Das Erntedankfest

The Swiss Celebrate their Thanksgiving day, Erntedankfest (harvest thank festival) in October, this year it was the 3rd Sunday of the month. The church that we go to had a Thanksgiving brunch and short service. It was a powerful time to reflect upon things that you are thankful for, especially in the last year. John and I were really blessed by this time, as we have so many things to be thankful for over the last year.
Things we are thankful for:

The cows started the Thanksgiving parade off

* That all of the preparations for moving to Switzerland went smoothly and we were able to move here in 3 months time from when John accepted the job.... selling the house, 2 cars, most of our possessions, work visa, getting bear approved.

Traditional Swiss clothing

* That John enjoys his job, there is a whole set of frustrations as well, but he really does enjoy working on making this new airplane fly someday.

Baby sheep

*For a church and the Friends that have come along with it. We have been SO blessed to find a church family to call home. They are a Swiss church of about 100 people (at the most). With Pilatus being in the town there are lots of foreigners and so they have a translator (volunteer each week from the church) to translate from German to English. Most all of our close Swiss and Auslander friends have come from this church.

Lamas!

* For recently finding a place that you can drop your children off on Tuesday and Friday mornings for 2 hours for $9.... this is great because Hannah can hear Swiss German and I can go running or something by myself!

The crazy float... too much coffee schnapps for them!

* For having a real job interview with a Physical therapist the other week, I didn't get the job, but at least they were willing to talk with me!

Over sized Schwingers (like wrestling... Swiss style)

* Lastly, we are thankful for the hard days of being homesick, or wanting things to be easy (aka learning German... why must it be so hard!) because the hard days make the good days even better!! Yes, we do have hard days, but we really try to focus on the positives and so that is what I usually choose to write about!

Little boy schwingers