longest entry ever...

So, it's been a little while so I thought that I would just make one REALLY long post, full of pictures, and get you caught up on the last couple of months of our lives!

So, sit back and relax, grab some popcorn and enjoy....

The kids played dress up- with our clothes!

We went to this "Colorado Renaissance Festival meets Oklahoma State Fair"
park with our friends

Cotter got a little bored.

We had a great visit from Josh's parents and sister Jessica.

This was the coolest inflateable thing that I have ever seen. The mouth of the dragon

opened and the kids crawled in and then the mouth would close and then they would

slide out down the back! They loved it!

These next pictures are from the father-daughter weekend. Although the weekend was

cut a little short (because of Caleb's hospital visit) it was a great time where Josh and Carli made some new friends.

Before we got our residency permits, we had planned a trip to meet up with Josh's mom and Jessica in London to fulfill our need to leave Vienna every 90 days. Since we already had the trip planned when we recieved the permits, we decided to go anyway for a few quick days.

We got to see the changing of the guards and the flag that was waving means that the Queen was there- and we know that she was there, because she drove right past us!

This is a bad picture, but it is Her Magesty's Theater where I saw The Phantom of the Opera!! It was absolutely amazing!

When we got home, the cherries in our back yard were ready to be picked! I love cherries!

The kids decided to have a waterfight in the backyard (without permission) and they couldn't find Cotter's swimsuit, so they used what they could find!

That brings us to last week, where we spent a week at Schwarzwaldeckhaus at the kid's church camp that the Inzersdorf congregation puts on every year. This year, Josh was the Bible teacher for the 11-15 year old kids and I was 1 of 3 cooks responsible for feeding the 40 people at camp. It was an amazing week where we were surrounded by God's beautiful creation, formed new friendships, spoke a lot of German, played a lot of games, and hopefully showed these kids God's love in a way that they don't always see in their homes. I have never been more proud of Josh as he taught the kids 5 lessons from 1 Samuel- all in German. He had them reading out loud from the Bible, memorizing scripture, and writing notes of encouragement to each other. It was powerful as I watched God work through Josh this week.

That is a pretty good summary of what we have been up to. It is hard to believe that it has been 1 year since we first moved here. It has been a year full of adventure, full of laughter, full of tears, full of new friendships, and full of the realization and rememberance that we serve an amazing and powerful God. I can't wait to see what the next year will bring.