get organized enough to put our desires into action. Well, with some help and pushing from the kids (in both families), we finally were able to spend four days in Florence, Italy with Daniel and Pierrette to celebrate 30 years of marriage for both couples. We love Florence and were thrilled to act as tour guides, even if we don't speak Italian. The good thing about Italian, is that half of the language is hand gestures.

Here are a few pictures on no particular order to give an idea of the fun we had, and of the beauty of this place.

Ponte Vecchio (Old Bridge)

We ate pizza… a few times… really good pizza.  

Back to school as we tried to soak in as much art history as we could in four hours. 

Ponte Vecchio again. (Just can't get enough of this bridge) 

View from Duomo, the main cathedral of Florence and the largest brick dome in the world.

Being silly in Pisa before our flight home.