Moving In

     The day had FINALLY come...we moved out of the hotel and into our new home!  Of course our household items haven't arrived, so we borrowed some furniture from post.  A couch, some chairs, dining set, and beds.  Which we didn't have but only a week, since our stuff arrived that Friday!  The military also loans out wardrobes (a form of a closet, since houses here don't have built in ones like the States), washer and dryer, and an American sized refrigerator/freezer (we have German style fridge upstairs in the kitchen, but is is quite smaller then the loaner) for us to use while we are here.   The first few days, while the hubby was at work with the one car we had, the kiddos and I explored our new town of Sindelfingen.

All packed up and ready to go!

Our keys and the underground garage opener

A couple of our new neighbors stopped by and gave us some welcoming gifts.  

Everyone here is so nice, we definitely found an awesome place to live!

Since I forgot to pack our pillows in our unaccompanied baggage, 

we took our first trip of many to come to IKEA for some much needed pillows for us.

Walking around downtown Maihingen (which is the part of Sindelfingen that we live in) we discovered a small grocery shop Netto, an organic or as they say Bio shop, another specialty food shop, a ice cream cafe, a Doner Kabab restaurant, an Italian restaurant, two bakeries, 

a butcher shop, and a spielplatz (playground).

The kiddos and I walk down to the markets about twice a week for fresh fruits and veggies. 

They enjoy the ice cream (Eis) too!

Having fun at one of the playgrounds

Found this art sculpture around the side of the Burgerhaus.

There are some really pretty German style houses around ours.

The Bio market

Bretzeln from the Bakery and Erdbeeren from the Bio Market

Relaxing outside with the kiddos have fun on the trampoline

Our stuff is here!!

Some treats for the movers

Boxes, boxes, everywhere!

It's been about a month or so since our stuff have been delivered and I am still unpacking some!

Can't wait for them to be completely gone.

Till then, I'll just keep unpacking one at time.

Our New Home

     I know it's been awhile...a LONG while!  So I thought I would start blogging again by posting up our new home!  We've been living here for about a little over a month now, so I will have to post up again with pictures with all our furniture and decorations.  But for now here ya go...please note these were taken while we were viewing the house, so ignore all the little extras in the pictures.

Here's the outside of the house...

Entering through the front door

  There is a little guest bathroom on the right inside the entry way.

     As you walk out of the entry way into the house this built in hutch type thingy is perfect for storing all the reusable shopping bags for walking to the markets, helmets for scooter riding, steins for "beer time", drawers for keys, extra lightbulbs, and all that other stuff.

     Here's the kitchen, my FAVORITE part of the house!  It's big, open, lots of counter space, and large cabinets perfect for all my pots and pans.  However, my baking stuff has no where to go.

     This is the other side of the kitchen, I planned to put up some racks for my baking stuff and pantry items.

     Around the corner is the living area, which leads out to the back patio.

     This is the other side of the living room, we planned to put our dining table here.

     When you head upstairs, this is the first bedroom, it's the smallest of the four.  So I plan on making this my craft/photography studio.  Big plans for this room!

     The next room is going to be Liam's.  He needed the biggest one on this floor for all his furniture.  

     This is the bathroom that the kiddos will be using.  Can't wait to decorate it all fun for them.

     Around the corner from the bathroom is Kinley's room.  It's a little smaller then Liam's but we will definitely make it work.  Can't wait to decorate her room!

     On the top floor, yep the fourth floor, is our room!  We have this HUGE build-in closet, which is great!  So we don't have to use the ones from post, but it also limits how much furniture will fit in our room.  Especially, since we have a king size bed and two sets of dressers, and night stands

     We do have our own bathroom, which is nice!  The owner even left a nice set of drawers which I can put all my makeup, hair stuff, towels, etc. in there.

There's a door from our room and in the hallway that leads out onto a balcony.

One day we plan on planting some pretty flowers and really making it 

as beautiful as the others we have seen around our neighborhood.

Well, thats just going up in our house.  We also have a level down stairs to the basement which

has a laundry room (with our loaner washer and dryer) and another room used for storage.  They are currently a big mess full of boxes and stuff from our move in.  So, I will wait to post a picture of that!

We also have access to an underground parking garage where we park our 

cars and store our garbage and Bio cans.

I still have some boxes to unpack and some organizing to do but I'm 

definitely looking forward to making our new house into a home!