<?xml version='1.0' encoding='UTF-8'?><?xml-stylesheet href="http://www.blogger.com/styles/atom.css" type="text/css"?><feed xmlns='http://www.w3.org/2005/Atom' xmlns:openSearch='http://a9.com/-/spec/opensearchrss/1.0/' xmlns:georss='http://www.georss.org/georss' xmlns:gd='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005' xmlns:thr='http://purl.org/syndication/thread/1.0'><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1670173068063821985</id><updated>2012-02-18T08:14:21.592-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Heike's Blog</title><subtitle type='html'>Deutsche Schwaebin in Missouri/German Swabian in Missouri</subtitle><link rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#feed' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/feeds/posts/default'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default?max-results=100'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/'/><link rel='hub' href='http://pubsubhubbub.appspot.com/'/><link rel='next' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default?start-index=101&amp;max-results=100'/><author><name>Heike und Jim</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><generator version='7.00' uri='http://www.blogger.com'>Blogger</generator><openSearch:totalResults>108</openSearch:totalResults><openSearch:startIndex>1</openSearch:startIndex><openSearch:itemsPerPage>100</openSearch:itemsPerPage><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1670173068063821985.post-1689861848294640863</id><published>2011-11-30T17:33:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-11-30T17:36:00.794-08:00</updated><title type='text'>2=1: A Cross-Culture Adventure</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://www.worshiphouse.com/21-A-Cross-Culture-Adventure_p_20.html#.TtbZbAWHbmk.blogger"&gt;2=1: A Cross-Culture Adventure&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Unser Buch ist jetzt auch in digitaler Form erhaeltlich.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Our book is available in digital form.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1670173068063821985-1689861848294640863?l=heikeerwin.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/feeds/1689861848294640863/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1670173068063821985&amp;postID=1689861848294640863&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/1689861848294640863'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/1689861848294640863'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/2011/11/21-cross-culture-adventure.html' title='2=1: A Cross-Culture Adventure'/><author><name>Heike und Jim</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1670173068063821985.post-1884388061598056358</id><published>2011-11-17T17:31:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2011-11-17T17:50:39.320-08:00</updated><title type='text'>The Erwin family is complete</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ui-KZhGH3_Y/TsW2mzvNpsI/AAAAAAAAEZE/VzgHB_gNyZA/s1600/family%2Bpicture.jpg" onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ui-KZhGH3_Y/TsW2mzvNpsI/AAAAAAAAEZE/VzgHB_gNyZA/s320/family%2Bpicture.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5676143683209897666" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Jim told me today to write on my blog... so after over a year here we are...&lt;div&gt;What has happened in the Erwin family lately? In July this year we (finally) adopted Haily and Olivia. They had been living with us as foster children for 2 1/2 years and we are so happy how everything worked out. Haily accepted Jesus and got baptized in July in the Cassville swimming pool. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I also have a prayer request. My dad, Ewald has biliary cancer and has been taking Chemo treatments since July. The tumor has become smaller and we pray for complete healing. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I promise to write sooner next time! My life is busy! &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Jim hat mir heute gesagt, dass ich mal wieder etwas auf meinem blog schreiben soll...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Was ist im letzten Jahr alles in der Erwin Familie passiert? Letzten Juli konnten wir endlich Haily und Olivia adoptieren. Sie haben fuer 2 1/2 Jahre als Pflegekinder mit uns gelebt und wir sind sehr froh, dass alles so gut geklappt hat. Haily hat sich im Juli bekehrt und wurde im Schwimmbad in Cassville getauft. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Ich habe noch ein Gebetsanliegen. Mein Vater Ewald hat Gallenkrebs und bekommt seit Juli Chemotherapien. Der Tumor ist schon kleiner geworden und wir beten fuer voellige Heilung. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Ich verspreche naechstes Mal frueher zu schreiben. Ich bin sehr beschaeftigt!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1670173068063821985-1884388061598056358?l=heikeerwin.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/feeds/1884388061598056358/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1670173068063821985&amp;postID=1884388061598056358&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/1884388061598056358'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/1884388061598056358'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/2011/11/erwin-family-is-complete.html' title='The Erwin family is complete'/><author><name>Heike und Jim</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/-ui-KZhGH3_Y/TsW2mzvNpsI/AAAAAAAAEZE/VzgHB_gNyZA/s72-c/family%2Bpicture.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1670173068063821985.post-6911816197893442512</id><published>2010-09-09T18:34:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-09-09T18:47:51.526-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Taufe und andere Neuigkeiten/baptism and other news</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/TImNCed1YLI/AAAAAAAAETk/ycOExHeu_6Y/s1600/this+and+that+031.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/TImNCed1YLI/AAAAAAAAETk/ycOExHeu_6Y/s320/this+and+that+031.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5515094292369334450" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/TImMQFeKCdI/AAAAAAAAETc/8JOTIy1frGc/s1600/this+and+that+028.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/TImMQFeKCdI/AAAAAAAAETc/8JOTIy1frGc/s320/this+and+that+028.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5515093426666342866" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Madison hat sich im Juli waehrend einer Cheerleading Freizeit bekehrt (&lt;a href="http://www.upward.org/"&gt;http://www.upward.org/&lt;/a&gt;) und wurde letzten Sonntag getauft, Preis den Herrn!&lt;div&gt;Ansonsten sind wir reich gesegnet. Wir koennen unsere zwei juengsten Maedels adoptieren! Vielen Dank an alle die gebetet haben!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Madison und ich haben angefangen Klavierunterricht zu nehmen. Es macht richtig Spass!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Madison became a Christian during a Cheerleader upward week in July ( &lt;a href="http://www.upward.org/"&gt;http://www.upward.org/&lt;/a&gt;). She got baptized last Sunday. Praise the Lord!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;God blessed us richly. We are able to adopt our two youngest girls! Thanks to everyone who prayed.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Madison and I started to take piano lessons. It is a lot of fun!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1670173068063821985-6911816197893442512?l=heikeerwin.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/feeds/6911816197893442512/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1670173068063821985&amp;postID=6911816197893442512&amp;isPopup=true' title='8 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/6911816197893442512'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/6911816197893442512'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/2010/09/taufe-und-andere-neuigkeitenbaptism-and.html' title='Taufe und andere Neuigkeiten/baptism and other news'/><author><name>Heike und Jim</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/TImNCed1YLI/AAAAAAAAETk/ycOExHeu_6Y/s72-c/this+and+that+031.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>8</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1670173068063821985.post-7166971880648907822</id><published>2010-07-14T12:27:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-07-14T12:41:45.026-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Hundstage/dog days</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/TD4S2LPVK3I/AAAAAAAAETU/jCyj_535_rU/s1600/IMG_2578%5B1%5D"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/TD4S2LPVK3I/AAAAAAAAETU/jCyj_535_rU/s320/IMG_2578%5B1%5D" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5493849317377911666" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Der Sommer ist da. Es ist sehr heiss. &lt;div&gt;Diese Woche haben wir Kinderbibelwoche in unserer Gemeinde (Mozark Fellowship). Wir hatten ca. 50 Kinder die kamen!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Summer is here and it is really hot.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;We are having Vacation Bible School at Mozark Fellowship this week. We had about 50 kids coming!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1670173068063821985-7166971880648907822?l=heikeerwin.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/feeds/7166971880648907822/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1670173068063821985&amp;postID=7166971880648907822&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/7166971880648907822'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/7166971880648907822'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/2010/07/hundstagedog-days.html' title='Hundstage/dog days'/><author><name>Heike und Jim</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/TD4S2LPVK3I/AAAAAAAAETU/jCyj_535_rU/s72-c/IMG_2578%5B1%5D' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1670173068063821985.post-241226383224546388</id><published>2010-06-29T12:50:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-06-29T13:11:45.909-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Meine Eltern waren auf Besuch/ my parents were here.</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/TCpSXgRKN8I/AAAAAAAAETM/tECHWOdFeYk/s1600/visit+Oma+and+Opa+165.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/TCpSXgRKN8I/AAAAAAAAETM/tECHWOdFeYk/s320/visit+Oma+and+Opa+165.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5488289659656746946" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/TCpPr7S6sTI/AAAAAAAAETE/Cpfn8-TwSK0/s1600/visit+Oma+and+Opa+013.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/TCpPr7S6sTI/AAAAAAAAETE/Cpfn8-TwSK0/s320/visit+Oma+and+Opa+013.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5488286711974375730" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                                          Meine Eltern waren auf Besuch fuer die letzten 3 Wochen. Wir hatten eine gute Zeit und haben viel unternommen. Gestern sind sie wieder abgereist und wir waren alle in bisschen traurig. &lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;My parents have visited us for the last 3 weeks. We had a great time and have seen a lot. Yesterday they traveled  back and we were all a little bit sad.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1670173068063821985-241226383224546388?l=heikeerwin.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/feeds/241226383224546388/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1670173068063821985&amp;postID=241226383224546388&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/241226383224546388'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/241226383224546388'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/2010/06/meine-eltern-waren-auf-besuch-my.html' title='Meine Eltern waren auf Besuch/ my parents were here.'/><author><name>Heike und Jim</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/TCpSXgRKN8I/AAAAAAAAETM/tECHWOdFeYk/s72-c/visit+Oma+and+Opa+165.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1670173068063821985.post-5067159996386322877</id><published>2010-05-27T18:41:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2010-05-27T19:09:05.986-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Familienfotos und Schnappschildkroeten/family pictures and snapping turtles</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/S_8lpVw8ceI/AAAAAAAAESU/hmseFrzyS2Q/s1600/animals+006.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/S_8lpVw8ceI/AAAAAAAAESU/hmseFrzyS2Q/s320/animals+006.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5476137064053109218" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/S_8gaspDZrI/AAAAAAAAESM/NUFCf6Vkep8/s1600/63.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 214px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/S_8gaspDZrI/AAAAAAAAESM/NUFCf6Vkep8/s320/63.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5476131314937849522" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wir haben Familienfotos in deutschen Kleidern machen lassen. Jim hat auch noch ein bisschen von Texas gezeigt...&lt;div&gt;Jetzt ist auch wieder die Zeit der Schnappschildkroeten, die sind so richtig gross und schnappen. Das Wetter ist richtig schoen und warm geworden und in 1 1/2 Wochen kommen meine Eltern zu Besuch! &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;We made family pictures in German clothes. Jim also shows a little bit Texas on the pictures.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;It is also time again for snapping turtles to show up. They are really big and snap.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The weather is really nice and warm and my parents come in 1 1/2 weeks for a visit!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1670173068063821985-5067159996386322877?l=heikeerwin.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/feeds/5067159996386322877/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1670173068063821985&amp;postID=5067159996386322877&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/5067159996386322877'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/5067159996386322877'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/2010/05/familienfotos-und-schnappschildkroetenf.html' title='Familienfotos und Schnappschildkroeten/family pictures and snapping turtles'/><author><name>Heike und Jim</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/S_8lpVw8ceI/AAAAAAAAESU/hmseFrzyS2Q/s72-c/animals+006.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1670173068063821985.post-2524511721786913409</id><published>2010-05-13T11:49:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-05-13T11:50:14.576-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Sturm/storm</title><content type='html'>Heute Morgen gab es eine halbe Stunde noedlich von uns einen Sturm.&lt;div&gt;Hier ein paar Bilder:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.kspr.com/news/local/93678069.html?gallery=y&amp;amp;img=30&amp;amp;c=y"&gt;http://www.kspr.com/news/local/93678069.html?gallery=y&amp;amp;img=30&amp;amp;c=y&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1670173068063821985-2524511721786913409?l=heikeerwin.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/feeds/2524511721786913409/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1670173068063821985&amp;postID=2524511721786913409&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/2524511721786913409'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/2524511721786913409'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/2010/05/sturmstorm.html' title='Sturm/storm'/><author><name>Heike und Jim</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1670173068063821985.post-6393809576887184702</id><published>2010-05-04T11:52:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-05-04T13:57:30.616-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Ungebetener Gast/Intruder</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/S-BvGVrYI3I/AAAAAAAAERw/1P4XbFhVCM0/s1600/donkey+006.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/S-BvGVrYI3I/AAAAAAAAERw/1P4XbFhVCM0/s320/donkey+006.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5467492102316761970" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ich sass gerade am Computer und hoerte die Hunde draussen laut bellen. Ich ging raus und da war doch tatsaechlich ein Esel!!! Die Hunde haben den Esel nicht interessiert, aber ist ist weitergewandert. Unser Nachbar wird sich darum kuemmern. &lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I was sitting at my computer when I heard the dogs barking. I walked outside and there was a donkey!!! He was not interested in the dogs but walked off. Our neighbor will take care of it.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1670173068063821985-6393809576887184702?l=heikeerwin.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/feeds/6393809576887184702/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1670173068063821985&amp;postID=6393809576887184702&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/6393809576887184702'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/6393809576887184702'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/2010/05/ungebetener-gastintruder.html' title='Ungebetener Gast/Intruder'/><author><name>Heike und Jim</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/S-BvGVrYI3I/AAAAAAAAERw/1P4XbFhVCM0/s72-c/donkey+006.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1670173068063821985.post-6997635213390669038</id><published>2010-04-04T12:46:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2010-04-04T13:35:18.665-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Ostern und Oliver/Easter and Oliver</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/S7jugt6B0_I/AAAAAAAAERI/4sCOZQG92zA/s1600/Easter+2010+081.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/S7jugt6B0_I/AAAAAAAAERI/4sCOZQG92zA/s320/Easter+2010+081.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5456373194405565426" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/S7jtppAuMxI/AAAAAAAAERA/HvLPwayqaYI/s1600/Easter+2010+023.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/S7jtppAuMxI/AAAAAAAAERA/HvLPwayqaYI/s320/Easter+2010+023.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5456372248198656786" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Das war ein wunderschoenes Osterwochenende. Am Freitag waren wir bei grandma und grandpa zum Essen und Ostereiersuchen.&lt;div&gt;Gestern als wir fuer den Gottesdienst am Sonntag aufgebaut haben, kam ein Mann mit zwei Schaeferhundewelpen an und sagte dass sie vor dem Getraenkeladen ausgesetzt wurden. Na ja, so sind wir zu einem "neuen Hund" gekommen. Wiggles und Buerschle haben ihn ganz gut akzeptiert und die Maedels sind natuerlich ganz begeistert. Wir werden ihn morgen untersuchen lassen und dann sehen, ob wir ihn behalten koennen. Die Maedels haben ihn Oliver getauft (ja wie mein Bruder...)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Heute hatten wir einen schoenen Gottesdienst im Gemeinschaftshaus in Seligman mit anschliessendem Ostereiersuchen fuer die Kinder und Mittagessen.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;ER IST AUFERSTANDEN!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;It was a wonderful Easter weekend. Last Friday we went to grandma and grandpa for Lunch and a Easter egg hunt. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;We set up for the service for Sunday in the Community Center in Seligman yesterday. A man stopped by and he had two German shephard puppies who he said were dropped in front of the Liquor shop. We took one of them home. Wiggles and Buerschle accepted him so far and the girls are very happy. Tomorrow we will take him to the vet and see if we can keep him. The girls named him Oliver (yes, like my brother...)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;We had a wonderful service in the Community Center in Seligman today with an Easter egg hunt and Lunch afterwards.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;HE IS RISEN!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1670173068063821985-6997635213390669038?l=heikeerwin.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/feeds/6997635213390669038/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1670173068063821985&amp;postID=6997635213390669038&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/6997635213390669038'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/6997635213390669038'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/2010/04/ostern-und-olivereaster-and-oliver.html' title='Ostern und Oliver/Easter and Oliver'/><author><name>Heike und Jim</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/S7jugt6B0_I/AAAAAAAAERI/4sCOZQG92zA/s72-c/Easter+2010+081.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1670173068063821985.post-7284537774075926784</id><published>2010-03-23T18:00:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2010-03-23T19:04:14.617-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Der Fruehling ist da/Spring is here!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/S6luNNmzIpI/AAAAAAAAEQ4/1OqYpkncAg0/s1600-h/spring+10+014.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/S6luNNmzIpI/AAAAAAAAEQ4/1OqYpkncAg0/s320/spring+10+014.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5452009997178446482" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/S6lo7YptA8I/AAAAAAAAEQw/Q_TU38uOEQA/s1600-h/spring+10+007.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/S6lo7YptA8I/AAAAAAAAEQw/Q_TU38uOEQA/s320/spring+10+007.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5452004193347634114" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/S6lmhmAYYiI/AAAAAAAAEQo/B9DSTzwREEQ/s1600-h/spring+10+004.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/S6lmhmAYYiI/AAAAAAAAEQo/B9DSTzwREEQ/s320/spring+10+004.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5452001551232557602" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Nachdem wir letztes Wochenende nochmal richtig viel Schnee hatten, ist jetzt endlich der Fruehling da. Am Sonntag hatte Janaya Geburtstag, jetzt sind wir erst einmal mit den Geburtstagen von den Kindern fuer eine Weile fertig (Dezember, Januar, Februar und Maerz sind die Geburtstage von den Maedels). &lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;We had a lot of snow last weekend finally spring is here. Last Sunday was Janaya's birthday. We are now done for a while with the children's birthdays . We had a birthday for each girl in December, January, February and March.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1670173068063821985-7284537774075926784?l=heikeerwin.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/feeds/7284537774075926784/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1670173068063821985&amp;postID=7284537774075926784&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/7284537774075926784'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/7284537774075926784'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/2010/03/der-fruehling-ist-daspring-is-here.html' title='Der Fruehling ist da/Spring is here!'/><author><name>Heike und Jim</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/S6luNNmzIpI/AAAAAAAAEQ4/1OqYpkncAg0/s72-c/spring+10+014.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1670173068063821985.post-8791494878793229264</id><published>2010-02-20T08:17:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-02-20T08:33:45.438-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Geburtstag und Pfadfinderkekse/birthday and Girl Scouts cookies</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/S4ANd0cqKeI/AAAAAAAAEQY/5JAknT8YbFA/s1600-h/Madison+7th+bd+020.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/S4ANd0cqKeI/AAAAAAAAEQY/5JAknT8YbFA/s320/Madison+7th+bd+020.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5440363155809774050" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/S4AMzwsDu4I/AAAAAAAAEQQ/wXwit4htlL8/s1600-h/IMG_1628%5B1%5D"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/S4AMzwsDu4I/AAAAAAAAEQQ/wXwit4htlL8/s320/IMG_1628%5B1%5D" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5440362433246116738" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gestern ist Madison 7 geworden und wir hatten ihre Party in Mc Donalds. Jedes Kind bekam ein "Happy Meal" und Kuchen. Wir hatten viel Spass.&lt;div&gt;Die Maedels sind bei den Pfadfinderinnen und einmal im Jahr kann man Kekse von den Maedels kaufen (mmmh lecker!) Das Geld geht wird fuer Aktivitaeten der Pfadfinderinnen benutzt. Gute Sache!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Madison turned 7 yesterday. We had her party at McDonald's. Every child received a Happy Meal and a piece of cake. We had lots of fun!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Our girls are Girl Scouts. One time a year they sell Girl Scouts cookies (mmmh). They use the money for activities for the Girl Scouts. Good Idea!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1670173068063821985-8791494878793229264?l=heikeerwin.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/feeds/8791494878793229264/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1670173068063821985&amp;postID=8791494878793229264&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/8791494878793229264'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/8791494878793229264'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/2010/02/geburtstag-und-pfadfinderkeksebirthday.html' title='Geburtstag und Pfadfinderkekse/birthday and Girl Scouts cookies'/><author><name>Heike und Jim</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/S4ANd0cqKeI/AAAAAAAAEQY/5JAknT8YbFA/s72-c/Madison+7th+bd+020.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1670173068063821985.post-5925755568262265740</id><published>2010-01-26T11:24:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2010-01-26T11:44:45.966-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Geburt/birth</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/S19BiEiJ-kI/AAAAAAAAEQI/Zn3ZOu6zo90/s1600-h/Andrew+birth.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 213px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/S19BiEiJ-kI/AAAAAAAAEQI/Zn3ZOu6zo90/s320/Andrew+birth.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5431131729220467266" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;Gestern war ich mit Staci und JR im Krankenhaus und bei der Geburt ihres kleinen Andrews dabei. Das war eine ganz neue Erfahrung fuer mich und wirklich ein Wunder Gottes! Unvergesslich!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Yesterday I was with Staci and JR in the hospital for the birth of their little Andrew. That was a complete new experience for me and a miracle of God! Unforgettable!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1670173068063821985-5925755568262265740?l=heikeerwin.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/feeds/5925755568262265740/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1670173068063821985&amp;postID=5925755568262265740&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/5925755568262265740'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/5925755568262265740'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/2010/01/geburtbirth.html' title='Geburt/birth'/><author><name>Heike und Jim</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/S19BiEiJ-kI/AAAAAAAAEQI/Zn3ZOu6zo90/s72-c/Andrew+birth.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1670173068063821985.post-1018243891899393496</id><published>2010-01-06T18:34:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2010-01-08T12:26:31.309-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Wii und Schnee/Wii and snow</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/S0eU0xr-hOI/AAAAAAAAEQA/EUoFh-63Yiw/s1600-h/01-05+003.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/S0eU0xr-hOI/AAAAAAAAEQA/EUoFh-63Yiw/s320/01-05+003.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5424467910602949858" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/S0ZFzqtRfVI/AAAAAAAAEPw/7r--JLtANsk/s1600-h/01-05+002.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/S0ZFzqtRfVI/AAAAAAAAEPw/7r--JLtANsk/s320/01-05+002.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5424099555154165074" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="http://www.blogger.com/img/blank.gif" alt="Add Image" border="0" class="gl_photo" /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/S0VRJT4w7JI/AAAAAAAAEPo/2gJN5BUHRZc/s1600-h/01-05+006.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/S0VRJT4w7JI/AAAAAAAAEPo/2gJN5BUHRZc/s320/01-05+006.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5423830546636663954" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wir haben ein Wii, wir ihr auf den Bildern sehen koennt. Diese Woche ist keine Schule, da wir viel Schnee haben und der Schulbus nicht fahren kann...Es ist auch sehr kalt!!! Gott sei Dank, haben wir das Wii, kam genau zu richtigen Zeit, da die Kinder zuhause sind...&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;You can see on the pictures that we have a Wii. The kids have no school this week because we have a lot of snow and the school bus can't pick up the kids. It is also very cold. Thank God we have the Wii, which came at the right time while the kids stuck at home...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1670173068063821985-1018243891899393496?l=heikeerwin.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/feeds/1018243891899393496/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1670173068063821985&amp;postID=1018243891899393496&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/1018243891899393496'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/1018243891899393496'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/2010/01/wii-und-schneewii-and-snow.html' title='Wii und Schnee/Wii and snow'/><author><name>Heike und Jim</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/S0eU0xr-hOI/AAAAAAAAEQA/EUoFh-63Yiw/s72-c/01-05+003.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1670173068063821985.post-1249867213868772985</id><published>2009-12-13T13:10:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2009-12-13T14:13:03.078-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Weihnachtsumzug und  Baeume/Christmas Parade and trees</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SyVj3EIRPjI/AAAAAAAAEOs/_hwtrln1iKw/s1600-h/christmas+parade+and+decorationh+047.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SyVj3EIRPjI/AAAAAAAAEOs/_hwtrln1iKw/s320/christmas+parade+and+decorationh+047.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5414843924635270706" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SyVjGpB-TAI/AAAAAAAAEOk/p0kW0QpqE-M/s1600-h/christmas+parade+and+decorationh+046.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SyVjGpB-TAI/AAAAAAAAEOk/p0kW0QpqE-M/s320/christmas+parade+and+decorationh+046.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5414843092727385090" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SyVhGGjcgrI/AAAAAAAAEOc/x0WbdQRGN2s/s1600-h/christmas+parade+and+decorationh+033.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SyVhGGjcgrI/AAAAAAAAEOc/x0WbdQRGN2s/s320/christmas+parade+and+decorationh+033.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5414840884449280690" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SyVgHTMh4xI/AAAAAAAAEOU/94JM1vPK8Qo/s1600-h/christmas+parade+and+decorationh+025.