This is it!!!!

So that´s it. I´m sitting here in the middle of packing the rest of our things.Waiting for the New year to start with a major new chapter in my life. It is the sadest and hardest thing I have ever done in my life to say goodbye to all my loved ones over here in Germany. I know Louisiana and the people there, are going to be great and I´m excited to be with them. And this is what keeps me from going nuts here ,at the moment. But all the tears I´ve cried already could possibly fill my dads swimming pool. We are blessed with such a great bunch of people, loving and caring for us.
Now it´s time to say: Goodbye Deutschland
Hello USA

Happy New Year to everyone!!!!

The Move

As I said already, my blog is a little behind with everything that happened within the last 2 months. I will try and catch up with it as soon as possible. December 15th the move started to get serious and for the first time real to us!!!!!
After preparing the best we could, in the middle of another sick- family-episode, 5 movers came to pack our house. Man, they were fast. We tried to keep up with what is packed and what still needed to go but they were just too fast. They packed the first day from 3 pm to 6pm and the next day from 7 til 6pm and they were done. The 3rd day was basically just waiting for the oversea container to arrive and load. Those people did a great job, I was very pleased with their work.

Let the move begin!!!

Lulu having fun inbetween all those boxes

Stellas and Luciens rooms getting packed

My last coffee out of a babyfood jar
all the cups were packed!!!!!!!!!!!

Loading the truck

Loading in front of the house

Loading the container
It was freezing cold

I just heard that our container will arrive in New Orleans on the 22nd of January. We are hoping customs will take a bit, which means we would be able to bring our stuff straight to the new house instead of bringing it in a storage. We´ll see

Merry Christmas

We wish all our friends and families all across the world a Merry Christmas. Enjoy this special time of the year to the fullest. We are spending a wonderful time at my parents house and Stella is so excited about opening her presents in a few minutes. Pics will follow
All our love
Rick, Verena, Stella and Lucien

Being Responsible

Our kids are very independent as you can see ;) Once the craziness is over, we´ll take advantage of our cute little babysitter( maybe with some assistance by Granny....)

Art Work

Before

This is Stellas canvas. She works on it at random times, whenever she feels like it. It´s fun to just follow the progress. It´s our modern piece of art in our dinning room and we love to look at it. This time it happened to be that her kindergarten friend Fabienne came by for a playdate and since the weather was calling for some inside fun, they decided on painting. It was the first time somebody else was "allowed " to work on Stellas canvas. They had so much fun and spent quite some time working on it, which gave the mamas some time for a coffee and a nice conversation.




Busy girls!!!

I have pictures of the first progress steps of the canvas ,somewhere. I will add them to this post as soon as I find them