We can't seem to sleep right, and we're really cold. But we love it here!

This is Hallie modeling one of her winter hats that I bought for her right after we found out that we were going to be moving to Germany. Such a fashionista. So we made it here on Sunday morning (late saturday night for most of you in the states) and it was 9am by the time we got to the guest house that we are staying at. The problem here was this, 9am in Germany is midnight in California. Soooo, we were VERY tired. We immediately went to bed and all slept for 8 hours, waking up at 6 pm Germany time. I'm sure you see the prolem. For 3 days now we've been trying to beat the jet lag with little success. Hallie and Matt both woke up at 3 in the morning last night and were just done sleeping. So they hung out together, which equaled 5 hour long naps for everyone this afternoon. ANYWAYS...no idea how correct it, hopefully it will just fix itself soon enough.
On to the next subject, we found a house! It only took two days and we are really excited about it. Originally we thought we wanted an older, historical-ish, house with some history. Well, those are VERY strange inside with weird agles, narrow steep stairs, lots of weird rooms, and scary sellars that were used during war time. They also have a lot of houses that are heated with oil heating that you have maintain and get filled once a year, also a pain. So we found a brand new house and we will be the first people ever to live there. It's really nice (we're talking heated towel racks nice) and actually has screens on the windows and doors (VERY rare out here). Apparently, new houses are also very rare out here...so we got really lucky. We have four bedrooms (that means one HUGE guest bedroom people! Start planning your trips out to visit us) and absolutely NO closets. Euporeans don't build closets in the bedrooms, so we have to get wardrobes for our clothes. We have a great backyard and horses in a pasture right around the corner (Hallie will be in HEAVEN). We are going to meet with the landlord tomorrow to pick out what colors we want the inside painted and sign the contract. So as far as housing goes, things are working out beautifully.
Did I mention how gorgeous it is here? I want to take pictures of everything. Every building, every field, every old woman riding her bike, every cute village. I love it all. So get ready for lots of scenery pics people.


You are probably wondering about his guy. I almost died laughing when I saw this. In Germany when people turn 50 their family will put a manikin on the front lawn that they feel is a good depiction of the actualy person. You can't see it very well, but this man is standing on a toilet, so it is safe to bet that he is a plummer in real life. They even put this canope up over the dummy to protect him from the rain. They do this EVERY time someone turns 50. How funny is that? I'm going to love it here....