Got to love a good laugh!!!

So its pretty early in my day to be posting but I had to post this. So its almost nine o'clock in the morning here and I was scanning some documents at the printer, when Marlene comes and said I have a phone call. I asked if it was Chris and to just take a message. Marlene said it wasn't Chris it was Andreas. So I left my work and went to the phone. I said hello and this is what I hear. Andreas said, "Kylie, Chris, Alexander, and I were outside looking at the harvesters to sell. Chris fell off and broke his leg badly, the ambulance came and got him about ten minutes ago. He is at the Osnabruck hospital" and can I just remind you Andreas is Russian\German his third language is English and he is speaking this really well. So I start to panic and was like, "Can I go see him." and he was like, "No....April Fools!!" I got worked by a Russian not my husband a Russian. That was a first, but I couldnt stop laughing after that, he got me good. Now I have to figure out some way to get him back :)But now that im on the subject of funny stories, I havent posted how destructive my husband is..

In our apartment the bathroom doesn't have a counter so I do my makeup in our bedroom in front of the mirror on our closet door. So Im sitting there doing my makeup, Chris is getting dressed and he sits down on the side of the bed to put his socks on when.........BOOM!!!!!The bedframe falls to the floor, the beds legs fly out of the side, wood, screws everything exploded on that side. and not to make matters worse he also took the drawerfront off of the drawer when he went to get his socks. I was laughing so hard tears were streaming down my face. He then had to go tell Alexander because that is who the bed belongs to. (Chris, Alexander, and Andreas all share the same office). So he is now known as "Big Butt" in his office. and Chris has gotten use to the chubby jokes, but now he is known as the Hulk because he went to lower our kitchen light and ripped the light right off the ceiling! He really cant catch a break with our apartment. He fixed that and is now super careful.

I hope everyone has a happy April fools day. We miss you all very much!

Another Two Weeks Down

So Im sitting here at work and I thought I would update on what Chris and I have done these last weeks and all the thougths that are running through my head. well maybe not all of them but a few. The main portion of our week is working eight to four thrity which seems to make our time here go by even faster. This last week after work I got to go play tennis!! It was in an indoor court but the courts arent hard courts like they are back home. They are carpet. Which is a little different but the effect was the same. I love the sound of indoor tennis it was awesome. I also got to play against Lena a girl I work with. Germany vs. America! We just hit around she has been playing since she was five, but I kept up. I cant wait till the middle of April when the clay courts are open.

Chris and I also decided to go to Düsseldorf, which is actually one of Germany´s fashion capitals. We didnt go shopping but went to a garden and an aquarium. It was really rainy that day so we couldnt really enjoy the garden, but when the flowers come out it will be beautiful. The aquarium was really fun, would be a great place to take your family to. It wasnt just sea animals but also bugs, birds, animals. It had an indoor rainforest, Im sorry i dont have pictures now but I will post some later. It was a lot of fun very interactive.

We have also been meeting with the missionaries for German lessons. Im still really struggling at the language but the lessons are helping. Im still not very comfortable with speaking even though I know quite a bit, but I dont know my accent is not good at all. Hopefully I will gain some confidence with it. The missionaries are super nice and we are hopeing they stay for this next transfer. If not we get new teachers. The one nice thing about the lessons are that after we get to play basketball in there gym. Which is only a half gym but im so gratefull for it. I miss playing baskteball once a week with everybody.

This last week we had German lessons and then Saturday went to Osnabruck and went shopping!! Chris got a speeding ticket the second week we were here so to make it fair I got to shop for the same ammount his speeding ticket cost us. It was great everything is really expensive here but I found some really cute items on sale.

We are getting ready for our Easter trip and I am getting super excited. I wanted to stay busy over this weekend because I didnt want to get homesick. So Chris and I decided to take a big road trip and we decided to go to ....... Rome!! I am so excited. But we are doing good, and we are so thankfull for all the blessing that we have recieved. The Lord truly knows us by heart and I am trying so hard to be that person he wants me to be. I love and miss my family so much I hope all is going well. Until next time.

Just needed to talk.......

So I just wanted to talk Im sitting here at work, and I have gotten use to the fact that I cant understand anybody. I´ve gotten use to sitting in my office quietly until someone asks, "What is this in American?" I then tell them and the conversation is over. Its to hard for them to talk to me and when they try it takes them a while to get the point across. And as i sit here in silence I was looking through my notebook or what I thought was my notebook mine and Lena´s must of been mixed up cause what I read was.: You look very beautiful today in german and english, How to explain my work in german and english, What are your hobbies in german and english. Two whole pages of conversation that she looked up so she could try and talk to me. Everyone that I have meet has gone out of their way to make me feel as comfortable as possible. I have the greatest respect for them. Even in this silence I sit in Im very grateful for the people that surround me.

Today was a fairytale!!!

So it has been another two weeks and I have been so excited to blog about this last weekend. Chris and I decided to go see a castle!! It took us three hours to get there but well worth it!! We drove to the city of Cochem were the famous Cochem castle rest high up on the hilltop. This castle was first built around 1000 ad but then destroyed by French soldiers. It was later rebuilt using the original plans but then taken over by some rich guy which did the inside that is why the inside is more up to date so to speak. We actually got to go inside with a tour. There they took us through different rooms showing us the uniqeness and what made those rooms special. My favorite room was the knight room it was all dark wood with a beautiful ivory ceiling. The details in these rooms are incredible. This castle like I said sits on the hill top for protection and it overlooks the river for trade purposes. The man that redid the inside loved wood carvings so this whole castle wood was amazing!!! He could totally decorate my house becasue it is beautiful. Here are some pics......





