First Post in my Life

Hey, it Maryssa! I have never posted before but i'll get the hang of it sometime. Hey Josh & Natalie I miss you guys so much! We all miss you guys. How is Germany? It's pretty calm here. Natalie, you have some great posts. LOVE Maryssa!

Stuttgart Christmas Market

Tonight we went downtown to the Christmas Market. It was really beautiful. All the buildings are decorated in lights. They had the market set up by one of the big castles in Stuttgart. We have been looking for a good ornament for our first Christmas together and we found it tonight. We also found a pink ornament to add to our tree. I love the holidays, and Josh will to, even though he says he is the grinch!!!!!!

Our first day of skiing!!!

Today we went to Feldberg Germany and went skiing. This was the first time I have ever put ski's on in my life so I spend most of the day on my BUTT!!!!! I thought it might be easy cause when we were going up the lift I was thinking this seems easy enough. I guess I should explain why I thought this. The lifts were different than anything Josh had ever seen. You didn't sit in them you had to stand there and let it swing around and then a little black pole would hit your butt and you held on to the pole and it drug you up the hill. Then at the top you had to swing yourself off. Well, I fell flat on my butt getting off. Thank goodness there wasn't anyone behind us cause they would have hit me! lolol I think it took us about 2 1/2 hrs to come down the first mountain! I just kept thinking poor Josh cause I knew he wanted to be skiing all fast and we were stopping every few feet cause I would hit the ground. We did get a good video of me though. I was really excited I didn't wipe out on it. hahah I know my hip is going to be bruised tomorrow. I can't wait to go again!!!!!

Happy Thanksgiving

Hey Everyone!! Hope you all have a wonderful Thanksgiving Day! Thank you Natalie for the video! I have to say, it made my day!!! Josh is right, he should have been cruisin round the block by now!! How come you're not right off on that Josh?? I'm gonna go get your dad one for Christmas! Love all of you, MOM. PS, I'll get pictures of your dad on his after Christmas and you can critique each other.

Happy Turkey Day!

Last night we went back to the sports store to get me snow goggles for skiing and Josh bought a new toy. He spent 30 min this morning just sitting on it by this pole. lololol I hope you enjoy this as much as I did. I laughed so hard all morning watching him. I hope everyone has a great Thanksgiving and I wish we were there to eat Turkey will all of you!!!!!!!

Happy Birthday Grandpa!!!! We love you! Have a fun day!!! Love Trey Trent and Tru

Christmas!!!!!!!!

After weeks of begging, Josh finally let me put the Christmas tree up before Thanksgiving! I am sooooo excited. Usually I have my tree up the first week of November. I have to tell you though that putting it up really made me miss my friends! I kept thinking about my first Christmas in Fayetteville and Sheena and how much fun we had shopping for the pink ornaments. I really missed Kristi and Paula cause it was Kristi’s job to fluff the tree and Paula put the ornaments on and I did the lights while rocking out to 80’s rock band’s singing Christmas carols! I also miss having to force Kelly over to my house to see the finished product! I miss those girls so much we really did have a good thing going there! I’m really missing my family also. This will be my first Christmas not in WV! But I won’t get to sad cause I have my great husband and my PINK Christmas tree to remind me of all the good memories! I was worried Josh wouldn’t like the pink decorations and make me change it but then I realized he is WAY to cheap to let me buy new ones! Hahaha this is one time I am glad of that! This is all the decorations I brought with us! This is our early gift from my mom for our first Christmas together! I love it. It is so beautiful!

The coolest windows ever!

Updated Pics of our Apartment

We still don't have anything hung on the walls yet but at least we are unpacked!!! I bought this cabinet a couple of weeks ago at the bazaar I went to. I love it!!!

Break Down!