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SyVgHTMh4xI/AAAAAAAAEOU/94JM1vPK8Qo/s320/christmas+parade+and+decorationh+025.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5414839805511066386" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SyVe4xeDjFI/AAAAAAAAEOM/hMPNX0_s84o/s1600-h/christmas+parade+and+decorationh+008.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SyVe4xeDjFI/AAAAAAAAEOM/hMPNX0_s84o/s320/christmas+parade+and+decorationh+008.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5414838456427973714" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gestern waren wir beim Weihnachtsumzug in Seligman. Wir hatten unseren eigenen Anhaenger dekoriert fuer Mozark Fellowship. Die Kinder waren als Geschenke verkleidet und die Erwachsenen als Schneemann und Elfen. Es war kalt und nass, aber wir hatten viel Spass.&lt;div&gt;Danach sind wir nachhause gegangen und haben die Weihnachtsbaeume dekoriert. Wir haben einen kleinen Baum fuer die Maedels in blau gekauft und dieses Jahr haben wir das erste Mal einen keunstlichen Baum. Wahrscheinlich bin ich jetzt vollkommen amerikanisiert....&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;We went to the Christmas Parade in Seligman yesterday. Mozark Fellowship decorated its own float. The kids were dressed up as gifts and the adults were a "Snow-woman" and elves. It was cold and wet but we had a lot of fun.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Afterwards we went home and decorated the Christmas trees. We bought a little blue tree for the girls. For the first time we bought an artificial tree. I am probably Americanized now...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1670173068063821985-1249867213868772985?l=heikeerwin.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/feeds/1249867213868772985/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1670173068063821985&amp;postID=1249867213868772985&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/1249867213868772985'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/1249867213868772985'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/2009/12/weihnachtsumzug-und-baeumechristmas.html' title='Weihnachtsumzug und  Baeume/Christmas Parade and trees'/><author><name>Heike und Jim</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SyVj3EIRPjI/AAAAAAAAEOs/_hwtrln1iKw/s72-c/christmas+parade+and+decorationh+047.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1670173068063821985.post-651922203933683631</id><published>2009-12-01T18:08:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2009-12-01T18:56:40.392-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Madison's picture/Bild</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SxXXTba2foI/AAAAAAAAEN4/UMKpfWIDZ9g/s1600-h/this+and+that+004.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SxXXTba2foI/AAAAAAAAEN4/UMKpfWIDZ9g/s320/this+and+that+004.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5410467256133385858" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Barbara hat Madison auch ein Bild an die Wand gemalt. Sie hat sich "Little Mermaid" gewuenscht. &lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Barbara drew Madison a picture on her wall, too. She wanted "Little Mermaid".&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1670173068063821985-651922203933683631?l=heikeerwin.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/feeds/651922203933683631/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1670173068063821985&amp;postID=651922203933683631&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/651922203933683631'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/651922203933683631'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/2009/12/madisons-picturebild.html' title='Madison&apos;s picture/Bild'/><author><name>Heike und Jim</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SxXXTba2foI/AAAAAAAAEN4/UMKpfWIDZ9g/s72-c/this+and+that+004.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1670173068063821985.post-2371614982837833019</id><published>2009-11-18T14:40:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-11-18T14:52:08.849-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Wandbild/wall picture</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SwR6Rv-UjjI/AAAAAAAAENw/6t7pqLGK8lE/s1600/IMG_0963%5B1%5D"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SwR6Rv-UjjI/AAAAAAAAENw/6t7pqLGK8lE/s320/IMG_0963%5B1%5D" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5405579898105663026" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Barbara, Jims Mama hat ein Wandbild an Janayas Wand in ihrem Zimmer gemalt. Da Janaya gerne Fische und Haie mag, hat sie ein Unterwasserbild gemalt. &lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Barbara, Jim's mom painted a picture on Janaya's wall in her room. Janaya likes fishes and sharks thats why Barbara painted an underwater picture.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1670173068063821985-2371614982837833019?l=heikeerwin.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/feeds/2371614982837833019/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1670173068063821985&amp;postID=2371614982837833019&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/2371614982837833019'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/2371614982837833019'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/2009/11/wandbildwall-picture.html' title='Wandbild/wall picture'/><author><name>Heike und Jim</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SwR6Rv-UjjI/AAAAAAAAENw/6t7pqLGK8lE/s72-c/IMG_0963%5B1%5D' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1670173068063821985.post-8480051602593573981</id><published>2009-11-15T13:57:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-11-15T14:31:27.196-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Adoption party</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SwCBKrbBUII/AAAAAAAAENo/3ChIzId6N14/s1600-h/IMG_0921.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SwCBKrbBUII/AAAAAAAAENo/3ChIzId6N14/s320/IMG_0921.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5404461573299327106" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SwB-2L3zQZI/AAAAAAAAENg/GdUr33D8oc0/s1600-h/IMG_0889.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SwB-2L3zQZI/AAAAAAAAENg/GdUr33D8oc0/s320/IMG_0889.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5404459022209466770" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SwB7pQIAs7I/AAAAAAAAENY/9IdbihAi63g/s1600-h/IMG_0886.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SwB7pQIAs7I/AAAAAAAAENY/9IdbihAi63g/s320/IMG_0886.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5404455501478015922" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Gestern hatten wir die Adoptionsparty fuer Janaya und Madison. Es kamen so ungefaehr 50 Leute und es war eine schoene Feier. Natuerlich gab es auch viele Geschenke...&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;We had Janaya's and Madison's Adoption Party yesterday. Around 50 people came and it was a nice celebration. Of course, there were a lot of gifts,  too...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1670173068063821985-8480051602593573981?l=heikeerwin.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/feeds/8480051602593573981/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1670173068063821985&amp;postID=8480051602593573981&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/8480051602593573981'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/8480051602593573981'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/2009/11/adoption-party.html' title='Adoption party'/><author><name>Heike und Jim</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SwCBKrbBUII/AAAAAAAAENo/3ChIzId6N14/s72-c/IMG_0921.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1670173068063821985.post-4344633864003357504</id><published>2009-11-12T18:24:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-11-12T18:36:58.727-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Adoption</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SvzGIL5W1nI/AAAAAAAAENQ/Qtai4a1pgOw/s1600-h/IMG_0883%5B1%5D"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SvzGIL5W1nI/AAAAAAAAENQ/Qtai4a1pgOw/s320/IMG_0883%5B1%5D" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5403411496872367730" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Heute Morgen waren wir beim Gericht, um die Adoption von Janaya und Madison abzuschliessen. Die Beiden heissen ab heute Janaya Susanne Erwin (mein Mittelname) und Madison Ruth Erwin (der Mittelname meiner Mutter). Am Samstag werden wir eine grossen Adoptionsparty um 14 Uhr in der Baptistengemeinde in Washburn feiern. Alle sind eingeladen!!!&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;We were in court this morning to finalize the adoption from Janaya and Madison. The new names of the two girls are Janaya Susanne Erwin (my middle name) and Madison Ruth Erwin (my mother's middle name). On Saturday we are going to have a big adoption party at 2pm at Washburn First Baptist church. Everybody is invited!!!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1670173068063821985-4344633864003357504?l=heikeerwin.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/feeds/4344633864003357504/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1670173068063821985&amp;postID=4344633864003357504&amp;isPopup=true' title='4 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/4344633864003357504'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/4344633864003357504'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/2009/11/adoption.html' title='Adoption'/><author><name>Heike und Jim</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SvzGIL5W1nI/AAAAAAAAENQ/Qtai4a1pgOw/s72-c/IMG_0883%5B1%5D' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>4</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1670173068063821985.post-149752686286761123</id><published>2009-11-01T13:45:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-11-02T07:24:25.061-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Herbst und Neuigkeiten/fall and news</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/Su4D5BKtxoI/AAAAAAAAENI/v4jca0uJ7Uo/s1600-h/IMG_0825%5B1%5D"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/Su4D5BKtxoI/AAAAAAAAENI/v4jca0uJ7Uo/s320/IMG_0825%5B1%5D" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5399257281364608642" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/Su4C_Us47JI/AAAAAAAAENA/nOlYesBQCM4/s1600-h/IMG_0805%5B1%5D"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/Su4C_Us47JI/AAAAAAAAENA/nOlYesBQCM4/s320/IMG_0805%5B1%5D" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5399256290175806610" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Herbstzeit, wir haben schon einige Kuerbisse mit den Maedels dekoriert. Gestern waren wir in der Kirche in Washburn, um Halloween zu feiern, mit Spielen, Huepfburgen, etc. Das Wetter ist momentan noch sehr schoen, sonnig und so um die 20 Grad C.&lt;div&gt;Am 12. November haben wir die Gerichtsverhandlung fuer J's und M's Adoption, wir sind alle ganz gluecklich! Am 14. November werden wir eine grosse Adoptionsparty feiern!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Fall - we already decorated a few pumpkins with the girls. Yesterday we were at the church in Washburn to celebrate Halloween, with games, and a bouncy house... The weather is really nice at the moment. It is about 70 Degree F.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;On November 12th we will have the court date for J's and M's adoption. We are all very happy! On November 14th we will celebrate with a big adoption party!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1670173068063821985-149752686286761123?l=heikeerwin.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/feeds/149752686286761123/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1670173068063821985&amp;postID=149752686286761123&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/149752686286761123'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/149752686286761123'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/2009/11/herbst-und-neuigkeitenfall-and-news.html' title='Herbst und Neuigkeiten/fall and news'/><author><name>Heike und Jim</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/Su4D5BKtxoI/AAAAAAAAENI/v4jca0uJ7Uo/s72-c/IMG_0825%5B1%5D' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1670173068063821985.post-2226905522567094819</id><published>2009-10-22T18:39:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-23T12:36:14.322-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Naechtlicher Besucher/visitor at night</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SuIFUakbPuI/AAAAAAAAEM4/nHPy21U2wQ4/s1600-h/IMG_0804%5B1%5D"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SuIFUakbPuI/AAAAAAAAEM4/nHPy21U2wQ4/s320/IMG_0804%5B1%5D" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5395881151830900450" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Als ich gerade die Tuer aufmachte und die Hunde rauslassen wollte, sass da eine Eidechse. Gott sei Dank bin ich nicht draufgetreten. Die Hunde haben sich nicht dafuer interessiert. Ich denke mal morgen frueh ist die Eidechse wieder weg.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I just opened the door and wanted to let my dogs out. There was a lizard sitting in front of the door. Good that I didn't step on it. The dogs where not interested. I think the lizard will be gone in the morning. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1670173068063821985-2226905522567094819?l=heikeerwin.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/feeds/2226905522567094819/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1670173068063821985&amp;postID=2226905522567094819&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/2226905522567094819'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/2226905522567094819'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/2009/10/naechtlicher-besuchervisitor-at-night.html' title='Naechtlicher Besucher/visitor at night'/><author><name>Heike und Jim</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SuIFUakbPuI/AAAAAAAAEM4/nHPy21U2wQ4/s72-c/IMG_0804%5B1%5D' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1670173068063821985.post-755475945636730396</id><published>2009-10-15T12:14:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-10-15T12:19:50.999-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Mein neues netbook/my new netbook</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/Std1QvhthmI/AAAAAAAAEMw/9nWoPSDm2M0/s1600-h/IMG_0772.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/Std1QvhthmI/AAAAAAAAEMw/9nWoPSDm2M0/s320/IMG_0772.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5392908009295677026" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jetzt gibt es ja so kleine Computer, genannt netbook. Da ich sowieso einen neuen Computer kaufen wollte, habe ich mir so eins gekauft. Es ist ungefaehr so gross wie ein DIN A4 Blatt und ideal als Zweitcomputer. So genug Werbung...Es geht uns gut und wir warten nur noch auf den Gerichtstermin fuer die Adoption fuer J und M. Danach kann ich auch Bilder von den Beiden hier zeigen. &lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Since a while there are small Computers on the market, called net books. I needed a new computer anyway and so I got one. The net book is about as big as a normal sheet of paper and perfect as a second Computer. Enough advertising now....We are doing fine and we are waiting on the court date for j and M's adoption. Afterwards I can put pictures of them on here.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1670173068063821985-755475945636730396?l=heikeerwin.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/feeds/755475945636730396/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1670173068063821985&amp;postID=755475945636730396&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/755475945636730396'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/755475945636730396'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/2009/10/mein-neues-netbookmy-new-netbook.html' title='Mein neues netbook/my new netbook'/><author><name>Heike und Jim</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/Std1QvhthmI/AAAAAAAAEMw/9nWoPSDm2M0/s72-c/IMG_0772.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1670173068063821985.post-5287969307987038324</id><published>2009-09-11T13:37:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-09-11T18:30:35.069-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Xandi ist da/Xandi is here...</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/Sqq1ma9ehAI/AAAAAAAAEMo/t5kiYLXl4b0/s1600-h/IMG_0716%5B1%5D"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/Sqq1ma9ehAI/AAAAAAAAEMo/t5kiYLXl4b0/s320/IMG_0716%5B1%5D" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5380312376524309506" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wir haben Besuch aus Deutschland. Xandi eine Freundin aus Kirchheim ist gekommen. Sei bleibt fuer 8 Tage. Auf dem Bild seht Ihr wie sie Gras auf unserem Grundstueck zusammen recht. Wir maehen normalerweise nur und lassen das Gras liegen, da das Grundstueck so gross ist...&lt;div&gt;Morgen gehen wir nach Oklahoma, zu einem Cherokeemuseum in Oklahoma.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Heute Abend gibt es richtiges Steak bei Jims Eltern...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;We have a visitor from Germany. Xandi, my friend from Kirchheim, came this week. She is staying for 8 days. On the picture above she is raking grass in our yard. Normally, we only mow and we don't collect the grass because the yard is too big...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Tomorrow we will go to the Cherokee Museum in Oklahoma.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Tonight we will eat real steak at the home of Jim's parents.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;(&lt;a href="http://www.cherokeeheritage.org/"&gt;http://www.cherokeeheritage.org/&lt;/a&gt;)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1670173068063821985-5287969307987038324?l=heikeerwin.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/feeds/5287969307987038324/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1670173068063821985&amp;postID=5287969307987038324&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/5287969307987038324'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/5287969307987038324'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/2009/09/xandi-ist-daxandi-is-here.html' title='Xandi ist da/Xandi is here...'/><author><name>Heike und Jim</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/Sqq1ma9ehAI/AAAAAAAAEMo/t5kiYLXl4b0/s72-c/IMG_0716%5B1%5D' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1670173068063821985.post-6178285923467178313</id><published>2009-08-24T12:01:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-08-24T12:06:24.690-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Ein Auto und eine Waffe/ a car and a gun</title><content type='html'>Diesen Bericht finde ich "sehr amerikanisch". Fuer alle die kein englisch koennen. Ein Autohaendler der "Hummer"(sehr grosses Ami-Auto) verkauft, gibt seinen Kunden mit dem Auto eine Waffe...&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Siehe hier:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.ereleases.com/pr/guns-hummers-american-24697"&gt;http://www.ereleases.com/pr/guns-hummers-american-24697&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Hier noch ein paar Bilder von einem Hummer:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://images.google.com/images?rlz=1C1CHMI_enUS308US308&amp;amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;amp;q=picture+Hummer&amp;amp;um=1&amp;amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;amp;ei=aeSSSrOOMYiplAfngaGxDA&amp;amp;sa=X&amp;amp;oi=image_result_group&amp;amp;ct=title&amp;amp;resnum=5"&gt;http://images.google.com/images?rlz=1C1CHMI_enUS308US308&amp;amp;sourceid=chrome&amp;amp;q=picture+Hummer&amp;amp;um=1&amp;amp;ie=UTF-8&amp;amp;ei=aeSSSrOOMYiplAfngaGxDA&amp;amp;sa=X&amp;amp;oi=image_result_group&amp;amp;ct=title&amp;amp;resnum=5&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1670173068063821985-6178285923467178313?l=heikeerwin.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/feeds/6178285923467178313/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1670173068063821985&amp;postID=6178285923467178313&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/6178285923467178313'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/6178285923467178313'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/2009/08/ein-auto-und-eine-waffe-car-and-gun.html' title='Ein Auto und eine Waffe/ a car and a gun'/><author><name>Heike und Jim</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1670173068063821985.post-5827105481236801090</id><published>2009-08-14T14:39:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-08-14T15:02:23.186-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Urlaub in Deutschland/vacation in Germany</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SoXcdIgHQVI/AAAAAAAAEMc/HBuXjz5TSWk/s1600-h/IMG_0573%5B1%5D"&gt;&lt;img style="text-align: center;float: left; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: 10px; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: 0px; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px; " src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SoXcdIgHQVI/AAAAAAAAEMc/HBuXjz5TSWk/s320/IMG_0573%5B1%5D" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5369940523765678418" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SoXbYWhjKsI/AAAAAAAAEMU/Qj31y_LZPJA/s1600-h/IMG_0584%5B1%5D"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SoXbYWhjKsI/AAAAAAAAEMU/Qj31y_LZPJA/s320/IMG_0584%5B1%5D" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5369939342118824642" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SoXaU86cPHI/AAAAAAAAEMM/MJr0GJSc_Xw/s1600-h/IMG_0579%5B1%5D"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SoXaU86cPHI/AAAAAAAAEMM/MJr0GJSc_Xw/s320/IMG_0579%5B1%5D" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5369938184192670834" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Wir waren eine Woche in Deutschland. Leider ist mein aelterer Bruder verstorben. Es war mein erster Besuch seit ich in den USA bin. Es ist relativ einfach mit der "Permanent Resident Card" zu reisen. &lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;We were in Germany for a week. Sadly my older brother died. It was my first visit to Germany since I have been in the US. It was relatively easy to travel with my Permanent Resident Card. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1670173068063821985-5827105481236801090?l=heikeerwin.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/feeds/5827105481236801090/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1670173068063821985&amp;postID=5827105481236801090&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/5827105481236801090'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/5827105481236801090'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/2009/08/urlaub-in-deutschlandvacation-in.html' title='Urlaub in Deutschland/vacation in Germany'/><author><name>Heike und Jim</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SoXcdIgHQVI/AAAAAAAAEMc/HBuXjz5TSWk/s72-c/IMG_0573%5B1%5D' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1670173068063821985.post-3829504088382523853</id><published>2009-07-25T11:59:00.008-07:00</published><updated>2009-07-25T12:33:01.369-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Urlaub/vacation</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SmtdnVfbyTI/AAAAAAAAEME/KwHVnaLJkb4/s1600-h/IMG_0474%5B1%5D"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SmtdnVfbyTI/AAAAAAAAEME/KwHVnaLJkb4/s320/IMG_0474%5B1%5D" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5362482711679977778" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SmtcPxoB1GI/AAAAAAAAEL8/1PDro1_pUps/s1600-h/IMG_0507%5B1%5D"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SmtcPxoB1GI/AAAAAAAAEL8/1PDro1_pUps/s320/IMG_0507%5B1%5D" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5362481207403730018" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SmtbZK7aECI/AAAAAAAAEL0/52CR0Vk-ayk/s1600-h/IMG_0474%5B1%5D"&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SmtapStON1I/AAAAAAAAELs/oH14zObs-dw/s1600-h/IMG_0391%5B2%5D"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SmtapStON1I/AAAAAAAAELs/oH14zObs-dw/s320/IMG_0391%5B2%5D" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5362479446757357394" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SmtZH7MTkPI/AAAAAAAAELk/BTYkn6MIY84/s1600-h/IMG_0357%5B1%5D"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SmtZH7MTkPI/AAAAAAAAELk/BTYkn6MIY84/s320/IMG_0357%5B1%5D" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5362477773997969650" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gestern sind wir von Eureka Springs zurueckgekommen. Wir hatten eine schoene Zeit und das Wetter war perfekt. Nicht zu heiss und nicht zu kalt. Wir haben viel unternommen. Zoo, Hoehle, See und viel Eis essen. Ich haette noch eine Woche laenger bleiben koennen...&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Yesterday we came back from Eureka Springs. We had a nice time and the weather was perfect. Not too hot and not too cold. We have seen a lot. We went to a Zoo, cavern, a lake and ate a lot of ice cream. I could have stayed a week longer...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1670173068063821985-3829504088382523853?l=heikeerwin.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/feeds/3829504088382523853/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1670173068063821985&amp;postID=3829504088382523853&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/3829504088382523853'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/3829504088382523853'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/2009/07/urlaubvacation.html' title='Urlaub/vacation'/><author><name>Heike und Jim</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SmtdnVfbyTI/AAAAAAAAEME/KwHVnaLJkb4/s72-c/IMG_0474%5B1%5D' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1670173068063821985.post-7159903230843519849</id><published>2009-07-15T12:58:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-07-15T13:09:04.712-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Besuch aus Deutschland/visit from Germany</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/Sl41r90WfUI/AAAAAAAAELE/ErMGTlgXF9U/s1600-h/IMG_0301%5B1%5D"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/Sl41r90WfUI/AAAAAAAAELE/ErMGTlgXF9U/s320/IMG_0301%5B1%5D" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5358779636062256450" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wir hatten unseren ersten Besucher aus Deutschland. Chrissie (die ja jetzt in Australien lebt), Alex und Freddie waren bei uns. Wir hatten BBQ und hatten gute Gespraeche. Es war schoen mal wieder deutsch zu sprechen. Schade, dass sie nicht laenger geblieben sind.&lt;div&gt;Naechste Woche gehen wir fuer eine Woche in Urlaub nach Eureka Springs in Arkansas (&lt;a href="http://www.eurekasprings.org/"&gt;http://www.eurekasprings.org/&lt;/a&gt;).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;We had our first visitors from Germany. Chrissie (she is living in Australia), Alex and Freddie came to visit us. We had BBQ and had good conversations. It was nice to speak German once again. Too bad they didn't stay longer.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Next week we will go to Eureka Springs in Arkansas for vacation (http://www.eurekasprings.org/).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1670173068063821985-7159903230843519849?l=heikeerwin.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/feeds/7159903230843519849/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1670173068063821985&amp;postID=7159903230843519849&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/7159903230843519849'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/7159903230843519849'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/2009/07/besuch-aus-deutschlandvisit-from.html' title='Besuch aus Deutschland/visit from Germany'/><author><name>Heike und Jim</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/Sl41r90WfUI/AAAAAAAAELE/ErMGTlgXF9U/s72-c/IMG_0301%5B1%5D' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1670173068063821985.post-4331117802540260773</id><published>2009-07-04T08:51:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-07-04T10:03:48.848-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Happy 4th July</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/Sk97lmsKemI/AAAAAAAAEKk/EyEr7SuA2KI/s1600-h/IMG_0219%5B1%5D"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/Sk97lmsKemI/AAAAAAAAEKk/EyEr7SuA2KI/s320/IMG_0219%5B1%5D" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5354634367937968738" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/Sk97PF_3U8I/AAAAAAAAEKc/w63qIo1Akec/s1600-h/IMG_0218%5B1%5D"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/Sk97PF_3U8I/AAAAAAAAEKc/w63qIo1Akec/s320/IMG_0218%5B1%5D" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5354633981205107650" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Heute wird hier in den USA die Unabhaengigkeit gefeiert. Siehe hier:  &lt;a href="http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unabh%C3%A4ngigkeitserkl%C3%A4rung_der_Vereinigten_Staaten"&gt;http://de.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unabhängigkeitserklärung_der_Vereinigten_Staaten&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Gestern Abend hatten wir eine grosse Party in der Kirche in Washburn, mit Grillen, Spielen und Feuerwerk. Heute werden wir mit grandpa und grandma grillen. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Today the USA is celebrating their Independence Day. Last night we had a big party at the church in Washburn with BBQ, games and fire works. Today we will have BBQ with Grandpa and Grandma.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1670173068063821985-4331117802540260773?l=heikeerwin.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/feeds/4331117802540260773/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1670173068063821985&amp;postID=4331117802540260773&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/4331117802540260773'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/4331117802540260773'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/2009/07/happy-4th-july.html' title='Happy 4th July'/><author><name>Heike und Jim</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/Sk97lmsKemI/AAAAAAAAEKk/EyEr7SuA2KI/s72-c/IMG_0219%5B1%5D' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1670173068063821985.post-4002044402754534524</id><published>2009-06-28T13:00:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-06-28T13:22:36.896-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Buerschle</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SkfOwtZdzTI/AAAAAAAAEKU/bL0lvjf_EHg/s1600-h/IMG_0175%5B1%5D"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SkfOwtZdzTI/AAAAAAAAEKU/bL0lvjf_EHg/s320/IMG_0175%5B1%5D" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5352474018368572722" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SkfOG1jD2xI/AAAAAAAAEKM/iIDbbzChn20/s1600-h/IMG_0169%5B1%5D"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SkfOG1jD2xI/AAAAAAAAEKM/iIDbbzChn20/s320/IMG_0169%5B1%5D" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5352473299001793298" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Seit ca. 1 1/2 Wochen haben wir Zuwachs. Irgendjemand hat einen Yorkshire Terrier bei uns ausgesetzt. Wir haben ihn erst einmal zum Tierarzt gebracht und er ist gesund, ca. 1 Jahr alt und wir haben ihn impfen lassen. Wiggles hat ihn akzeptiert, aber Luvi unsere Katze ist genervt...Ich habe ihn Buerschle genannt, ein typische schwaebischer Name. Fuer alle Amis unaussprechbar, deshalb nennen ihn die meisten hier Bruce Lee. