April 2007

April 2009

Today, the first day of our spring break, we made our annual pilgrimage to Helen, Ga. It’s a small tourist town in the north Georgia Appalachian foothills. It’s been redone to look like a Bavarian town.

We ate various wursts with numerous types of mustard, sauerkraut, cabbage and pretzels. Then the kids posed for their annual “Old Timey” photo. After that, it was window shopping and ice cream.

 

Old Timey photo.

April 2010

Our annual trip to Helen, GA. Kids feeding carrot to one of the coach horses.

Getting costumes ready for this year’s old-timey photo.

Isabella posing.

Finished picture! Annual old-timey photo. We have 5 years of these now, all taken almost exactly 12 months apart. It’s fun to see how the kids change from year to year.

Isabella and I in the horse-drawn carriage.

Adam

Girls taking a break to look at our treasures.

Josie & Holden running around while Isabella and I poke through shops.

Our family Helen tradition — ice cream after a German lunch.

Injured Josie. She fell and scraped her knee. She didn’t put her hands down to break her fall because she was protecting her ice cream. She saved the ice cream, but got a bloody knee in the process. One of the nice shop ladies gave her a band-aid.

April 2011

For this year’s Mother’s Day, we made our annual trip up to Helen, GA (about 1 1/2 hrs away in the North Ga mountains). We had our traditional lunch of German food, Old Timey Photos and ice cream.
This is our sixth consecutive year of visits.

Holden waiting for the girls to finish dressing up.

The girls waiting outside the public restrooms for Holden to finish up.

Messy face and brain freeze headache.

April 2012 — same outfits for the girls, new one for Holden.

21 April 2013

Today we made our annual trek up to Helen, GA in the Appalachian foothills. We had plenty of sun, if not heat, and because we went up early in the season, the crowds in the tourist town here absent.  (But before we left, a quick shot of Josie in a tree in our back yard.)

Momma cleaning up her boy and making him presentable. It won’t be too many years before she’ll have to reach up to get at his face.

Lunch on the Chattahoochee river.

Miniature golfing has become a fun, must-do event in Helen each year.

The Old-Timey photo from this year – our 8th consecutive year.

 

April 2014

Sadly, we didn’t make it to Helen this year.  Other travel took priority and we just didn’t have time.  😦