Good Memories

For those who don't know, we have placed membership at Westwood Church of Christ. We have really been enjoying it there and getting to know everyone.  On Sunday 3 of the songs that we sang brought back a lot of good memories for me:

Every Time I Feel the Spirit
He Bore It All (Mein Jesus gab sein teures Leben hin)
When My Love to Christ Grows Weak

I sang all of these songs with the Chemnitz Acappella Singers so when we sang these songs, it lifted my heart and made me smile. :)

Concert in Oelsnitz June 2005 (I think one of our first concerts as a group)

 

Concert at Galarie Oben June 2007

 

Concert in Zwickau September 2007

 

 Concert DAStietz March 2009

Heidi is 2!

On January 20th, Heidi turned 2! I can't believe she is so big!! The past 2 years have just flown by. We had an Elmo birthday party for her on the Saturday the 23rd. She loved it! It was a small party just for family. Clint's parents, Grandma and Grandpa came from Ohio. My parents, Mimi and Papa, were there and Uncle Jonathan and Aunt Lana and cousins Claire and Lydia were there. It was a lot of fun. Heidi got lots of fun presents and she had an Elmo cake! Check out the pictures:

 

Elmo Birthday sign

 

Heidi's cake

 

Opening presents

 

Lydia helps Heidi check out her presents

 

Heidi getting excited about her presents

 

We bought her a balance bike in Germany- It has no pedals. It is meant to help her learn balance. She just uses her feet to push herself along. After a little adjustment, she can now touch the ground more than in this picture. I'm not so sure she is really into it yet though. It might take her a while to get excited about it.

 

Yummy cupcakes!

Grandma and Grandpa Everhart

 

Mimi and Papa Wooldridge

 

Aunt Lana, Cousin Lydia and Uncle Jonathan

 

Daddy scooping the ice cream

 

Claire enjoying her cupcake

 

Heidi loved the cake and ice cream

Conversation with Heidi

Heidi: I'm scared
Mama: Don't be scared, baby.
H: I scare me?
M: No, don't be scared. It's ok.
H: I scare me? Raaaaaahhhhhhrrrrrr
M: Haaah Oh no!!
H: Ok, Mama? (patting me on the leg)
M: Yes, I'm ok.

Translation:
Heidi wanted to scare me... she doesn't have "me" and "you" figured out yet so when she says "scare me" she means "scare you". She does the same thing when she wants us to hold her. She says: "hold you?"

She's so cute and funny....

forEVER in our HARTS

I finally made a decision on the new blog name in case you haven't noticed. I wanted to make Everharts in big letters and the others small letters, but I will have to work on that. There might be a new look to the blog soon as well.

I promised an explanation for the meaning to the title so here it is:

The idea actually came from our friend Janine in Chemnitz/Dresden. :) She wrote it in a memory book that our friends made for us when we were leaving Germany. Many of our friends made personalized pages with notes and messages for us to keep and to help us remember the time we had in Chemnitz. It is something that we will treasure forever. In Janine's message she made a play on words with our name to communicate the love she has for us and that we will always be in her heart and the hearts of the church there.

I wanted to use the title for our blog because it is a mutual feeling for us as well. Even though we are thousands of miles away from our Chemnitz family, they have left a permanent mark on our hearts that will last the rest of our lives. Everything that we do in our lives from this point forward will be still somehow be influenced by our experiences in Germany. That is why we will miss them and ache to see them often. But, we know that God has blessed our lives because of them and the time we had there. We pray that we may see them again someday soon.

If I could post a picture of every single person who made an impact on me, I would. But for now, I will leave you a few pictures from over the years of some very special people.