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;We have a new addition to our family. Someone dropped him off at our house. We brought him to the vet and he is healthy, about 1 year old and he got his shots. Wiggles has accepted him but Luvi our cat is having a "hissy-fit"...I gave him the name Buerschle, a typical swabian name. The Americans can't say the name. Thats why they call him Bruce Lee.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1670173068063821985-4002044402754534524?l=heikeerwin.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/feeds/4002044402754534524/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1670173068063821985&amp;postID=4002044402754534524&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/4002044402754534524'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/4002044402754534524'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/2009/06/buerschle.html' title='Buerschle'/><author><name>Heike und Jim</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SkfOwtZdzTI/AAAAAAAAEKU/bL0lvjf_EHg/s72-c/IMG_0175%5B1%5D' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1670173068063821985.post-5477995489629579995</id><published>2009-06-21T13:38:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-06-21T14:05:11.960-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Sommerfest/Summer Fest</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/Sj6b4BuqAhI/AAAAAAAAEKE/yVI5u_CNo84/s1600-h/IMG_7518.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 179px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/Sj6b4BuqAhI/AAAAAAAAEKE/yVI5u_CNo84/s320/IMG_7518.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5349884794201834002" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/Sj6bcqWz4KI/AAAAAAAAEJ8/LZUK_prLwPs/s1600-h/IMG_7474.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 179px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/Sj6bcqWz4KI/AAAAAAAAEJ8/LZUK_prLwPs/s320/IMG_7474.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5349884324071334050" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/Sj6a60mURMI/AAAAAAAAEJ0/3PswzMG7HZs/s1600-h/IMG_7425.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 179px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/Sj6a60mURMI/AAAAAAAAEJ0/3PswzMG7HZs/s320/IMG_7425.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5349883742705173698" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gestern hatten wir ein grosses Sommerfest in unserer neuen Gemeinde in Seligman. Wir hatten eine grosse Wasserrutsche fuer die Kinder, Sticky Wall, Laser Tag, Face paining, tatoos (keine echten...), Essen, Getraenke, Bands, Kuchen, etc...&lt;div&gt;Es war sehr heiss und ca. 400 Leute waren da. Es war sehr viel Arbeit aber auch viel Spass! Wir hoffen, dass viele der Gaeste auch in Zukunft in unseren Gottesdienst kommen werden.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;We had a big Summer Fest in our new church in Seligman. We had a Waterslide for the kids, a dunkin booth, Sticky Wall, Laser Tag, face painting and fake tatoos, food, drinks, Bands, cake....&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;It was very hot and about 400 people came. It was a lot of work but also a lot of fun. We hope that the people who came will also visit our service on Sundays. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1670173068063821985-5477995489629579995?l=heikeerwin.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/feeds/5477995489629579995/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1670173068063821985&amp;postID=5477995489629579995&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/5477995489629579995'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/5477995489629579995'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/2009/06/sommerfestsummer-fest.html' title='Sommerfest/Summer Fest'/><author><name>Heike und Jim</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/Sj6b4BuqAhI/AAAAAAAAEKE/yVI5u_CNo84/s72-c/IMG_7518.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1670173068063821985.post-1397129280256033109</id><published>2009-06-10T07:08:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-06-10T07:19:02.935-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Unwetter/storm</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/Si_AGMekMII/AAAAAAAAEJs/j8wXUyVa0eY/s1600-h/IMG_0145%5B1%5D"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/Si_AGMekMII/AAAAAAAAEJs/j8wXUyVa0eY/s320/IMG_0145%5B1%5D" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5345702495373242498" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Letzte Nacht hatten wir starke Gewitter und Stuerme. Dadurch ist ein Baum umgefallen und auf unseren Van gestuerzt. Ich bin durch einen lauten Knall aufgewacht. Letzte Nacht dachte ich, dass der Van komplett kaputt ist...und Jim ist in Kansas City fuer die ganze Woche fuer eine Doktorenklasse. Aber heute Morgen kamen Glenn und Barbara, brachten die Kinder zur Schule und dann haben wir uns erst einmal alles angeschaut. Gott sei Dank, hat der Van nur eine kleine Macke auf dem Dach, da der Baumstamm genau hinter dem Auto gelandet ist und nur ein paar Aeste auf dem Dach gelandet sind.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We had strong thunder storms last night. As a result a tree fell on our van. I woke up because there was a loud crack. Last night I thought the van is completely damaged...and Jim is in Kansas City for the whole week for a doctoral class. This morning Glenn and Barbara came over brought the kids to school and we looked over the damage. The van only has a small dent on the roof, Thank God! The tree trunk landed behind the car and only the branches landed on the roof.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1670173068063821985-1397129280256033109?l=heikeerwin.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/feeds/1397129280256033109/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1670173068063821985&amp;postID=1397129280256033109&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/1397129280256033109'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/1397129280256033109'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/2009/06/unwetterstorm.html' title='Unwetter/storm'/><author><name>Heike und Jim</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/Si_AGMekMII/AAAAAAAAEJs/j8wXUyVa0eY/s72-c/IMG_0145%5B1%5D' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1670173068063821985.post-9113028031501624155</id><published>2009-06-01T17:05:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-06-02T06:41:27.284-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Warum waechst das Gras so schnell/Why is the grass growing so fast?</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SiRtas95CjI/AAAAAAAAEJk/ja136ZdOaYw/s1600-h/IMG_0140%5B1%5D"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SiRtas95CjI/AAAAAAAAEJk/ja136ZdOaYw/s320/IMG_0140%5B1%5D" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5342515363483028018" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Es ist zwar schoen viel gruen ums Haus herum zu haben, aber das maehen...man ist gerade fertig geworden und kann schon wieder von vorne anfangen...&lt;div&gt;Mit der Adoption von J und M geht es auch voran. Wie haben nur noch 2 wichtige Termine und dann ist es endlich abgeschlossen. Sie benutzen schon unseren Nachnamen.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Meinem Bruder Andi in Deutschland geht es sehr schlecht, bitte betet fuer ihn. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;It is nice to have a lot of grass around the house but the mowing...Just when you finish mowing, you have to start again...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The adoption of J and M  is moving forward, too. We still have two more important dates and then it should be done. They have already started to use our last name.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;My brother Andi in Germany is very sick. Please pray for him.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1670173068063821985-9113028031501624155?l=heikeerwin.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/feeds/9113028031501624155/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1670173068063821985&amp;postID=9113028031501624155&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/9113028031501624155'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/9113028031501624155'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/2009/06/warum-waechst-das-gras-so-schnellwhy-is.html' title='Warum waechst das Gras so schnell/Why is the grass growing so fast?'/><author><name>Heike und Jim</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SiRtas95CjI/AAAAAAAAEJk/ja136ZdOaYw/s72-c/IMG_0140%5B1%5D' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1670173068063821985.post-2363646389760693497</id><published>2009-05-26T18:13:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-05-27T06:36:05.683-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Spielplatz im Vorgarten und neue Kamera/playground on the front yard and new camera</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/ShyVMVbaWrI/AAAAAAAAEJc/Jd8wAMEH8n4/s1600-h/IMG_0133%5B1%5D"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/ShyVMVbaWrI/AAAAAAAAEJc/Jd8wAMEH8n4/s320/IMG_0133%5B1%5D" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5340307297297652402" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/ShyUgJs-3uI/AAAAAAAAEJU/DfFTUMTAXsw/s1600-h/IMG_0069%5B1%5D"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/ShyUgJs-3uI/AAAAAAAAEJU/DfFTUMTAXsw/s320/IMG_0069%5B1%5D" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5340306538235879138" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Wie ihr auf dem Bild sehen koennt haben wir jetzt im Vorgarten einen Basketballkorb und ein Schaukelset. So koennen die Maedels jetzt richtig schoen draussen spielen.&lt;div&gt;Ich habe auch eine neue Kamera und hier ist unsere erste Rose fuer dieses Jahr.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Ansonsten geht es uns gut. Die Ferien haben begonnen, aber ab naechste Woche faengt die Sommerschule an. Das heisst im Juni ist von 7:30 bis 14 Uhr Schule. Es werden aber mehr Ausfluege gemacht und draussen gespielt. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;As you can see on the picture, we now have a basketball goal and a swing set in the front yard. The girls can now have lots of fun playing outside. I also have a new camera. The other picture is our first rose bloom for this year.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;We are doing fine. The girls are out of school but next week summer school starts. That means in June they will go to school from 7am to 2pm. They will have a lot of fun with field trips and playing outside.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1670173068063821985-2363646389760693497?l=heikeerwin.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/feeds/2363646389760693497/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1670173068063821985&amp;postID=2363646389760693497&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/2363646389760693497'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/2363646389760693497'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/2009/05/spielplatz-im-vorgarten-und-neue.html' title='Spielplatz im Vorgarten und neue Kamera/playground on the front yard and new camera'/><author><name>Heike und Jim</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/ShyVMVbaWrI/AAAAAAAAEJc/Jd8wAMEH8n4/s72-c/IMG_0133%5B1%5D' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1670173068063821985.post-5815948665948417030</id><published>2009-05-10T15:22:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-05-10T16:20:28.063-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Muttertag, Wiggles und neue Gemeindeschilder/Mother's day, Wiggles and new church signs</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SgdVemIxdkI/AAAAAAAAEI0/3Mtx93nVRWs/s1600-h/P5100876.JPG" style="text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;img style="text-decoration: underline;display: block; margin-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; margin-bottom: 10px; margin-left: auto; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px; " src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SgdVemIxdkI/AAAAAAAAEI0/3Mtx93nVRWs/s320/P5100876.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5334326267765421634" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SgdVEmZHAJI/AAAAAAAAEIs/wh4R7g79TvQ/s1600-h/P5100875.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SgdVEmZHAJI/AAAAAAAAEIs/wh4R7g79TvQ/s320/P5100875.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5334325821157343378" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SgdUtKFNdMI/AAAAAAAAEIk/Cw34Wrw4slw/s1600-h/P5100878.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SgdUtKFNdMI/AAAAAAAAEIk/Cw34Wrw4slw/s320/P5100878.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5334325418420696258" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Heute war mein erster Muttertag! Wir waren morgens in der Kirche und jede Mutter hat eine Rose bekommen. Dann hatten wir auch noch eine kleine Verlosung fuer Muetter und ich habe eine Manikuere gewonnen! Danach sind wir alle Essen gegangen.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Seit Freitagabend ist Wiggles zurueck! Wir hatten eine Anzeige in der Zeitung mit 200 Dollar Belohnung fuer den Finder. Es hat am Freitagabend eine Familie angerufen, die in einem Ort fast 10 km weit weg wohnt. Wiggles muss in ein Auto oder Truck gehueft sein, sie wuerde nie so weit laufen...Auf jeden Fall kam die Famile und hat uns tatsaechlich Wiggles zurueck bebracht. Ihr koennt Euch ja die Freude in unserem Haus vorstellen. Es war auch ein gutes Zeugnis fuer unsere Maedels, da wir alle gebetet haben, dass Wiggles zurueckommen soll.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Seit letzter Woche haben wir jetzt auch Schilder an unserem Gebaeude in Seligman. Sieht doch gut aus, oder?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Today was my first Mother's day! In the morning we were in the church and every mother got a rose. We also had a little raffle for all the mothers and I won a manicure. Afterwards we went out to eat. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Since Friday evening Wiggles is back! Friday evening a family called. We had an ad in the newspaper with an $ 200 reward for the person who found her. The family lives about 7 miles away. Wiggles probably jumped in a car or truck because she never would walk so far...Anyway the family came and brought Wiggles back! You can imagine the joy in our house. It was also a good testimony for the girls because we all prayed that Wiggles would come back.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Since last week we have church signs at our church in Seligman. Don't they look good?&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1670173068063821985-5815948665948417030?l=heikeerwin.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/feeds/5815948665948417030/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1670173068063821985&amp;postID=5815948665948417030&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/5815948665948417030'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/5815948665948417030'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/2009/05/muttertag-wiggles-und-neue.html' title='Muttertag, Wiggles und neue Gemeindeschilder/Mother&apos;s day, Wiggles and new church signs'/><author><name>Heike und Jim</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SgdVemIxdkI/AAAAAAAAEI0/3Mtx93nVRWs/s72-c/P5100876.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1670173068063821985.post-2320076393091678633</id><published>2009-05-04T12:30:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-05-04T16:06:34.766-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Wiggles, Erdbeeren und ein Deutscher/Wiggles, strawberries and a German</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/Sf9DSIB4FZI/AAAAAAAAEHM/A-yK1SFOQVk/s1600-h/P5030872.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/Sf9DSIB4FZI/AAAAAAAAEHM/A-yK1SFOQVk/s320/P5030872.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5332054462502016402" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; Wir vermissen seit letzten Donnerstag unseren Hund Wiggles. Wir haben ueberall gesucht und koenne sie nicht finden. Wir haben jetzt Suchschilder mit einer Belohnung aufgehaengt und es wird auch diese Woche in der Zeitung kommen. Wir sind alle ganz traurig.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Es ist Erdbeerzeit! Jeder der mich kennt weiss, dass ich Erdbeeren liebe, vor allem wenn sie so gross sind...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Letzten Samstag haben wir Karl-Heinz und seine Frau Ruth getroffen. Er ist von Deutschland und lebt seit ueber 50 Jahren in den USA. Es war schoen mal wieder einen Deutschen zu treffen...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Since last Thursday our dog Wiggles has been missing. We searched everywhere for her but we can't find her. We have put ads out with a reward and it will be in the newspaper this week, too. We are all very sad.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;It is strawberry time! Everybody who knows me, knows I love strawberries, especially when they are so big...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Last Saturday we met Karl-Heinz and his wife Ruth. He is from Germany and lives since over 5o years in the USA. It was nice to talk with another German...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1670173068063821985-2320076393091678633?l=heikeerwin.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/feeds/2320076393091678633/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1670173068063821985&amp;postID=2320076393091678633&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/2320076393091678633'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/2320076393091678633'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/2009/05/wiggles-erdbeeren-und-ein.html' title='Wiggles, Erdbeeren und ein Deutscher/Wiggles, strawberries and a German'/><author><name>Heike und Jim</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/Sf9DSIB4FZI/AAAAAAAAEHM/A-yK1SFOQVk/s72-c/P5030872.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1670173068063821985.post-8858757750292189882</id><published>2009-04-23T12:30:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2009-04-23T12:43:42.372-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Portionen in den USA/portions in the US</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SfDDgESfFiI/AAAAAAAAEHE/I426nOdecGA/s1600-h/P4220825.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SfDDgESfFiI/AAAAAAAAEHE/I426nOdecGA/s320/P4220825.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5327973314853803554" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SfDDF_jRLwI/AAAAAAAAEG8/i4UI6ferzpo/s1600-h/P4230829.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SfDDF_jRLwI/AAAAAAAAEG8/i4UI6ferzpo/s320/P4230829.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5327972866905419522" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Ich hab mir gedacht, dass ich Euch mal ein Bild zeigen muss, wie gross manchmal die Portionen hier sind. Jim isst einen "Snack" vor dem Fernseher.... &lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Auf dem anderen Bild sehr Ihr Wiggles und Luvi, die neuerdings zusammen auf dem Sofa sitzen. Bisher hat Wiggles niemanden ausser mir auf dem Sofa toleriert...&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I thought I have to show you how big the portions are here. Jim is eating a "snack" in front of the TV. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;On the other picture you can see Wiggles and Luvi. Since a few days they are sitting together on the sofa. Up to now Wiggles only has tolerated me on the sofa...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1670173068063821985-8858757750292189882?l=heikeerwin.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/feeds/8858757750292189882/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1670173068063821985&amp;postID=8858757750292189882&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/8858757750292189882'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/8858757750292189882'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/2009/04/portionen-in-den-usaportions-in-us.html' title='Portionen in den USA/portions in the US'/><author><name>Heike und Jim</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SfDDgESfFiI/AAAAAAAAEHE/I426nOdecGA/s72-c/P4220825.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1670173068063821985.post-5308740332276062514</id><published>2009-04-12T12:21:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-04-12T13:44:45.775-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Frohe Ostern/Happy Easter</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SeJBN1q6UiI/AAAAAAAAEGs/joK_LVOM5rU/s1600-h/P4120824.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SeJBN1q6UiI/AAAAAAAAEGs/joK_LVOM5rU/s320/P4120824.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5323889415506514466" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SeJAJw0QoLI/AAAAAAAAEGc/cCCG-QOKqG8/s1600-h/P4120823.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SeJAJw0QoLI/AAAAAAAAEGc/cCCG-QOKqG8/s320/P4120823.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5323888245972443314" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Ich habe mal ein Bild gemacht, wie die meisten Ostereier hier aussehen. Aussen ein Plastikei zum Oeffnen und es wird dann mit einer Suessigkeit gefuellt. Wir haben auch Eier gekocht und gefaerbt, aber man sieht meistens diese Plastikeier.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Ostern war schoen. J. hat einen Malwettbewerb bei einer Zeitung gewonnen und hat einen riesen Ostergeschenkkorb bekommen. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Gestern hatten wir Ostern und Eiersuchen mit grandma und grandpa. Abends hatten wir dann eine nachtraegliche Geburtstagsparty fuer H. Sie hatte Geburtstag 2 Wochen bevor sie zu uns gekommen ist und hatte noch nie eine richtige Geburtstagsparty. So waren wir gestern Abend beim YMCA und hatten eine Party!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Heute Morgen hatten wir 2 Gottesdienste und danach Ostereiersuchen mit den Kindern mit anschliessendem Mittagessen.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I made a picture to show how Easter eggs look like here. It is a plastic egg you can open and it is filled with candy. We also boiled real eggs and colored them but most of the time you see plastic eggs.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Easter was nice. J. won a coloring contest from a newspaper. She got a big basket full of presents.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Yesterday we celebrated Easter and had an Easter Egg hunt with grandma and grandpa. In the evening we had a late birthday party for H. She came to us two weeks after her birthday andso she never really had a birthday party. We went to the YMCA and had a party last night!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;This morning at the church, we had two services, followed by a Easter Egg hunt with the kids and lunch afterwards.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1670173068063821985-5308740332276062514?l=heikeerwin.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/feeds/5308740332276062514/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1670173068063821985&amp;postID=5308740332276062514&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/5308740332276062514'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/5308740332276062514'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/2009/04/frohe-osternhappy-easter.html' title='Frohe Ostern/Happy Easter'/><author><name>Heike und Jim</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SeJBN1q6UiI/AAAAAAAAEGs/joK_LVOM5rU/s72-c/P4120824.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1670173068063821985.post-1360066681542940887</id><published>2009-03-30T11:53:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-03-30T12:13:51.665-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Tigger</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SdEWyNGPCjI/AAAAAAAAEGU/VcXvAghKG3U/s1600-h/P3300735.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SdEWyNGPCjI/AAAAAAAAEGU/VcXvAghKG3U/s320/P3300735.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5319057686666349106" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Wir haben seit letzter Woche einen neuen Mitbewohner. Ein Junge! Er kam letzte Woche und hat mir leid getan, weil er so duenn war und ich habe ihn gefuettert (ihr kennt mich ja). Na ja, wenn man eine Katze fuettert, kommt sie natuerlich immer wieder. Die Kinder sind ganz begeistert und haben ihm gleich einen Namen gegeben (Tigger). So ist Tigger jetzt ein neues Familienmitglied. Wir muessen jetzt erst einmal zum Tierarzt und ihn checken lassen.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Since last week we now have a new farm resident. A boy! He visited last week and I felt so sorry for him (you know how I am). He was very thin and so I gave him food. When you feed a cat, then it is over... The kids are very happy and quickly gave him a name (Tigger). Now Tigger is our new family member. We have to go to the vet and have him checked.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1670173068063821985-1360066681542940887?l=heikeerwin.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/feeds/1360066681542940887/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1670173068063821985&amp;postID=1360066681542940887&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/1360066681542940887'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/1360066681542940887'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/2009/03/tigger.html' title='Tigger'/><author><name>Heike und Jim</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SdEWyNGPCjI/AAAAAAAAEGU/VcXvAghKG3U/s72-c/P3300735.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1670173068063821985.post-6535950097791606571</id><published>2009-03-17T11:35:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-03-17T11:38:47.324-07:00</updated><title type='text'>St Patrick's day</title><content type='html'>Heute ist St. Patrick's day. Dies ist eigentlich ein irischer Feiertag, wird aber teilweise hier auch in den USA gefeiert. Die meisten Leute tragen heute irgendetwas in gruen, sonst wird man gezwickt. Das lustige ist, dass ich in Deutschland nie etwas ueber diesen Feiertag gehoert habe...&lt;div&gt;Hier noch ein bisschen mehr info:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Patrick's_Day"&gt;http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Patrick's_Day&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Today is St. Patrick's day. This is an irish holiday but some people celebrate it here in the US. The most people wear something green today. Otherwise somebody will pinch you. The funny thing is that I never heard anything about that holiday in Germany.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1670173068063821985-6535950097791606571?l=heikeerwin.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/feeds/6535950097791606571/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1670173068063821985&amp;postID=6535950097791606571&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/6535950097791606571'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/6535950097791606571'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/2009/03/st-patricks-day.html' title='St Patrick&apos;s day'/><author><name>Heike und Jim</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1670173068063821985.post-2480709385909143798</id><published>2009-03-12T13:19:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2009-03-12T13:46:31.898-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Haehnchen/chicken</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/Sblxt3vjGFI/AAAAAAAAEGM/djMobXCpyDI/s1600-h/P3120684.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/Sblxt3vjGFI/AAAAAAAAEGM/djMobXCpyDI/s320/P3120684.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5312402268331645010" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/Sblw0OOge2I/AAAAAAAAEGE/KiDhBegGIAc/s1600-h/P3120683.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/Sblw0OOge2I/AAAAAAAAEGE/KiDhBegGIAc/s320/P3120683.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5312401277934664546" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Es ist ja schon gut wenn man in einer Haehnchenverarbeitungsfirma arbeitet. Wir haben jede Woche besondere Angebote fuer Mitarbeiter. Diese Woche habe ich 4,5kg panierte Haehnchen fuer 10 Dollar gekauft. Das saettigt sogar eine 6-koepfige Famile fuer eine Weile.&lt;br /&gt;Wir kommen weiter im Adoptionsprozess fuer J und M. Die Eltern haben eine Form unterschrieben, um ihre Elternrechte abzugeben.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It is really nice to work in a chicken plant. Every week they are having special offers for employess. This week I bought 10 pounds of breaded chicken for 10 Bucks. Even a family of 6 can be fed for a while.&lt;br /&gt;We are making progress with the adoption of J and M. The parents signed a form to give up their parental rights.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1670173068063821985-2480709385909143798?l=heikeerwin.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/feeds/2480709385909143798/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1670173068063821985&amp;postID=2480709385909143798&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/2480709385909143798'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/2480709385909143798'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/2009/03/haehnchenchicken.html' title='Haehnchen/chicken'/><author><name>Heike und Jim</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/Sblxt3vjGFI/AAAAAAAAEGM/djMobXCpyDI/s72-c/P3120684.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1670173068063821985.post-7275896568660430774</id><published>2009-03-07T17:51:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-03-07T20:01:27.528-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Neuer look/new look</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SbMmrin_O8I/AAAAAAAAEFs/AACr146PU64/s1600-h/P3070678.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SbMmrin_O8I/AAAAAAAAEFs/AACr146PU64/s320/P3070678.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5310630915070704578" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SbMlPQsq-xI/AAAAAAAAEFk/N8-ZYD99mEQ/s1600-h/P3070681.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SbMlPQsq-xI/AAAAAAAAEFk/N8-ZYD99mEQ/s320/P3070681.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5310629329710545682" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Ich war letzte Woche beim Frisoer und das Resultat seht Ihr auf dem Bild. Seit Freitag habe ich auch eine Zweitbrille, ganz mutig in rot.