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We Did It!!!

We Did It!!!

On September 4, 2000 Christian and I were married in Gütersloh Germany.

How We Met

Believe it or not we met through AOL.

Neither of us are the type to engage in online flirting... nor were we looking to find someone.

I was just wanting to learn German. I thought that the best way to get better with German is to chat with a German! So I searched for a safe person, someone that I thought was not out trying to get a date.

I emailed Christian on 2-24-99. I explained that I wanted to learn German and asked him if he wanted to chat sometime. He thought it was a good idea as his English was not so good, he could use the practice too.

Well I still cannot speak German ... teehee ;)

It was not long before we started to have very deep feelings for each other, we could not believe that we could have such strong feelings for each other just by chatting over the computer and a few phone calls. We had to know... so in June of ´99 I was off to Europe to meet this man!

After a few short days together we knew then, without a doubt ...

We are soul mates.

Since then, Christian has been to the US to visit me 2 times... On his third visit he did not leave alone! He came to take his "soon to be wife" back home to Germany with him.

And well ... here we are!

Not so easy for us ...

It was not so easy for us to marry here. All of my paperwork had to be translated into German. That was very costly and time consuming. Every time that we had thought we had it all done.. there was still something else to do!

On July 5th, 2000 we were on our way, with our kids in tow, off to Düsseldorf to the US Embassy for still yet more paperwork (and money!) to be completed. We had left early in the morning to beat the traffic... it was a rainy morning. We were suddenly ran off the road and into the railing by a truck and then he left sped off, leaving the scene. Thank God we were all ok!!! We totalled our car on the Autobahn. I had a back injury but it has healed nicely. I am so thankful that our children were not hurt. Alex had some bruising from the seatbelt as we were bounced off the guard rail and then into another truck. We were tossed around pretty hard. Let me tell you ... I was thankful for those bruises on his little hips!

Well that took some time to get back into the paperwork swing of things as we still needed to make it to Düsseldorf and we had NO car! Well after a few weeks we got another car and made it (whew!) to the US Embassy to (spend more money) finish our paperwork.

Well finally we were able to hand in all the completed forms as requested .. And we were able to set the date!

We have just celebrated our first wedding anniversary!

Things have not been easy but we have been very blessed with our lives together and our family.

Together we can make it through even the tough times of starting over in Germany.

Please follow the links below and meet our really cool kids!


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