girls weekend

Cousins, mom, aunties, sister-in-law, and a baby oh my!

Here's a picture from our girls weekend in Seattle 2 weekends ago. We surprised Aunt Darlene by taking her up to Seattle for a shopping/eating/hang out spectacular. It was very fun! We all drove up together in our pary (party) wagon! And all shared the penthouse suite. what what. (you have to do it in that gangsta voice) The weather was AMAZING! It made me realize how much I love Seattle and need to go up there to hang out more often, its a cool city. Not pictured are our Seattle natives that joined us for lunch on the wharf. Super fun weekend! We should do it more!

so sad

So it is official. Eli is done breastfeeding. :( My last post was almost a month ago, when he started to stop. The next couple days I tricked him into it a few times, but he was just not into it! I got him to nurse on both sides one morning, then one side at night, and the other side the next day. Every time he was pretty frustrated with me. So I let him do his thing, and now over the past few weeks ANYTIME he signed milk or points at my chest I'd offer it to him, he usually just laughed and ran away! I didn't know if this was just a nursing strike or if he really was self weaning. From the info I read, babies don't self wean before 12 months, but more likely between 18-24. What about the in between? He is 14 months, and he for sure weaned himself. no tears...on his end at least! I wasn't so sure about being done with nursing...tear. I looooved breastfeeding and would recommend it to every mama out there! There's nothing better than looking down into that little babies eyes while your providing the best thing for them!
old picture of Eli and I on our way to Japan.

Lets finish off that Germany trip already

As I said we stayed at a resort in Garmisch Germany and took day trips from there. We got to see a lot of Bavaria, which is amazing! The mountains all around and the most ADORABLE little villages. It was like a fairy tale place. We had some of the best food I have ever tasted! Eli got addicted to spaetzle and ate it at every meal. At the end of the trip we flew through Amsterdam and had a 20 hour layover. We got to see Justin and Jen and stay at their (not their) house. I wish we could have stayed longer, but it was so good to see them and thanks for helping us discover our personalities, I never knew who I was before! Anyways, we had a wonderful vacation. We are back in town now all settled into our new apartment and Eric has started classes. I will post next about our place!
Our hotel



























Munich


Ettal Monastery
Mittenwald, Germany

I just wanted a frickn' picture

For the life of me I couldn't seem to get a decent picture of the two of us for our anniversary. My weird faces and Eric's half opened eyes! ugh. Well happy 6 years to us.

FINALLY, our trip to Germany

Our first full day in Germany at our hotel in Garmisch. Its a military resort that is about an hour outside of Munich in the Alps on the border of Austria. It is at the base of Germany's highest peak, and is a major winter sport area. I would love to come here in the winter, there was alittle snow on the mountains while we were there. It is a beautiful town and the hotel is so nice.



















This is the town we stayed in, it was so cute! And they were having a festival the first few days we were there! These were cool Renaissance people, not the weirdos we have in the states!






















Eli being extra cute for pictures on the train ride to Munich. He loves trains now, we got him alittle wooden one and he can say "choo choo"