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Holidays

Those random days off throughout the year

Thanksgiving 2019

November 29, 2019

We had a great Thanksgiving day! We took James to the dog park and we had an awesome Thanksgiving buffet dinner.

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Happy Thanksgiving 2019

November 28, 2019

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 head…

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Christmas Dog Garland

November 6, 2019

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…

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Rabbit Halloween Costume for James

November 1, 2019

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 aroun…

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Happy Halloween 2019

October 31, 2019

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 Jam…

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Independence Day 2019

July 4, 2019

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 …

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James 9th Birthday Portraits

June 13, 2019

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 you…

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Happy 9th Birthday James!

April 13, 2019

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 an…

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We Planted Our Christmas Tree

January 4, 2019

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 sho…

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What Did James get for Christmas in 2018?

January 3, 2019

https://youtu.be/EhWAlOMu84A 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 go…

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Happy New Year 2019!

January 2, 2019

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 …

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Niklolaustag (Nicholas Day) in Germany

December 6, 2018

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. Nik…

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Sinterklaas and Chocolate Letters

December 5, 2018

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…

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Sinterklaas Arrives in Holland

December 4, 2018

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 …

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Thanksgiving 2018

November 22, 2018

Happy Thanksgiving! We hope you are having a wonderful 2018!

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Toilet-Papered on Halloween!

November 1, 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!

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Holidays in Europe

October 31, 2018

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 i…

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Who is La Befana?

March 26, 2018

We are in Treviso, Italy and this Saturday is Epiphany. All over town we see vendors selling stockings and socks (like we have for Christmas Eve in the United States) and we see lot of candy and what

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Target - Valentine Napkins

February 14, 2018

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

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Thanksgiving in Verona, Italy

February 12, 2018

I realized that we posted all of our Christmas in Vienna videos but I forgot to show our Thanksgiving in Verona! This video is all about FOOD haha!

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