Category: Holidays

Remember yesterday I said we got stuck without candy on Halloween? Well our cute little trick-or-treater playfully toilet-papered our doorstep! I thought it was so cute and funny!

One thing we weren’t prepared for in Europe was holidays. Holidays where everything is closed. Today is Halloween. In Georgetown, we were prepared with LOTS of candy. But here in Europe we didn’t think Halloween was really celebrated like it is in the US. Last year, we were in Austria. I remember walking along Mariahilfer…

One US store I really miss is Target and their holiday items! They always have cute holiday clothing, kitchen items, party supplies, candy and more.

Target has these cute Valentine’s Day napkins and

I forgot to post last month about our 15th wedding anniversary on December 14th. We went ice skating in Vienna for our anniversary. But another fun thing was a Just Married book I got for Chris. I was

Back in 2001 we spent Christmas Day at Islands of Adventure at Universal Orlando. We lived right by Universal at the time and we had annual passes to Universal Studios. This was pre-Harry Potter and

Years ago I remember seeing this photo:

I told Chris I wanted to go ice skating on this rink in Vienna one day! Usually the Wiener Eistraum (The Vienna Ice Dream) doesn’t open until January –

I saw the sign for the live construction of the Christmas balloons at the train station. It read, “Liveaufbau der Weihnachtswelt aus Luftballons.” But I wasn’t entirely sure what to expect! They are

15 years ago, on December 14, 2002, we were married!

I never thought we would move away from Orlando. And then we moved to Washington, DC. I didn’t think Washington, DC was our permanent home

Now that Christmas is approaching, Advent Calendars are popping up all over Vienna. In the US, we rarely saw Advent Calendars. I think I saw one at Trader Joe’s once. And of course you see Clark Griswold

It is so rare for the three of us to all be in one photo together! I forgot that I had my friend Jen take this photo for us on the 4th of July here in Washington, DC.

Duke and Goblin would have been 16 years old on Saturday. Here they are in Orlando on their 8th birthday:

We honored Duke and Goblin on Saturday by taking James down to Sprinkles. Sprinkles has dog

I was looking at wreaths for our front door and I found this silver bell wreath from Williams Sonoma. I would love to put it on our front door here in DC but the front door isn\’t fully covered like our

Our neighbor has a Mastiff named Buffy and James LOVES Buffy. Buffy got a great pumpkin costume for Halloween but it was just a little too snug on her. So she offered the costume to James!

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I forgot to post a photo of James on his birthday last weekend. James turned 4 on April 13th.

Here he is with his birthday hat:

When I was little I always wanted a June birthday. All those kids had pool parties or swimming in the lake parties. But I usually had cooler Florida January overcast 50 degree weather.

This year I lucked