We were invited to spend Christmas with Claude and Elisabeth Baecher. Elisabeth is Ed's first cousin. They live in a town just a 15 min drive from the Basel airport. They have four children all living away from home now. Marie Noel, the oldest daughter lives in the south of France and was not able to join us. Olivier is the next oldest. He spent a summer with us when we lived in Kansas working some for Brad Shue doing roofs. He is married to Valerie and they have a little 18 month old girl, Lucie. Then there is Florence who married in September and lives about one hour away from them. Viviane is their youngest. She spend one year in school in Goshen going to Bethany Christian High School. During that time she came to Harper for Christmas with our family for a little over a week. She is now working and going to school but was home on a break. I was not able to sing the words to the carols but I did hum along as the music is mostly the same. Of course they all speak very good English so I had plenty of people to talk to. We had a great time with them all and are very grateful their hospitality.
In the first picture is right before we took a walk over a bridge to Germany. Ed is trying to look French with a hat he borrowed from Claude, I told him it just made him look older.
The next picture is of Olivier and his daughter Lucie.
And then a picture of Florence and her husband David.
1 comment:
Wow, what a great Christmas! It all looks and sounds so nice! I think Ed looks great in the hat! Merry Christmas and Happy New Year! We gave a cheer at Midnight your time.
Tonya
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