By the way...

I don't think i ever posted about us moving to Germany...
Last November (the Saturday after Thanksgiving to be exact) Elden and I were in our basement just hanging out and talking. Elden was at his computer checking his email and said to me "So you want to move to Germany next year?" I thought he was joking at first, but he wasn't.  Only after a year at being stationed at Schriever we got new orders.

We moved to Germany 2 1/2 months after Riley was born.  It's taken some adjusting, but it's definitely a neat experience to be here!  I'm not going to lie...I miss living in the states! It's a whole different lifestyle over here!

I miss seeing words on a sign or something and actually knowing what they mean. I miss being able to talk to people without having to ask them first "Sprechen Sie Englisch?". Also-I miss driving on wide roads, and roads that don't make me car sick when I'm not driving. Groceries are expensive (and i'm not working full time anymore). Mostly though, I miss my family! Before we left, Caroline & Jordon moved back, Elden's sister Julia and her family moved to Monument, and right after we left Mary & Corban moved back. I try not to think about it because it makes me sad since I don't know if we'll get stationed there again.

Don't get me wrong-I enjoy some things about Germany as well.  Like, I haven't had a cell phone since June and don't really want one! We live in this quiet little village (except when there is an all night festival down the street with live music playing until 6am.).
The Autobahn! I LOVE being able to drive as fast as I want (until there's road construction and have to slow WAYYYY down). There are only a few stop signs, most of them are yield signs. We live 15 minutes from base instead of an hour, which means we can go have lunch with Elden as much as we want. The German's I've met so far have been so very sweet! I was getting my car serviced last week and the guy that was helping me thought Riley was just the cutest, he kept coming over and talking and playing with him while we waited and before we left he gave Riley a stuffed Volvo polar bear (didn't know Volvo had a mascot??).
I enjoy that stores are closed on Sunday. Sunday is still a sacred day here. You're not allowed to do yard work, wash your car, or basically do anything noisy that might disrupt anyone else. The food so far has been good (especially the ice cream!!!!) And of course, we get to travel.

Dan & Stacia are coming tomorrow on their way to Russia for Dan's study abroad semester, and we're going to see Paris, Brussels Belgium, Luxembourg City, and then some other places close by. (of course, they're all pretty close by-Paris is the farthest away which is only about 4 hours!) We're pretty excited to finally start traveling. We've not really done much since we've just been trying to get the house put together, and because we have 4 years to see everything we want to see.