Marriage Retreat in Germany

    Aaron and I had a wonderful opportunity to go on a marriage retreat with his work this past weekend in Germany. As soon as we heard there was a retreat coming up, I told him to sign us up! We went on one before I had Connor and we loved it, so it was about time we went on another. Our wonderful friends Morgan and Levi offered to keep Connor for the weekend so we could enjoy our weekend without chasing after him. At first we weren't sure about leaving him, but then we decided it would be a good idea to focus on just the two of us. Plus, they are great with him and he loves them!   

Germany: Garmisch

    Thank goodness for finally getting sleep on our second night at the hotel. The first night I was up multiple times and really uncomfortable, but our second night was much better... until Connor woke us up at 7:15 {I really wish my kid would sleep in once in a while!}. While we were getting dressed and packing, the guys let the boys run off some energy in the open area outside our room.  They had quite a but of fun running around and jumping off "the cliff" as Aaron called it. 

Germany: Drive to Garmisch and Oktoberfest

    Since we live in Italy, it only made sense that we would go to Germany {more specifically Oktoberfest} at least once. Since we missed it last year, we decided this year we would go. And how perfectly that our trip started on Aaron's birthday?! We have been planning it for months, and it finally happened this past weekend. Connor had school in the morning, so after I picked him up we went to our friend Morgan and Levi's house.

 He decided to just sit in the middle of the parking lot while we were walking to my car. He must have had a long day at school. I had to snap a picture because he kept holding onto my hand and that doesn't happened everyday these days.

When It Rains, It Pours

     That saying has been 100% true for us over the last couple weeks. As you all know from my last post, Aaron got into a Motorcycle accident 2 Sunday's ago. Well after the surgeon in Aviano decided their equipment was not going to be fixed soon enough, he decided to send Aaron to Germany for surgery. We spent last Wednesday, 5/6, preparing for our long trip to Germany. We dropped the dogs off with our friends, packed our bags, and went to sleep early because we knew Thursday was going to be a looooooong day. 

     On Thursday morning, we woke up extra early and waited for the bus to pick us up. It was a 13 hour bus ride to Germany!!!! Connor did pretty good for being cooped up in a bus for such a long time.

 Waiting for the bus to leave.