Picture of the girls

Here is a picture from the girls!

Another day of Snow

Looking down on our road



Here are some more pictures of our snow. We love it! Unfortunately we can't play in it too much, because Timothy is still sick (cold). Poohoo.

Nachtraeglich Frohe Weihnachten

Ja, unser erster Schnee! 3 inches!!!!
24. Dezember 2009
Leeanna darf den Engel auf die Spitze setzen!
Timothy macht zum ersten Mal in seinem Leben Geschenke auf.
So, jetzt werde ich mal wieder in Deutsch schreiben, damit meine Familie und deutschen Freunde auch lesen koennen, was bei uns so los ist. Meine Freundin Myriam hat mich darauf aufmerksam gemacht, dass ich seit langem nichts ueber Jason und seinen Ruecken geschrieben habe. Also, seit seiner Rueckenoperation sind schon 5 Monate vergangen, und dank sei GOTT hat er keine Schmerzen mehr. Manchmal fuehlt sich der Ruecken steif an wenn er z.B. lange sitzt. Aber sonst ist alles super.

Unser Weihnachtsfest was wieder sehr schoen. Wir haben einen echten Baum gekauft und am 24. Dez. Bescherung gehabt. Meine Familie hat mich auch dieses Jahr wieder verwoehnt. Mein Mann schenkte mir einen Mac Laptop und einen neuen Fotoapparat, und von meinen Kindern habe ich einen schoenen Korb mit allerlei Leckereien erhalten.

Und dann war da noch eine tolle Ueberraschung: Schnee am 25. Dez. Die Kids haben sich soooo sehr gefreut.

Gestern haben wir Leeanna und Tommy nach Arkansas gefahren, da sie fuer eine Woche bei ihrem Daddy bleiben. Und jetzt sind Timothy, Jason und ich alleine, und natuerlich Sally, unser Hund.

Ausserdem haben sich unsere "Orders" geaendert. Wir bleiben hier auf Whiteman Air Force Base bis August 2010. Was mich eigentlich freut, da muss mein Mann naemlich in dieser Zeit auf keinen Fall Uebersee, wie Irak oder Afghanistan.

So, das waeren dann mal wieder die neuesten Neuigkeiten. Oh ja, noch eines: Eine Freundin hat mich gefragt, was "Salvation" ist. Und da schon oefter mal so eine aehnliche Frage kam, dachte ich mir ich schreibe es einfach mal auf. Die Uebersetzung dafuer ist Erloesung von den Suenden. Sie hat mich dann gefragt wie das so geht. Und ich habe ihr ein kleines Beispiel geben koennen. Und zwar: Du hast eine unheilbare Krankheit und gehst zum Arzt. Der sagt Dir es gaebe eine neue Medizin, die diese Krankheit heilt. Du kannst ihm glauben, aber von dem Glauben wirst Du nicht gesund, du musst die Medizin annehmen und anwenden. Das gleiche passiert auch bei Salvation (Erloesung). Du kannst an Jesus glauben, bekommst aber dadurch nicht das ewige Leben. Du musst daran glauben, dass Jesus Gottes Sohn ist und fuer unsere Suenden am Kreuz gestorben ist. Du musst ihn als Deinen Erloeser annehmen und um Vergebung Deiner Suenden bitten. (Roemer 10:13). Uebrigens schreibt die Bibel, dass jeder Mensch ein Suender ist, egal wieviele gute Werke er vollbringt. Viele koennen sich nicht vorstellen, dass das so einfach ist, aber die Bibel sagt, dass man durch Werke nicht in den Himmel kommt (ewiges Leben erhaelt), (Epheser 2:8,9,10; 2.Thimotheus 1:9 ), sondern der einzige Weg ist Jesus Christus. Seit ich Jesus in meinem Leben habe, hat mein Glaube sich veraendert und ich weiss mit 100 %iger Sicherheit wo ich mein Leben nach dem Tode verbringen werde. Und das gibt mir unendlichen Frieden. Ich schreibe das alles nur, dass diejenigen von Euch, die es lesen, sich Gedanken machen, was wohl nach dem Tod kommt. Die Entscheidung bleibt jedem Menschen selbst ueberlassen.

So, und jetzt versuche ich mal noch ein paar Fotos anzuhaengen. Also, bis hoffentlich bald. Tschuess!

Almost Christmas

Leeanna's 12. Birthday, still tired from a good night sleep

Our almost daily walk in the vinyards surrounding my hometown

My dad's little tractor, homemade.

My German family, well my brother is missing

I am such a bad blogger. Yesterday I had time to read Carie's blog and I felt ashamed. OK, enough whining, now lets get started.

