Happy Birthday, Frédéric!

Frédéric celebrated his birthday this year with his favorite strawberry cream cake. Mmm!

Gymnastics Level

Noah passed his orange gymnastics level this year. Look at those muscles!

Benjamin didn't get to pass his level this time; there's been some difficulty with training this year since the group is a mix of boys at different levels, and the coach has been focusing on those at a lower level first. We hope Benjamin will get to pass his level next year. In the meantime, he came along to cheer on his brother.

May 1st Swim Meet

Benjamin had another swim meet May 1st. He missed 3rd place in backstroke by just seven hundreths of a second! And Frédéric took on his role of official time-keeper-in-training.

Noah just took advantage of being allowed to warm up with the team, and then mess around in the small pool. In the fall, he'll be competing, too.

Ski Trip Time

Leaving for ski vacation so late in the season, we weren't sure whether we'd even have snow once we got up to the resort. But these trees greeted us on our way up. As you can see in the next picture, though, there wasn't much snow left! It was mostly slush by the end of the week.

We also had some dark clouds and hailstorms, but that didn't deter our skiers for long.

Benjamin earned his third star level, and Noah his second.

Starting Out Right

Any trip that starts out this way has to go right, doesn't it? We spent the night in Dijon on our way to the mountains, and saw an American-themed diner near our hotel. So of course we had to stop for the photo op before we continued on our way! (The diner wasn't open yet when we left, so we couldn't test whether the food was authentic or not!)