Tomorrow is the big day!!

Tomorrow at 2:29 we fly to Washington Dulles Airport and connect on our flight to Munich. We will arrive at 7:40 am Germany time, which is 1:40 am TN time. Oh the tired!!!

This week (or rather this whole month) there have been so many sad good-byes, I don't know how many more tears I have in there. We are so excited to get to Germany and begin what we have been preparing for these past few years, but nothing prepares you for leaving and saying good-bye.

I will be sure to update when we arrive, and keep everyone updated on how things are going, just maybe not as often. Things are busy as soon as we arrive. We have a few weeks to get acclamated and then our container will arrive around the 17th of November, we will have less than a week to get unpacked, and language school begins the 21st. Pray for us!! :)

Love you all

Friends

As we walk through life it is such a blessing to have great friends to share joys and sorrows, good times and bad times, fun and hard work. It has been said that if at you can count on one hand the "Great Friends" you have in life, you are truly blessed. We are so thankful, we have to borrow 5 or 6 other hands to count all our true friends. What a blessing to have so many of our friends helping in such a great way through this whole journey. This past Saturday our home church had a "going away" party. It was so much fun to spend one last hoorah with everyone before we leave. What a blessing each one of you have been to us. You will never know how much you truly mean to us. My greatest fear when preparing to move to another country is not having close friends to "hang out" with. I am so thankful for technology where we can skype, Facebook and keep in contact so closely with everyone. It is not quite the same, but will help so much. We have had so many people tell us they want to come visit in Germany. I am holding every one of you to it. :) We have plenty of room and look forward to being tour guides.

At the corn maze after the going away party with the Grays and Umsteads and my mom.

Don't laugh at my socks and shoes. I thought it would be comforatable and it was NOT.

Jonathan and Melissa LaBarge - we will miss you guys and all the fun dinners and movie night.

Jennifer Gray, my mom and Belinda Williams

Nathan and Melissa White - one of the sweetest couples I have ever met. You both have been such a huge help to us, especially with this move. We can never thank you enough.

Bill and Hayley Lystlund

Andy and Mary Padgett (our choir buddies)

Matt and Ashley Ylitalo

Dave and Jennifer Whitaker

Mr. & Mrs. Fox

Tom and Mandy Aldmon

Jackson and his buddies

The Cake - "Auf Widersehen" (good-bye in German)

Johnny & Jessica Ormerod

Thank you all for making this such a special time.

The New Look

Our new Front Yard

I know Lucky is spelled wrong

Our scary but so cool stairway

Upstairs deck

My favorite room so far.

Well.....I messed up my last blog trying to add a header, so i had to start over. I like this one better anyhow. I promise to try and keep up with my blog this time. I love reading other friends blogs, and I always feel inadequate because I AM NOT a writer. It is fun to share what is going on and posting pics, so I will try and keep it up for those who want to follow our journey.

As I write today, my heart beats faster thinking that two weeks from right now, Bob, Jackson and I will be sitting at Tyson McGhee Airport waiting for our plane to take off, bringing us to our new life, and new journey starting in Germany. We are so excited to start this new life, but nervous and apprehensive about the unknown at the same time. So much of our life will change overnight. We will move into a new home, new culture, new language school, and new church all in less than 3 weeks of arriving. We are so excited Bob's parents and the Klaus family have found a house for us to live in. We are able to take up residence just a few days after we arrive, but will have to wait a few weeks until our container arrives. The Germans do an interesting thing, when they move to another home, they take their entire kitchen with them, including all cabinets, sinks, countertops. So as soon as we arrive, we will have to purchase an entire kitchen and install it. In a way it is nice, because I can choose what I want in my kitchen, but difficult because of cost and time. The Pictures above are of a few of our new house, but I intend to add many more once we get moved in and settled.

I must get back to work packing, but will keep everyone posted on our move.