The Liebster Award

Our blog has been nominated for the Liebster Award by Anna, who writes a super cute blog about being a parent and all of the wonderful things associated with new babies, The Baby Bump Diaries.  Thank you Anna for passing along this award in an effort to help people discover new blogs.

The Liebster Award is given to up and coming bloggers who have less than 200 followers. So, what is a Liebster?  The meaning: Liebster is German and means sweetest, kindest, nicest, dearest, beloved, lovely, kind, pleasant, valued, cute, endearing, and welcome. Isn't that sweet? Blogging is about building a community and it's a great way to connect with other bloggers and help spread the word about newer bloggers/blogs.

Here are the rules for receiving the award:

1. Answer the 11 Liebster questions given to you by the nominee before you
2. Link back to the person who nominated you
3. Pick up to 11 bloggers with under 200 followers to nominate
4. Come up with 11 questions for your nominees to answer
5. Notify the nominees

Since Jon occasionally writes for this blog too so you get 2 answers for each question. Aren't y'all lucky?  I didn't let Jon see my answers to these questions so his answers aren't influenced AT ALL by mine.

Questions:

1. What has your favorite motherhood/fatherhood moment been (thus far)?
Lisa: Oh there are so many moments it is impossible to have just one favorite.  I will say that one of my

Happy New Year! (Married-couple-with-a-kid-style)

Our New Year's Eve celebration once involved ballrooms, high heels and open bars. However, since Calvin's arrival and the onset of older age... Jon and I were looking forward to a really nice dinner - lobster and clams - and a opening a bottle of nice Viennese wine.  We thought we might watch a movie to stretch us closer to midnight, watch some fireworks on tv and turn in "early."  We were caught unawares when we started hearing random fireworks going off at random intervals outside our house starting at 4pm (aka complete darkness).  Looking out our back window, we caught glimpses of fireworks going off

Jonathan has a personal trainer

Calvin keeps us in shape!

International Delight -- Part II

FLASHBACK!  Me, Kyle and Samantha circa July 2007

July 2012 -- 5 years later and slightly less reckless

Our very first visitor to our apartment in Stockholm, was my best friend, Samantha.  She braved schizophrenic weather changes (sun to hail to rain to snow to sun in less than 3 hours) and we wrote all about her first visit here.  The timing of her second visit meant that she was also our first visitor to our new house in the "country."  Unlike her last trip