&lt;div&gt;Ansonsten geht es mir gut. 2 unserer Maedels haben Fieber im Moment, so haben wir ein kleines Krankenhaus hier.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Ab Morgen starten wir in unserer Gemeinde in Seligman einen zweiten Gottesdienst um 8:30 Uhr mit einem anderen Musikstil. Ich nenne es "ding ding Musik", aber der offizielle Name ist Contry und Gospelmusik. Damit koennen wir noch mehr Menschen erreichen.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Auf dem anderen Bild seht Ihr unsere "Spidercat".&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Last week I went to the hairdresser. You can see the result in the picture. I bought a second pair of glasses last Friday. I was brave and so I picked a red pair.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;I am doing fine. Two of our girls are running a fever and so we have a small hospital in our house.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Tomorrow we will start a second service in Seligman at 8:30am with another music style. I call it "ding ding music" but the official name is Country and Gospel music. We hope to reach more people.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;On the other picture you can see our "spider cat".&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1670173068063821985-7275896568660430774?l=heikeerwin.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/feeds/7275896568660430774/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1670173068063821985&amp;postID=7275896568660430774&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/7275896568660430774'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/7275896568660430774'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/2009/03/neuer-looknew-look.html' title='Neuer look/new look'/><author><name>Heike und Jim</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SbMmrin_O8I/AAAAAAAAEFs/AACr146PU64/s72-c/P3070678.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1670173068063821985.post-3923276610996991696</id><published>2009-02-21T08:15:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-02-21T08:24:09.595-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Schon wieder eine Geburtstagparty/birthday party again</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SaAp5yfYKPI/AAAAAAAAEFc/XQFPb9HlbZI/s1600-h/P2190677.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SaAp5yfYKPI/AAAAAAAAEFc/XQFPb9HlbZI/s320/P2190677.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305286433825106162" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SaAphlMQBSI/AAAAAAAAEFU/HU6lUMwltgI/s1600-h/P2190664.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SaAphlMQBSI/AAAAAAAAEFU/HU6lUMwltgI/s320/P2190664.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5305286017938359586" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Wir hatten am Donnerstag die naechste Geburtstagsparty. M wurde 6 Jahre alt. Wir hatten Pizza und Kuchen. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Last Thursday we had the next birthday party. M turned 6. We had pizza and cake.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1670173068063821985-3923276610996991696?l=heikeerwin.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/feeds/3923276610996991696/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1670173068063821985&amp;postID=3923276610996991696&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/3923276610996991696'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/3923276610996991696'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/2009/02/schon-wieder-eine-geburtstagpartybirthd.html' title='Schon wieder eine Geburtstagparty/birthday party again'/><author><name>Heike und Jim</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SaAp5yfYKPI/AAAAAAAAEFc/XQFPb9HlbZI/s72-c/P2190677.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1670173068063821985.post-4780533454643717331</id><published>2009-02-13T11:35:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-02-13T11:51:25.627-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Happy Valentine's day</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SZXN7jHADMI/AAAAAAAAEE0/MKbBspa1Tjc/s1600-h/P2130613.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SZXN7jHADMI/AAAAAAAAEE0/MKbBspa1Tjc/s320/P2130613.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5302370559219207362" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Heute Morgen kam ich ins Buero, da war dieser wunderschoene Blumenstrauss auf meinem Schreibtisch...Jim ist doch der Beste!&lt;div&gt;Wir haben immer noch 4 Maedels, wir starten den Adoptionsprozess von J und M. Wir wissen nicht wie lange die anderen beiden bei uns bleiben.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Heute Abend haben wir Spieleabend in der Gemeinde in Seligman und morgen ein Valentinstagsbanquett in Washburn. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;When I walked in my office this morning this beautiful bouquet was on my desk...Jim is the best!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;We still have 4 girls. We start the adoption process for J and M. We don't know how much longer the other two girls will stay with us.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Tonight we will have a game night at the church in Seligman. Tomorrow we will go to a Valentine's banquett in Washburn.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1670173068063821985-4780533454643717331?l=heikeerwin.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/feeds/4780533454643717331/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1670173068063821985&amp;postID=4780533454643717331&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/4780533454643717331'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/4780533454643717331'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/2009/02/happy-valentines-day.html' title='Happy Valentine&apos;s day'/><author><name>Heike und Jim</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SZXN7jHADMI/AAAAAAAAEE0/MKbBspa1Tjc/s72-c/P2130613.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1670173068063821985.post-2967713444539424839</id><published>2009-01-29T12:03:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-01-29T13:01:21.682-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Eissturm/ice storm</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SYIMfzBfhgI/AAAAAAAAEEU/A1zvvywyOLw/s1600-h/P1270564.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SYIMfzBfhgI/AAAAAAAAEEU/A1zvvywyOLw/s320/P1270564.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5296809852153071106" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SYIMOluVp9I/AAAAAAAAEEM/GsUaSk5wGzQ/s1600-h/P1270567.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 240px; height: 320px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SYIMOluVp9I/AAAAAAAAEEM/GsUaSk5wGzQ/s320/P1270567.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5296809556525295570" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wir hatten fuer 3 Tage kein Internet, da wir am Dienstag einen Eissturm hatten. In Nordwest Arkansas war es so schlimm, dass viele Haushalte keinen Strom haben. Gestern hat es dann geschneit. Die Kinder sind seit Dienstag nicht in der Schule, da der Schulbus nicht auf den Seitenstrassen fahren kann (zu glatt). Ich war am Dienstag und Mittwoch nicht arbeiten aus dem selben Grund. Heute ist es wieder besser und die Sonne scheint.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We didn't have Internet for 3 days because of an ice storm last Tuesday. It was so bad in North West Arkansas that a lot of houses have no electricity. It snowed yesterday. The kids have not been in school since Tuesday. The school bus can't drive on the side streets because it is too slippery. I was not at work on Tuesday and Wednesday for the same reason. Today it is better and the sun is shining.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1670173068063821985-2967713444539424839?l=heikeerwin.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/feeds/2967713444539424839/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1670173068063821985&amp;postID=2967713444539424839&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/2967713444539424839'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/2967713444539424839'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/2009/01/eissturmice-storm.html' title='Eissturm/ice storm'/><author><name>Heike und Jim</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SYIMfzBfhgI/AAAAAAAAEEU/A1zvvywyOLw/s72-c/P1270564.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1670173068063821985.post-2176213172789501046</id><published>2009-01-17T08:20:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-01-17T08:35:44.224-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Geburtstagsparty/birthday party</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SXIF1T0b5VI/AAAAAAAAEDs/qT284SCkX_o/s1600-h/P1160543.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SXIF1T0b5VI/AAAAAAAAEDs/qT284SCkX_o/s320/P1160543.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5292298925525165394" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gestern hatten wir eine "girly" Geburtstagsparty fuer L. die Juengste. Sie wurde 4.  Das Thema war "Tinkerbell" (Kuchen, Tischdecke, Teller...). &lt;div&gt;Es ist kalt geworden aber sonnig.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Die beiden Juengeren sind noch bei uns, der Plan ist, dass sie zum leiblichen Vater gehen, aber er wird im Moment geprueft.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Wir starten den Adoptionsprozess mit M. und J. diesen Monat.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Yesterday we had a girly birthday party for L. the youngest. She turned 4. The theme was Tinkerbell (cake, table cloth, plates...). &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;It got cold but it is sunny.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The two younger ones are still with us. The plan is that they'll go to their biological father but they proof him at the moment.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;This month we are going to start the adoption process for M and J.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1670173068063821985-2176213172789501046?l=heikeerwin.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/feeds/2176213172789501046/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1670173068063821985&amp;postID=2176213172789501046&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/2176213172789501046'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/2176213172789501046'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/2009/01/geburtstagspartybirthday-party.html' title='Geburtstagsparty/birthday party'/><author><name>Heike und Jim</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SXIF1T0b5VI/AAAAAAAAEDs/qT284SCkX_o/s72-c/P1160543.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1670173068063821985.post-5204708833272438512</id><published>2009-01-04T16:38:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2009-01-04T17:06:22.204-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Ein neues Jahr/a new year</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SWFZj1XH87I/AAAAAAAAEDc/lTjhI8QESIU/s1600-h/P1010536.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SWFZj1XH87I/AAAAAAAAEDc/lTjhI8QESIU/s320/P1010536.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5287605909664035762" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SWFYotvOb8I/AAAAAAAAEDU/t3LR1ZSw8I0/s1600-h/PC280525.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer; width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SWFYotvOb8I/AAAAAAAAEDU/t3LR1ZSw8I0/s320/PC280525.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5287604894005358530" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Im Moment haben wir immer noch 4 Maedels und 1 weiblichen Hund und eine weibliche Katze im Haus. Jim ist heute bis Freitag nach Kansas City gefahren. Er faengt an seinen Doktor fuer Theologie zu machen und hat eine Orientierungwoche dort. Gott sei Dank gehen die Kinder morgen wieder in die Schule und in den Kindergarten...&lt;br /&gt;Letzten Dienstag hatten wir ein Abschiedstreffen mit der Mutter von J. und M. Sie haben es gut verkraftet und die Mutter hat ihnen auch gesagt, dass sie moechte, dass wir die Beiden adoptieren. Sie wird die Papiere, um die Elternrechte abzugeben, freiwillig unterschreiben. So muessen Jim und ich jetzt nur noch zum Anwalt und den Papierkram erledigen.&lt;br /&gt;Auf den Bildern seht Ihr Luvi, unsere Katze in meinem Nachttisch und Wiggles, als sie ein Rehbein gefunden hat.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We are still having 4 girls and a female dog and cat in the house. Jim left today for Kansas City until Friday. He is starting his doctorate in theology and has his orientation week. Thank God the kids will go back to kindergarten and school tomorrow....&lt;br /&gt;Last Tuesday we had a good bye visit with the mom from J. and M. They dealt with it quied well. Their mom told them that she wants us to adopt them. She will sign the papers for the TPR. Jim and I have to go to a lawyer to work on the paperwork next.&lt;br /&gt;On the pictures you can see Luvi our cat in my night stand and Wiggles when she found a deer leg.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1670173068063821985-5204708833272438512?l=heikeerwin.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/feeds/5204708833272438512/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1670173068063821985&amp;postID=5204708833272438512&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/5204708833272438512'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/5204708833272438512'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/2009/01/ein-neues-jahra-new-year.html' title='Ein neues Jahr/a new year'/><author><name>Heike und Jim</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SWFZj1XH87I/AAAAAAAAEDc/lTjhI8QESIU/s72-c/P1010536.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1670173068063821985.post-2570277816590090001</id><published>2008-12-25T17:10:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-25T18:01:25.204-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Frohe Weihnachten/Merry Christmas</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SVQw6ZgKcfI/AAAAAAAAEDM/Z6pUhrY7zT8/s1600-h/PC240478.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SVQw6ZgKcfI/AAAAAAAAEDM/Z6pUhrY7zT8/s320/PC240478.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5283902042648769010" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jetzt ist ja Weihnachten fast schon vorbei, aber trotzdem: Frohe Weihnachten!&lt;div&gt;Neuigkeiten:&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Seit letzten Freitag leben noch 2 Maedchen bei uns (3 und 5 Jahre alt). Der Sozialdienst konnte keine Pflegefamilie ueber Weihnachten finden, so haben Jim und ich ja gesagt. So hatten wir Weihnachten mit 4 Kindern! &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Heiligabend waren wir in der Kirche und danach haben wir alle zusammen mit Jims Eltern Wuerstchen und Kartoffelsalat gegessen, Weihnachtslieder gesungen und dann die Geschenke aus Deutschland ausgepackt.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Heute Morgen lagen dann die Geschenke von Santa Claus unterm Baum. Wir waren den ganzen Tag bei Jims Eltern und hatte eine gute Zeit und viele Geschenke.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Christmas is almost over but anyway: Merry Christmas!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Since last Friday we have had two more girls living with us (3 and 5 years old). The Social Services couldn't find another foster family for them, so Jim and I said yes. We had 4 kids for Christmas!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;On Christmas Eve we went to the church. Afterwards we went home and ate all together with Jim's parents wieners and German potato salad. We sang Christmas songs and then we opened the Christmas gifts from Germany.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;This morning the gifts from Santa Claus were under the tree. We then spent the whole day with Jim's parents and had a good time enjoying all the gifts.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1670173068063821985-2570277816590090001?l=heikeerwin.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/feeds/2570277816590090001/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1670173068063821985&amp;postID=2570277816590090001&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/2570277816590090001'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/2570277816590090001'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/2008/12/frohe-weihnachtenmerry-christmas.html' title='Frohe Weihnachten/Merry Christmas'/><author><name>Heike und Jim</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SVQw6ZgKcfI/AAAAAAAAEDM/Z6pUhrY7zT8/s72-c/PC240478.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1670173068063821985.post-8042759650230036107</id><published>2008-12-17T12:21:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-17T14:25:21.790-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Stressige Vorweihnachtszeit/stressful pre-Christmas period</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SUlf53UXjaI/AAAAAAAAEDE/d7-6euCgpWk/s1600-h/PC120428.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SUlf53UXjaI/AAAAAAAAEDE/d7-6euCgpWk/s320/PC120428.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5280857485775179170" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jetzt vor Weihnachten ist richtig was los...&lt;div&gt;Letzten Samstag hatten wir 2 Weihnachtsumzuege. Einen in Washburn und einen in Seligman. Wir hatten von der Kirche einen Haenger mit Stroh und Weihnachtsdekoration. Es wurde ganz schoen kalt mit der Zeit.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Die Maedels ueben zur Zeit in der Kirche fuer die Weihnachtsauffuehrung. J. ist ein Hirte und M. ein Engel (wer die Beiden kennt, passt genau!)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Montag und heute ist die Schule wegen Eisregen ausgefallen. Jim und die Maedels haben heute Morgen einen Baum auf der Farm ausgesucht, abgesaegt und nachhause gebracht. Jetzt muessen wir ihn nur noch schmuecken.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Heute Abend gehen wir in Washburn von der Kirche aus mit den Kindern Sternsingen. Am Freitag in Seligman.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Morgen hat J. in Karate ihren erste Guertelpruefung, sie ist schon ganz aufgeregt.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Frohe Weihnachten!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Before Christmas comes, we have had a lot to do...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Last Saturday we participated in two Christmas parades. One was in Washburn and another one in Seligman. We had a float with hay and Christmas decorations on it. Then it really got cold after a while.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The girls are practicing for the Christmas play at the church. J. is a shepherd and M.  is an angel (when you know them, that makes perfect sense!)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;This past Monday as well as today the school was cancelled because if ice. This morning Jim and the girls went out on the farm to pick out and cut down a tree. We only have to decorate it....&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;In the evening we will go Christmas caroling in Washburn with the kids from the church. Friday we will go in Seligman to go caroling as well.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Tomorrow J. will have her first belt testing at karate. She is really excited about it!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Merry Christmas!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1670173068063821985-8042759650230036107?l=heikeerwin.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/feeds/8042759650230036107/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1670173068063821985&amp;postID=8042759650230036107&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/8042759650230036107'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/8042759650230036107'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/2008/12/stressige-vorweihnachtszeitstressful.html' title='Stressige Vorweihnachtszeit/stressful pre-Christmas period'/><author><name>Heike und Jim</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SUlf53UXjaI/AAAAAAAAEDE/d7-6euCgpWk/s72-c/PC120428.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1670173068063821985.post-3895878730697688048</id><published>2008-12-04T12:15:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-12-04T12:27:10.529-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Fuchs im Vorgarten/fox in the yard</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/STg7_MeYVwI/AAAAAAAAEC8/EVOyDikNdZY/s1600-h/PC040427.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/STg7_MeYVwI/AAAAAAAAEC8/EVOyDikNdZY/s320/PC040427.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5276032920330983170" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/STg7pxbak0I/AAAAAAAAEC0/bbAePy8JB5I/s1600-h/PC040426.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/STg7pxbak0I/AAAAAAAAEC0/bbAePy8JB5I/s320/PC040426.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5276032552293536578" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Heute Mittag hatten wir einen Fuchs im Vorgarten. Wiggles ist gleich rausgerannt und den Fuchs verjagt.&lt;div&gt;Es ist kalt geworden, so um die 5Grad Celcius. Letztes Wochenende hatten wir unseren ersten Schnee, aber nur ein bisschen.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;We had a fox in our yard this afternoon. Wiggles ran outside and chased the fox away.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;It got cold. We have about 40 degrees F. Last weekend we had the first snow but only a little bit.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1670173068063821985-3895878730697688048?l=heikeerwin.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/feeds/3895878730697688048/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1670173068063821985&amp;postID=3895878730697688048&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/3895878730697688048'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/3895878730697688048'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/2008/12/fuchs-im-vorgartenfox-in-yard.html' title='Fuchs im Vorgarten/fox in the yard'/><author><name>Heike und Jim</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/STg7_MeYVwI/AAAAAAAAEC8/EVOyDikNdZY/s72-c/PC040427.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1670173068063821985.post-5859852373615179523</id><published>2008-11-28T11:40:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2008-11-28T12:18:50.769-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Thanksgiving</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/STBKFoHjrwI/AAAAAAAADEM/5g4gI7u2tCw/s1600-h/PB270415.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/STBKFoHjrwI/AAAAAAAADEM/5g4gI7u2tCw/s320/PB270415.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5273796624179769090" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gestern war Thanksgiving. Wir waren bei Jims Eltern. Nach dem Essen haben die Maedels mit grandpa und grandma deren Weihnachtsbaum geschmueckt. Es war ein schoener Tag.&lt;div&gt;Heute ist "schwarzer Freitag" hier in den USA. Das heisst das viele Laeden um 4 oder 5 Uhr morgens oeffnen und besondere Angebote haben. Manche Leute warten schon am Abend davor vor den Geschaeften, um die Ersten am Morgen zu sein...Ich habe heute Morgen gearbeitet. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Yesterday was Thanksgiving. We visited Jim's parents. After we ate, the girls decorated the Christmas tree with grandpa and grandma.  It was a nice day.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Today is Black Friday in the USA. That means that most shops open at 4 or 5am and have special offers. Some people wait the evening before in front of the shops to be the first customer in the morning...I worked this morning.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1670173068063821985-5859852373615179523?l=heikeerwin.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/feeds/5859852373615179523/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1670173068063821985&amp;postID=5859852373615179523&amp;isPopup=true' title='50 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/5859852373615179523'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/5859852373615179523'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/2008/11/thanksgiving.html' title='Thanksgiving'/><author><name>Heike und Jim</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/STBKFoHjrwI/AAAAAAAADEM/5g4gI7u2tCw/s72-c/PB270415.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>50</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1670173068063821985.post-6389932952114409553</id><published>2008-11-18T16:25:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2008-11-18T16:31:59.522-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Benzinpreis/ gas price</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SSNdcGzPL2I/AAAAAAAADDo/0SDvXHEgWKo/s1600-h/PB180389.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SSNdcGzPL2I/AAAAAAAADDo/0SDvXHEgWKo/s320/PB180389.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5270158726396850018" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Bei uns sind die Benzinpreise rapide gefallen. Es kostet jetzt 1,70$ pro Gallon (entspricht etwa 0,45 Euro per Liter). Wir konnten unseren Van fuer 25 Dollar vollmachen. Mal sehen wie lange das anhaelt...&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The gas prices got really cheap here. At the moment gas costs $ 1,70 for one Gallon (that is about 0,45 Euros for one liter). We filled our van for $ 25. We'll see how long that will last...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1670173068063821985-6389932952114409553?l=heikeerwin.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/feeds/6389932952114409553/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1670173068063821985&amp;postID=6389932952114409553&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/6389932952114409553'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/6389932952114409553'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/2008/11/benzinpreis-gas-price.html' title='Benzinpreis/ gas price'/><author><name>Heike und Jim</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SSNdcGzPL2I/AAAAAAAADDo/0SDvXHEgWKo/s72-c/PB180389.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1670173068063821985.post-1844246914419382797</id><published>2008-11-14T19:35:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-11-14T19:48:10.435-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Gericht/court</title><content type='html'>Heute Morgen hatten wir einen Gerichtstermin wegen der Maedels. Die Beiden sind jetzt ein Jahr Pflegekinder und hier in den USA geht es dann zurueck zum Gericht. Es wird der Fall angeschaut und ueberprueft, ob die leiblichen Eltern irgendetwas in ihrem Leben veraendert haben. In unserem Fall hat sich nichts veraendert. Die Mutter hat uns heute gesagt, dass sie moechte, dass wir die Kinder adoptieren. Der Richter hat heute entschieden, dass das Ziel in unserem Fall sich von Wiedervereinigung mit den Eltern zu Adoption veraendert. Der naechste Schritt ist der Entzug der Elternrechte fuer die leiblichen Eltern. Danach geht der Papierkrieg fuer uns los und wir muessen zurueck vor Gericht.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Heute Abend waren wir Babysitter fuer 4 Kinder (2-4 Jahre alt). Mit unseren zwei Maedels hatten wir 6 kids! Ich bin muede!!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;In the morning we had a court date concerning the girls. They have been since one year in foster care. That means here in the US that the case is going back to court. They look at the case und proof if the biological parents has changed anything in their life. In our case nothing changed. Their mother told us today that she wants that we adopt the kids. The judge decided today that the case is changing from reunification with the parents to adoption. The next step will be to take away the parental rights for the biological parents. Afterwards the paperwork will start for us and we have to go back to court.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This evening we had 4 kids here to babysit (2-4 years old). With our two girls we had 6 kids! I am tired!!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1670173068063821985-1844246914419382797?l=heikeerwin.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/feeds/1844246914419382797/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1670173068063821985&amp;postID=1844246914419382797&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/1844246914419382797'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/1844246914419382797'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/2008/11/gerichtcourt.html' title='Gericht/court'/><author><name>Heike und Jim</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1670173068063821985.post-3800004486675612249</id><published>2008-11-02T13:26:00.001-08:00</published><updated>2008-11-02T19:39:26.431-08:00</updated><title type='text'>First Worship Service in Seligman, MO/erster Gottesdienst in Seligman</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SQ5yXx5PO-I/AAAAAAAADDQ/oDUoiZoxR84/s1600-h/l_370adfe5c4b34ead88315166a19d14b1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SQ5yXx5PO-I/AAAAAAAADDQ/oDUoiZoxR84/s320/l_370adfe5c4b34ead88315166a19d14b1.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5264270767298657250" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SQ5x1IF0ntI/AAAAAAAADDI/f4xwot7g_vo/s1600-h/m_539d55a976de42d996f4ab04dcd9dea2.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 170px; height: 127px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SQ5x1IF0ntI/AAAAAAAADDI/f4xwot7g_vo/s320/m_539d55a976de42d996f4ab04dcd9dea2.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5264270171961597650" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SQ5xb8b112I/AAAAAAAADDA/ZKhM_wvTN9U/s1600-h/l_17bf0f341c614d259eca247cc5dd86a3.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SQ5xb8b112I/AAAAAAAADDA/ZKhM_wvTN9U/s320/l_17bf0f341c614d259eca247cc5dd86a3.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5264269739335997282" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SQ5w52LmCEI/AAAAAAAADC4/icMtIkBDSbk/s1600-h/l_3fcf44abd4ed48c6a3676dd9db4e158a.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SQ5w52LmCEI/AAAAAAAADC4/icMtIkBDSbk/s320/l_3fcf44abd4ed48c6a3676dd9db4e158a.jpg" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5264269153541687362" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Hello everyone,&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;We had our first service in Seligman, MO this morning. Fifty-eight (58) people came! Praise God! There were many families with children. The local chapter of the Christian Motorcyclist Association came, and Pastor Glenn (Washburn FBC - "mother church"), and Rev. Jerry Williams (Director of Missions, Barry County Southern Baptist Association) came and opened our service. It was a nice day, the worship was wonderful, and the people had a great time. