It's official! We will be transferring to Germany in June. The kids have mixed emotions about leaving their friends and the only home Lydia remembers. But they seem to be somewhat excited about visiting castles, riding trains, and taking the bus to school next year. We have millions of things to do to get ready for this move -- have a yard sale, sell the house, have the movers come three different times, ship the cars, etc. It is overwhelming, but we are excited for the wonderful new experiences we will be having.

One of the things Morgan is working on very hard is finishing up the projects around the house. He just finished refinishing the kitchen cabinets in deep cherry and they look beautiful. He and a friend also put up a nice new fence in the backyard last week. We won't do too much more, but we have already done so much that the house looks completely different. I am going to make a scrapbook of before and after pictures of each of the rooms, and hopefully I will get the chance to post them on this blog. I think that one of the best selling points of our house is the hard wood floors throughout. Also, we have a nice big workshop out back (which was a major selling point for Morgan). We had electricity installed in it last year. We also had a nice big patio put in the backyard last year. We have done so much, I hate to leave our first home.