WAVING HELLO FROM GERMANY!!!!

Hello family,

This is me a few minutes after I climbed down or shall I say fell down the rock. As you can see me TRYING to climb back up the rock. These rocks are not easy to climb and or walk down. That is obviously why mom stays at the top. It is just soo much fun climbing and walking through our many mountains here in our little village of Imsbach. Our street name takes after or should I say means blacksmith. The reason that is, is because our village use to be nothing but miners. It is pretty cool. You get half way up some mountains and there is a board or post which tells you were you are and what happened there. It is pretty neat. Our house actually use to be a manufacture business. We have a sign on our house that tells you all about the history about the house. It is really interesting. Of coarse I can't tell you what it means unless I write it all down and translate it to English. I can pick out a few words but not enough to tell everyone what it is talking about. Well I have to go get ready for my game so I will catch you all later.
Love
Kaylin

OUR WONDERFUL DOG'S

Hello from German,

I know you are going to say abuse towards the dogs. LOL But it was soo much fun. You know they loved it too. :) They are soo darn cute sometimes and they don't even know it. :D AWWW The one that Shugar is in the tree's she is playing hide and seek with her stick that she had found. Then after we took the picture of Silhouette she bit my flower. How dare her!!! She is soo dumb I am not so sure that, that flower really even tasted that good. But of coarse there is mom yelling; KAYLIN GET THAT OUT OF HER MOUTH AND HURRY BEFORE SHE SWALLOWS IT. Why me it is her stupid dog that ate the flower in the first place. LOL :P That darn dog doesn't know anything and just like a kid you had to stick your finger down her throat. That wasn't something that I was to pleased about and never have to do again. Since of coarse she doesn't know any tricks, so it wasn't like you could EASILY say Silhouette drop it!!!! HA HA HA That would be a miracle if she did BUT NO!!! Well I better let you go and I will catch up to you guys later.

Love ya,

Kaylin

Flying like a bird!!!!

Wie gates es enen? (How are you?)

Okay, so I wanted to see what it was like being a bird. LOL I am on a tree stump and to top that off on the edge of a rock. The edge of the rock stopped where I was balancing. Talk about scary. Mom was like ok time to get up here now. :) What can I say I love to explore. :P It is sooo much fun!!!!!

Well how is everything going in the states? How is the weather? The weather here needs to make up its mind. One day it will be in the 70's the next it will be cold and raining. Well I guess you could say welcome to the spring. :D Softball is going good I guess. I am ready to go back to the states and play competitive ball. :D The competition over here is not that good, and I like to have some competition anyway. Well I better let you guys go so that I can eat my lunch. Hope you have a fantastic day and I hope that you have a great rest of the week and GOD BLESS!!!!! <><

Love,

Kaylin

Our House

Just a quick blog for this day. It is everything but bedtime here so I will have to blog about more interesting stuff at another time. Kaylin and I went on a nature walk this weekend to take some snapshots of our house from the mountain. When looking at this photo our house is the last white house on the left, going towards the woodsy area or end of the street. I thought this would give all you family members a good picture in your head of where our house is located. I can explain over and over but seeing it in a picture is so much more explanatory. We have a stream that runs down the side of our property and it sounds so peaceful and refreshing. I love walking out our front door and hearing the rushing water of the stream and the birds chirping. It took Kaylin and I about 20/30 minutes to get up to this awesome spot on the mountain to take pictures. Hey Laurie, you want a workout?! Come and visit us, we have all these mountain trails to walk and it is a great cardiovascular workout. I will try to keep posting pics as we get news ones and blogging when I have time. Kaylin is keeping me pretty busy with softball and home schooling. Not to mention that I choose to have a part time job on top of everything else. God Bless!

Culture Shock

By request of my dear cousin Laurie, I need to start blogging about our life here in Germany. In that case I guess I should start off with our very first day here. Wow! It has been a whole year and four months since our arrival. How time flies when you are trying to adjust to a culture shock.

