Our Last Trip to Edelweiss!!

 

Thursday, January 24, 2013

We drove four hours after school to Garmische.

 

Friday, January 25, 2013

Skiing was so fun! Ryan and Emily were in my class. First we learned how to put our skis on. The shoes were SO tight and right now my feet and legs (and arms) are sore! Then we learned how to side step up a mountain (my least favorite part) and slowly skiing down. To go slow, you do a “pizza” with the front of your skis facing inward (like a slice of pizza). To go faster, you do “french fries” with your skis parallel to each other.

We had a break for lunch and had pizza and french fries. (Seriously!) When we got back outside, we went down the small hill from almost halfway and went slow.  Finally, they taught us how to turn. They put cones out that we had to go through. We went up on the rope thingy and went higher and higher. they put more cones out and I was the first person to get through all of them, because one was a hard turn. I continued to go through all of the cones until the instructor told me to try going around the end cones. That was hard, but I got it a few times. 

Then, class ended and all of the people and cones left. It was a big space for me to go as fast as I could with as many turns as I wanted. It was so pretty! Snow was falling with peace and quiet on a huge hill with mountains in the background of my view. I didn’t want to leave.

After, the skiing, we went sledding and Ryan and I went on  the “scary side”.We went on some crazy jumps. It was super fun!

Next, we went to dinner. MMMM! I had a salad, soup and desert: A big chocolate ice cream bowl with tons of toppings. (plus tons of delicious brownies and cookies.)

After that, we went swimming! Dad had the GoPro in the water. We loved going in the hot-tub with sow surrounding it. It was so pretty, warm and relaxing.

Then, we watched Once Upon A Time. It was fun. Emily read scriptures with me, and we went to bed.

 

Saturday, January 26, 2013

Today, we ate and amazing breakfast with and omelet, a mixed juice drink, and fruit.

Then, we packed up and left our room, but we stayed in the building. The four oldest kids played a spy kind of game in all four floors using three sets of elevators, stairs, and some more secret stairs that an employee showed us. (She’s awesome!) It was Emily and I against Ryan and Megan. We had to find the other team and tap them. Emily and I won!

Then we drove back home.

That was our last time at Edelweiss in Garmische, Germany!  :(  Great memories have been made and we’ll miss it!  Aufwiedersehen Edelweiss!

The Awesome Day

 

Christmas was so awesome this year!  Grandma and Grandpa Johnson came to visit us in Germany!

I had a hard time going to sleep.  But when I did, a second later I heard Ryan running up stairs yelling “It’s 7  o’clock!”  I got out of bed without knowing what I was doing and ran to my bed where my parents were sleeping.  We practically jumped on my dad.  Then everybody got up and ready and we got in our Christmas lineup. 

Ryan gave me Taylor Swift’s new album, Speak Now!  I have to say this was definitely one of my favorite presents!

My new vest!    I gave my dad a Christmas book that I made at school about our family’s Christmas. (Hardbound)

Look at the snow in the background.  It’s awesome!!!

 

Grandma gave me a Justin Bieber CD!    Mom’s new camera.

 

The movie Cars for Luke and a stuffed animal monkey for Megan. (From Katie)

 

 

 

 

 

 

This is our Christmas tree.  We bought a real one this year.  I’m super happy about that:)

Emily and Megan got scooters from Santa.

 

Ryan’s bike,  Katie’s roller blades, & Luke’s German bike  from Santa.

 

All the boys got cute pajama pants from G & G.      Mom & Dad got new bikes from G & G Johnson. 

Girls nightgowns from Grandma and Grandpa:)

G & G’s Saint Nickolas nutcracker

 

Luke and Matthew got Toy Story potatoes heads.

To Grandpa  From the Johnsons   

Dad, Mom, Ryan, and I all got IPOD shuffles.  They are Awesome!!!

I LOVE CHRISTRMAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Germany

There are some up and downs about moving to Germany.

The good things are:

• We get to visit really cool places like Paris, France.
• We get to have a new house.
• We get to learn German.
• We get to visit castles.
• We get to go skiing.
• We’ve going to have more snow.
• Lots of people are probably going to visit. (I know you want to!)

The bad things are:

• We’re going to miss our house – like our big closets, a big shower,tons of room and a big backyard.
• We’re going to miss all our friends in Georgia, especially the Starbucks.
• We’re going to miss Callaway Gardens, the Chattahoochee River, Flat Rock Park and all those park places we go.
• We have to move schools (I don’t know if that’s bad or good yet.)