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so on Dec 19th I applied to test a Garnier BB Cream, and I received this email:  Hallo Diana, vielen Dank für Ihre Produkt-Bestellung für den Produkttest "Garnier  BB  Cream". Wir prüfen in den nächsten Tagen, ob die von Ihnen bestellte Produktvariante noch verfügbar ist und melden uns mit einer Bestätigung oder Absage per E-Mail bei Ihnen zurück. Liebe Grüße, Ihr Entdecke Garnier Team which basically says we will check if we have anymore of the products and either confirm or reject your product order. & then on Jan. 9th I received confirmation that I would be receiving my product for testing purposes.  I was to review this product and by doing so would receive a small thank you "Garnier BB Cream Eye Roll-On" but stupid me forgot to do the review online until it was past the deadline so I  didn't  receive the eye roll on. :/ vielleicht nächstes mal. Mein Fazit: erstmal ich muss sagen, Sie lässt sich leicht und ohne...

Happy Holidays! I hope y’all had a wonderful time!   We got to spend Christmas eve with our friends Maria & Alex. They were nice enough to host, we made turkey and they treated us to some lovely dinner, gifts & the kids got to play together. Here are some crappy  blurry phone pictures For my birthday I plan on going ice skating :) maybe I will post some of those pics, for sure you can find them on my instagram/twitter. For New Years Eve, I have invited my friend Rachel over, will cook dinner and then time for some fireworks.  The fireworks here are something else, the Germans love gigantic firecrackers, they are really loud! but a soon as 12 am hits, everything lights up.. last year I got to see this first hand from a hospital window since I had to get my appendix removed. but this year will be better, at least I'll be with my loved ones. Until later,  Diana.

I am so excited that it is almost Christmas, this will be our second year celebrating it in Hamburg. Christmas in Germany is fun, festive, traditional and cold.  Being our second year here we are still not fully aware of how Germans do Christmas, but there are some things I have noticed: Christmas Tree Our "landlords" gifted us a real Christmas tree last year, and they will again this year. The bad thing about this, in my opinion, is that Germans generally put it up and decorate it a day before (or on) Christmas eve. Totally not what we're used to (putting it up at the beginning of the month or end of November) but it's okay, we don't mind. Weihnachtsmarkt Another cool thing about the holidays in Germany are the Christmas markets. They sell food, hot chocolate, glühwein, and a lot of hand crafted Christmas decorations. Every "Weihnachtsmarkt" is decorated with lights, Christmas trees and other ornaments, making it look very festive. :) S...

Rose VoxBox Find this image on Instagram and Like it . As far as I know, I've previously blogged about Influenster and their FREE boxes filled with all sorts of goodies! Valid in the US, you can request an invite, get approved, receive periodic boxes, blog about them. Easy, Request an invite and join in on the fun! My latest box was the Rose VoxBox filled with autumn- themed products and treats. This is what it included: Lindt LINDOR Milk Chocolate Truffles I tried them thinking they would be good, but my God, they were AH-MAZE-ING! I had never purchased them before, but I can assure you they are worth the money! I'm definitely buying some for my family and their Christmas stockings! belVita crunch Breakfast Biscuits I gave it to my mom and she ate it right away... says it was good, tasted like my favorite cookies (barras de coco in sold in Mexico), but they were a little dry. I plan on buying more, so I can give my opinion as well. Dr. Scholl's For He...

We've officially been in Germany for a year I remember my first day here it was hectic at the airport, I had a bunch of suitcases of all sizes and Avi was to little to help carry them, besides, she was in her stroller. I found out that the little carts you usually rent didn't require money, just a quarter, so in it went and I was able to get us out of the airport easily, Once out of the baggage claim, Pablo helped me mit alles . What I didn't know was that if I put the cart back it would return my quarter to me, oh well... you win some you loose some! W e took a train then a bus to get home.  I remember the smell of the apartment when I first got here, how everything was so new, Pablo had a few things in the fridge and we were able to eat a homemade meal as a family for the first time in Hamburg. Life has changed in so many ways over the past year and yet remains the same. Currently: - I am a SAHM, I did an internship earlier this year, but only for 6 mths...

Logistics Hamburg (train to) >  Bremen (plane to) >  Skavsta airport (bus to) >  Stockholm (train to) > Borlange (bus to) >   Falún I really don't think I knew what I was getting into when we started the trip... We spent one day in falun, one in Stockholm, and one in Nyköping. We arrived at night, and as soon as we got off the bus in Falun we started walking around looking for the hotel. Alas, we found it and Chuy was waiting for us outside with two coworker friends..Here's what we did the other three days: Falun We walked around and visited the Coal mines there, but the English tour had been in the morning and there weren't any others for the day so we didn't get the chance to go inside... Plus we didn't have sweaters (only avi did) or jackets and it was at around 5 degrees inside the mine! Instead we bought tickets that would let us explore the area (walked 1.7 km outside the pit) and visited the museum, I enjoyed it, it...

How are you!  Here it is still hot, and sometimes hotter, nothing like what we're used to but still more than what you'd expect in Northern Germany, we are sometimes getting rain but even then, it is immer noch warm! ¡Caliente! Beating the Shine.