Otterberg Market & The Christmas Party

We decided to go to Ben's squadron Christmas party. Before we left I wanted to stop by the Christmas market in out village to get a mug.

Otterberg market:

We decided to ride w/ the Beck since we figured it would be more fun if we all went together:

Us at the party: Our friends- Matt & Robin (we all rode together): Our friends- Stangella & Craig: We had a buffet w/ ham, turkey, corn, mash potatoes, stuffing, & apple & pumpkin pie.

They had an ugly sweater/vest contest: The guy w/ the vest won.

They had a couple of games & one of them was Charades. Robin was selected to go for our table:

She did a great job (see video).

They then played the scavenger hunt. Ben & Matt decided to play: Ben sadly didn't get very far.

The last two: Running to the last chair to win: Matt holding up the last item: Matt w/ his prize: Our friend Phil got up & sung a Christmas song: A group shot of our table. Poor Ben, we got only half of him. We all had a great time even though we didn't win anything.

Go Robin:

MJ's School Picture

I was VERY happy the way MJ's school picturetunred out this year: Ben's mom & stepdad got her that cute dress!

Our Hometown Greetings

Here's our hometown greetings we made for everyone back home in Arkansas & Tennessee:

Arkansas:

Tennessee:

1st Of The Snow

Here's what we woke up to:

Ben had to go shovel the snow so we all decided to get out & play in it:

Here's Ben shoveling the snow:

Ben then decided to have a snowball fight w/ her:

I'm sure we'll have more snow before we leave here.

Making a snowball:

Snowball fight:

Kaiserslautern Christmas Market

Well, we decided since it was our last Christmas here we wanted to go to one of many Christmas markets. We invited our friends the Lamme, Ben plays music w/ Randy & their son Xavier is in MJ's claas. We figured the market in Kaiserslautern would be a good one to go to since it's close by. A really nice church:

This was really neat... the ball is rolling: More of the church: Even the trash cans were done up for Christmas: Ben & Joye enjoying some gluhwein:

I thought this sign was cool:

The kids soon wanted to ride the rides. They we all so cutes decorated for Christmas:

Nick giving us thumb ups:

I had her try on these cut ear muffs:

We took the kids on the little ferris wheel they had there:

After the ferris wheel we walked around bit & found some food!

We all had a great time! MJ said she enjoy the "Christmas carnival".

One of the food booth at the market: