Those random days off throughout the year
I hope you are having a great Valentine’s Day! James the Poodle has been wearing his heart bandana. I took some portraits of James for his Instagram fans and I also had some cards printed. James has a few friends that send us mail throughout the year with cards and photos and it is so…
Right after the new year, we were in Dallas, Texas. I always love *wandering* around Walmart (something I learned from my Grandma – funny I was always in a hurry when I was a teen shopping with her but now I know why she loved wandering Walmart! It is always full of fun surprises!) In…
I celebrated my birthday this week and Chris asked me what I wanted. I told him I wanted a balloon! I love seeing all of the fun balloons at the grocery store near the checkouts. Chris found a pretty balloon with flowers that said Happy Birthday and he also brought me some tulips! They are…
We had a great Thanksgiving day! We took James to the dog park and we had an awesome Thanksgiving buffet dinner.
I found some cute fabric at Walmart so I made James a new Thanksgiving bandana this year. It has turkeys and pumpkins on it and it says “Gobble” all over it and I thought that was so cute! We are heading to a buffet for Thanksgiving dinner. We haven’t done that since we lived in…
My friend Jen told me about this Christmas garland at Michael’s with Poodles on it. Of course, I had to go look at it. The garland has 7 dogs featured and the white Poodle is in the middle. The 6 foot garland at Michaels is $20 but if you go during a sale, it is…
James has a pumpkin costume and a few other fun costumes he wears during his therapy dog work. But when I saw this Playboy Bunny costume in the store the other day I knew I had to get it for James. The ears had pink sequins but turned around, they were white. And the pink…
We will probably have a quiet Halloween today. But if that changes, I will let you know! Remember last year, when we were in Germany, and we were caught without candy? We got toilet-papered! Here are some photos we took the other day of James with his Halloween bandana. The leaves are changing and it…
Happy 4th of July! We are celebrating with friends today and we will post more of those adventures later. I realized we never posted this photo of James from Independence Day 2017 when we lived in Georgetown, Washington, DC. We lived right next to the Dodge Mansion and the owner always decorated his house for…
Back in April, James celebrated his 9th birthday. James was quite sick on his birthday so we didn’t take any official birthday portraits until the end of May. James is doing much better and he looks great! Not all storms come to disrupt your life. Some come to clear your path.
Today is Saturday April 13, 2019 and it is James’ 9th birthday! I am sure he had a party in mind. Or at least some fetch or frisbee. But James has been sick for a few weeks now. It started with his anal glands that we posted about here on the blog. Then just as…
We celebrated Christmas 2018 in our beautiful Airbnb in Weimar, Germany. James got some gifts and we watched a few silly Christmas movies. We bought a little Conifer tree at the Blumen shop for our Christmas tree. Since it was a live tree in a pot with dirt, we hated to just leave it behind….
h We celebrated Christmas in Germany this year. We were in a beautiful house in Weimar. It had a fireplace, a huge TV and a huge couch. James got a few gifts to open on Christmas morning. What do you think he got? If you haven’t seen last year’s video of James opening his Christmas…
Happy New Year from Germany! Wow, it is 2019! Here in Germany, New Year’s Eve is called Silvester. I love seeing holiday traditions and I knew something had to be up with a pig in Germany because I was seeing pigs all over the stores mixed in with the remaining Christmas decorations and candies. Here…
Here in Germany, today is Sankt Nikolaustag, or St. Nicholas Day. St. Nikolaus is known as the patron saint of children. and he is credited with many miracles on his feast day of December 6th. St. Nikolaus resembles a bishop in his long red coat, white pointed hat and a gold staff. He goes house…
We are in The Netherlands and we are seeing chocolate letters EVERYWHERE. Why? Because Sinterklaas (aka Santa Claus or Saint Nicholas) and his helper Zwarte Piet deliver them to you on the eve of Sinterklaas’ birthday – known as Pakjesavond! Here in The Netherlands, the Dutch celebrate the birth of Jesus on Christmas Day and…
We were walking James on a cold Saturday morning here in the Netherlands and we decided to walk through the town square of Gouda since it is right by our Airbnb and we wanted to see what people were selling at the market (Thursdays are the big cheese market days). We noticed flags in all…
Happy Thanksgiving! We hope you are having a wonderful 2018!
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…