The Borkes: We're Back!

Well, we've finally gotten the internet hooked up in the house - after rewiring everything. It's a very long story and I'd rather not rehash it. Anyway - we're alive and kicking here in Rohr. I've been thinking about the best way to update everyone on the goings on over here for the past 3 weeks - and I've decided to just recap through pictures. Here goes:

After the last post we finalized everything on the house and moved in on August 6th. The house was SO dirty and I didn't have any "tools" to clean before the movers arrived with our household items. The movers arrived early and things were looking great to finish by early afternoon. Upon opening crates 4&5 and seeing standing water on the bottom we knew it couldn't be good. After close examination it appeared that the crates were never sealed with silicone and therefore didn't weather the rain and sea water well. All in all that was 1/3 of our shipment ruined. Because mold had started growing we were forced to place all of the wet and moldy items in the garage - where it still sits 3 weeks later. We realize that all of this stuff is just that - stuff. It can all be replaced and we're just haggeling it out with the movers on the settlement so we can have the items removed and the garage professionally cleaned and "fogged". Here's just a few pics to let you see the craziness!

look at that mold - yuck!

All that aside, the house is great. Brad did a great job in finding this one. After many days of not knowing whether to clean or unpack it started to feel a bit like home. We have more room than we know what to do with. We decided with all of water damage that we would go ahead and request the rest of our items we'd stored in DC to be shipped. We're praying these stay dry! So come October we should be really settled.

old kitchen above - new below

Upon moving in we had our kitchen torn out and updated. What a mess, but the end product is great! Check out our huge fridge and freezer - still working on how to fit a frozen pizza in there !

Notice the size of the 64oz grape juice in comparisson to the rest of the fridge

Our house came with yard service! I didn't think they made these kind of mowers anymore - but apparantly they do!

This is actually a funny picture - this was our first attempt to eat at home without any cooking utensils. As you can doritos and wheat thins were on the list along with pb&j. The kids were so hungry and excited to eat. Wouldn't you know our luck - the bread had mold and we didn't notice until Madeline was taking her first bite. Well we couldn't even do pb&j right. We ended up going to eat Bratwurst and pommes at a local festival.

Madeline had an opportunity to meet with her coach for fussbal this fall - here she is at the SV-Morhringen fields. Notice her Heritage shirt worn with pride!