Guess what we've been up to???

Well last weekend was quite a busy , productive but enjoyable weekend.  It was cooler out and rainy, I guess a taste of what its going to be like here for the next few months, except it will be much cooler.  We had a great weekend.  We motivated early Saturday morning and went to the Hornbach which is the name of their hardware store here.  Its a very much smaller version of homedepot but its a rather nice hardware store.  We picked up many items we needed to start making our apartment feel like ours.  Then we went home and Ivy took a nap.  I had a craving for pizza and we haven't figured out how to order take out yet.  So I decided to make my own.  Now Kevin and I have made pizza in the states but we made the dough with the bread maker.  This was the first time I was making it hand needing the dough.  It turned out pretty good.  I still have some issues to work on. We have never made the perfect crust but it was still very delicious and even Ivy enjoyed eating it.  I didn't have pizza pans so I used my tart pans.

Then we played with Ivy until bed time and got to work.  Can you guess what we did last weekend???

That's correct we painted the 2 main rooms of the house.  We are not finished yet but we got 4 of 8 walls painted.  This is a pale yellowish color if you can't tell from the wall behind Ivy.  We also rearranged both rooms.  We originally had the dining table in with the fireplace and in front of the big glass doors/windows since we ate outside a lot when it was warmer.  Now we have the biggest part of the couch in that room in front of the fire along with Ivy's rocking chair and a few small toys in the corner.  In the other room we have the dining table where her little area use to be and we now have her play area in between, along with the small portion of the couch. We are hoping to create a little reading corner for her as she loves to pull books out and look at the pictures or pretends that she is reading them.  I will post some updated pics of the two rooms when they are complete.  Its a gorgeous weekend here so we are not really getting much done around the house and the sunny days are less and less and soon it will be cloudy and rainy for the next few months. So we need to get out and enjoy as much sun as possible.  Other then that is has been a busy week running errands, playing at the park even if its all wet outside, cleaning etc.Ivy had a pretty exhausting night Tuesday and didn't sleep so she took a really long nap on Wednesday. I had to wake her up for dance class, I felt bad but she was excited to go and I would have felt even worse if she missed it.  Here is a picture of her sleeping sound before I woke her. 

  Its election time around here and there are 3 parties in Germany. The FDP, SPD, and CDU.  They each have a color that represents the party.  FDP is yellow, SPD, is red, and CDU is rose or pimk.  The campaigners have been out and about doing there thing. Its different here they hand out balloons to children and roses to adults.  In the past 2 days I have gotten 5 roses.  I put them in a glass juice bottle and have them on the fireplace.  They are pretty .

Well, that is pretty much all I have at the moment.  I will add this cute video of Ivy after I taught her how to gallop.  She really only gallops for a few seconds but she is too cute not to post it.  Its hard to get videos these days of her as she wants to watch them and doesn't understand that you are recording her and need to do so before she can watch.  

Well I hope you all have a great weekend.  I will post again when I get a chance.  I hope you are enjoying some nice weather . Until next post!!!