Dear Family and Friends,
Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!
We have been really bad about keeping in touch and getting
our Christmas cards out since moving to Germany. So, here is an update on the Flake family for the last 2
years since leaving Coronado, California and moving to Stuttgart, Germany…
Julia is now in 7th grade, 13 years old, taller
than her mother and her older sister, and has a beautiful pair of glasses that allows
her see so much better! She has
learned to play the violin and is now learning how to play the piano. Julia is in the National Junior’s
Honor society and several other clubs at school. She learned a little bit of German the first year we were
here and is now taking Spanish.
Elena, a freshman in high school is 14 years old, and not
happy that her younger sister is taller than her. She is now an Army JROTC
Cadet and is also the Commander of the JV Rifle Team! There was no Navy program but she
loves it! Her daddy pinned her at
her first promotion. The pinning
ceremony was way too official for mom and so now we are moving to the country,
buying a farm and as many horses as Elena wants! Just kidding! but it was surreal to see all those high
school kids in a full blown military ceremony. Our little cadet will make one bad ass Naval officer!
Oops, I mean Navy Chief one day!
Either way she will be great!
Both girls have been playing soccer since we moved here and
they love it! They both love the
traveling to all the cool places in Europe. Neither of them love museums as much as mom does but they
will admit that the museums have cool stuff! Both girls love seeing pieces of history that they learned
about in school.
Lance…well the poor guy does nothing but go to work and do
homework. He is halfway done with
his Masters degree and has a 4.0 GPA!
In his free time he is driving his little family around Europe. Tired of doing all the driving he
bought us all train tickets on our last trip when we went to Paris. There was no souvenir buying for Wendy
on that trip. L Lance reenlisted for another 4 years, which
will take him to 26 years of Navy service.
Wendy…well she is a little spoiled and having more fun than
the rest of the family! She has
taken 2 different girls trips one to Venice, Italy for Carnivale and the other
to Poland for shopping! We won’t
mention all the other little day trips she does while the other family members
are working hard or going to school.
This summer we all traveled to the States to see our
Family. We were all homesick and
needing a little bit of America.
God Bless our Wonderful Country! We love and miss the USA! We had big plans of seeing all of our
family and friends but ran out of time and were not able to do the traveling we
wanted to see the rest of you. We
met our new newest family members niece Hailey and twin nephews Ashton and
Parker. We hope to let you all
know soon where we will be moving to on our next adventure! Home is where the Navy sends us!
Merry Christmas and Happy 2014
Love,
Lance, Wendy, Elena and Julia
