Flowers

If you do not know yet, I am horrible at keeping plants alive :O but I thought it would be fun for Monkey, and a sweet lady at the flea market we attended over the weekend gave us some supplies so we planted them today. One thing I thought was cool is that the planters we have are biodegradeable so once our plants start growing we can plant the whole pot in the ground. Of course Monkey got a little over excited with the water and thought it would be fun to plant flowers and peas all over our front porch too but we had a lot of fun...until I locked us out of the house that is. Hahaha!!! Yeah so most houses in Germany do not have door knobs on the outside of their doors. So in order to enter you HAVE to have the key. I went inside to get more water and forgot I did not have the key and shut the door behind me on my way back out. :/ After 30 minutes of ring the door bell, knocking, and yelling for Israel to open up I finally resorted to throwing rocks at our bedroom window to get his attention (he was sleeping). Oops!

The last picture is actually a pea plant that we planted on Saturday really quick. Monkey wanted to watch them grow, but I think she thought it would just pop up as soon as I planted it...however we do have a little bloom, and its only been five days. Hopefully all of the others take well also.

ETA: and the first picture is of Monkey ring the doorbell trying to wake up Daddy to let us in. Hahaha

Yum Yum

The weather is finally nice outside!!!! We went for a walk, and Monkey played in the pool while I hung some clothes out on the line. Then we made Carne Guisada, Tortillas, Rice, and Beans (okay so I cheated on the beans a just opened a can). Monkey had so much fun helping me knead the dough and roll out the tortillas.

a kite and colored ice

The weather has been kinda gloomy here lately but we were able to get out a few times this week. Monkey has enjoyed flying her kite. We hadn't used it since last summer, but she found it the other day and immediately wanted to play with it.
I also found an awesome blog
http://playathomemom3.blogspot.com/
that has great ideas for activites to do. We made colored ice cubes. It was a great success. I put out a few kitchen utensils and away the kids went. You definately want to make sure they're wearing old clothes though.

Happy Father's Day!!!

Today was a pretty relaxing day, partly by choice and partly by the nasty rain outside. Either way though we had a good day. Monkey made her daddy some pictures and we ate BBQ ribs. Yes Hubby BBQ'd in the rain :)

I hope everyone had a great Father's Day!!!

Third Time's The Charm

Okay, I have let this go twice before. Let's see if I can keep up with it this time. I decided to delete my (few) previous posts and start fresh, so here we go....

My name is Jackie, I am a stay at home mommy to one sweet and very outspoken and opiniated 2 year old. My hubby is in the U.S. Air Force and we are currently stationed at Ramstein Air Force Base, Germany. I enjoy sewing, cooking, and spending time with my family. There are really no specifics to what this blog will be about, I suppose just my general ramblings about whatever comes to mind and the activities we have been doing so that we are able to keep our friends and family up to date.

Monkey and I have just returned from spending a few months in Texas and are hopefully finally getting back into our regular routine.