Some more Shir'ness

I promise not to make a habit of bombing your inboxes with Shir's pictures ( though it's quite tempting I must say), but here's some more pictures I took today.
Isn't she beautiful ?

Took the kids to visit Their Mom & new sister at the hospital. They're both pretty excited though each shows it differently: Shalev in his bouncy 7 yo manner, and Bar trying to be all rational and grown up about it.

Shachar & Shir will come out of the hospital tomorrow noon.
I'm off to bed.

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A new baby girl in our family !

Shahar gave birth tonight, 9.9.09, at a few minutes to 9 pm to a healthy baby girl in what was probably the speediest labour of all times - less then an hour in the delivery room.
Both mother and child are fine. The baby, whom we have decided to name Shir (שיר, a song or poem in hebrew ), weighed 3.76Kg at birth.





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Bar's Bar-Mitzva !

Amazing how 13 years can fly! We celebrated Bar's Bar-Mitzva this Sunday with family and Bar's friends at a restaurant called Leonardo in Beit-Lehem-Haglilit.

Besides the good food, Shachar & I did our best to embarrass Bar with our speech (none of our ploys worked though), Tami congratulated in behalf of the rest of the family, and Bar himself made a small speech he prepared.

Here's the video we showed at the party:
(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4OhRbvkzeYY)



Here are pictures mostly taken by Susan.
Tom - Can you send a link to the pics you took ?


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ברוך שפטרנו מעונשו של זה

It took thirteen years, but he is finally there.

Real soon.

We’re proud to invite you to Bar’s Bar Mitzva,
Which will be held on Sunday, March 8, at 19:00 at “Leonrado” Kosher restaurant in Beth Lehem Haglilit.

People who wish to attend, please let us know.
People who are willing to send a short MazalTov note (~10 seconds), in any Audio or Video format, which will be used for the presentation during the Bar Mitzva – please send to Dany (dany.sternfeld@gmail.com) or Shachar (shachar.or.05@gmail.com ).

זה לקח לו כמעט שלוש עשרה שנה, אבל הוא סוף סוף מגיע לשם
אנחנו גאים ומאושרים להזמין אתכם להשתתף בבר המצווה של בר
שיערך ביום ראשון, השמונה במרץ, יג' באדר, באולם האירועים ליאונרדו, בבית לחם הגלילית, בשעה שבע בערב
המקום כשר, ולמחרת יש חופש, כך שלאף אחד אין תירוצים

נשמח מאד לקבל מכם ברכה קצרה של מספר שניות, בכל פורמט אודיו או וידאו שתבחרו, שתכנס למצגת שתוקרן באירוע. את הברכה אנא שלחו לשחר shachar.or.05@gmail.com או לדני dany.sternfeld@gmail.com

להתראות ממש בקרוב

שחר דני בר ושלו

2008 ends - welcome 2009

It's that time of year that calls for gathering thoughts and nesting in warm houses.





We had an evening of punch and christmas chocolates courtesy of Maria (Thanks Maria), after a stormy day. Makes you realize how lucky we are: to have a warm cozy home, with few imminent threats.


May the next year be peaceful prosperous and happy for ourselves and our neighbors, in the South in the North, and in our hearts.





The picture was taken a few weeks ago, at Ma'agan Michael beach, at a magical day, when the winds were easterly, and the waves sent sparys as the wind cut against them.



You are most welcome to watch Shalev and Bar at the martial arts show at Hanukka (the singer is Yoel - Shalev's judo sensai who is also Dany's sensai and mine as well)
http://il.youtube.com/watch?v=6isbPqWQ9vU

Summer trip to fjordland Norway

What could be better than leaving the Israeli heat for a tenday, and trade it for the cool and wet Norway?

This is probably the right place to thank Vera and Robbi for planting the idea while they were here. Thanks guys!

We went on a glacier walk, saw a lot of fjords and waterfalls, walked and walked and walked - until our shoes got threadbare, slept in cabins and ate supermarket food to lower the costs, and generally had a lovely time.

You can see the pictures we took here
or in the frame below if you're reading this from my blog.

Or take a look at the Video:
Part 1.


Part 2.


Part 3.


Part 4.

End of school year 2008

Dear friends and family,

A hectic June and some of July have passed, and that means the end of school year, a special ending for us, as Bar has finished elementary school and will be starting junior high school next year, while Shalev has finished kindergarten and starting elementary school in September.


So, Shalev had the end of year celebration in the kindergaten, based on the theme of 60th bd of Israel.



And Bar did as well - a full fledged play based on the theme of, guess what, 60th bd of Israel.

(Bar as Theodore Herzl)

Also you can see Bar's end of year concert. Small, but of high quality performers :)


(http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=paCIy7uxF5w)



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