Rothenberg part 1

We have been to Rothenberg many times now. It never gets old going to this town!

Here are some pictures from our trips down there.

The pipes :)



From the new altar looking down into the church







The Old Altar, from the 1400's I believe ( I could be wrong...)



The new altar



One of the streets of Rothenberg



Pretty neat building!



Some of the center of the town :)



Town Hall



Me with the Nutcracker



Brian with the same Nutcracker!



Pretty Arch in the wall



Part of the wall! We walked up there for a little while



Us in the wall walking around. Not made for tall people



Looking inside of the wall town from up in the wall.



And more



Even more :)



Wine bottles on a wall of a building.

New house pics

Here are pictures of our newest apartment when it was empty. I'll try my best to get pictures of the new apartment furnished and complete this week!


Our bedroom closets, the four doors on the left have room for hanging clothes with a shelf on the bottom and on top. The last two doors on the right hand side have shelving in them.



Our bedroom



the other wall across from the closets



Our bathroom, toilet is behind the door on the right, then is the shower/bath. On the left hand side we have our washer/dryer and the double set of sinks!



linen closet



Spare Room, see how tiny it is?



Spare room closet/window. Door on right is shelving and the other two have a hanger section with 2 shelves.



Standing in the hallway looking into the spare room



One section of our living room. See the ugly ugly pillar?



Other half of the living room



Half of our dinning room and looking into our kitchen, excuse the mess!



Other half of the dinning room with our back door



Coat closets behind the front door. Right one has shelving but is very shallow, left two doors have the hanger section and 2 shelves again



Our kitchen part 1, a little bigger



Other half of the kicthen



our balcony

update on life

So there has been a lot that has happened since my last posting. I got offered a few jobs, took the one that would hopefully offer the best options and provide me with something to do during the week. Boy the last part of that is a huge understatement! Brian is wondering sometimes where his wife went and why this hard working woman came home instead. I'm teaching at the local CDC in a Pre-K type classroom. Not my first choice, but out of the options I had last month it was the best because it is teaching!

We have been to many different places since our last update. We went to the Nuremberg Volksfest, the real Oktoberfest, Brian went back to Austria, Rothenberg. In two weeks we will be heading back to Garmisch to stay for a long weekend so Brian can scuba dive and I can go get pampered at the Spa.

Aside from working tons, Brian and I are trying to settle into everyday life yet again. No real word as to where his work 'home' will be or when he will be going there. It is all up in the air like normal around here. Things seem to be settling down around here which is good. The holidays are coming up quickly! We both are very excited to be here in Germany for them. The different markets and shopping areas will be a lot of fun to visit!

I'll be back sometime to post pictures of our latest adventures... It's harder than one would think to sit down and post on here!!

flower picking German style

Brian and I went to dinner to celebrate my new job. Even if I haven't started it was still nice to go out and not cook dinner at home. On the way home I told him we should stop and pick some flowers. I've been giving him a hard time the last week or so about how I never ever get flowers lol. They grow fields of self-pick flowers all over the place. Normally you see a sunflower patch and then a huge gladiolus field. They are only 60 Euro cent per stem you pick. Pretty cheap for what you get :)

Here are some pictures from our flower picking experience tonight. All in all I think we did well :)

The wonderful trusting sign... Oh how I love it over here!

Look at how cute he looks holding up a stem of flowers :)

Just a view of how long the field of sun flowers are... Huge I tell ya!

Look at how pretty the colors are... Oh so pretty I tell ya! Corn field in the background...

Anyone want a green stem of gladiolus flowers

More view of the one field

Our flowers once we got home and got them in water. Excuse the mess!

So there ya go pops, an update on your children. As far as I know we both are still alive and doing well! Love you and miss you all
Jess

update for April/May

It's already May, where has the last few months gone? It's hard to believe it's May. It's now official I'm done with my Masters degree. I graduated last weekend while I was home in AZ. Brian flew down to see me walk!!! It was awesome but at the same time tough to say goodbye to my parents again. We got back a few days ago and we move tomorrow to a newly remodeled apartment with the washer/dryer in it. Good news is our new place is right across the street from both the high school and elementary school. Bad news is our bedrooms are way smaller than they are here. I took a bunch of pictures today when I went to hang up the command hooks for our curtains. I'll be posting them sometime this weekend with of course some after pictures of once we get our stuff unpacked! Looks like we will be going to Spain for Memorial Day weekend. I got tons of pictures and stories to post to catch everyone up on our trips from before I left... I better get busy before we add in more trips!!! I'll be back sometime next week with pictures of our new place and that. in the mean time check out this playground that is by our new place.



Oh and dad sorry we don't live in the apartment building that has purple on the stairwells outside!!! Here's a nice picture though of those :) Well one of them, the other building that is by ours has a deeper purple...

new update

Ok, so I've haven't blogged or posted any pictures in a long time... somethings came up and I flew back home for a few weeks. In other news, I am almost done with my Masters degree and will graduate the end of this month. I'll be heading back on a plane shortly after graduation back to our new home. Once I get back I'll post the pictures I was supposed to a while ago and get back into the swing of things. Everything has been hectic since I last posted! Hope everyone is doing well. Brian and I are fine, I just needed to come back home for a little while for school and my mom. Well it's late and I better head to bed but I'll be back in full force in 3-4 weeks!

update

Super sorry I haven't posted pictures from 3 weekends ago... I've been busy with school work, house work and unpacking! Yup you guessed it we have all of our stuff. I have a few more boxes to unpack and some organizing to do which I was hoping to get done after this school week (Thursday-Wednesday) but it will have to wait until next weekend. I thought I had a week off but I guess I was told wrong. Oh well just means another week closer to graduation! On another note, my car made it here in one piece so we went from having no car, to one and now two!!!! I've heard a rumor that the school across the street is going to be losing 4 teachers this coming school year, if it is true I will go apply. Strange thing is they aren't hiring until July 15th to those outside of the school district... cross your fingers! I will be dropping off a packet for substituting in the next few days there in hopes of it helping me get my foot in the door. This Saturday we are heading down to the Alps for a night. Brian will be hitting the ski slopes and I'll be at the spa when not doing homework I suppose... so much for a nice relaxing weekend with no homework! I'll be back in a day or so with some pictures we have taken in the last few weeks. As for now I'm going to get ready to head to bed. Oh and ALL of our snow is melted and gone :) this makes me a very happy person!!!