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I  talked yesterday about how my family spends  Christmas , and like we found out their are tons of different  Christmas  traditions around the world. Just like that there are also different birthday celebrations! One of my favorite birthday traditions is taking pictures of "das Geburtstagskind" the birthday kid*. Anyways, twenty-six years ago today, between one and two in the morning  central time, a cute little girl was born , there were probably others, but today we will be celebrating this special one, ME!   While taking birthday pictures is one of my favorite traditions I don't have pictures from all my previous birthdays. Maybe I do, I just wasn't able to find them anywhere. I am thankful for another year. I am thankful to be surrounded by my family. I am thankful for the opportunities we take advantage of. Today I will be spending the day with family. it's all planned out, starting with breakfast with my in ...

From one house to another, with food and more food, spending Christmas with the family can be a little hectic but we do it anyways. T his year we spent Christmas Eve with my family and Christmas Day with Pablo's family. We had a late lunch at Pablos parents house and then we were dropped off at my sisters place so we could go together to my grandma's house.  It was over two years since I had seen everyone so we had a really nice re encounter. The first part of Christmas Eve was spent with my mom's family, a fter spending some time with family members we hadn't seen in over two years (but we would be seeing again in a couple of days for my birthday!) we took off to my aunts house to meet up with my dad's side of the family.  Overall, we had a great evening, fun for the kids! although, my little sister got a little upset that we didn't wait for her to break the pinata, after all, she's one of the young cousins. We waited for midnight...

I've been MIA for a while thanks to being back home and having so much to do and a lot of people to see. I'm going to post a 'currently' update, and get back on a blogging schedule once I get organized. Reading  my bloglovin' feed. Anticipating  Christmas Eve with the family. Buying   the stuff we're taking back with us. Enjoying  our time in Monterrey Listening  to Christmas music! Annoyed  that I still have so much to do. Watching   Gilmore Girls. Devouring  nonstop Mexican food. Waking  up with a back ache. Loving  every single moment Hating  my blurry pictures Hoping   to find a new place ASAP. Feeling ecstatic. Wishing  you a very Merry Christmas! linking up my thoughts with  Annie Tweet This

Want to know what Christmas in Arizona is like? Look no further! Growing up I almost always spent Christmas in South Texas or visiting family in Mexico, so I know all about warmish Christmases. today Lauren is going to continue my 'Christmas around the Globe' series talking about Christmas in Arizona. Read on and if you like what you read show her some love by sharing this post. --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Hello! Thanks to Diana for letting me crash her blog today! My name is Lauren and I blog at Life Love Lauren . I am a lifestyle blogger, I blog about food, home improvement, and just about life with my husband. Ever since getting together with my husband, travel has become something we invest in but we call Arizona home. Christmas is my favorite holiday. I talk about it a lot on my blog. I have never spent a Christmas outside of the US, but even within America, here in the Southwe...

In just four days we will be having an extended layover in this wonderful city. As far as I know there's an endless list of things to do while in NYC. I wish we could do them all, but we will only be here for an afternoon, I have to plan it out good, so i've decided to create a New York City Bucket List. Brooklyn Bridge Source If time permits, I want to take a walk across it, from here I should be able to take many pictures, some blurry some not. Especially of the Statue of Liberty, the Manhattan Bridge, the Empire State Building, and the skyline. The Empire state building. Can't go to New York city and not see the empire state building, I know there won't be enough time to go up but at least from the bottom! Rockefeller View the Rockefeller Center Christmas tree as close as I can. A few other must-do's Central Park. Visit the 911 memorial. Do a lot of walking. This is a very short list but yet again. it's only an aft...

Today I begin my 'Christmas around the Globe' series, and I'm starting off with +Holly Hollyson   from Full of Beans and Sausages .  She ​​will be kicking off this series and I hope you enjoy reading about her traditional English Christmas--make sure to follow her on her social media (at the bottom of the post). ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I am so excited to have been asked by Diane to guest post on her blog for her series ‘Christmas Around the Globe’. It is our Christmas traditions that really make this season festive and I can't wait to hear all about the different ways in which people celebrate Christmas – maybe I will be able to pick up on a few new traditions! Here are my components for a successful British Christmas: The Christmas advert Christmas for me in England always really starts on December 1 st . People in England don’t go as wild for early decorations i...

