2016 Pictorial Review

Merry Christmas and a Blessed New Year!!

Not sending out Christmas cards this year, instead, enjoy this visual of 2016 highlights for our family – imagine you’re sitting next to me on a couch and I’m showing off a photo album as I love to do – but this way there are way fewer pictures, and I can share with so much more of you at once!  With our love and best wishes for a joyful Holiday season and a 2017 full of laughter and precious memories,

Norbert, Rachel, Josiah & Aubrieanne, Joshua and Danny Lakatos

January

• we began 2016 ALTOGETHER, and while that didn’t happen again this year, it’s been a year full of togetherness in groups and parts and with many dear and special friends

Altogether in Disneyland

with Rachel’s sister Sarah, cousin Melanie and brother Noah’s family

with dear friend Marilyn in Budapest, just months before her battle against Leukemia began, she went home to Jesus in June

February

ICSB’s Basketball Tournament, the biggest school event of the year – Go Bulldogs! Danny’s BFF Ali is on the left, and extra points if you can count how many hair colors Danny went through this year.

Norbert’s birthday lasagna dinner

March

• Joshua returned to Europe in March, initially to attend a YWAM DTS in Germany, which ended up canceled, so he spent time as a Teacher’s Assistant at his old school in Budapest (and is now considering becoming a teacher) and then spent the summer as staff at Schloss Heroldeck Christian Conference Center in Austria

Easter weekend trip to the Budapest Zoo

Easter Day with Norbert’s sister Nora’s family

April

ICSB Junior Senior Banquet

Family BBQ at Norbert’s cousin’s home with his mom, her sister, three cousins and their kids

Boys will be boys…

May

CEO Picnic, friends as dear as family

Norbert hosts the 4th Pastor’s Retreat in Szeged

with Joshi on Margit Hid (bridge) near our home

Rachel’s best friend from High School arrives for a special visit!

Teaching Denise to pronounce her favorite treat in Hungarian…or trying to at least. 🙂

dinner at our favorite traditional Hungarian restaurant in Buda, Margit Kert

with Denise enjoying the nightly musical and lights fountain display on Margit Island

Szeged Days family photo

Danny’s beautiful photograph displayed at the ICSB Fine Arts night

father and son on our bridge before he heads off for the summer

Joshua heads to Austria…

June

Wednesday morning women’s Bible study that Rachel leads meeting at Elizabeth’s house to enjoy her amazing rose bower in full bloom

our nephew Viktor is one year old, and Uncle Norbert gets to play with Lego’s!

with Nora, Attis and Viktor at the cool Lego event in town

another friend flew across the ocean to visit, this time Danny’s best friend Skylar

and then Norbert & Rachel flew to the US, and Josiah joined us in CA to see Grandma

our first trip to Disneyland with just ONE child

Siah didn’t have any fun without his brother and sister

July

back in Colorado we had company too, Rachel’s cousin Emily and her family

but most of our time in Colorado this summer involved gloves, shovels and way too much mulch…

….but some work breaks were had with special friends, including Rachel’s best friend Robin

in our newly re-landscaped backyard, with our Colorado Welcome bear Frank who has traveled back to Budapest with us and now greets any visitors to our home here, come meet him!

August

• We flew back to Hungary early in August, but first we flew to Maine and spent a wonderful week with Rachel’s family there, before heading on to Budapest via Boston (wow – three hours off our regular flight made an amazing difference!)

on the ferry to Peaks Island with family in Maine

Rachel’s brother Zac and his family introduced us to Fielder’s Choice Ice Cream – yum!

Family Shot at the Willson Homestead in Mechanic Falls, ME

meanwhile in Austria….yep, Joshua got baptized!

we drove to the Missions Conference in Austria with this carload of lovely young ladies…it was not quiet.

more friendship hang time in Austria, Third Culture Kids and MK’s bonds are deep

caught Joshua hanging with friends in Austria too

but this year’s Missions Conf. will always be the year Joshua and a group swam across Lake Millstatt!

family shot before we leave Schloss Heroldeck, our family’s favorite place on earth

our car-load back to Budapest (plus an extra friend in the shot)

Danny’s last first day of school at ICSB or any regular school, our High School Senior this year!

September

• In mid-September Rachel took an unexpected two month trip back to Colorado to be with our oldest son Josiah as he became a father – for more about that time (and more baby pictures!), see the previous blog post.

Joshua flies to Italy for Bible College

Norbert’s surprise Danube evening river cruise for Rachel’s birthday

how our family keeps connected while spread all over the globe

October

at Josiah’s Disney-themed Daddy Shower

father and daughter, our precious first grandchild, Aubrieanne

November

• Rachel flew home to Budapest in mid-November, a week before we drove to Italy to pick up Joshua from Bible College to be home for the Holidays before heading to spring semester in York, England.

Rachel’s sister Sarah came to Colorado for a short but sweet visit over the same weekend that…

….Josiah dedicated Aubrieanne back to God

Joshua’s Bible College classmates and staff in Montebelluna, Italy

Venice, Italy was amazing!

December

Smiling, chunky-monkey Aubrieanne

Budapest Christmas Market

Merry Christmas from Aubrieanne and Santa!

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