Hallo Deutschland!

It's been two months since I've posted anything (which is WAY too long) and so much has happened in those two months!! Let me catch you up, and I promise I'll try to write the short version!

July was moving month for us! The movers came, packed up the majority of our belongings and shipped them off to Germany! We spent about a week getting only two or three hours of sleep a night, scrubbing our house from top to bottom, and getting all of our paperwork in order for the move.

Then (in what was probably a moment of insanity) we decided to drive back to Texas at midnight on July 20 to be back in time for a dear friend's wedding! The girls and I had the opportunity to sing at Lisa and Thad's wedding which was wonderful until we all started crying in the middle of the song. It was great to catch up with the girls since it'll be at least three years before I get to hang out with all of them together again (unless someone else gets married!!).

Then it was the great shuffle game between my family in SA and D's family in ATX. Family time was the best and definitely made it difficult for us to leave!!!

Then our great move started on July 30! We left ATX at 4am (ew) for our flight to Minneapolis, then to Baltimore, and then to Ramstein, Germany! It was a grand total of 15 hours of flying. Then we waited four hours for our seven hour bus ride and we were finally in Hohenfels. Two full days of traveling later we had reached our destination and got to eat food and take showers. It was exhausting and we both got a little grouchy but that was to be expected. I can't imagine what that trip would have been like with kids and a pet like so many of the families on the bus/flight with us!

Now we live in Germany :) And it's so incredibly cool!!

We spent two weeks in the hotel and then moved into our German duplex. We're currently on week three with the beautiful loaner furniture the Army let us borrow and it's just finally starting to not smell like feet. We're taking advantage of not having any furniture by painting the kitchen and living room. It's been kind of fun to be able to slip and slide around in my socks and put anything anywhere because we basically have nothing but I am so looking forward to having our things back. I'm a little nervous that everything will turn up broken or missing but I guess we'll find out when it's delivered (hopefully) in a few weeks.

Until then, I'm planning trips for us for every weekend for the next three years. There are so many places I want to see, it's so hard to know where to start! I can't wait until our families come to visit so I can show them our beautiful new home :)