Our visit in Germany was great and we wanted to stay longer, but my husband was calling and I missed him too. Anyway, the flight back was ok, stressful but no bad accidents.... let me take that back. When I checked the luggage in, my skirt got hung on one of the suitcases, which was on the way behind the counter. A scream from the lady who checked us in, and finally she found the button to stop the convaerbelt. We did cost some attention around us and I thought, "No Lord, not another day like the one we had when we flew to Germany!"

But everything else was going smooth. Timothy was lively, but manageble.

Now, we are back to trying to live healthy, juicing in the morning. I need to eat more raw, I am just not there yet.

Tomorrow I will have a Christmas Party for the Ladies from church in our house. Everything went well, but guess what.. Tommy was complaining over a sore throat, and now he is running a fever. I pray that it will be better by tomorrow.

Looking back, the Lord has been good to us, a new baby, healthy family, great churchfamily and many great friends. And my parents are doing well too, Thank you Lord!

I will try to attach some photos from Germany. Hope it works. I am not so good at this... YET.

Vacation almost over

Oh my, where has the time gone. It is monday, and in only 9 days we will be flying back to the States again. Hopefully with more peace and less trouble. We really enjoyed the time with my family. I do miss my husband though. We still have not heard about our new dutystation. We even found out that USAREC has not released us yet. Maybe God allows us to stay here for the rest of the 3 years. Wouldn´t heard my feelings. And I know the kids would love it. And, of course the best of all : Jason would not deploy again for the rest of the recruiting time. Which means no separation. Well, we will see what God´s plan is for us.
Salvation, what is that... A wonderful wise woman has explained it this way: If you have a serious sickness and the doctor tells you about a great new drug, you can believe him, but only believing in the drug will not cure you. You have to accept the drug to be healed. It is the same with Jesus. Only believing in Him doesn´t save you from hell. You have to know that you are a sinner ( sick ), believe that He is the son of God and you have to ask Him to save you, be your savior (accept Him ). It is that simple, and yet, people don´t want Him in their lives, or they don´t believe in Him. Are they not scared of the life after death? I believe what the Bible says about the lake of fire. It is terrible, and I pray for my friends and family to spend eternity with God.
By the way, I got highlights in my hair today. The brown hair started to be boring and didn´t look good. I want my blonde back. Poohoo.
OH, did I mention that my little girl had her 12. birthday last Saturday the 21. of November? She is getting sooo big. And Timothy is now 13 month old. Her birthday was great. We even made a nightwalk in the vinyards with torches. And then grilled bratwurst out there. It was fun. I love you, my big little girl!

Vacation in Germany

Finally we made it to Germany. The trip was rough on all of us. Let me see, if I can remember the details:
Jason took us to the Kansas City Airport, they made us problems, because the name on the ticket said Gohn, but my Passport has still my old name. They called the Airline to change the name and after 1 hour passed gave us the boardingpasses, letting us know that we have to get new passes when in Canada. After Jason left Timothy fell on his face and busted the inside of his upper lip. Bleeding on himself and me. Finally we got seated on the plane. I had an empty seat beside me and let Timothy sit there. He wanted to walk around, but they didn´t let him. So... he cried, almost the whole 2 hours off and on. Everytime he started again, he started bleeding again. Great! When we landed I told the people around us sorry, but they were nice and we were the center of attention, nice and very friendly attention. Finally in Canada we had to go through Customs, where a very strict officer asked me if I had a permission from the kids dad to take them out of the country. I denied ( being never asked that before ). Then he questioned Leeanna if her dad knew where she was. after getting our stamp we were sent to another officer, who asked the same questions. Finally they gave us new boarding passes. Now keep in mind, we had only 1.5 hours inbetween flights. Running up an elevator, down a hall, I realized that I had lost my new boarding passes. Frantically I ran to an officer and asked him, if he would watch my kids for me so I could run back and look for them. He told me to go to a booth nearby, they would give me new ones. We finally made it to the flight, just in time. The 8 hour flight was ok. Timothy went to sleep almost immediately, but since I didn´t have time to change his diaper, he pieed all over me. The rest of the trip was ok. I was beat I may want to add.
But now we enjoy our time here in Germany. Went shopping already. So, that was a brief overview of our flight.

Another Day

Little Mister always busy.

This was a good day. We did school in a timely manner, cooked some applesauce, did lots of laundry and posted stuff on Craigs list with the help of my wonderful friend Liz. Now I just want to add some pics and try to post a video. Hope it works. Have a great week everybody.