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Heute Morgen hatten wir unseren ersten Gottesdienst in Seligman. Wir hatten 58 Personen im Gottesdienst. Lobe Gott! Es kamen viele Familien mit Kindern. Die Gruppe des Christlichen Motorradfahrervereins kamen und meine Schwiegervater (Pastor von Washburn FBC, unsere Mutterkirche) und Pastor Jerry Williams (Direktor von Barry County Baptisten Vereinigung) kamen und haben unseren Gottesdienst eroeffnet. &lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(85, 26, 139); text-decoration: underline; "&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(85, 26, 139); text-decoration: underline;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(85, 26, 139); text-decoration: underline;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(85, 26, 139); text-decoration: underline;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(85, 26, 139); text-decoration: underline;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1670173068063821985-3800004486675612249?l=heikeerwin.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/feeds/3800004486675612249/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1670173068063821985&amp;postID=3800004486675612249&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/3800004486675612249'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/3800004486675612249'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/2008/11/first-worship-service-in-seligman.html' title='First Worship Service in Seligman, MO/erster Gottesdienst in Seligman'/><author><name>Heike und Jim</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SQ5yXx5PO-I/AAAAAAAADDQ/oDUoiZoxR84/s72-c/l_370adfe5c4b34ead88315166a19d14b1.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1670173068063821985.post-7418731263110874922</id><published>2008-10-25T15:25:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-25T16:38:04.885-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Show Boat Branson Belle</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SQOd74loMWI/AAAAAAAADCU/UapRu7s_T7c/s1600-h/PA250361.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SQOd74loMWI/AAAAAAAADCU/UapRu7s_T7c/s320/PA250361.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5261222441826922850" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SQOd7W62ZGI/AAAAAAAADCM/pgOeAIJa8SM/s1600-h/PA250350.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SQOd7W62ZGI/AAAAAAAADCM/pgOeAIJa8SM/s320/PA250350.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5261222432789128290" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SQOd6xIl1QI/AAAAAAAADCE/YXrpFKAdFBs/s1600-h/PA250335.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px; height: 240px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SQOd6xIl1QI/AAAAAAAADCE/YXrpFKAdFBs/s320/PA250335.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5261222422646215938" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wir haben heute einen Ausflug mit den Senioren von der Gemeinde gemacht. Wir sind nach Branson auf ein Show Boat (Branson Belle) gegangen. Auf dem Schiff haben wir zuerst gegessen und dann gabe es eine Show. Es war sehr schoen. Es war ein Comedian, Musik und Akrobatik zu sehen. Das Wetter was auch sehr schoen, wie Ihr auf den Bildern sehen koennt.&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;We made a trip with the senior adults from the church today. We went to Branson on a show boat (&lt;a href="http://www.showboatbransonbelle.com/"&gt;Showboat Branson Belle&lt;/a&gt;). First, we ate a meal on the ship and then we watched a live show. It was very nice. The show contained a comedian, music and acrobats. We also had really nice weather, which you can see in the pictures.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1670173068063821985-7418731263110874922?l=heikeerwin.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/feeds/7418731263110874922/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1670173068063821985&amp;postID=7418731263110874922&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/7418731263110874922'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/7418731263110874922'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/2008/10/show-boat-branson-belle.html' title='Show Boat Branson Belle'/><author><name>Heike und Jim</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SQOd74loMWI/AAAAAAAADCU/UapRu7s_T7c/s72-c/PA250361.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1670173068063821985.post-1176979697120061588</id><published>2008-10-22T12:24:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-22T13:04:39.749-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Gebaeude und Tierbesetzung/building and animal occupation</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SP9_F44LGuI/AAAAAAAADB8/JrQ6gQdexEE/s1600-h/PA220330.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="float:right; margin:0 0 10px 10px;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SP9_F44LGuI/AAAAAAAADB8/JrQ6gQdexEE/s320/PA220330.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5260062628936096482" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SP9-bWfCjXI/AAAAAAAADB0/_-jdyERnhyg/s1600-h/building.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SP9-bWfCjXI/AAAAAAAADB0/_-jdyERnhyg/s320/building.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5260061898149367154" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;In diesem Gebaeude wird unser Gottesdienst in Seligman stattfinden. Am Sonntag in einer Woche ist unser erster Gottesdienst! Wir (die  Startergruppe) sind alle schon aufgeregt. Wir sind noch am streichen und planen.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Auf dem rechten Bild seht Ihr Luvi und Wiggles, wie sie unser Schlafzimmer besetzen.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;In the building on the left picture is the building were our service in Seligman is going to be.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Our first service will begin next Sunday (November 2nd). We (the core group) are already excited. We are still painting and planning.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;On the right picture you can see Wiggles and Luvi occupying our bedroom.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1670173068063821985-1176979697120061588?l=heikeerwin.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/feeds/1176979697120061588/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1670173068063821985&amp;postID=1176979697120061588&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/1176979697120061588'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/1176979697120061588'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/2008/10/gebaeude-und-tierbesetzungbuilding-and.html' title='Gebaeude und Tierbesetzung/building and animal occupation'/><author><name>Heike und Jim</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SP9_F44LGuI/AAAAAAAADB8/JrQ6gQdexEE/s72-c/PA220330.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1670173068063821985.post-2331688740564272964</id><published>2008-10-18T13:06:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-19T17:46:42.953-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Nur noch zwei Wochen bis der neue Gottesdienst startet/only two more weeks until the new service starts...</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SPpD6JUGWjI/AAAAAAAADBk/Y9i9QU-CsZI/s1600-h/PA180318.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SPpD6JUGWjI/AAAAAAAADBk/Y9i9QU-CsZI/s320/PA180318.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5258590181120170546" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Nur noch 2 Wochen, dann haben wir unseren ersten Gottesdienst in Seligman! Wir haben heute im Gebaeude gearbeitet und sind fast fertig. Wir muessen nur noch Kleinigkeiten streichen, eine Buehne bauen und putzen. Morgen haben wir das 125-jaehrige Jubilaeum in Washburn First Baptist. Wir haben morgens und mittags Gottesdienste und Mittagessen. &lt;div&gt;Letzte Woche hatten wir Konferenzen mit den Lehrern der Maedels. Es ist alles in Ordnung.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Only 2 more weeks until we have our first service in Seligman! Today we worked some more in the building and we are now almost finished. We only have to touch up paint, build a stage and then clean the room. Tomorrow, we are going to the 125th anniversary of the First Baptist Church Washburn.  There will be the two regular services in the morning followed by lunch. Aftwards, we will have a "Celebration" service beginning at 2pm.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Last week we had teacher conferences for the girls. So far, everything is fine.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SPpDRtcziwI/AAAAAAAADBc/knEl2MMf4Co/s1600-h/PA180318.JPG" style="text-decoration: none;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0);"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="text-decoration: underline;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1670173068063821985-2331688740564272964?l=heikeerwin.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/feeds/2331688740564272964/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1670173068063821985&amp;postID=2331688740564272964&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/2331688740564272964'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/2331688740564272964'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/2008/10/nur-noch-eine-woche-bis-der-neue.html' title='Nur noch zwei Wochen bis der neue Gottesdienst startet/only two more weeks until the new service starts...'/><author><name>Heike und Jim</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SPpD6JUGWjI/AAAAAAAADBk/Y9i9QU-CsZI/s72-c/PA180318.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1670173068063821985.post-2542562521685209669</id><published>2008-10-08T18:57:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-08T19:18:21.275-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Arbeiten im neuen Kirchengebäude/working in the new church building</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SO1nSmGXZRI/AAAAAAAADA8/Xu6f9Z-_mnQ/s1600-h/IMG00418.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SO1nSmGXZRI/AAAAAAAADA8/Xu6f9Z-_mnQ/s320/IMG00418.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5254969909373789458" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SO1mzndGM4I/AAAAAAAADA0/MKYOMkQJHCc/s1600-h/IMG00417.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SO1mzndGM4I/AAAAAAAADA0/MKYOMkQJHCc/s320/IMG00417.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5254969377161622402" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Am 2. November werden wir unseren ersten Gottesdienst in Seligman haben. Wir haben letzte Woche angefangen zu streichen und zu putzen. Wir haben auch Tische und Stuehle gekauft. Wir werden keine Sitzreihen im Gottesdienst haben, sondern Tische uns Stühle. Wir bekommen finanzielle Hilfe vom Baptistenbund in Missouri. Unsere Mutterkirche ist First Baptist Washburn, wo Jims Papa und Jim Pastoren sind. Bitte betet für uns!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On November the 2nd we will have our first service in Seligman. Last week we started to paint and clean in the building. We also bought tables and stairs. In the service we are going to sit around tables in groups. We are getting financial help from the Missouri Baptist Convention. The mother church is First Baptist Washburn where Jim´s dad is pastor and Jim Associate Pastor. Please pray for us!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1670173068063821985-2542562521685209669?l=heikeerwin.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/feeds/2542562521685209669/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1670173068063821985&amp;postID=2542562521685209669&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/2542562521685209669'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/2542562521685209669'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/2008/10/arbeiten-im-neuen-kirchengebudeworking.html' title='Arbeiten im neuen Kirchengebäude/working in the new church building'/><author><name>Heike und Jim</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SO1nSmGXZRI/AAAAAAAADA8/Xu6f9Z-_mnQ/s72-c/IMG00418.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1670173068063821985.post-2075672781606950072</id><published>2008-10-04T09:49:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-10-04T09:58:40.230-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Kuerbiszeit/pumpkin time</title><content type='html'>&lt;a href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SOefDXhhWcI/AAAAAAAADAs/r7glZowaf1o/s1600-h/PA040310.JPG"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5253342370554010050" style="DISPLAY: block; MARGIN: 0px auto 10px; CURSOR: hand; TEXT-ALIGN: center" alt="" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SOefDXhhWcI/AAAAAAAADAs/r7glZowaf1o/s320/PA040310.JPG" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt; &lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Heute Morgen haben wir Kuerbisgesichter mit den Maedels gemacht. Es ist aber immer noch warm hier (so um die 20-25 Grad C.). &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;Ansonsten geht es uns gut. Wir streichen und putzen ein bis zweimal die Woche das Gebaeude fuer unseren neuen Gottesdienst in Seligman. Am 2. November wird unser erster Gottesdienst dort stattfinden.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;This morning we made pumpkin faces with the girls. It is still warm here (70 to 75 F). &lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;We are doing well.&lt;/span&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:Arial;"&gt;We are painting and cleaning the building in Seligman for our new service one to two times a week. The first service there will be on November the 2nd. &lt;/span&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1670173068063821985-2075672781606950072?l=heikeerwin.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/feeds/2075672781606950072/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1670173068063821985&amp;postID=2075672781606950072&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/2075672781606950072'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/2075672781606950072'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/2008/10/kuerbiszeitpumpkin-time.html' title='Kuerbiszeit/pumpkin time'/><author><name>Heike und Jim</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SOefDXhhWcI/AAAAAAAADAs/r7glZowaf1o/s72-c/PA040310.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1670173068063821985.post-1505779489233105030</id><published>2008-09-23T12:46:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-09-24T18:47:34.423-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Endlich - unser Buch ist fertig/Finally - our book is finished</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SNlIc6OScHI/AAAAAAAADAA/TDYc8aUfSeo/s1600-h/P9230291.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SNlIc6OScHI/AAAAAAAADAA/TDYc8aUfSeo/s320/P9230291.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5249306502179745906" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Seit gestern ist unser Buch gedruckt. Es hat doch tatsaechlich fast 7 Jahre gedauert. Es ist richtig schoen geworden (danke Georg fuer das Titelbild!)&lt;div&gt;In den USA kostet das Buch 10$ (mit Versand inklusiv). Wenn jemand das Buch von Europa, Afrika, Australien oder Asien haben moechte, kann man warten bis wir einen Weg finden um zu schicken (d.h. Amazon).  &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The book is finished and printed since yesterday. It took us almost 7 years. It worked out really nice (thank you Georg for the Cover picture).&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The book costs $10 in the USA (including postage). If someone from Europe, Africa, Australia or Asia would like to buy the book, you may have to wait until we can find a way to send you a book (working on Amazon at the moment). &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1670173068063821985-1505779489233105030?l=heikeerwin.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/feeds/1505779489233105030/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1670173068063821985&amp;postID=1505779489233105030&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/1505779489233105030'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/1505779489233105030'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/2008/09/endlich-unser-buch-ist-fertigfinally.html' title='Endlich - unser Buch ist fertig/Finally - our book is finished'/><author><name>Heike und Jim</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SNlIc6OScHI/AAAAAAAADAA/TDYc8aUfSeo/s72-c/P9230291.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1670173068063821985.post-3241408126003338024</id><published>2008-09-20T18:52:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-09-20T20:14:36.457-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Lake of the Ozarks</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SNW27Kzre3I/AAAAAAAAC_4/b-a7ik1gCZA/s1600-h/P9200290.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SNW27Kzre3I/AAAAAAAAC_4/b-a7ik1gCZA/s320/P9200290.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5248302068399831922" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Wir waren die letzten 3 Tage bei einer Gemeindegründerfreizeit in Lake of the Ozarks. Es war sehr gut. Es waren ca. 50 andere Paare da und es war gut sich auszutauschen. Außerdem hatten wir gute Sprecher und haben viel Neues gelernt. Wie Ihr auf dem Bild sehen könnt ist es eine schöne Gegend und wir konnten uns auch bei schönem Wetter ein bisschen entspannen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;For the last three days we have been at a church planter`s conference at Lake of the Ozarks. It was very good. There were about 50 couples and it was good to talk to each other about our experiences. We also had good speakers and learned a few new things. You can see on the picture that it is a really nice region and we had really good weather. We also were able to relax a little bit.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1670173068063821985-3241408126003338024?l=heikeerwin.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/feeds/3241408126003338024/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1670173068063821985&amp;postID=3241408126003338024&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/3241408126003338024'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/3241408126003338024'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/2008/09/lake-of-ozarks.html' title='Lake of the Ozarks'/><author><name>Heike und Jim</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SNW27Kzre3I/AAAAAAAAC_4/b-a7ik1gCZA/s72-c/P9200290.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1670173068063821985.post-3092720705373428734</id><published>2008-09-16T18:24:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-09-16T18:48:19.284-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Quarkmaschine/quark machine</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SNBdP9zWDII/AAAAAAAAC_Y/h-RGJr6EMIk/s1600-h/P9170271.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SNBdP9zWDII/AAAAAAAAC_Y/h-RGJr6EMIk/s320/P9170271.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5246796094755966082" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SNBc33sAZ7I/AAAAAAAAC_Q/Ty0lhfLnArw/s1600-h/P9160270.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SNBc33sAZ7I/AAAAAAAAC_Q/Ty0lhfLnArw/s320/P9160270.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5246795680797714354" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wir haben uns auf den Internet (&lt;a href="http://germanplaza.com"&gt;http://germanplaza.com&lt;/a&gt;) eine Quarkmaschine gekauft, da man in den USA keinen Quark kaufen kann. Jim hat heute gleich Quark gemacht, mal sehen wir der Kuchen wird...&lt;br /&gt;Von Donnerstag bis Samstag werden Jim und ich zu einer Freizeit fuer Gemeindegruender zum Lake of the Ozarks gehen, die Maedels bleiben bei Glenn und Barbara (Oma und Opa).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We bought a quark machine online (&lt;a href="http://germanplaza.com"&gt;http://germanplaza.com&lt;/a&gt;) because you can´t buy quark in the USA. Today Jim made some quark with the machine. We will see how the cake will turn out...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;From Thursday until Saturday, Jim and I will be at a church planter retreat at Lake of the Ozarks. The girls will stay with Glenn and Barbara (Grandpa and Grandma). &lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;span class="Apple-style-span"  style="font-family:arial;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1670173068063821985-3092720705373428734?l=heikeerwin.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/feeds/3092720705373428734/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1670173068063821985&amp;postID=3092720705373428734&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/3092720705373428734'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/3092720705373428734'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/2008/09/quarkmaschinequark-machine.html' title='Quarkmaschine/quark machine'/><author><name>Heike und Jim</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SNBdP9zWDII/AAAAAAAAC_Y/h-RGJr6EMIk/s72-c/P9170271.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1670173068063821985.post-6462849845271121698</id><published>2008-09-05T12:24:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-09-05T15:45:31.827-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Luvi und die Maus/ Luvi and "die Maus"</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SMGIJRbweeI/AAAAAAAAC-g/kNyV1tQRoOM/s1600-h/P8300263.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SMGIJRbweeI/AAAAAAAAC-g/kNyV1tQRoOM/s320/P8300263.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5242621134115994082" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SMGHyfNxbtI/AAAAAAAAC-Y/46YxGh98yZ0/s1600-h/P9030267.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SMGHyfNxbtI/AAAAAAAAC-Y/46YxGh98yZ0/s320/P9030267.JPG" border="0" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5242620742678441682" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Letzten Montag war hier ein Feiertag (labor day), ich habe gearbeitet, weil die Haehnchen haben ja nie frei...&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Vorletztes Wochenende waren wir in Rogers bei einem Jahrmarkt (Frisko Festival). Da gab es Karussells und Staende. Wir hatten viel Spass. An einem Stand war ein Spiel fuer die Kinder. Es gabe eine Schatzkiste und die Kinder konnten einen Schluessel aus einem Korb ziehen, um die Kiste zu oeffnen. In der Kiste waren Preise. Alles Kinder vor uns haben nichts gewonnen. Nur ein paar Schluessel haben gepasst. Zuerst kam M. dran, sie nahm den Schluessel aus der Hand von dem Mann an dem Stand und der hat tatsaechlich gepasst. So hat M. eine Uhr gewonnen. Dann kam J. dran. Sie hat wohl genau beobachtet als der Mann den Schluessel zurueck in den Korb gelegt hat und hat auch den richtigen Schluessel gezogen. Sie hat sich auch eine Uhr aus der Schatzkiste genommen. So werden wir in den naechsten Wochen die Uhr lernen!&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Jims Eltern haben den Maedels neue Fahrraeder und Helme gekauft, letztes Wochenende haben wir mit Radfahren verbracht.&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Auf dem Bild seht ihr unsere Katze Luvi mit der deutschen Maus (das koennen hier nur die Deutschen verstehen...)&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Last Monday was a holiday (Labor Day). I had to work because the chickens never go on vacation..&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;On Saturday of the Labor Day weekend, we went to Rogers to the Frisco Festival. There were carousels and booths. We had a lot of fun. At one booth there was a game for kids. They had a treasure chest with prizes in it and the kids had to pick the right key out of a basket to open the box. Many kids were not winning. M. came and took the key out of the hand of the man standing by the treasure chest. The key opened the chest and M. picked out a watch. J. came next. She saw where the man hid the key with the other keys. She observed this carefully. Then she picked out a key, and it also opened the treasure chest. So, J. also picked out a watch. So, they are now learning how to tell time. &lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;Jim's parents bought both of the girls each a bike.  The girls spent the last weekend riding their bikes. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;The picture shows our cat Luvi with "die Maus" from Germany. (Of course, only the Germans would understand...)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1670173068063821985-6462849845271121698?l=heikeerwin.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/feeds/6462849845271121698/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1670173068063821985&amp;postID=6462849845271121698&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/6462849845271121698'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/6462849845271121698'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/2008/09/luvi-und-die-maus-luvi-and-die-maus.html' title='Luvi und die Maus/ Luvi and &quot;die Maus&quot;'/><author><name>Heike und Jim</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SMGIJRbweeI/AAAAAAAAC-g/kNyV1tQRoOM/s72-c/P8300263.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1670173068063821985.post-3668347137097177525</id><published>2008-08-21T11:53:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-08-25T18:59:23.972-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Real Encounter</title><content type='html'>&lt;div&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SLMH9pmWg7I/AAAAAAAAC-I/QA6iMoF03Ec/s1600-h/RE.jpg"&gt;&lt;img id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5238539547282146226" style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center;" alt="" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SLMH9pmWg7I/AAAAAAAAC-I/QA6iMoF03Ec/s320/RE.jpg" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;span style="font-family:arial;"&gt;Letzten Mittwoch hatten wir hier in der Schule eine BMX Show Real Encounter (&lt;a href="http://www.realencounter.org"&gt;www.realencounter.org&lt;/a&gt;). Waehrend der Show werden BMX, Motorrad, Stunts und Akrobatik vorgefuehrt. Am Ende redet der Leiter ueber Jesus. Ein Junge aus unserer Gemeinde hat sich bekehrt.&lt;br /&gt;Seit die Maedels in der Schule sind ist es ein bisschen ruhiger. Sie nehmen morgens um 7 Uhr den Bus zur Schule und ich hole sie um 15 Uhr ab. Bisher gehen sie sehr gerne in die Schule.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Last Wednesday we had a BMX show at the school (&lt;a href="http://www.realencounter.org"&gt;www.realencounter.org&lt;/a&gt;). During the show they showed BMX, motorbike, stunts and acrobatics. At the end of the show the leader talked about Jesus. One boy from our church accepted Jesus.&lt;br /&gt;Since the girls are in school, our lives are now a little bit calmer. They take the bus to school at 7am and I pick them up at 3pm. So far they really like to go to school.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;a href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SLMH9pmWg7I/AAAAAAAAC-I/QA6iMoF03Ec/s1600-h/RE.jpg"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1670173068063821985-3668347137097177525?l=heikeerwin.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/feeds/3668347137097177525/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1670173068063821985&amp;postID=3668347137097177525&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/3668347137097177525'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/3668347137097177525'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/2008/08/real-encounter.html' title='Real Encounter'/><author><name>Heike und Jim</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SLMH9pmWg7I/AAAAAAAAC-I/QA6iMoF03Ec/s72-c/RE.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1670173068063821985.post-2955801464946823822</id><published>2008-08-10T19:11:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-08-10T19:55:51.421-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Stressige Woche/stressful week</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: left;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SJ-hrVENnzI/AAAAAAAAC9c/JmPEgrZ6_5A/s1600-h/P8110245.JPG"&gt;&lt;span style="font-weight: bold;"&gt;&lt;/span&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SJ-hrVENnzI/AAAAAAAAC9c/JmPEgrZ6_5A/s1600-h/P8110245.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SJ-hrVENnzI/AAAAAAAAC9c/JmPEgrZ6_5A/s200/P8110245.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5233079057789067058" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Diese Woche war echt was los. Montag waren wir in der Notfallaufnahme mit M. Sie fuehlte sich nicht wohl und hatte Juckreiz. Sie hatte Eiterflechten. Wir bekamen Medizin und alles ist jetzt in Ordnung.&lt;br /&gt;Am Mittwoch klagte J. ueber starke Halsschmerzen und Jim ging mit ihr zum Arzt, sie hatte eine Halsentzuendung und es gab fuer sie auch Medizin.&lt;br /&gt;Am Freitagnachmittag haben die beiden Maedels draussen gespielt und J. hat mit Steinen geworfen und M. ausversehen unter dem Auge getroffen. Gott sei Dank ist es nicht ins Auge gegangen und sei hat "nur" ein  blaues Auge.&lt;br /&gt;Am Mittwoch ist Schulanfang. M. wird zur Vorschule gehen und J. in die erste Klasse. Das ist alles sehr aufregend für uns alle.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This week was really exciting. Monday we had been in the Emergency Room with M. She did not feel well and had itching problems. She had impetigo. She got medicine and now everything is o.k.&lt;br /&gt;Last Wednesday J. had  strong pain in her throat. Jim went to a doctor with her. She had strep throat and she also got medicine for it.&lt;br /&gt;Friday afternoon the two girls played outside. J.  was throwing stones around and accidentally hit M. under her eye. Thank God it did not get in her eye and she had "only" a blue eye.&lt;br /&gt;Next Wednesday school starts. M. will go to kindergarten and J. will go to first grade. That is very exciting for all of us.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1670173068063821985-2955801464946823822?l=heikeerwin.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/feeds/2955801464946823822/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1670173068063821985&amp;postID=2955801464946823822&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/2955801464946823822'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/2955801464946823822'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/2008/08/stressige-wochestressful-week.html' title='Stressige Woche/stressful week'/><author><name>Heike und Jim</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SJ-hrVENnzI/AAAAAAAAC9c/JmPEgrZ6_5A/s72-c/P8110245.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1670173068063821985.post-7165690050406846535</id><published>2008-07-30T19:16:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-07-30T19:51:13.994-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Geburtstage und mehr/birthdays and more</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp1.blogger.