Mount Rainier

On Charles' birthday we went to Mount Rainier for two days (in Washington State, a 3-hour drive from Portland). For pictures please click here

Belgium -- June 2009

crossing the Rhine by train

the Atomium in Brussels

mom is OUT (beach on the North Sea Channel)

Unfortunately our camera broke, so we have no still photos to post from the family visits in Brussels and Bavaria, or from our stay in Austria

Menden -- where mom grew up

the house CB grew up in

the house next door (with the "devil's tower") - with Olaf

with aunts and cousins' kids

Menden (Germany) June 2009 -- people shots

Elsa at the public pool where grandpa volunteers

someone damaged grandpa's table

in the train at Menden Bahnhof

walk in the Hoenne-valley (zwischen Binolen und Feldhofhoehle)

Silver Falls State Park May 2009

Oregon in April

in our neighborhood park

Oregon coast -- Elsa's first experience being mobile on the sand

Friday Harbor (WA) in March

Rare picture of all four of us (on the ferry, with Mount Baker in the background).

Limekiln lighthouse

Attempts at a holiday photo

Elsa-Fest

We had Elsa's baptism and party on November 23rd. The first picture shows Elsa with mom and grandma. Who can find Charlie? (Click any photo to enlarge.)

We were 100 people in total. Elsa didn't cry one bit.

Putting on the Biermann family gown. She was the 17th child to be baptized in it.

Charlie had much more fun at the restaurant afterwards, since we set up a "Color-Me-Rocket". Thank you for the photos, David Fidanque.

Halloween!

The farmer and his two cows...

Elsa is 4 months old

beautiful Portland summer

Our garden grew well, since grandma ("Oma Christa") took care of it this summer.

Elsa wore a dress for daddy's birthday. (And then dad spent his evening giving a talk to software engineers :)

nobody really likes picture taking :)

proud dad

Hands Up!

baby faces

Elsa has gained 25% of her birth weight in 17 days :)

sibling revelry

Elsa is almost 2 weeks old, and Charlie is getting used to the idea that she's NOT going back to where she came from...