Friends, Food and a Full Fridge

Blurry pic but Josie and
Elia are both so preteen

We have been very fortunate to meet some pretty cool people here in Berlin and in particular some pretty amazing families. We hang out here more families and families than we did in Seattle and I think it is because here we all started making friends at the same time.  And as it has turned out many of the families here have kids the same ages as ours.
On Saturday Beth, Maya and Louis came over.  Sadly, Jochen, had a bad cold and had to stay home last minute.  A very fun night of food and laughter. 
Sunday night our friends, Bridget, Luke, Elia and Tesh came over.  Bridget and family moved here 6 months before us and she was friends with one of my West Seattle friends, Sarah.  Sadly, our kids attend different schools so even

Benjamin and I made
a Christmas tree bread thing

though we live relatively close together we don't see each other near enough.

My fridge here is
never this full. 

One of the very nice side effects of having two dinner gatherings at our house back to back was a ton of left overs.  I even went to the store to buy extra food storage containers on Saturday before making the food.  I now have a FULL fridge to eat out of for the next several days until we take off on our after Christmas road trip.  Which is a good
thing because all grocery stores are closed the 24th after noon, and all day on the 25th and 26th.
Not any good pics but so much food and great times with wonderful friends.