December is finally here! I couldn't be any happier, we're going home in 10 days and in 26 days i will be celebrating my 26th birthday! It was a long time ago, but in the middle of the blogtober challenge I received a comment about my blog being nominated for the one lovely blog award, and while I was in the hospital I received a couple more, and another one afterwards. I want to thank Sam , Becky , Dorrie , Jeanie , and Michelle for the nominations and today I am finally able to complete this post. The rules: Thank the person who nominated you for the award. Add the Lovely blog award logo onto your post/blog. Share 7 facts about yourself. Nominate 15 bloggers you admire/read and inform nominees by commenting on their blog. I'm going to change it up a little and instead of giving you seven facts I'm posting  3 updates and 4 facts. U: I have ten days to sell all our furniture, before we leave. U: After our vacation we will be moving to Kaise...

First of all, Happy Thanksgiving to all my American readers, in honor of it being thanksgiving, I thought it would be a good idea to share some of what I ate while we were in the hospital. I haven't uploaded my menu plans for over a month, mainly because our food was being provided and I wasn't doing any cooking (just 'preparing' our breakfast and abendbrot,  evening bread). The times we were home I was too busy with other stuff that I just bought whatever I felt like cooking and only did a quick plan on my way to the grocery store , which is also why i've been a little MIA lately, there is SO much to do around the house, I'll post an update soon enough.  Back to what I ate while we were in the hospital, they had a good variety, offering 4 -5 different meal options per day (3 regular ones and 2 vegetarian). I managed to snap a couple of pictures of  some of my lunches, I don't remember what everything was called, I think I might have written it down...

It is always a good thing to bring extra items to keep your child entertained, whether it's for keeping them distracted while traveling, or a stay in a hospital. Avi had surgery done yesterday, thank God everything went fine, in fact, the area that was operated was even smaller than we had foreseen, that's always a good thing, right? Now we just have to wait for it to heal and take extra care so she doesn't end up with that much of a scar.  We will be spending the next five days in the hospital, but this time I came prepared. I brought a bunch of snacks and activity books for her to keep entertained, since she won't be able to get off of the bed in a while. In the backpack you will find similar items to what I will be packing in her carry on backpack when we travel in three weeks! The backpack is filled with: - Comic book/coloring book - Phone/iPod with age appropriate games  what she uses most is mainly the electronics,   - Mandala creator -...

I love Christmas and the traditions that come with it!  Every country has it's different ones, I was thinking of writing a post about one of my favorite Christmas traditions, and I will do it when I go home in Dec. But then I read +Van 's post and figured, why not ask others to collaborate and spread the Christmas cheer around? So I'm offering a (first time ever) guest post series. If you're interested in joining my "Christmas around the globe" guest post series, you are more than welcome to! I want you to write about your experiences celebrating Christmas abroad or in your home country (what are the similarities and differences between the two?) or if you'd rather, you can tell me what your favorite Christmas tradition is? I'm offering 6 spots in this series, starting on December 2nd and I'll promote it on social media.  Would you like to participate?  Then sign up here . **UPDATE** Sign up's are now closed, but I might ...

There are currently a shit load of things I need to do, including, but not limited to:  - Start packing and throwing things away, I have exactly one month to have everything ready for our move. - Edit all the pictures from our two weeks in the hospital, Avi took her camera and even though a lot of them are blurry, I need to fix the ones that aren't so I can share them with our family. and... - keep posting on the blog. So for today I decided I would join in on Travel Tuesday and write about our Paris walking tour, I haven't blogged about our trip around Europe in a while, i'm almost finished, but I figured I'd get back on the saddle with this post.  Paris was a city on our list of cities to visit in Europe and i'm glad we did. I love the walking tours because they take you to major landmarks but make little stops around the way. The Paris tour was really different to all the other ones we've taken, instead of taking you to see the eiffel tower the...