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SJEjgVfN_II/AAAAAAAAC88/r0kl-fm1fRg/s1600-h/P7260229.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp1.blogger.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SJEjgVfN_II/AAAAAAAAC88/r0kl-fm1fRg/s200/P7260229.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5228999680784727170" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SJEi2yZsERI/AAAAAAAAC80/FBMFe3AGHo8/s1600-h/P7290230.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SJEi2yZsERI/AAAAAAAAC80/FBMFe3AGHo8/s200/P7290230.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5228998966991655186" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Mein erster Geburtstag in den USA: Im Büro haben mir meine Kolleginnen 2 Kuchen mitgebracht. Das ist anders als in Deutschland, da musste ich etwas für meine Kollegen mitbringen. Insgesamt habe ich 5 Kuchen bekommen, 2 im Büro, einen von Jim, einen von Jims Eltern (siehe Foto) und einen von Ronda, einer guten Freundin. Meine Maedels haben mir Karten gemalt...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wir hatten außerdem letzte Woche Kinderbibelwoche. Ich war für die 3 und 4jährigen zuständig, wir hatten 12 in unserer Gruppe - Stress!&lt;br /&gt;Warum das Bild von den lackierten Fußnägeln: Wir haben "gewettet", dass wenn wir mehr als 150 bei der Bibelwoche haben, koennen die Kids das outfit von Jims Papa für den Sonntagsgottesdienst wählen (er musste orangene shorts, eine blonde Perücke und einen Hut tragen). Weil wir mehr als 175 hatten haben die Kinder Jims Fußnägel lackiert. Wir hatten aber noch mehr...da wir 200 hatten haben wir Jean, der Bibelwochenleiterin die Haare pink gefärbt, es kommt aber noch besser, wir hatten 210 und haben die Haare eines Teenager grün gefärbt. Wir hatten viel Spaß.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;My first birthday in the United States: In the office my colleagues brought me 2 cakes. That is different from Germany, I had to bring food for my colleagues on my birthday. All together I got 5 cakes. 2 in the office, 1 from Jim, 1 from Jim´s parents (picture) and one from Ronda, a good friend of mine. My girls drew me birthday cards.&lt;br /&gt;We also had Vacation Bible school last week. I was responsible for the 3 and 4 years old. We had 12 in our group - stress!&lt;br /&gt;Why the picture with the painted toenails? We had a "bet" that if we would have more than 150 people at VBS the kids could pick Jim´s dads clothes for Sunday morning. (he had to wear orange shorts, a blond wig and a hat). If we had more than 175, the kids would paint Jim´s toe nails (see picture it happenned!). But that was not all...because we had more than 200 we sprayed Jean´s (VBS director) hair pink but there was even more. We had 210 and sprayed the hair of a teenager green.&lt;br /&gt;We had a lot of fun.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1670173068063821985-7165690050406846535?l=heikeerwin.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/feeds/7165690050406846535/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1670173068063821985&amp;postID=7165690050406846535&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/7165690050406846535'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/7165690050406846535'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/2008/07/geburtstage-und-mehrbirthdays-and-more.html' title='Geburtstage und mehr/birthdays and more'/><author><name>Heike und Jim</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp1.blogger.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SJEjgVfN_II/AAAAAAAAC88/r0kl-fm1fRg/s72-c/P7260229.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1670173068063821985.post-9141418264140900300</id><published>2008-07-14T15:41:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-07-15T20:07:14.579-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Autobahn Susi</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SH1ihXxMhtI/AAAAAAAAC8s/oDp73DFqBFY/s1600-h/P7110203.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SH1ihXxMhtI/AAAAAAAAC8s/oDp73DFqBFY/s200/P7110203.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5223439468275205842" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Hello Everyone,&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I (Jim) get the privilege of writing this post. Here is the story. Last Friday (July 11th) we went to the local Honda dealership and bought a 2006 Honda Odyssey. It is a nice minivan with low mileage. So we went to the dealer and gave them the check. We bought this van because we knew that we would soon have foster children (the girls are back with us). So on our way back to the farm from the Honda dealership, Heike drives through the town of Seligman. She is the last person in a line of people who were driving in the evening traffic. (They were all speeding). No sooner did she pass the city limits (and the speed limit sign) before she heard the sirens of a police car. He pulled us over (right across the street from the building where we will soon start a new church) and gave Heike her first speeding ticket in the USA. (Oh, she was so mad....:)&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I call Heike Autobahn Susi when she drives so fast. Well, she lived up to her name that day!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Heute habe ich (Jim) das Privileg hier zu schreiben. Letzen Freitag (11. Juli) sind wir zum Hondahaendler gefahren und haben einen 2006 Honda Odysee gekauft. So sind wir zum Haendler gefahren und haben das Auto bezahlt. Es ist ein schoener Minivan der wenig Kilometer hat. Wir haben diesen Van gekauft, weil wir wussten, dass wir Pflegekinder bekommen (die Maedchen sind ja wieder bei uns). Auf unserem Weg vom Autohaendler zur Farm ist Heike durch die Stadt Seligman gefahren. Sie ist die letzte in einer Reihe von Autos im Abendverkehr (alle sind zu schnell gefahren). Gleich nachdem sie in die Stadt gefahren ist (und nach dem Geschwindigkeits-Verkehrzeichen) hat sie die Sirene von einem Polizeiauto gehoert. Der Polizist hat uns angehalten (gleich gegenueber von dem Gebaeude wo wir bald unsere neue Gemeinde starten) und hat Heike ihren ersten Strafzettel in den USA gegeben (sie war so wuetend...:)&lt;br /&gt;Ich nenne Heike Autobahn Susi wenn sie zu schnell faehrt. Sie hat an diesem Tag ihrem Namen alle Ehre gemacht!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1670173068063821985-9141418264140900300?l=heikeerwin.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/9141418264140900300'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/9141418264140900300'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/2008/07/autobahn-susi.html' title='Autobahn Susi'/><author><name>Heike und Jim</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp0.blogger.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SH1ihXxMhtI/AAAAAAAAC8s/oDp73DFqBFY/s72-c/P7110203.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1670173068063821985.post-6692928060039751123</id><published>2008-07-05T08:01:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-07-05T08:20:57.886-07:00</updated><title type='text'>4th of July/4. Juli</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp2.blogger.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SG-NhqrXeGI/AAAAAAAAC8I/p7-wYg_XrRk/s1600-h/P7050201.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp2.blogger.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SG-NhqrXeGI/AAAAAAAAC8I/p7-wYg_XrRk/s200/P7050201.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5219546102677076066" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://bp0.blogger.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SG-NJNMHtMI/AAAAAAAAC8A/hdpTpn-uzUQ/s1600-h/P7050192.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://bp0.blogger.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SG-NJNMHtMI/AAAAAAAAC8A/hdpTpn-uzUQ/s200/P7050192.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5219545682444530882" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gestern war ja 4. Juli und Unabhaengigkeitstag hier. Wir hatten abends ein Grillfest mit Feuerwerk bei der Kirche. Wir hatten viel Spass und wie man auf dem Bild seht wurde ich auch schon "amerikanisiert"...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Naechste Woche kommen die 2 Maedchen zurueck und werden bei uns als Pflegekinder leben. Wir werden unser vorerst letztes ruhiges Wochenende geniessen, freuen uns aber sehr.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yesterday was the 4th of July (Independence Day). In the evening we had a BBQ with fireworks at the church. We had a lot of fun. You can see on the picture that they "amerikanized" me...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Next week the 2 girls will come back and live with us as foster children. We are going to enjoy our last quiet weekend but we are very happy.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1670173068063821985-6692928060039751123?l=heikeerwin.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/feeds/6692928060039751123/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1670173068063821985&amp;postID=6692928060039751123&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/6692928060039751123'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/6692928060039751123'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/2008/07/4th-of-july4-juli.html' title='4th of July/4. Juli'/><author><name>Heike und Jim</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://bp2.blogger.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SG-NhqrXeGI/AAAAAAAAC8I/p7-wYg_XrRk/s72-c/P7050201.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1670173068063821985.post-5239310772602879271</id><published>2008-06-30T12:53:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-06-30T13:22:51.236-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Neuigkeiten/news</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SGk9dX42UcI/AAAAAAAAC70/qMTe2eIiE1E/s1600-h/P6260184.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SGk9dX42UcI/AAAAAAAAC70/qMTe2eIiE1E/s200/P6260184.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5217769218123387330" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SGk8f4JQIuI/AAAAAAAAC7k/b9UHUmjbEFI/s1600-h/P6270185.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SGk8f4JQIuI/AAAAAAAAC7k/b9UHUmjbEFI/s200/P6270185.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5217768161630233314" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SGk62_be2KI/AAAAAAAAC7c/OaX2ds2a4AE/s1600-h/P6280187.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SGk62_be2KI/AAAAAAAAC7c/OaX2ds2a4AE/s200/P6280187.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5217766359699478690" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Letzten Freitag waren wir in Joplin (ca. 1 Std. westlich von hier). Dort war in einem Einkaufszentrum eine "Adoption Heart Gallery". Dies ist so eine Art Ausstellung mit Bildern von Kindern die dringend ein Zuhause benoetigen und adoptiert werden koennen. Die Kinder sind meistens ein bisschen aelter und da die meisten Adoptiveltern ein Baby oder Kleinkind moechten ist es fuer diese Kinder sehr schwer ein Zuhause zu finden. Wir haben uns die Bildern angesehen und die Broschuere mit nachhause genommen. Jetzt warten wir erst einmal ab was mit den 2 Maedels passiert (wir treffen wahrscheinlich morgen die Sozialarbeiterin) und dann entscheiden wir, ob wir noch ein oder zwei Kinder adoptieren...&lt;br /&gt;Auf der Fahrt nach Joplin haben wir dieses Schild mit "Heimatfarm" gesehen, man liest hier immer mal wieder was auf Deutsch.&lt;br /&gt;Der Frosch auf dem Bild kommt jede Nacht und schlaeft draussen in Wiggles (unser Hund) Trinkschale.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Last Friday we went in Joplin (1 hour west from here). We went to an "Adoption Heart Gallery" being shown at Northpark Mall. This is a kind of fair with pictures from children who desperately need a home and who are legally free for adoption. Most of these kids are a little bit older and it is hard to find a home for them. Most people who want to adopt want a baby or a toddler. We took the brochure home. First we want to wait to see what will happen with the two girls (we probably will meet their social worker tomorrow). Afterwards we will decide if we want to adopt one or two more kids....&lt;br /&gt;We saw the sign "Heimatfarm" on our trip to Joplin, from time to time there is something written in German.&lt;br /&gt;The frog in the picture comes every night and sleeps outside our house in Wiggles drinking bowl.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1670173068063821985-5239310772602879271?l=heikeerwin.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/feeds/5239310772602879271/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1670173068063821985&amp;postID=5239310772602879271&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/5239310772602879271'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/5239310772602879271'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/2008/06/neuigkeitennews.html' title='Neuigkeiten/news'/><author><name>Heike und Jim</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SGk9dX42UcI/AAAAAAAAC70/qMTe2eIiE1E/s72-c/P6260184.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1670173068063821985.post-3027454480761824848</id><published>2008-06-25T11:21:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-06-25T15:02:18.274-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Buch und Kinder/book and children</title><content type='html'>Ein paar Leser haben gefragt was fuer ein Buch wir geschrieben haben. Es ist die Geschichte meiner Krankheit, Nierentransplantation und wie die Beziehung zwischen meinem Mann und mir sich entwickelt hat (wie wir uns getroffen haben und wie wir geheiratet haben).Der Titel ist :"2=1 A Cross-Cultural Adventure". Wir hoffen, dass das Buch bis Ende diesen Monats gedruckt ist.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Das Treffen mit der Sozialarbeiterin wegen der 2 Maedchen mussten wir um eine Woche verschieben, da die Mutter der Sozialarbeiterin gestorben ist. Die anderen zwei Kinder koennen wir nicht aufnehmen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Ich habe jetzt deutsches Fernsehen hier. 4 Sender, endlich "richtige" Nachrichten!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;A few readers asked what kind of book we wrote. It is the story about my illness, my kidney transplant and the relationship that I developed with my husband (how we met and how we got married). The title is: "2=1 A Cross-Cultural Adventure". We hope that the book will be printed by the end of this month.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We had to postpone the meeting with the social worker for the two girls. The mother of the social worker died. We can't take the other two kids.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have German TV now. 4 channels,  and finally "real" news!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1670173068063821985-3027454480761824848?l=heikeerwin.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/feeds/3027454480761824848/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1670173068063821985&amp;postID=3027454480761824848&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/3027454480761824848'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/3027454480761824848'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/2008/06/buch-und-kinderbook-and-children.html' title='Buch und Kinder/book and children'/><author><name>Heike und Jim</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1670173068063821985.post-2392700214359742142</id><published>2008-06-22T13:21:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-06-22T14:31:54.466-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Rodeo</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SF60crfWAfI/AAAAAAAAC7U/yQYsJhKGv6E/s1600-h/06-21-08_2051.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SF60crfWAfI/AAAAAAAAC7U/yQYsJhKGv6E/s320/06-21-08_2051.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5214803823345140210" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Gestern war ich bei meinem ersten Rodeo. War echt interessant und wirklich "typisch Amerikanisch..."&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Diese Woche haben wir ein Treffen mit Sozialarbeitern wegen der 2 Maedchen, die bei uns gelebt haben. Wir entscheiden dann alle zusammen, ob es das Beste fuer die Beiden waere bei uns zu wohnen. Darueberhinaus werden wir morgen ein Geschwisterpaar treffen (Junge 20 Monate, Maedchen 10 Jahre), die dringend Pflegeeltern brauchen. Wir werden sehen...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Unser Buch ist fertig. Es ist im Moment bei der Druckerei und wir brauchen noch eine ISBN Nummer.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yesterday I visited my first Rodeo. It was very interesting and really "American".&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;This week we will have a meeting with the social worker from the 2 girls who stayed with us. We will decide all together if it would be best for them to live with us. We will also meet a sibling group tomorrow (boy 20 months old and a girl 10 years old). They urgently need a forster family. We will see...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Our book is now finished. It is being prepared at the printer company, while we wait on an ISBN number.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1670173068063821985-2392700214359742142?l=heikeerwin.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/feeds/2392700214359742142/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1670173068063821985&amp;postID=2392700214359742142&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/2392700214359742142'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/2392700214359742142'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/2008/06/rodeo.html' title='Rodeo'/><author><name>Heike und Jim</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SF60crfWAfI/AAAAAAAAC7U/yQYsJhKGv6E/s72-c/06-21-08_2051.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1670173068063821985.post-7227193193691042347</id><published>2008-06-10T16:23:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-06-11T09:08:24.092-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Wir haben die Maedchen noch eine Woche laenger/we will have the girls one more week</title><content type='html'>Heute hat sich herausgestellt, dass "unsere" zwei Maedchen noch eine Woche laenger bei uns bleiben. &lt;br /&gt;Wir verstehen uns immer noch...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We know since today that "our" girls will stay with us one more week.&lt;br /&gt;We are still going along still very well...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Jim's note: The pictures have been removed for security purposes. We will share with you more about them at a later date.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1670173068063821985-7227193193691042347?l=heikeerwin.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/feeds/7227193193691042347/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1670173068063821985&amp;postID=7227193193691042347&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/7227193193691042347'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/7227193193691042347'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/2008/06/wir-haben-die-maedchen-noch-eine-woche.html' title='Wir haben die Maedchen noch eine Woche laenger/we will have the girls one more week'/><author><name>Heike und Jim</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1670173068063821985.post-7038776714693797198</id><published>2008-05-30T12:22:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-06-11T09:06:51.022-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Wir leben noch/we are still alive</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SEBUw63P77I/AAAAAAAAC50/hKnV7PPPBxw/s1600-h/P5280096.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SEBUw63P77I/AAAAAAAAC50/hKnV7PPPBxw/s320/P5280096.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5206254368651734962" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Auf dem Bild seht Ihr mich kurz bevor die Maedchen gekommen sind. Die Ruhe vor dem Sturm. Seit gestern sind die beiden hier und bleiben fuer 2 Wochen. Wir haben viel Spass und die Maedchen benehmen sich echt gut. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On the picture you can see me just before the girls came. The silence before the storm. Since yesterday the two have been here and they will stay with us for two weeks. We are having a lot of fun and the girls are behaving really well.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1670173068063821985-7038776714693797198?l=heikeerwin.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/feeds/7038776714693797198/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1670173068063821985&amp;postID=7038776714693797198&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/7038776714693797198'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/7038776714693797198'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/2008/05/wir-leben-nochwe-are-still-alive.html' title='Wir leben noch/we are still alive'/><author><name>Heike und Jim</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SEBUw63P77I/AAAAAAAAC50/hKnV7PPPBxw/s72-c/P5280096.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1670173068063821985.post-4551435851249606950</id><published>2008-05-25T12:01:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-07-01T13:25:01.302-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Kinderzimmer/Children's room</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SDm4FK3P76I/AAAAAAAAC5s/XjXCf2vKpzI/s1600-h/P5240095.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SDm4FK3P76I/AAAAAAAAC5s/XjXCf2vKpzI/s320/P5240095.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5204393243358261154" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Seit gestern haben wir ein Kinderzimmer. Letzte Nacht haben die Kinder unserer Freunde (Dakota und Kaitlyn) hier geschlafen und haben gleich die Betten ausprobiert.&lt;br /&gt;Naechsten Donnerstag kommen unsere 2 Maedchen  fuer 10 Tage zur Uebergangspflege.&lt;br /&gt;Ansonsten ist es sehr heiss geworden (30Grad C.).&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Since yesterday we have a children's room. Last night our friend's kids slept in our house (Dakota and Kaitlyn) and tested the new beds.&lt;br /&gt;Next Thursday the two girls will come for 10 days for respite care. It has been rather hot the last couple of days.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1670173068063821985-4551435851249606950?l=heikeerwin.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/feeds/4551435851249606950/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1670173068063821985&amp;postID=4551435851249606950&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/4551435851249606950'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/4551435851249606950'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/2008/05/kinderzimmerchildrens-room.html' title='Kinderzimmer/Children&apos;s room'/><author><name>Heike und Jim</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SDm4FK3P76I/AAAAAAAAC5s/XjXCf2vKpzI/s72-c/P5240095.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1670173068063821985.post-2273628544186675161</id><published>2008-05-23T13:55:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-05-23T14:00:10.745-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Wir sind fertig mit unseren Kursen/we have finished our courses</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SDcv_a3P75I/AAAAAAAAC5k/oyZEwhQtAFA/s1600-h/P5230089.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SDcv_a3P75I/AAAAAAAAC5k/oyZEwhQtAFA/s320/P5230089.JPG" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5203680661039214482" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gestern Abend hatten wir unseren letzten Adoptionskurs. Wir sind jetzt registrierte Pflege- und Adoptionseltern in Missouri. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Last night we had our last Adoption course. Now we are registered Foster and Adoption parents in Missouri.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1670173068063821985-2273628544186675161?l=heikeerwin.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/feeds/2273628544186675161/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1670173068063821985&amp;postID=2273628544186675161&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/2273628544186675161'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/2273628544186675161'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/2008/05/wir-sind-fertig-mit-unseren-kursenwe.html' title='Wir sind fertig mit unseren Kursen/we have finished our courses'/><author><name>Heike und Jim</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SDcv_a3P75I/AAAAAAAAC5k/oyZEwhQtAFA/s72-c/P5230089.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1670173068063821985.post-7194451236028937935</id><published>2008-05-15T12:41:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-05-15T13:06:36.632-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Was gibt es Neues?/What's new?</title><content type='html'>Ich arbeite ja jetzt schon 2 Wochen und es gefaellt mir gut. So langsam weiss ich auch was ich tue :-)))&lt;br /&gt;Vom 30.Mai bis 9. Juni werden wir 2 Maedchen (5 und 6 Jahre alt) zur Pfege bei uns haben. Die Pflegeeltern gehen in Urlaub. Wir haben die beiden letzten Samstag getroffen und es war sehr nett. Die Maedchen freuen sich schon "Urlaub auf der Farm" zu machen.&lt;br /&gt;Wir sind fertig mit unseren Pflegeelternkursen und am Samstag und 2 Abende naechste Woche werden wir unsere Adoptionskurse machen. Danach machen wir noch einen Erste-Hilfe-Kurs und dann sind wir erst einmal fertig...&lt;br /&gt;Letzten Samstag war ganz in der Naehe von uns ein Tornado, aber bei uns ist alles o.k.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I have worked for 2 weeks now and I like the job. Slowly I have learned what I am supposed to be doing :-)))&lt;br /&gt;From May 30th until June 9th we will keep 2 girls (5 and 6 years old) for respite care. The foster parents will be on vacation during this time. We met the girls last Saturday and it was very nice. They are looking forward to a "vacation on the farm". &lt;br /&gt;We are now finished with our foster parents courses. On Saturday and also on 2 evenings next week we will have our adoption courses. Afterwards we will attend a CPR course and then we will be finished for a while...&lt;br /&gt;Last Saturday, a tornado was nearby, but everything is o.k. with us.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1670173068063821985-7194451236028937935?l=heikeerwin.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/feeds/7194451236028937935/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1670173068063821985&amp;postID=7194451236028937935&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/7194451236028937935'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/7194451236028937935'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/2008/05/was-gibt-es-neueswhats-new.html' title='Was gibt es Neues?/What&apos;s new?'/><author><name>Heike und Jim</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1670173068063821985.post-2533936080781485384</id><published>2008-04-28T09:30:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-04-28T09:52:05.443-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Ich habe Arbeit/I have a job</title><content type='html'>Ich habe mich letzte Woche auf eine Halbtagsstelle als Sachbearbeiterin in einer Gefluegelverarbeitungsfirma beworben. Letzten Donnerstag hatte ich meine Vorstellungsgespraech und am Freitag kam der Anruf, dass ich eingestellt wurde. Ich werde Mo-Fr.von 8-12 Uhr morgens im Buero arbeiten. Meine Aufgabe ist es die Lieferstueckzahlen in Excel darzustellen und Praesentationen in Power Point. Ich habe also nur mit Zahlen zu tun...:-)))) Ich fange morgen an.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Last week I applied for a part-time position as a yield clerk in a poultry processing company. Last Thursday I had my interview and they called me Friday to say that I have the job. I will work on Monday through Friday in the mornings from 8am - 12pm in the office. My tasks will be to show the deliveries in Excel and to do presentations in Power Point. I will only have to deal with numbers...;-)))) I start the job tomorrow.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1670173068063821985-2533936080781485384?l=heikeerwin.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/feeds/2533936080781485384/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1670173068063821985&amp;postID=2533936080781485384&amp;isPopup=true' title='3 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/2533936080781485384'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/2533936080781485384'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/2008/04/ich-habe-arbeiti-have-job.html' title='Ich habe Arbeit/I have a job'/><author><name>Heike und Jim</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>3</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1670173068063821985.post-8125060621634499439</id><published>2008-04-23T10:16:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-04-23T10:46:06.357-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Schlangen/snakes</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SA9wo-fmmPI/AAAAAAAAC5M/fR206JpdNus/s1600-h/P4230071.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SA9wo-fmmPI/AAAAAAAAC5M/fR206JpdNus/s320/P4230071.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5192492744654100722" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Als ich heute rausgegangen bin, habe ich eine Schlange in meinem Vorgarten gesehen. Sie sieht groesser auf dem Bild aus. Die meisten Schlangen hier in Missouri sind nicht giftig und harmlos. Aber es war trotzdem komisch fuer mich.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Es ist sehr warm geworden, so um die 25 Grad C., gestern Abend hatten wir ein starkes Gewitter.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Am Wochenende werden wir zu unserem 2. Training fuer die Kirchengruendung nach Jefferson City gehen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;When I walked outside today I saw a snake on my porch. The snake looks bigger on the picture. The most snakes in Missouri are non-venomous. But it was strange for me anyway.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;It got really warm, about 75 F. Yesterday evening we had a strong thunder storm.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;On the weekend we will go to our second training for the church plant to Jefferson City.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;More info about the snakes:&lt;br /&gt;http://mdc.mo.gov/nathis/herpetol/snake/snake1.htm&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1670173068063821985-8125060621634499439?l=heikeerwin.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/feeds/8125060621634499439/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1670173068063821985&amp;postID=8125060621634499439&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/8125060621634499439'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/8125060621634499439'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/2008/04/schlangensnakes.html' title='Schlangen/snakes'/><author><name>Heike und Jim</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SA9wo-fmmPI/AAAAAAAAC5M/fR206JpdNus/s72-c/P4230071.