It has begun...

well summers here, its hot as........well....to be blunt...Hell.....
and unfortunately for us high tech Americans, Germany has yet to come out of the dark ages and embrace air conditioning...what I wouldn't give for a swamp cooler....... well, nothing we can do now...

fantastic news! Kaylee's hair is long enough that if i use enough rubber bands i can get it all off her neck...unfortunately for me, she's the type of girl who likes it all in her face..... whats a mother to do?

we had fun trying out new hair styles....
Kaylee was..well....not terribly cooperative, it takes FOREVER to do her hair, nikoy LOVES people playing with her hair so she'll sit pretty darn still as long as your playing with her hair, but Kaylee always has something more important to do...

We were lucky enough to get a few packages! (thanks Nana and Grammy!)
and thankfully they both contained clothing!! and for some weird reason if you have a girl wearing 2T-4T your screwed as far as clothes, and shoes? not likely... so about every article of clothing the girls own is either from Grammy and Nana, or bought online... any who, i got off subject.. in Nana's package there were a couple of really adorable dresses with matching doll dresses, and well...we couldn't help ourselves....
poor kitty....poor tortured pussy cat....
she really wasn't thrilled to be wearing clothes...she'd run just far enough to get her out of our reach and she'd plop on the ground.... and then she finally gave up and just laid there and let the girls drag her around like a rag doll...... she was NOT happy.... and suddenly there was a loud BOOM! and we looked out the front window to see.....
"it's raining, it's pouring, the old man is snoring..."
"fell of the slide, and nearly died,and wouldn't get up the next morning...".. :D i just made that up...:D I'll tell ya what in Europe, when it rains,,,, it POURS!!! and in 2 minutes flat the streets are flooded and your soaked to the bone, and suddenly it stops and you look up and there is not a cloud in sight and you wonder if it really rained or if your just dreaming.....
i had to put this picture in, it's just to adorable not to show off.......:)
so Cory came home from work on the 30Th of June with a new toy for the balcony...and the girls LOVE IT! they have been out there every day since putting the thing to good use... and it has many uses.....

Kaylee uses it for a drinking fountain.. (yes she's had her shots.....)

Nikoy uses it as a shower...... (hey whatever works...)
Whatever the use the Girls love to just sit and enjoy... nothing like a pool in your own back yard...theres just one thing you have to consider before you join us for a swim... we don't swim in your toilet, don't pee in our pool.... (one day i will have a backyard pool and that sign will be hanging from the gate.....oh yes... it will...)
Independence day was a fun day, we woke up and went to a real big pool in kaiserslautern, the "Monte mare" its a pain in the back pool that has the locker rooms in the basement the lap pool on one level, the normal pool on another and some awesome slides up even more slippery tiled stairs.. but oddly enough the way the building is made the pools are all in the ground, so if your not totally confused yet, your smarter then me! we'll just say its confusing, and i didn't have pictures of it because my camera isn't water proof and having to go up and down 2 flights of stairs just to get to the lockers don't help...so then after swimming we went to the BX for some good old American taco bell....:D...... and then we went home and got ourselves looking presentable, and went to ramstein airbase for some festivities!
Kaylee enjoyed herself......

so did Nikoy and Kaylees best friend Aryka...
much to my utter....amusement.... nikoy has reached the age where a simple smile wont cut it for pictures.... a scandalous pose is more fun......



the girls had so much fun on the one little ride they had, the adorable little boy in the drivers seat is Aryka's baby brother Rulon... and yes he's attempting to eat the truck......
The Girls and Rulon enjoyed going around and around for all of 2 and half minutes,
Kaylee was just happy she got to drive too....
Aryka didn't enjoy the ride much, so she waited... after the rides it was time to go home and have some Re-lax-a-shun! video games for daddy and a trashy romance novel for mommy ( *O_O*)(they're not that trashy...jeese...)

so yeah, we're still trying to decide whats to be done about a vehicle, theres not many choices at this point, not a lot of American spec vehicles, and since we are planning on shipping this new one home with us, it needs to be American specs, the mileage in miles and kilometers instead of just kilometers...an owners manual in English instead of German.... the driver to the left.... :D.... and Cory's little brothers getting married soon, and we're still trying to figure out how to get us all to San Antonio, unfortunately it may just be Cory going home for a week or so.. I have been having issues with my teeth, I'm all for the denture idea right now... I cant eat ANYTHING without downing some IB profen first. hopefully that will be taken care of at my dental appointment later this week.. yes i managed to get me a dental appointment on base, to do that it is literally like pulling teeth to get an adult dependant appointment. it's not to terribly hard to get one for the girls, Cory gets them made for him whether he wants it or not, but i have to be in pain to get an appointment....oh well...:) any who, that's all for now, we'll keep you all posted on the car dealio, and the San Antonio dealio, and shtuff. we love you all and hope all is well! be safe and stay classy San Diego........