i spy.. something flower

My "found" of the week

Vinyl Wall Art store I found this amazing store this morning.. what great things to put on your wall!! You so have to check this store out!!!!
And all the vinyl prints are so affordable. Just great!!!!

this is.. the shoes i would sleep in

Seriously i looovveeee these shoes! Jonathon almost got lost in Regensburg trying to buy them for me. He was never that good in finding his way around Germany.

So funny.. even the day he got me the ring wanting to propose to me later that day, he got soooo lost in our little city that it took him really quite a while to come home. And i was waiting there totally pissed at him cause we wanted to go to our picknick and it got later and later. And than my mom made the offer to just cook for us and Jonathon got all.. oh no.. we need to go to the picknick.. was soo looking forward to it! Yep, the poor boy, everybody was trying to ruin his day. Not knowing what he had planned!

But in the end, everything worked out and we got engaged!

the Zoo and Ally's first Birthday

What a great exciting week we had.. Ally's first birthday with a lot of presents and her first birthday party.

Jonathon made a sandbox for Ally in our backyard and she love it..

Originally the sandbox should have been white and with butterflys painted on and stuff.. girly sandbox of course.
And i think i shouldn't have left my husband alone with the sandbox and his idea's! Cause when i came back out of the house a half hour later i found a army sandbox in my backyard.

And even if it is not super girly and full of flowers and butterflys i think it is on of the coolest sandbox's ever. Ally seem's to have a blast in it.. and that's what counts!

Crazy how time flys by and we already have now a one year old daugther! And how big she already is in how she acts and does! How fun to see her all excited about her cake and the presents.

Or when we we're at the zoo.. she was sooo excited about the animals and the giraffe's in particular!

And i was totally freaked out by those koi's. Have you ever seen that before??? They been almost lifting themselves up out of the water to get food from the people. Crazy!!

So if you happen to life in iowa.. Blank Park Zoo is really a nice and fun Zoo to go to. Ally loved it.. of course Omaha rocks! but Des Moines is really worth the trip. Specially for younger kids cause they can feed the goats and donkeys. What Ally was so crazy about.

my city.. REGENSBURG

Cause i just talked about my hometown in germany i thought it would be fun to show you where i come from..

Regensburg is in Bavaria, Germany! 1 hour north from Munich and the Oktoberfest and full of historical things to see.

We got the best bars and restaurants i've ever seen.. not because they are so fancy but there is everyday something for everybody. From the little bar on the corner where you can drink your beer after work to the little beergarden where you can eat your sausage with sauerkraut to the big fancy restaurant on top of a city tower with the greatest food and the biggest prices!

And if there is something for sure, than that a street fest in Regensburg means always, great food, good music and a lot of fun! Oh do i miss the bridge fest with all those great bands!!!


If you are happen to be in Germany, don't miss out on Regensburg and our historical city. Ride on the Donau, visit the huge cathedral, eat the best sausages in town at the Wurst Kuchl next to the Donau and please grab yourself a good beer and enjoy a beergarden with a wonderful bavarian view!!!

this is.. my favourite book

i have to say that i don't have A favourite book! But when i think about my favourite books, i imidiately have to think about Donna Leon. I love every single book she wrote so far!

Nobody else makes me feel and smell Venice and North Italy so much than she does. When i read her books i feel like i am in Venice sitting on a rooftop balcony and watching ove the Rio Grande.. listening to the sounds of the tourists walking thru the little streets in the city.

What a great writer! I read her books mostly in german.. and it makes me feel home! Probably cause I am from REGENSBURG.. the most northern Italien City, if she would be Italien! kinda.. whatever.. go to Amazon and get you a copy of her fantastic books! Feels like an Italy vacation!

this is.. my latest discovery

My latest discovery is.. that i can watch german tv online here in America.

And you know what.. that makes me sooooo happy! I feel so much closer now to home since i can watch some of my favourite show again!!! I hope that internet tv will get more and more popular and they will continue this forever..

Thank you so much to Enni from Germany, who whispered me this little non-secret over at my Scrap the night away blog!!!! Saved kinda my freetime, Enni!! And my germany-blues!!!!