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1670173068063821985.post-4322432406984184805</id><published>2008-04-14T13:19:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-04-15T12:54:22.176-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Little German/kleiner Deutscher</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SAPF_fGL1CI/AAAAAAAAC00/oCtD0nux8W0/s1600-h/P4120066.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SAPF_fGL1CI/AAAAAAAAC00/oCtD0nux8W0/s320/P4120066.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5189208890130813986" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SAO99fGL1BI/AAAAAAAAC0s/ucOC1eMPnis/s1600-h/Little+German+01.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SAO99fGL1BI/AAAAAAAAC0s/ucOC1eMPnis/s320/Little+German+01.jpg" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5189200059678053394" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Das Foto das Ihr seht habe ich in einer Zeitschrift hier gefunden. Es ist eine Werbung fuer deutschen Wein. Kein Wunder die Amis denken, wir sehen alle wie Bayern aus...&lt;br /&gt;Auf dem anderen Bild sind Kaitlyn und Dakota, die Kinder meiner Freundin Ronda. Jedes Mal wenn Kaitlyn zur Gitarrenstunde kommt moechte sie Nutella aus Deutschland.&lt;br /&gt;In 4 Wochen sind wir mit unserem Pflegekinderkurs fertig. Wir haben auch nur noch einen Hausbesuch. Danach machen wir noch einen Adoptionskurs und dann kann es losgehen.&lt;br /&gt;Die letzten 3 Tage war es sehr kalt. Gestern Morgen hatten wir sogar ein bisschen Schnee. Heute ist es aber schon wieder waermer und bis Mitte der Woche soll es sogar 20 Grad C. geben.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The picture I found in a magazine. It is an advertisement for German wine. No wonder, the Americans think we look like Bavarians...&lt;br /&gt;On the other picture are Kaitlyn and Dakota, the kids from my friend Ronda. Every time when Kaitlyn comes for a guitar lesson she wants to eat Nutella from Germany.&lt;br /&gt;In four weeks we finish our Foster Children course. We have only one more house visit. Afterwards we will take an Adoption course. Then we can start....&lt;br /&gt;The last three days were very cold. Yesterday morning we even had a little bit of snow. Today its warmer and later this week the temperature should be in the 70s.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1670173068063821985-4322432406984184805?l=heikeerwin.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/feeds/4322432406984184805/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1670173068063821985&amp;postID=4322432406984184805&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/4322432406984184805'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/4322432406984184805'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/2008/04/little-germankleiner-deutscher.html' title='Little German/kleiner Deutscher'/><author><name>Heike und Jim</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/SAPF_fGL1CI/AAAAAAAAC00/oCtD0nux8W0/s72-c/P4120066.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1670173068063821985.post-1330767762360265260</id><published>2008-03-31T10:43:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-03-31T16:38:55.058-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Jefferson City</title><content type='html'>Letzten Freitag und Samstag waren wir in Jefferson City fuer ein Training fuer die Gemeindegruendung. Wir sind am Freitag ein bisschen frueher losgefahren, damit wir uns Jefferson City ansehen koennen. Jefferson City ist die Hauptstadt von Missouri (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_City,_Missouri). Wir besuchten zuerst den Hauptregierungssitz. Dort ist auch ein Museum und wir haben einiges ueber die deutschen Einwanderer gesehen. In der Stadt selbst sieht man noch viele deutsche Namen und Traditionen. Es gibt dort auch ein Oktoberfest und ein Weihnachtsmarkt.&lt;br /&gt;Hier ein paar Bilder. (Klick auf das Bild und dann kannst Du die Diashow anschauen):&lt;br /&gt;&lt;table style="width: 205px; height: 147px;"&gt;&lt;tbody&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="background: transparent url(http://picasaweb.google.com/f/img/transparent_album_background.gif) no-repeat scroll left center; height: 194px; -moz-background-clip: -moz-initial; -moz-background-origin: -moz-initial; -moz-background-inline-policy: -moz-initial;" align="center"&gt;&lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/jehserwin/JeffersonCity?authkey=zJq6Dp_naNw"&gt;&lt;img src="http://lh6.google.com/jehserwin/R-_kJ1MsZ6E/AAAAAAAACzU/UjHQehxHES4/s160-c/JeffersonCity.jpg" style="margin: 1px 0pt 0pt 4px;" height="160" width="160" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;tr&gt;&lt;td style="text-align: center; font-family: arial,sans-serif; font-size: 11px;"&gt;&lt;a href="http://picasaweb.google.com/jehserwin/JeffersonCity?authkey=zJq6Dp_naNw" style="color: rgb(77, 77, 77); font-weight: bold; text-decoration: none;"&gt;Jefferson City&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/td&gt;&lt;/tr&gt;&lt;/tbody&gt;&lt;/table&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gestern hatten wir einen Hausbesuch wegen der Adoption. Es werden ingesamt drei Hausbesuche sein. Wir haben mit dem Sozialarbeiter ueber unsere Plaene und Wuensche gesprochen und es sieht so aus, dass wir nach dem Training Pflegekinder aufnehmen bzw. adoptieren koennen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Freitagnacht wurde unser Kaetzchen Baby ueberfahren :-(((. Wir vermissen sie sehr.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Last Friday and Saturday we were in Jefferson City for a training session for the church plant. On Friday we left a little bit earlier because we wanted to see Jefferson City. Jefferson City is the capital city of Missouri. First we visited the capitol. In there is a museum and we saw a few exhibits about German immigrants. While we were walking in the town, we saw quite a few German names and traditions. Once a year the city has an Oktoberfest and a Christmas market. When you click on the picture above, you can see the album.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yesterday we had our first home assessment for the adoption. In all, we will have three assessments. We talked with the social worker about our plans and wishes. It looks like that we can foster/adopt kids after the training.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Friday night our little baby cat was ran over by a car :-((((. We miss her a lot.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1670173068063821985-1330767762360265260?l=heikeerwin.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/feeds/1330767762360265260/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1670173068063821985&amp;postID=1330767762360265260&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/1330767762360265260'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/1330767762360265260'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/2008/03/embed-typeapplicationx-shockwave-flash.html' title='Jefferson City'/><author><name>Heike und Jim</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1670173068063821985.post-6670188191993018442</id><published>2008-03-26T12:44:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2008-03-26T14:12:26.414-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Nachtraeglich Frohe Ostern/Happy belated Easter</title><content type='html'>&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;&lt;div style="text-align: center;"&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/R-qof1MsZ2I/AAAAAAAACvM/nEaGAfiAuOk/s1600-h/P3260016.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/R-qof1MsZ2I/AAAAAAAACvM/nEaGAfiAuOk/s200/P3260016.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5182139586052908898" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Ostern war schoen. An Karfreitag waren wir bei Freunden und haben mit deren 2 Kindern Eier gefaerbt.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;Ostersonntag hatten wir einen Sonnenaufgangsgottesdienst um 7 Uhr. Wir hatten 10 Taufen und Jim hat gepredigt. Anschliessend gab es Fruehstueck in der Kirche.&lt;br /&gt;Um 10 Uhr hatten wir Gottesdienst in der Turnhalle der Schule. Wir haben viel gesungen und Jims Papa hat gepredigt.&lt;br /&gt;Zum Mittagessen und Kaffee waren wir bei Jims Eltern.&lt;br /&gt;Um 18:30 Uhr hatten wir nochmal einen kurzen Gottesdienst und Jim hat gepredigt.&lt;br /&gt;Es war ein voller, aber schoener Tag.&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/R-quaVMsZ3I/AAAAAAAACvU/1PfVS51Yolk/s1600-h/P3260013.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/R-quaVMsZ3I/AAAAAAAACvU/1PfVS51Yolk/s200/P3260013.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5182146088633395058" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Morgen Abend haben wir unseren  2. Abend vom Pflegeelternkurs.&lt;br /&gt;Naechstes Wochenende gehen wir zum 2. Treffen nach Jefferson City wegen der Gemeindegruendung. Es wird jetzt alles ein bisschen konkreter.&lt;br /&gt;Auf den Bildern seht Ihr unsere Tiere in deren Schlafpositionen.&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/R-qvjFMsZ4I/AAAAAAAACvc/s4nuVvlLSUk/s1600-h/P3260015.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/R-qvjFMsZ4I/AAAAAAAACvc/s4nuVvlLSUk/s200/P3260015.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5182147338468878210" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Easter was nice. On Good Friday, we visited friends and colored eggs with their 2 children.&lt;br /&gt;On Easter Sunday we had a Sunrise Service at 7am. We had 10 baptisms and Jim preached. Afterwards we had breakfast in the church.&lt;br /&gt;At 10am we had another service in the local school gym. We sang a lot and Jim's dad preached.&lt;br /&gt;Later, we had lunch and coffee with Jim's parents.&lt;br /&gt;At 6:30pm we had a short service where Jim also preached.&lt;br /&gt;It was a full but nice day.&lt;br /&gt;Tomorrow evening we will have our second evening for the foster parenting course.&lt;br /&gt;This weekend we will go to our second meeting for church planting. The meeting is in Jefferson City, MO . Everything is getting a little more concrete.&lt;br /&gt;In the pictures you see our amimals in their sleep positions.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1670173068063821985-6670188191993018442?l=heikeerwin.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/feeds/6670188191993018442/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1670173068063821985&amp;postID=6670188191993018442&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/6670188191993018442'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/6670188191993018442'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/2008/03/nachtraeglich-frohe-osternbelated-happy.html' title='Nachtraeglich Frohe Ostern/Happy belated Easter'/><author><name>Heike und Jim</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/R-qof1MsZ2I/AAAAAAAACvM/nEaGAfiAuOk/s72-c/P3260016.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1670173068063821985.post-8859707393040934531</id><published>2008-03-14T10:53:00.001-07:00</published><updated>2008-03-15T10:34:37.216-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Busy Week/Bewegte Woche</title><content type='html'>Jim schreibt heute (deshalb zuerst in Englisch)&lt;br /&gt;We have had a busy week. Two major steps toward our goals have been reached. We came to the USA because we wanted to foster and adopt children. Well, we started our training course last night for that purpose. We will go for a total of nine weeks. After we have been licensed as foster care parents, we will qualify to receive children. Then we can go for further training to adopt children from the state foster care program. The reason for the second set of training is to qualify for state money to adopt children.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We also had our assessment by the Missouri Baptist Convention for church planting. Last week we went to Lake of the Ozarks. Beforehand, we had filled out an online survey to test our ability to plant (start) a new church. This past weekend, they evaluated our survey results. They interviewed us and asked us lots of questions. We are still waiting for the official results this coming Monday. However, they just emailed us yesterday to let us know that we can go to the next step. We will go for two weekends of basic training. After that, we can start the church. Why do we do this before we start the church? The Missouri Baptist Convention will give us more resources and money after we are trained.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We will tell you more about the foster parent process and the church planting process as we go along. Thank you for your prayers. Thank you for your encouragement in all of this.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wir hatten eine bewegte Woche. Zwei wichtige Schritte zu unseren Zielen haben wir gemacht. Wie Ihr ja wisst, sind wir in die USA gekommen, weil wir Pflegekinder bzw. adoptieren moechten. Letzten Donnerstag haben wir unseren Kurs fuer diesen Zweck angefangen. Der Kurs ist fuer 9 Wochen. Danach sind wir offizielle Pflegeeltern und wir koennen Kinder zur Pflege bekommen. Danach werden wir noch einen Kurs machen, der uns erlaubt diese Kinder zu adoptieren.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wir hatten auch ein Wochenende zur Beratung mit dem Missouri Baptistenbund wegen der Gemeindegruendung. Letztes Wochenende sind wir zum "Lake of the Ozarks" gefahren. Davor haben wir online eine Untersuchung ausgefuellt, um zu sehen, ob wir die Gaben haben eine Gemeinde zu gruenden. An dem Wochenende wurden viele Interviews durchgefuehrt. und Fragen gestellt. Wir warten noch auf die offiziellen Resultate naechsten Montag. Wir haben aber schon eine email erhalten, dass wir zum naechsten Treffen eingeladen sind. Wir haben noch 2 Wochenenden fuer Training. Danach koennen wir die neue Gemeinde gruenden. Warum machen wir das alles? Der Baptistenbund wird uns mit Ressourcen und Geld aushelfen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wir werden Euch mehr ueber die Pflegekinder und Gemeindegruendung erzaehlen nach den naechsten Schritten. Danke fuer Eure Gebete und die Ermutigungen.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1670173068063821985-8859707393040934531?l=heikeerwin.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/feeds/8859707393040934531/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1670173068063821985&amp;postID=8859707393040934531&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/8859707393040934531'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/8859707393040934531'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/2008/03/busy-weekbewegte-woche.html' title='Busy Week/Bewegte Woche'/><author><name>Heike und Jim</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1670173068063821985.post-7825667046254892735</id><published>2008-03-06T08:58:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-03-06T09:12:35.921-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Konzertbesuch mit der Jugend/Concert Visit with the Youth</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/R9AjumayPoI/AAAAAAAACus/w-clR6i7gAU/s1600-h/P3060008.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/R9AjumayPoI/AAAAAAAACus/w-clR6i7gAU/s200/P3060008.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5174675255342546562" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gestern war ich mit der Jugend unserer Gemeinde bei einem &lt;a href="http://www.shaneandshane.com"&gt;Shane and Shane&lt;/a&gt; Konzert. Der Sprecher war &lt;a href="http://www.davidnasser.com"&gt;David Nasser &lt;/a&gt;. Wir waren 4 Erwachsene und 16 kids.  Es war laut und spaet, aber echt gut. &lt;a href="http://www.worldvision.org"&gt;Worldvision&lt;/a&gt; war auch da und zusammen mit den Maedels auf dem Bild werde ich ein Kind in Bangladesch sponsern.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I was at a Shane and Shane concert with our youth yesterday. The speaker was David Nasser. Our group had 4 adults and 16 kids. It was loud and late but really good. Worldvision was there too. Together with the girls on the picture I will sponsor a child in Bangladesch.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1670173068063821985-7825667046254892735?l=heikeerwin.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/feeds/7825667046254892735/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1670173068063821985&amp;postID=7825667046254892735&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/7825667046254892735'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/7825667046254892735'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/2008/03/konzertbesuch-mit-der-jugendconcert.html' title='Konzertbesuch mit der Jugend/Concert Visit with the Youth'/><author><name>Heike und Jim</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/R9AjumayPoI/AAAAAAAACus/w-clR6i7gAU/s72-c/P3060008.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1670173068063821985.post-4805510017038451823</id><published>2008-03-01T08:42:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-03-01T09:17:08.650-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Rotkaeppchen und der boese Wolf/Little Red Riding Hood and the Wicked Wolf</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/R8mIrZk54TI/AAAAAAAACuk/rkDwtL1hzaI/s1600-h/P3010007.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/R8mIrZk54TI/AAAAAAAACuk/rkDwtL1hzaI/s200/P3010007.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5172815926193152306" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Seit neuestem habe ich mein Sofa nicht mehr fuer mich alleine. Jedesmal wenn ich mich hinsetze, kommt Wiggles und moechte bei mir liegen. Sie folgt mir fast ueberall hin und wir sind richtig gute Freunde geworden.&lt;br /&gt;Das Wetter ist viel besser geworden. Heute hat es 15 Grad C. und es ist ein sonniger Tag.&lt;br /&gt;Naechste Woche Freitag und Samstag fahren Jim und ich nach Jefferson City fuer ein Treffen. Wir haben vor eine neue Kirchengemeinde hier in der Region zu gruenden. Hier gibt es fast nur traditionelle Gemeinden und wir moechten eine moderne Gemeinde gruenden. Wir moechten Menschen erreichen, die sonst nicht in eine Kirche gehen wuerden. Das Treffen in Jefferson City ist vom Missouri Baptisten Bund aus veranstaltet, die uns helfen moechten. Bei diesem Trefrfen moechten sie uns besser kennenlernen, um herausfinden wie sie uns mit der Gemeindegruendung helfen koennen.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;I don't have my sofa for myself for a few days now. Every time I sit down, Wiggles comes and wants to lay down with me. She follows me almost everywhere. We have become real good friends.&lt;br /&gt;The weather is much better. Today we have about 60 degree F and it is a sunny day.&lt;br /&gt;Next week on Friday and Saturday Jim and I will drive to Jefferson City for a meeting. We are planning to plant a new church here in the Southwest Missouri region. There are mostly churches with  traditional approaches around here and we would like to plant a contemporary church. We would like to reach out to people who normally would not go to church. The meeting in Jefferson City is being hosted by the Missouri Baptist Convention. They plan to help us. At this meeting, they want to get to know us better. They would like to determine how they can help us plant a church.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1670173068063821985-4805510017038451823?l=heikeerwin.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/feeds/4805510017038451823/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1670173068063821985&amp;postID=4805510017038451823&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/4805510017038451823'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/4805510017038451823'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/2008/03/rotkaeppchen-und-der-boese-wolflittle.html' title='Rotkaeppchen und der boese Wolf/Little Red Riding Hood and the Wicked Wolf'/><author><name>Heike und Jim</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/R8mIrZk54TI/AAAAAAAACuk/rkDwtL1hzaI/s72-c/P3010007.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1670173068063821985.post-3054197515670564158</id><published>2008-02-12T08:46:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-02-12T11:52:43.884-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Eissturm/ice storm</title><content type='html'>ol.&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/R7HO2YdAsyI/AAAAAAAACt4/oUrpwW7Zrwk/s1600-h/P2120901.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 10px 10px 0pt; float: left; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/R7HO2YdAsyI/AAAAAAAACt4/oUrpwW7Zrwk/s200/P2120901.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5166137681243058978" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/R7HOaYdAsxI/AAAAAAAACtw/um_FcSCPEM8/s1600-h/P2120900.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/R7HOaYdAsxI/AAAAAAAACtw/um_FcSCPEM8/s200/P2120900.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5166137200206721810" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Das Wetter hier ist echt verrückt. Gestern hatten wir einen Eissturm und Gewitter. Überall ist Eis und in Südwest-Missouri haben ca. 4000 Haushalte keinen Strom. Bei uns ist eine &lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/R7HRUodAszI/AAAAAAAACuA/7wrdICvzlD8/s1600-h/P2120902.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer; width: 200px; height: 141px;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/R7HRUodAszI/AAAAAAAACuA/7wrdICvzlD8/s200/P2120902.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5166140399957357362" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;Dachrinne heruntergefallen. Das Wasser darin wurde zu Eis und zu schwer. Wir haben Strom und sonst ist auch alles o.k. bei uns. Die Schule sind geschlossen, da die Schulbusse nicht fahren können. Wir haben es uns zuhause gemütlich gemacht.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The weather here is really crazy. Yesterday we had an ice storm and thunderstorms. There is ice everywhere. In Southwest Missouri about 4000 households are without electricity. Our gutter fell off the house. The water in it became ice and too heavy. We have electricity and everything else is o.k. with us. The schools are closed because the school buses can´t drive. We are cosy at home.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1670173068063821985-3054197515670564158?l=heikeerwin.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/feeds/3054197515670564158/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1670173068063821985&amp;postID=3054197515670564158&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/3054197515670564158'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/3054197515670564158'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/2008/02/eissturmice-storm.html' title='Eissturm/ice storm'/><author><name>Heike und Jim</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/R7HO2YdAsyI/AAAAAAAACt4/oUrpwW7Zrwk/s72-c/P2120901.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1670173068063821985.post-2933370342928745568</id><published>2008-02-09T18:18:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-02-09T18:33:22.862-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Mein 6. Nierengeburtstag/my 6th kidney birthday</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/R65f0IdAswI/AAAAAAAACtg/H7qOji3OmJo/s1600-h/6th+anniversay.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/R65f0IdAswI/AAAAAAAACtg/H7qOji3OmJo/s200/6th+anniversay.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5165171171867538178" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Letzten Donnerstag waren es genau 6 Jahre seit meiner Nierentransplantation (Gruesse an Simone!!!). Es geht mir immer noch hervorragend. Am Donnerstag haben wir mit den Nachbarsmaedchen ein bisschen gefeiert und heute mit Jims Eltern gegessen. Und wie ihr auf dem Bild sehen koennt, gab es heute sogar einen Kuchen.&lt;br /&gt;Ausserdem habe ich eine neue Brille. Bei meiner alten Brille ist der Buegel abgebrochen.&lt;br /&gt;Ach ja, und heute ist uns auch noch etwas passiert. Jim und ich sind mit Wiggles spazieren gegangen und unsere kleine Katze Baby ist uns die ganze Zeit gefolgt. Auf dem Nachhauseweg ist sie abgehauen und wir konnten sie nicht mehr finden. Wir sind dann heute Abend nochmal rumgefahren und haben sie vor einem Huehnerhaus ca. 1 Meile von unserem Haus gefunden.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Last Thursday it was exactly 6 years since my kidney transplant (greetings to Simone!!!). I am still doing great. On Thursday we celebrated a little bit with our 2 neigbour girls. Today we ate with Jim's parents. Today we even had a cake, as you can see on the picture.&lt;br /&gt;I also have new pair of glasses. The frame on my old glasses broke.&lt;br /&gt;Oh and today something happened to us. Jim and I went walking with Wiggles. Our small cat Baby followed us the whole time. On the way home she ran away and we couldn't find her. In the evening we drove again around and found her in front of a chicken house about 1 mile from our house.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1670173068063821985-2933370342928745568?l=heikeerwin.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/feeds/2933370342928745568/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1670173068063821985&amp;postID=2933370342928745568&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/2933370342928745568'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/2933370342928745568'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/2008/02/mein-6-nierengeburtstagmy-6th-kidney.html' title='Mein 6. Nierengeburtstag/my 6th kidney birthday'/><author><name>Heike und Jim</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/R65f0IdAswI/AAAAAAAACtg/H7qOji3OmJo/s72-c/6th+anniversay.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1670173068063821985.post-3860006364069237094</id><published>2008-01-31T09:11:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-01-31T09:24:22.439-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Der erste Schnee/the first snow</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/R6IEM38mysI/AAAAAAAACTc/B8TFBeTo5Cw/s1600-h/P1310898.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/R6IEM38mysI/AAAAAAAACTc/B8TFBeTo5Cw/s200/P1310898.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5161692742143101634" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/R6ICK38myrI/AAAAAAAACTU/etsSQwQt_ic/s1600-h/P1310897.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/R6ICK38myrI/AAAAAAAACTU/etsSQwQt_ic/s200/P1310897.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5161690508760107698" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Letzte Nacht hat es das erste Mal so richtig geschneit. Es sieht schön aus, aber auf den Straßen ist Chaos. Nur die Hauptstraßen sind geräumt. Heute ist keine Schule, da der Schulbus nicht alle Kinder abholen kann. Die Kinder sind natürlich sehr froh darüber.&lt;br /&gt;Ich habe auch eine neue Aufgabe. Seit dieser Woche bin ich eine "Gitarrenlehrerin". Ein 10-jähriges Mädchen und ein 16-jähriger Junge von der Gemeinde möchten unbedingt Gitarre spielen lernen, so hab ich mich angeboten. Mal sehen wie das wird...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Last night it snowed for the first time this year. It looks beautiful but there is chaos on the street. Only the main streets are clean. Today, there is no school because the school bus can´t pick up all the kids. The children are, of course, very happy.&lt;br /&gt;I have a new task. Since this week I am a "guitar teacher". A 10 year old girl and a 16 year old boy from the church want to learn how to play the guitar - so I offered to teach them. We´ll see how that will go...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1670173068063821985-3860006364069237094?l=heikeerwin.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/feeds/3860006364069237094/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1670173068063821985&amp;postID=3860006364069237094&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/3860006364069237094'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/3860006364069237094'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/2008/01/der-erste-schneethe-first-snow.html' title='Der erste Schnee/the first snow'/><author><name>Heike und Jim</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/R6IEM38mysI/AAAAAAAACTc/B8TFBeTo5Cw/s72-c/P1310898.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1670173068063821985.post-3184253496607049919</id><published>2008-01-25T09:19:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-01-25T09:57:52.156-08:00</updated><title type='text'>My Space</title><content type='html'>Ich habe jetzt eine MySpace Seite/I have a MySpace site:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a href="http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&amp;amp;friendid=319531190"&gt;http://profile.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=user.viewprofile&amp;amp;friendid=319531190&lt;/a&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1670173068063821985-3184253496607049919?l=heikeerwin.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/feeds/3184253496607049919/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1670173068063821985&amp;postID=3184253496607049919&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/3184253496607049919'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/3184253496607049919'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/2008/01/my-space.html' title='My Space'/><author><name>Heike und Jim</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1670173068063821985.post-1775883192684964174</id><published>2008-01-16T19:40:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-01-16T20:15:35.750-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Endlich- wir haben Internet/Finally - we have Internet</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/R47P6OXztOI/AAAAAAAACTM/mAN2QqklbQY/s1600-h/P9270231.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/R47P6OXztOI/AAAAAAAACTM/mAN2QqklbQY/s200/P9270231.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5156287222583112930" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;                                                           Aussicht von unserem Haus/view from our house&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Seit heute haben wir Internet im Haus. Da wir keine andere Möglichkeit hatten, haben wir uns für Satelliteninternet entschieden. Ist zwar relative teuer, aber besser als mit Modem...&lt;br /&gt;Ansonsten gibt es nicht viel Neues. Wir hatten letzten Dienstag unser 2. Treffen für die Adoption und haben unsere Papiere abgegeben. Im Februar werden wir mit dem Pflegekinder/Adoptions-Kurs anfangen. Wir halten Euch auf dem Laufenden...&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Since today we have Internet in the house. We did not have another possibility, so that is why we decided to use satellite Internet. It is relatively expensive but it is better than a modem...&lt;br /&gt;Otherwise there is not much news. Last Tuesday we had our second meeting for the adoption, where we gave them all our papers. In February we will start our Foster child care course. We will keep you updated...&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1670173068063821985-1775883192684964174?l=heikeerwin.