Diana Elle Blog

Today i'm linking up for the first time with Mel , Shay , and Sheaffer for their What's up Wednesday liink up... What we're eating this week: I post my menu plans on the blog ever so often, this week we're eating: Monday: Birthday Special I: Schnitzel Burgers. Tuesday: Birthday Special II: Ate out with coworkers. Wednesday: Chicken with Veggies Thursday: Sausage and Egg Tacos Friday: Birthday Special III: Chilaquiles with friends. Saturday: Birthday Special IV: Bavarian food and beer at our Oktoberfest Party ! Sunday: Leftovers. What i'm reminiscing about Previous birthdays spent together, I wanted to do a collage for Pablo ( his birthday was Monday ), but we didn't seem to have enough birthday pictures (on Facebook) hopefully I can get more when we go back home.  What i'm loving Coffee Break German, I started listening to these podcasts when I first moved to Germany,and recently started again. They are really helpful. & it'...

Today is Pablo's birthday! I wanted to do a special timeline picture with photos from past birthdays together, but I only gathered three pictures, so maybe sometime in the future instead.. For now we celebrate, we have a lot planned this week; the main things being: we want to do a taquiza with his work mates, dinner with friends,and we're throwing our own Oktoberfest party . Today i'm posting September's Guy Behind the Blog interview today and you can read what Pablo has to say about desert islands, his dream job, and his bucket list. Don't forget to wish him a Happy Birthday! 1. What's the silliest thing you and your significant other have needed to compromise on? We never really have to compromise, we both go for the same things. 2. If you were stranded on a deserted island, what 3 must haves would you bring with you? A knife, matches, and a speed boat (with a tank full) so I can leave. 3. Talents aside, what is your dream job? An Engineer at N...

It's that time of year again.. Pablo's birthday, and this year is special (to me, because) he's turning 28 on the 28th!  This is the first year we have a big enough house to host a party, so I told him to invite all his friends and coworkers. I was going to surprise him by telling everyone it would be an Oktoberfest themed party and come dressed up and everything but I gave in and told him too, it's too good to not include him.  The 192nd Oktoberfest started in Munich on September 19th. People from all over the world are meeting in Bavaria for two weeks from dawn till dusk. We're a little sad that we haven't been able to go, but our Oktoberfest party will be making up for it (for now) . I have compiled the most important information for me and  I figured I would share what i'm planing with you in case you'd like to throw one too! A n Oktoberfest themed Party is very easy to implement wherever you are!  These are things I think should be incl...

Hey ya'll I'm Dorrie and I blog over at Rt 1 US 1 !  I recently moved to South Florida, and I blog about whatever happens to be going on in my life.  This includes books I read, places I visit, and things I attempt to do to my home!  Today I thought I would share some tips for visiting Disney as an adult without children! My husband finally broke down the other day, we had been debating for months if we should get annual passes to Disney. We finally sucked it up and made the purchase. This would be literally the first time that I have ever been to Disney, and my husband, Scott, hasn’t been since he was very small- a lot had changed. We bought annual passes on Friday and went to the park Saturday. 1.   Wear lightweight/sport clothes.   My husband pretty much lives in Under Armour anyway, so this wasn’t a problem for him. I layered a couple dark, lightweight tank tops and a pair of cutoffs for the day. We were both comfortable and you couldn’t rea...

Remember a while back when I posted about the many dinosaurs you can find at the gartenschau in Kaiserslautern ? Well, that wasn't the only cool thing we saw while we where there.. We happened to go the weekend that they were sponsoring a medieval festival (fine, maybe we planned it). I was too busy exploring everything that I didn't really get to take many pictures of the the items the crafters and vendors were selling. The first medieval stop of the day was a puppet show:   it was really cool, we even got to see a blacksmith working his magic. There are many playgrounds all around the gartenschau, I thought this one was pretty apt for the fest going on. Of course they were selling many different toys and Armour from this time. Avi got to give archery a go! Another play area,/ spielplatz,  you can find here: An instrument playing tent: A mini concert given by medieval characters, and that guy was nice enough to let Avi help..; Trying on a helm...

I'm linking up with kiki from in its time and co-host Beka from Sunshine to the Square Inch  for this month's the circle link up and giving you a little tour of our home. I;ll be sharing different parts of our home today, and the other half next week. I had previously shared pictures of the furniture we bought back in February since we had a tough time choosing the right ones and I wanted to share my opinions on the blog. But after we moved, everything has been rearranged. So here is some of our set up: Child's Room Is also big, it fits her loft bed and slide perfectly with extra room for her to play. Master Bedroom I'm not sure if this room is bigger or smaller than the one in Kaiserslautern, but I like it, we haven't bought an actual wardrobe/closet yet, but we really needed to hang our jackets so we bought a temporary one. Kitchen This is the biggest kitchen we've had in Germany, I really like it,  it's a good size, we could fit this ...

I stopped blogging for a while, but I have definitely not been away from my blog. Last week I focused more on sharing my content and didn't post anything, but I have a couple of posts in my drafts, I'll be sharing those later this week. Today I'll be returning to posting my menu plan, with what we're eating this week. The past few weeks I refrained from posting on here since we were adapting to being in Pre-School at a new school and our new schedules.  As it happens Avi will now be eating three homemade meals a day, I send breakfast with her and a snack and she's been eating lunch at home with us and will continue to do so until she starts going to school from 8-4. So, apart from planing lunch and dinner I plan five special breakfasts for her. This is the first year having to pack breakfast, so far it's been fun! I’m pretty sure my ideas will get more creative as we go, but for now I've been keeping it simple. I asked some frien...

She was really excited, and had been since the Wednesday before. When friday came around I told her she just had to sleep two more times and then it would be time, she was ready to go Sunday morning saying "today is the day." I told her she had one more to go and the next day I woke her up and made her breakfast, the three of us ate together then we got ready and watched TV until it was time to go.  Her first day of Kindergarten only lasted around an hour. We start in the auditorium, they introduce themselves, then the older kids sing for the new students. The new students are called up and introduced to their teachers and then they go to their classroom. While the parents waited in the auditorium.  They do this so that the kids can meet their teacher, see their new classroom and not be overwhelmed. This might be good for some kids, the ones that are going to school for the first time, but Avi wanted to spend the whole day there. She is really liking her...