We arrived here on January 1st of 2007. Yep, that's right New Year's Day, I will probably never for get it. The one thing that stands out in my mind most if our first few hours here at the Frankfurt Airport. We landed at 7:30 a.m. Germany time and with very little sleep at that. Our flight was about 12 hours but we had been up for apporximately 26 hours. NOT FUN! Oh, did I forget to mention that we were traveling with our German Shepard who's name is Shugar. So we get to the airport and we first have to get our luggage and our dog, right? Ha! What a joke they pulled on us, not only were we in a foriegn country but little did we know not one piece of our luggage made it. As we stand at the luggage belt patiently waiting we hear our name being called over the intercom. Let's not forget that we are in a foriegn country and about the only thing we recognized that was being said was, "Herr Hesler please go to baggage claim." Immediately I start to go into panic mode about our dog, which by the way was what I feared most about making this trip across the ocean. I just had this feeling that our dog was going to be lost or sent to a different airport than us. Kaylin and I wait and wait at the luggage belt and still no luggage. So then I get to thinking that maybe they were talking about just our suitcase luggage. Chad finally makes it back to us and says, " Dear, I have some bad news." Uh Oh panic mode again! He continues with, "Shugar didn't make the flight." My response was, " I knew this was going to happen!" " So now what do we do?" I ask. Chad tells me to be calm and that she is suppose to be on the next flight. Okay. . . was that suppose to make me not be in panic mode cause it didn't work. We proceed to walk to go find our sponsor and tell them that we had to wait an hour for the next flight to land. Let's see been up for 28 hours now, no dog, and I forgot to mention to Chad that our other luggage didn't come either. About 30 minutes goes by we haven't found our sponsor and Chad looks at our luggage cart and says, "Where is our suitcases?" Ooops, "Did I mention that our luggage didn't ever come around on the luggage belt?" "My bad!" We finally find our sponsor and tell them we aren't ready to leave because of the dog coming in at 9 a.m. Chad goes back to the luggage claim and tells them that none of our luggage was here. At about 9:30 we see people and luggage coming through the customs line and Kaylin finally sees Chad, with Shugar. Yeah! I was so relieved to have our family pet in our care once again. For the next several hours we had to find a place for Shugar to stay, get some food, buy some clothes, and go to our hotel. All in all we ended up being up for about 36 hours and I was having major separation anxiety from our family, the good ol' USA, and our dog. The greatest thing about our first day here was that God was right there by our side giving us the strength to overcome our first day in this foriegn land. He was ever so faithful, loving, and provided everything we needed to get us through one more day.

More mountainous areas :)

SORRY!!!! These are the last set of mountainous pictures I promise. I just wanted to share some more of our many mountains with everyone of you. Hope you enjoy and God Bless!!

Love,

Kaylin :D

The CRAZY Yahoo's

OKAY, so this is what happens when you take the two yahoo's for a nature walk. LOL They have sooooo much fun together. Shugar normally climbs all the mountains and rocks with me. She likes sitting at the top of one and looking down at mom. Silhouette of coarse just goes along with everyone. She isn't sure what to do most of the time. But they do love to run together from one end of the trail to the other.

This fenced in area that you see behind them is a huge rock that miners have dug HUGE holes in. We haven't went into any of those yet. Maybe one day though. You can see some of them from the fence but it isn't the same when you see them up close.

Well everyone take care and God Bless!!!!

Love,

Kaylin :P

Yes this is me climbing up one of our many famous rocks. I LOVE climbing them they are soo much fun!!! WHEW it is very very tiring though. You get a very good work out!! LOL Just when you think you are almost to the top you realize that you still have a long way to go. Well I hope you enjoy watching me climb this mountain. I also hope that everyone is having a very good week and God BLESS everyone!!!

Love,

Kaylin <><

The giant HOLES :)

These holes are what some of the miners did back when. It is pretty cool to look down in one and try to manage that long time ago some one was down in that creepy thing. We have a lot more of these sort of holes around our house. Some of them are blocked off and some you can go and see. They are pretty interesting to read about also, that is if you read GERMAN. LOL We have one right outside our door. But this particular one you have to go inside to be able to see anything. I haven't went down in it yet but one of our friends did and he said that there is a big DROP off. AHH that is never good. Well I just wanted to share some of our holes with you guys. LOL Talk to everyone later.

Love,
Kaylin <><