The weekend before Chris and I went to a basketball game. Lena a girl I work with got us tickets. It is like our NBA it is an international team were half of the team are American. It was so fun there stadium wasnt that much bigger then our high school, but it was loud and crazy the whole time. When you got to your seat they gave you this fan that you clap with which makes the whole stadium super loud. Everybody claps the whole time and at the same beat. They play american music it was so fun. The team we cheered for were the Artland Dragons. It was a close game the whole time, it was very physical at the end of the game there was a total of five technicals!!! Ya it was crazy. But in the last quarter there was a huge dunk over two huge guys which brought the whole house off there seats and cheering and to end it all they won on a buzzer beater three pointer. Well worth the money so much fun.
We are doing great and I still cant believe we have been here for one month still missing everybody and are wishing we could be sharing these memories with our friends and families. Hope everybody is doing great lots of love till next time....

Germany Feb 16- Mar 5

So we are finally here in Germany. We knew about this trip before we got married, and I cant believe we are here and actually going through with this. There is no turning back. We flew into Bremen Germany at around 5 o'clock and let me tell you that plane ride was long. I learned always bring a sleeping pill because i dont think i slept at all. So we arrived with Andreas waiting for us at the airport (He is Russian, him and Chris work together, there really good friends.) He took us straight to our apartment or flat is what they call it here. We are living in Vorden which is about an hour outside of Bremen. We arrived at our apartment and to my surprise they had it all furnished for us and i mean furnished with: couch, TV, bed, table, all kitchen stuff we needed, washer, everything. Which really made me happy. We live above the garage of an older couples home there names are Alexander and Taunja Bischler. Both speak Russian so they can communicate to Chris.

For the first few days I got really sick, I dont know if it was the jet lag, with the different food, but something was not right. Im so grateful that I have a loving, amazing husband that is a worthy priesthood holder, cause after his blessing I was fine. Chris and I didnt start work till Monday so we had that whole weekend to play. We went to Osnabruck and went through the Cathedrals it was amazing!


This day was really cold and rainy so it was nice to be inside the Cathedrals. They are amazing inside. While we were there a man was playing the organ it was kinda creepy very phantom of the opera, but it was amazing.

Germany is beautiful it looks like it just came out of a story book. With all the history and culture. There is a lot of old beautiful building everywhere. There side walks and a lot of there roads are cobblestone which I love that. You can walk anywhere there streets are amazing once we get more pictures I'll post them of the town we are in.

Chris and I started work on Monday and it was a whole new experience for me. Chris' job is just the same as it was back home, mine is really different instead of working in peoples mouth I am plugging in numbers on the computer. Which is alright im not the biggest fan of my job but I really like the girls I work with. Only a couple of people speak really good english where I work but the rest do the best they can, but we seem to get things accomplished and the work done. That is one of the hardest things about being here.....I dont get to talk all of the time. But everybody is super nice and tries there hardest to make me feel right at home.

Our first shopping experience was a huge eye opener. We decided to buy stuff for ham sandwiches, something easy right? hahaha nope. In Germany you have to pay for your cart they are all locked together and dont come undone till you pay. Me and chris just barely figured this out so we ended up carrying the ingredients all around the store. but figuring out which meat is which and which cheese was which almost put me in a panic attack cause of coarse everything is labeled in German. So assuming by color we picked our ingredients and headed to the cash register. We also learned that germans dont bag there food they either carry it out in there carts or just by hand which was something new that i didnt know. We got the groceries payed for and survived our first shopping experience.

The Second weekend we decided to go to Cologne. and if anybody comes to visit us we would like to take you guys here. This city is known for the Cologne Cathederal and looking at the pictures its pretty obvious why. This cathedral is architectrually amazing!! You are allowed inside to tour. Inside is just as amazing as the outside. One part is all candles where people come and light them and pray and its like there prays go to heaven. The rest of the inside has amazing statues, wall hangings, carvings its beautiful. YOur only allowed certain areas but the places we got to see were awesome. We also got to go downstairs into the treasury were the gold robes,jeweled crowns, staffs,and artifacts are. Your not allowed to take pictures but wow the priest are blinging. There all in glass cases and in one was the artifacts of a six year old boy. Who was one of the men in line for there church but he died when he was six. but in this grave they found a battle helmet for the six year old it was just tiny. Rings a lot of war materials, but the cool thing was, was they found a vase that was still half full of oil. They figured the little boy was burried aroun 500 A.D.
It was amazing. After we walked through the treasury we decided to walk up to the top of the bell tower. And I thought running stairs in high school was bad it was nothing compared to this. Of walking thousand of winding steps. There is the first stop and it goes to the bells and wow they are huge, but they still ring them today. A lot of cathedrals still ring the bells. Me and chris wake up to bells every morning. So after we looked at the bells we walked more stairs till we were at the top and its a lot like being on top of the space needle cause your allowed to go all the way around it and see the whole city from an amazing view. Here are some pictures:






Like i said amazing!! We are loving it here, but are missing our family and friends. We hope all is going well until next time...


This is one of the LDS churches here in Bremen


This is the fastest Chris has gone on the auto bon!!!! He loves driving here!