The website is not working, but this will hopefully fix the problem.

Well it is past the half a year mark here in Germany, and Elisa and the girls have been here nearly 6 months as well.  Since the middle of September Elisa has been in the USA helping her mom.  I have been here with Addison and Elisa has Kylie back there.  But one more week, and we will all be back together.  And a week later we celebrate 5 years of being married.

I have now made it so that you have to log in to access the pictures in the gallery. I had always had it open, and I have now recently thought more about it, and there is no reason for the general public to see the pictures. If you want access, just click on the register button, and I will grant you access if I know you....

Thank you for your understanding.

So, this week was the first Diensreise (business trip) that I have had with Elisa and the girls here.  They seem to have made it ok without me for a few days.  The trip though was difficult.  Not being a native speaker is a major setback.  It seems that every day I get better at understanding and speaking, but after 4 months there can be complete conversations that go by where I have no idea what is being said. 

Luckily I have good people to work with that are able to help me out.  

We are still having fun in Lippstadt. Elisa and the girls went to the Freibad (local pool) yesterday. I was jealous since it was a nice day, and I had to work.  Hopefully someday I will get to have some fun.  We are settling in more and more here, and I think in another month we should be very comfortable.