Matthews Family Herald

"As for me and my house, we will serve the Lord" from Joshua 24:15

(As always, enjoy the pics more by clicking on them for a larger view.) Here's Eden in one of her other new dresses. She is so very adorable, no? Warning. I have had a hard time lining up my comments with the photos. I apologize but if you read this and enjoy the photos you should be able to match things up pretty well. I should have loaded all the pics first and then commented after. Next time I hope to do better but hope you enjoy anyway... There's Nathan C. looking so cool in his duds. Eden is a cutie as usual. I just have to have at least one shot of her with food on her face. It's a trend, you know?! Man, the kids collected a boo coo of snails from our backyard and entertained themselves for hours. They are pretty cool and entertaining. I was detailed as a color guard soldier recently at a ball. Here I am in uniform afterwards. I had the honor of holding the Deutschland flag. Hannah here in her church clothes or at least a new summer dress. She's so beatiful. Rachel sent the girls and my wife some really nice things and my Heather really loves this apron. She said it's the most favorite one she's ever had and wanted to make sure I posted it here. Nathan and Eden looking so great in their church duds. Here I am trying on some church clothes my wife found at a great deal. God is awesome to give me a wife who is so good at keeping us looking good and saving us money like this.


Heather made one of her favorite soups, French Onion using some wild onions we picked nearby. If any dogs happened to have peed on the onions prior to our using them, I certainly couldn't tell by the taste. The soup was delicious, as my wife's cooking always is. Here's a recent photo of the two coolest cats hangin' out. Jacob's wearing this Politzei/Police military motif clothing that he loves and Micah is looking casual, classy, and cool. Nathan and I rode the Seesaw together as a part of a day at some castle ruins and the nearby park with the family. It was good times. He is really a great boy, as all my children are. We discovered that he behaves really well when he gets plenty of quality time with Mom and Dad. He especially likes having books read to him. "It's a real treat, Your Highness. A real treat." One of my wife's favorite quotes from the cartoon version of Robin Hood. It's true for this photo first because any photo of my wife is a real treat. But especially because she doesn't let me take many photos of her. A rare flower is a treasure to find and so I share a picture of one with you. The baby is doing really well and so is Heather in that regard. She's a little more than halfway along. The whole family went down to the burgruins/castleruins here in our town and played for awhile. I shot photos while there and got this great one of our precious Hannah. Here we caught Eden listening to one of her favorite CDs by way of headphones. She loves this South African Christian CD we have. I love it too. It's awesome. But she's more awesome! Here's Nathan playing with his Tiergarten zoo animals. Here my children have engaged in improptu silly faces while posing next to our new (used) tropical fish tank. We have seven little neon fish, two small shark-looking fish, two prettier rainbow looking fish, two orange fish, two bottom feeders without suckers, two bottom feeders with suckers, and a large snail. I believe that all of the fish which we have two of are male and female pairs. The kids have named all of them. In Germany, there are still lots of "Mom and Pop" businesses left and so we bought all of our fish from a husband and wife-run camping store in our town. They were careful to ensure we did not over populate the tank too quickly and advised us as to which types of fish were compatible with one another. It's a far cry better service than what say Walmart might have to offer. Germany has their big chain outlets too but they seem to have a better balance and have preserved the small man businesses as well. My wife has done a great job of researching and setting everything up. We've had the tank for nearly a month now and all the fish has been doing really well. We all love to watch them. The tank's sound helps my wife sleep at night and it's just as interesting as television was but much better for you.

3 comments:

haha, nice. I forgot you guys got a fish tank.

Look at the faces here...are these not fruit after thier kind?? I mean, I didn't even ask them "Hey, make a silly face for this shot." They did it by themselves, all at the same time.

Yes. like parents like children. :)

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