Happy Halloween!!

Happy Halloween from Lightning McQueen & our monkey! Justin was out of town, but we got to take Mema and Papa trick-or-treating with us.

... along with this other cute Lightning McQueen and lion. 

Trick-or-treating isn't very common here in Germany. I had heard from friends about areas that did trick-or-treating. We decided to head over to Dahlem near the US embassy houses. It was quite the experience!

We started at 4:30 PM with about 100 other people on those tiny streets. There were 10 houses participating in the trick-or-treating. Logan happily ate his candy as he walked from house to house. 

An hour later, the crowd had grown to 300+ people. Logan went home with an empty bucket and happy tummy. It was perfect & so fun. 

I did get a little jealous though when I saw my friends from home posting photos with their pillowcases brimming with American candy. Ha!

Mom & Dad Bean in Berlin Oct 2026

Last week felt like Christmas! Mema and Papa Bean were in town. This was their fourth trip to Berlin. They've seen all of the touristy stuff, so we just got to do fun every-day things together. It was the best. <3

We went to new restaurants, saw two amazing Alba games, visited a new children's museum, baked lots of treats, trick-or-treated, went back to the airport to track down lost luggage, AND... Logan finally got to live out his dream of visiting the pumpkin patch and riding the fire truck with Mema and Papa.  

Logan's bff, JJ joined us for the last little bit of the pumpkin patch. Logan went crazy when he saw JJ there. Those two are peas in a pod for sure. 

German can be strict and blunt in many ways... but also have their lax sides too. Ha! There were no seatbelts on any of the rides and all of us were a little nervous to see these two boys flying high in the sky. Thankfully, Logan white-knuckled his rocket ship and they were okay.

Our view:

The boy's view!

A sign of a good day. I couldn't help myself and peek at them every chance I got. The sweetest, cutest, funnest babies. I love them.

Going birthday shopping for the kids was sooo fun. This was Logan's first official toy store visit and he lost his mind haha. He was so excited. 

Anoha - the coolest children's museum about Noah's ark!

One of the Reasons

God can make a lot more out of our lives than we can on our own. This summer, I felt hesitant about returning to Berlin. I didn't know what life was going to look like but I knew it's where our family was supposed to be. 

This is definitely one of the reasons we're here. We're so thankful for our Wieskamp family!