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/feeds/1775883192684964174/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1670173068063821985&amp;postID=1775883192684964174&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/1775883192684964174'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/1775883192684964174'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/2008/01/endlich-wir-haben-internetfinally-we.html' title='Endlich- wir haben Internet/Finally - we have Internet'/><author><name>Heike und Jim</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/R47P6OXztOI/AAAAAAAACTM/mAN2QqklbQY/s72-c/P9270231.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1670173068063821985.post-4825356412380096137</id><published>2008-01-08T12:56:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2008-01-08T13:42:47.629-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Tornados in Missouri</title><content type='html'>Was für eine Nacht! Gestern Abend war ein starkes Gewitter und Winde. Wir haben dann einen Anruf von unseren Nachbarn bekommen, ob sie in unser Haus kommen können, da ein Tornadowarnung da war. Da wir ein "Underground house" haben, ist es wahrscheinlich das sicherste Haus in der Gegend. Wir haben den Wind gehört, aber es war sicher im Haus. Wir sind dann gegen 1 Uhr nachts ins Bett gegangen und um 2 Uhr hat uns der Hund aufgeweckt, da es wieder losging. Heute Morgen lagen Bäume auf der Straße, ein paar Dächer von Scheunen waren abgedeckt, bei uns war aber alles in Ordnung. Ein paar Kilometer weg von uns war es schlimmer und der Schaden war höher.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;What a night! Yesterday evening we had a strong thunderstorm and winds. We got a call from our neighbors if they could come in our house because there was a tornado warning. We have a underground house and it is probably the most secure house in the region. We heard the wind but it was secure in the house. We went to bed at about 1am and at 2am the dog woke us up because it started again. This morning there were trees on the road, a few barns lost their roofs but everything was o.k. at our house. Just a  few miles from here it was worse and the damage was higher.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Here is a report - click the video to listen:&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;http://www.kmbc.com/news/14998696/detail.html#&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1670173068063821985-4825356412380096137?l=heikeerwin.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/feeds/4825356412380096137/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1670173068063821985&amp;postID=4825356412380096137&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/4825356412380096137'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/4825356412380096137'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/2008/01/tornados-in-missouri.html' title='Tornados in Missouri'/><author><name>Heike und Jim</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1670173068063821985.post-7779739280421365422</id><published>2007-12-31T14:15:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-12-31T14:28:21.538-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Spazieren gehen mit Wiggles ins neue Jahr/Walking with Wiggles into the New Year</title><content type='html'>&lt;embed style="width:400px; height:326px;" id="VideoPlayback" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=-9093489901161281218&amp;hl=en" flashvars=""&gt; &lt;/embed&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wir waren mit unserem Hund Wiggles beim Tierarzt. Wiggles muss mindestens 5 kg abnehmen. Sie bekommt jetzt Diätfutter. Außerdem gehen wir fast jeden Tag mit ihr spazieren. Das ist sehr ungewöhnlich hier. Es fahren nicht viele Autos wo wir wohnen, aber die paar Leute die vorbeifahren halten fast jedesmal an und fragen, ob alles o.k. ist. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We were at the vet with our dog Wiggles. Wiggles has to lose at least 10 pounds. She is getting diet food now. We are also walking with her almost every day. That is very unusual around here. There are not many cars driving where we are living. But the few people who are driving stop almost every time and ask if everything is alright.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1670173068063821985-7779739280421365422?l=heikeerwin.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/feeds/7779739280421365422/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1670173068063821985&amp;postID=7779739280421365422&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/7779739280421365422'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/7779739280421365422'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/2007/12/spazieren-gehen-mit-wiggleswalking-with.html' title='Spazieren gehen mit Wiggles ins neue Jahr/Walking with Wiggles into the New Year'/><author><name>Heike und Jim</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1670173068063821985.post-9140371932302562941</id><published>2007-12-21T11:07:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-12-21T11:08:48.160-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Frohe Weihnachten/Merry Christmas</title><content type='html'>&lt;embed style="width:400px; height:326px;" id="VideoPlayback" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://video.google.com/googleplayer.swf?docId=-3774436525899475110&amp;hl=en" flashvars=""&gt; &lt;/embed&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1670173068063821985-9140371932302562941?l=heikeerwin.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/feeds/9140371932302562941/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1670173068063821985&amp;postID=9140371932302562941&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/9140371932302562941'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/9140371932302562941'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/2007/12/frohe-weihnachtenmerry-christmas.html' title='Frohe Weihnachten/Merry Christmas'/><author><name>Heike und Jim</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1670173068063821985.post-1083758928432706956</id><published>2007-12-16T12:09:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-12-16T12:42:25.502-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Die Geschichte unseres Weihnachtsbaumes/the story about our Christmas tree</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/R2WI-eXzskI/AAAAAAAACK4/Eyx7H_-EtnE/s1600-h/PC150849.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/R2WI-eXzskI/AAAAAAAACK4/Eyx7H_-EtnE/s200/PC150849.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5144668756226847298" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/R2WI--XzslI/AAAAAAAACLA/f7Yk4Jjed_8/s1600-h/PC150850.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/R2WI--XzslI/AAAAAAAACLA/f7Yk4Jjed_8/s200/PC150850.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5144668764816781906" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Seit letzten Freitag haben wir unseren Weihnachtsbaum. Hierzu ein kleine Geschichte:&lt;br /&gt;Wir sind zuerst mit Jims Eltern auf der Farm herumgefahren und haben einen schönen Baum ausgesucht (Zeder). Jim und sein Papa haben den Baum dann abgesägt und wir haben ihn in unser Haus gebracht. Da der Baum etwas zu hoch war hat ihn Jim noch abgesägt. Wir haben ihn dann in den Baumständer gestellt. Wir haben Gäste erwartet und ich habe während dem Pizzamachen den Baum geschmückt, da ich den Baum fertig haben wollte bevor die Gäste kommen und Jim ist einkaufen gegangen. Als ich fertig war hab ich mir den Baum angeschaut und genau in dem Moment ist er langsam umgefallen!!!! Ich war so wütend und habe mich dann erst einmal um meine Pizza gekümmert. Jim kam dann nachhause und hat sich erst einmal kaputt gelacht. Er hat den Baum dann erst einmal nach draußen gebracht.In der Zwischenzeit sind auch schon die ersten Gäste gekommen. Sie hatten die geniale Idee den Baum in einen Eimer mit Steinen zu stellen und ich sags euch das war ein super Tipp! Der Baum steht wie eine Eins. Meine Gäste haben dann auch den Baum geschmückt und wie ihr seht sieht er super aus!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Since last Friday we have had our Christmas tree. Here is the story about it:&lt;br /&gt;First we drove together with Jim´s parents around on the farm and picked a nice tree (cedar). Jim and his dad cut the tree down and we brought it into our house. The tree was too high and so Jim trimmed it a little more. Then we put the tree in the stand. We were expecting guests at the time. I was preparing a pizza. At the same time, I was decorating the tree because I wanted to be finished before the guests came. Meanwhile, Jim went shopping When I was finished decorating the tree, I examined the tree, and it slowly fell!!! I was so mad, I left to take care of my pizza. Jim came back home, and he died laughing. He brought the tree outside. In the meantime our first guests came in. They had the ingenious idea to put the tree in a bucket with stones in it and I am telling you that was a great tip! The tree now stands perfectly. The guests also decorated the tree and it looks great - see pictures!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1670173068063821985-1083758928432706956?l=heikeerwin.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/feeds/1083758928432706956/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1670173068063821985&amp;postID=1083758928432706956&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/1083758928432706956'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/1083758928432706956'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/2007/12/die-geschichte-unseres.html' title='Die Geschichte unseres Weihnachtsbaumes/the story about our Christmas tree'/><author><name>Heike und Jim</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/R2WI-eXzskI/AAAAAAAACK4/Eyx7H_-EtnE/s72-c/PC150849.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1670173068063821985.post-4471735654891214321</id><published>2007-12-10T12:33:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-12-10T13:05:06.347-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Eis in Missouri/Ice in Missouri</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/R12p73IAaLI/AAAAAAAACKw/YeYCZNSqVbM/s1600-h/KYTV_iced_storm.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="display:block; margin:0px auto 10px; text-align:center;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/R12p73IAaLI/AAAAAAAACKw/YeYCZNSqVbM/s200/KYTV_iced_storm.jpg" border="0" alt=""id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5142453195401881778" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Wir hatten Eisregen hier. Nördlich von uns war es so schlimm, dass das Eis auf den Bäumen so schwer war, dass Stromleitungen beschädigt wurden. Dadurch hatten viele keinen Strom mehr. Bei uns ist aber alles o.k.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;We had freezing rain here. North of here it was really bad. The ice on the trees got so heavy that they fell on the electric wires and they broke. A lot of people had no electricity because of that. Everything is o.k. here with us.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1670173068063821985-4471735654891214321?l=heikeerwin.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/feeds/4471735654891214321/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1670173068063821985&amp;postID=4471735654891214321&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/4471735654891214321'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/4471735654891214321'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/2007/12/eis-in-missouriice-in-missouri.html' title='Eis in Missouri/Ice in Missouri'/><author><name>Heike und Jim</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/R12p73IAaLI/AAAAAAAACKw/YeYCZNSqVbM/s72-c/KYTV_iced_storm.jpg' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1670173068063821985.post-5494200313540417914</id><published>2007-12-06T14:06:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-12-06T14:15:32.770-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Es ist vollbracht/it is finished!!!</title><content type='html'>Vorgestern ist endlich meine Sozialversicherungsnummer gekommen. Diese Nummer braucht man hier in den USA für fast alles (Bank, Führerschein, Schule, Kredit...). So konnte ich heute endlich meinen Führerschein machen (Theorie und Praxis). Seit heute morgen um 11 Uhr bin ich stolze Besitzerin eines "Missouri Führerscheins".&lt;br /&gt;Seit gestern ist es kalt geworden - jetzt müssen wir die Winterjacken und Pullis rausholen. &lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Finally two days ago my Social Security number came. This number you need here in the USA for almost everything (Bank, driver´s lisence, school, credits...). So I was able to finally take my driver´s license test(both written and driving). Since 11am this morning, I am a proud owner of a Missouri driver´s license.&lt;br /&gt;It got cold yesterday - we had to pull out our winter jackets and pullover.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1670173068063821985-5494200313540417914?l=heikeerwin.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/feeds/5494200313540417914/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1670173068063821985&amp;postID=5494200313540417914&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/5494200313540417914'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/5494200313540417914'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/2007/12/es-ist-vollbrachtit-is-finished.html' title='Es ist vollbracht/it is finished!!!'/><author><name>Heike und Jim</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1670173068063821985.post-2500397626852702449</id><published>2007-12-01T16:25:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-12-01T16:34:17.381-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Christmas Parade in Washburn/Weihnachtsumzug in Washburn</title><content type='html'>Heute hatten wir das erste Mal einen Weihnachtsumzug bei uns in Washburn. Siehe Diaschau.&lt;br /&gt;Today for the first time ever, we had a Christmas Parade here in Washburn. See Slideshow.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;embed type="application/x-shockwave-flash" src="http://picasaweb.google.com/s/c/bin/slideshow.swf" width="400" height="267" flashvars="host=picasaweb.google.com&amp;captions=1&amp;RGB=0x000000&amp;feed=http%3A%2F%2Fpicasaweb.google.com%2Fdata%2Ffeed%2Fapi%2Fuser%2Fjehserwin%2Falbumid%2F5139153883129472385%3Fkind%3Dphoto%26alt%3Drss%26authkey%3D7VAxWAZs2gI" pluginspage="http://www.macromedia.com/go/getflashplayer"&gt;&lt;/embed&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1670173068063821985-2500397626852702449?l=heikeerwin.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/feeds/2500397626852702449/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1670173068063821985&amp;postID=2500397626852702449&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/2500397626852702449'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/2500397626852702449'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/2007/12/christmas-parade-in-washburnweihnachtsu.html' title='Christmas Parade in Washburn/Weihnachtsumzug in Washburn'/><author><name>Heike und Jim</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1670173068063821985.post-6135395812900079182</id><published>2007-11-20T15:50:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-11-20T16:16:40.496-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Greencard ist da!!!</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/R0N1T40dvTI/AAAAAAAACBY/4FaAADRmbT0/s1600-h/PB210689.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/R0N1T40dvTI/AAAAAAAACBY/4FaAADRmbT0/s200/PB210689.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5135076984662900018" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Heute war meine Green card (Permanent Residence Card) in der Post. Ich bin jetzt für die nächsten 10 Jahre legal und kann arbeiten, wenn ich möchte.&lt;br /&gt;Ich warte noch auf meine Social Security Number, damit ich endlich meine Führerschein machen kann, aber das kann nicht mehr lange dauern.&lt;br /&gt;Wir warten auch noch auf unseren Internetanschluss - das Haus von Jims Eltern ist momentan unser Internetcafe.&lt;br /&gt;Morgen fahren wir nach Texas mit Jims Eltern zu Jims Schwester und Familie für Thanksgiving. 4 Leute und 2 Hund in einem Truck!&lt;br /&gt;&lt;img src="file:///C:/DOKUME%7E1/Erwin/LOKALE%7E1/Temp/moz-screenshot.jpg" alt="" /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://www.sitcomsonline.com/photos/beverly_hillbillies1.jpg"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer; width: 200px;" src="http://www.sitcomsonline.com/photos/beverly_hillbillies1.jpg" alt="" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today my green card (Permanent Residence Card) came in the mail. For the next ten years I am legal and can work, if I want to.&lt;br /&gt;I am still waiting on my Social Security Card so that I can take my driver´s licence test. But that can´t take much longer anymore.&lt;br /&gt;We are also still waiting on our Internet connection to our house - the house from Jim´s parents is momentarily our Internet Cafe.&lt;br /&gt;Tomorrow we will drive to Jim´s sister and her family in Texas for Thanksgiving. 4 people and 2 dogs in a truck!&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1670173068063821985-6135395812900079182?l=heikeerwin.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/feeds/6135395812900079182/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1670173068063821985&amp;postID=6135395812900079182&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/6135395812900079182'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/6135395812900079182'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/2007/11/greencard-ist-da.html' title='Greencard ist da!!!'/><author><name>Heike und Jim</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/R0N1T40dvTI/AAAAAAAACBY/4FaAADRmbT0/s72-c/PB210689.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1670173068063821985.post-4294847361895898327</id><published>2007-11-11T14:00:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-11-11T11:56:26.590-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Little House on the Prairie/Unserer Kleine Farm</title><content type='html'>&lt;iframe marginheight="0" marginwidth="0" src="http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?f=q&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;geocode=&amp;amp;time=&amp;amp;date=&amp;amp;ttype=&amp;amp;ie=UTF8&amp;amp;msa=0&amp;amp;ll=36.621607,-93.956355&amp;amp;spn=0.001774,0.003648&amp;amp;t=h&amp;amp;om=1&amp;amp;msid=116830837508856421191.00043cb68653f09885825&amp;amp;output=embed&amp;amp;s=AARTsJq_X2Adfi3AhOPkgIqwuzA60uiLqQ" frameborder="0" height="350" scrolling="no" width="425"&gt;&lt;/iframe&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;small&gt;&lt;a href="http://maps.google.com/maps/ms?f=q&amp;amp;hl=en&amp;amp;geocode=&amp;amp;time=&amp;amp;date=&amp;amp;ttype=&amp;amp;ie=UTF8&amp;amp;msa=0&amp;amp;ll=36.621607,-93.956355&amp;amp;spn=0.001774,0.003648&amp;amp;t=h&amp;amp;om=1&amp;amp;msid=116830837508856421191.00043cb68653f09885825&amp;amp;source=embed" style="color: rgb(0, 0, 255); text-align: left;"&gt;View Larger Map&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/small&gt;&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1670173068063821985-4294847361895898327?l=heikeerwin.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/feeds/4294847361895898327/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1670173068063821985&amp;postID=4294847361895898327&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/4294847361895898327'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/4294847361895898327'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/2007/10/little-house-on-prairieunserer-kleine.html' title='Little House on the Prairie/Unserer Kleine Farm'/><author><name>Heike und Jim</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1670173068063821985.post-839967492179878023</id><published>2007-11-11T11:57:00.000-08:00</published><updated>2007-11-11T12:12:09.278-08:00</updated><title type='text'>Little House on the Prairie/Unserer Kleine Farm 2</title><content type='html'>Auf der Karte könnt Ihr sehen wo wir wohnen. Wir sind letzten Montag eingezogen. Fast alle Kartons sind ausgepackt und wir fühlen uns schon zuhause.&lt;br /&gt;Letzte Woche waren wir bei einem Informationstreffen von den "&lt;a href="http://www.mbch.org/"&gt;Missouri Baptists Children´s Homes&lt;/a&gt;". Wir werden nächsten Dienstag mit einem zehnwöchigen Kurs anfangen. Dieser findet jeden Dienstag für 3 Stunden statt. Danach kommt noch ein Hausbesuch und dann sind wir registrierte Pflege- bzw. Adoptiveltern. Wenn wir Kinder vermittelt bekommen, leben diese für 1 Jahr als Pflegekinder bei uns. In diesem Jahr haben die leiblichen Eltern die Chance ihre Kinder zurück zu bekommen wenn die Eltern ihr eigenes Leben ändern. Gelingt dies nicht können wir adoptieren.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;You can see on the map where we live. We moved in last Monday. Almost every box is unpacked and we feel already home.&lt;br /&gt;Last week we were at an information meeting of the &lt;a href="http://www.mbch.org/"&gt;Missouri Baptist Children´s Homes&lt;/a&gt;. Next Tuesday we will start with a ten-week-course. This course will happen on every Tuesday for 3 hours. After the course is finished, there will be a house visit and then we will be registered foster-/adoptive parents. When we get children, they will live as foster children with us for one year. During this year the biological parents have the chance to get their children back if the parents change their own lives. When that doesn´t work out, we could adopt.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1670173068063821985-839967492179878023?l=heikeerwin.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/feeds/839967492179878023/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1670173068063821985&amp;postID=839967492179878023&amp;isPopup=true' title='0 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/839967492179878023'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/839967492179878023'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/2007/11/little-house-on-prairieunserer-kleine.html' title='Little House on the Prairie/Unserer Kleine Farm 2'/><author><name>Heike und Jim</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><thr:total>0</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1670173068063821985.post-2252259639937713824</id><published>2007-11-01T18:46:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-11-01T19:02:59.633-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Halloween</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/RyqFDenorvI/AAAAAAAAB_o/_MnKwir9Wo8/s1600-h/PB010547.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/RyqFDenorvI/AAAAAAAAB_o/_MnKwir9Wo8/s200/PB010547.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5128057420520140530" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/RyqFD-norwI/AAAAAAAAB_w/WiVwp3ysPGY/s1600-h/PB010574.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/RyqFD-norwI/AAAAAAAAB_w/WiVwp3ysPGY/s200/PB010574.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5128057429110075138" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/RyqFEenorxI/AAAAAAAAB_4/rZ6rWSAK_U4/s1600-h/PB010601.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/RyqFEenorxI/AAAAAAAAB_4/rZ6rWSAK_U4/s200/PB010601.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5128057437700009746" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Gestern habe ich mein erstes Halloween hier erlebt. Unsere Gemeinde hat ein "Safe House" organisiert. Alle Familien von der Umgebung waren eingeladen. Wir hatten eine Spielstraße, Hüpfburg,  Zuckerwatte, einen Kostümwettbewerb und natürlich viele Süßigkeiten. Es waren sehr viele Kinder da und wir hatten viel Spaß.&lt;br /&gt;Unser Haus ist fertig renoviert. Wir müssen nur noch den ersten Stock putzen, dann können wir einziehen.&lt;br /&gt;Außerdem habe heute Jim und sein Papa unsere 40 Boxen aus Deutschland in Kansas City abgeholt. Alles war in eine große Holzkiste verpackt und so konnten sie diese problemlos mit dem Anhänger transportieren.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Yesterday I had my first Halloween here. Our church organized a "Safe house". We invited all the families from the surrounding areas. We had game stations, a jumping castle, cotton candy, a costume contest and of course a lot of candy. Many children came and we had lots of fun.&lt;br /&gt;Our house is finished with the renovation. We only have to clean upstairs and then we can move in.&lt;br /&gt;Jim and his dad picked up our 40 Boxes from Germany in Kansas City today. They came in a big wooden box. It was easy to transport with the trailer.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1670173068063821985-2252259639937713824?l=heikeerwin.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/feeds/2252259639937713824/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1670173068063821985&amp;postID=2252259639937713824&amp;isPopup=true' title='1 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/2252259639937713824'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/2252259639937713824'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/2007/11/halloween.html' title='Halloween'/><author><name>Heike und Jim</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/RyqFDenorvI/AAAAAAAAB_o/_MnKwir9Wo8/s72-c/PB010547.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>1</thr:total></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1670173068063821985.post-5151116733824287500</id><published>2007-10-26T17:00:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-10-26T17:21:22.693-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Wir haben ein Wohnzimmer/We have a living room</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/RyKChenorsI/AAAAAAAAB_Q/XFk9WYLZ7nA/s1600-h/PA260402.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/RyKChenorsI/AAAAAAAAB_Q/XFk9WYLZ7nA/s200/PA260402.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5125802837567647426" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/RyKChunortI/AAAAAAAAB_Y/Rsh4MRqMNuc/s1600-h/PA260403.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/RyKChunortI/AAAAAAAAB_Y/Rsh4MRqMNuc/s200/PA260403.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5125802841862614738" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/RyKCiOnoruI/AAAAAAAAB_g/SeME2fff4CE/s1600-h/PA260404.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0px auto 10px; display: block; text-align: center; cursor: pointer;" src="http://1.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/RyKCiOnoruI/AAAAAAAAB_g/SeME2fff4CE/s200/PA260404.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5125802850452549346" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Heute kamen unsere Wohnzimmermöbel! Wie man sieht macht Jim schon eine Pause auf seinem neuen Sessel. Nächste Woche Donnerstag kommen unsere Schlafzimmermöbel und wir planen nächsten Freitag einzuziehen.&lt;br /&gt;Von Sonntagabend bis Mittwoch werden wir beim einem "Convention Meeting" von den Missouri Baptisten sein. Mal sehen wie das wird...&lt;br /&gt;Ich warte immer noch auf meine Sozialversicherungsnummer. Ich denke sie kommt nächste Woche.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Today our living room furniture came in! You can see Jim is taking a break in his new recliner. Next week on Thursday our bedroom furniture will come. We plan to move into the house next Friday.&lt;br /&gt;From Sunday evening until Wednesday we will be at the convention meeting from the Missouri Baptist Convention. We see how it goes...&lt;br /&gt;I am still waiting on my Social Security number. It should come in next week.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1670173068063821985-5151116733824287500?l=heikeerwin.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/5151116733824287500'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/5151116733824287500'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/2007/10/wir-haben-ein.html' title='Wir haben ein Wohnzimmer/We have a living room'/><author><name>Heike und Jim</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/RyKChenorsI/AAAAAAAAB_Q/XFk9WYLZ7nA/s72-c/PA260402.JPG' height='72' width='72'/></entry><entry><id>tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-1670173068063821985.post-2928192953176014174</id><published>2007-10-23T18:38:00.000-07:00</published><updated>2007-10-23T19:32:27.695-07:00</updated><title type='text'>Mr. and Mrs. Clean</title><content type='html'>&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/Rx6stqoXtcI/AAAAAAAAB_A/oN1k1v88pD0/s1600-h/PA230399.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/Rx6stqoXtcI/AAAAAAAAB_A/oN1k1v88pD0/s200/PA230399.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5124723326531909058" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;a onblur="try {parent.deselectBloggerImageGracefully();} catch(e) {}" href="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/Rx6st6oXtdI/AAAAAAAAB_I/JCSKSYHC4Z8/s1600-h/PA180373.JPG"&gt;&lt;img style="margin: 0pt 0pt 10px 10px; float: right; cursor: pointer;" src="http://3.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/Rx6st6oXtdI/AAAAAAAAB_I/JCSKSYHC4Z8/s200/PA180373.JPG" alt="" id="BLOGGER_PHOTO_ID_5124723330826876370" border="0" /&gt;&lt;/a&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;Da im Erdgeschoss die Renovierungsarbeiten fast abgeschlossen sind, putzen wir seit gestern in der Küche. Wenn oben alles fertig ist, können wir (endlich) einziehen.&lt;br /&gt;Es ist Herbst geworden, nur noch ca. 10°C. und die Bäume werden langsam bunt - echt schön.&lt;br /&gt;&lt;br /&gt;The renovation is almost complete downstairs. Yesterday we started to clean in the kitchen. When everything upstairs is finished, we can (finally) move in.&lt;br /&gt;Autumn has arrived. The temperature has cooled to about 50°F and the tree leaves are turning colorful - really nice.&lt;div class="blogger-post-footer"&gt;&lt;img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/1670173068063821985-2928192953176014174?l=heikeerwin.blogspot.com' alt='' /&gt;&lt;/div&gt;</content><link rel='replies' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/feeds/2928192953176014174/comments/default' title='Post Comments'/><link rel='replies' type='text/html' href='http://www.blogger.com/comment.g?blogID=1670173068063821985&amp;postID=2928192953176014174&amp;isPopup=true' title='2 Comments'/><link rel='edit' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/2928192953176014174'/><link rel='self' type='application/atom+xml' href='http://www.blogger.com/feeds/1670173068063821985/posts/default/2928192953176014174'/><link rel='alternate' type='text/html' href='http://heikeerwin.blogspot.com/2007/10/mr-and-mrs-clean.html' title='Mr. and Mrs. Clean'/><author><name>Heike und Jim</name><email>noreply@blogger.com</email><gd:image rel='http://schemas.google.com/g/2005#thumbnail' width='16' height='16' src='http://img2.blogblog.com/img/b16-rounded.gif'/></author><media:thumbnail xmlns:media='http://search.yahoo.com/mrss/' url='http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_9oT6XmN61w8/Rx6stqoXtcI/AAAAAAAAB_A/oN1k1v88pD0/s72-c/PA230399.JPG' height='72' width='72'/><thr:total>2</thr:total></entry></feed>
