I'm head over heels in love...

After a night filled with a couple 3 hour naps inturrupted by a baby who wanted to chat with us for an hour in-between, we finally got up to spend the day with some of our best friends from BYU Hawaii; Taylor and Ana Dame! It was SO good to see these wonderful people. Those lucky bums are living in Madrid while Taylor gets his MBA. They get to have an adventure every weekend. Our hotel was just a quick walk from La Sagrada Familia. Because the food in Spain is nothing special (seriously… I tried their "specialty" dish, paella, and it sucked… big time) we headed to our trusted American McDonalds. This is the start of me letting go of food anxiety. We eat mostly a plant based diet. I cringe/make a weird sort of yelling exclamation when people try to put goldfish or candy into my child's mouth or even give her some cows milk. (I have no idea why people think they need to give other peoples babies food… You are NOT their mother! Feed your own dang kids and leave mine ...

So a few of my friends were wondering how the heck we went to Europe for two weeks with a one year old. It was a lot easier than you would think! It helps that Estela is a pretty easy baby and almost always happy.  Before our flight we ran to the 99 cent store (the name is deceiving because of the ridiculously high taxes: nothing is really only 99 cents) to pick up some flash cards and other things to keep Estela occupied. Thank heavens for all the suggestions I received! They were great! Right before we got to our gates, TSA decided to check every nook and cranny of our bags and take our deodorant, toothpaste, hair product, hand sanitizer, and makeup. I was mad but luckily Dan smuggled some hand sanitizer with him. Good thing they took my makeup because I totally had a bomb in my bare minerals foundation. ugh. Idiots. The 12 hour flight was so easy. When you are traveling with a baby they give you the area with a ton of leg room. Estela had a blast picking up all the cards we put ...