Today we wanted to go to Munich to one of the concentration camps but we woke up to snow and decided not to go that far from home incase it got worse. So we decided we would go to this really big sports store in Stuttgart because Josh needed a new coat and I needed snow pants so we could go skiing next weekend. After we went there we decided to drive on out to Rothenburg where there is this really big Christmas store and the whole town is decorated. I was really excited cause I love Christmas and Josh won't let me put my tree up till next Fri so I thought at least I could see some Christmas lights! Halfway there we stopped at McDonalds to have lunch. The McDonalds over here are so fancy they don't have booth's each table has leather chairs. It's crazy. Anyway when we got back to the car It wouldn't start because I had left the GPS plugged in!!!! My first thought was how in the world are we going to get help. We are 75 Km outside of the city and I was really scared no one would speak English. So we went back in and got the manager and he told us that there was a auto store 500 meters up the rd. so we bundled up and started walking. I went in and asked the guy if he spoke English and he said a little bit so I asked him for jumper cables he laughed and another guy told him what I meant. I guess that's not what they call them over here. So we bought the cables and that guy drove us back to our car to give us a jump but my car wasn't even turning over. So back to the store to buy a new battery and let me tell ya I was praying so hard that the battery was the problem! Well, we get there and my wasn't in there computer so we guessed on what battery to put in it. He took us back to our car and him and Josh changed the battery and then it started! I was so happy. We went back and paid for the battery and decided we were going home. On the way home we saw this barn with a Harley sign on it so we pulled off to take a picture then as we were driving home this guy had a tree in his yard with a carving in it. It was really pretty. It started snowing on our way home and we were out on this country rd so it was really beautiful. Hopefully we can make it up there before the holidays are over.

My First Apple Pie!

Last week I made my first pie from scratch! It was so fun. I knew I loved to cook but I really enjoyed baking. Maybe I will be the next Martha Stewart!!!! Anyway I was pretty proud so I took pictures of the whole process. It was really Good!!!!!!

Hey! well i have not been on here in like four hundred million years so i decided to post! ha! good idea right?! i know! ha well i had my first gymnastics performance and i felt quite naked in just a leotard but i think it was pretty awesome to watch all of us! School is still great and i am STILL making new friends it is awesome! i am in honors English and that is pretty cool we have "dead words" or words that we cant use during writing it is hard not to use them! haha well some of them are fun, like, and thing. some of them are harder than others! lol well i will talk to you later! bye!

Haopy 6th Birthday Denali

Happy Birthday Denali!!!!!

Denali was so excited that today was her 6th birthday that she was up and about before 5 am. Normally Jeramy would be up getting ready for work but he is working swing this week. I kept telling her to go back to bed but she said she couldn't sleep. I finally resorted to telling to play the game boy until time for the rest of us to get up. She opened on present, the clothes she has on in the picture then went to school. I took worms and dirt for her snack at kindergarten. Jeramy took her to Steph's for ice cream before he went to work. Tonight is Morgan Middle School Family Fun Night, Sakoya has to perform and I keep telling Denali that the whole town will be there celebrating her birthday.

Wynter

Okay, so I am showing off how cute Wynter is

these days. The day after Halloween I was in the other room when I could hear a rustling sound. This is where I found her by the front door with

our leftover candy for the Trick or Treaters. As you can see we didn't have very many but she was having a blast playing with it. The other picture I took Sunday after church because she looked so cute in her dress. To say the least we think she is the cutest thing around

as does half the ward as they all fight for a chance to hold her. I willingly comply especially on the weeks that Jeramy works and it is me and the 5 kids at church.

I still haven't got the hang of getting all pictures in here right but I am trying. Anyway, hope you all are having a great day and we are looking forward to seeing you at Thankgiving.

Halloween fun

This was Halloween afternoon at our house, unfortunately Derringer fell asleep right before we were getting ready to leave so I had to wake him up to take the pictures. He did, however have fun when we went downtown to the businesses to Trick or Treat. The kids got a small ice cream from Steph's and a slurpee from the gas station.