Köln, Deutschland

Right before Christmas, immediately after moving in, and waaaaay before I had come even close to getting our new house in order, I decided that Hubby & I needed some me time.  So, we took ourselves in my tiny European car, and made the two hour trip to Cologne, Germany.  After staying overnight in the best room ever, wandering around numerous Christmas markets, and generally enjoying the time I got to spend with the love of my life, I decided that Cologne is probably my most favorite city ever.  Apologies in advance if you've seen some of these, and for the fact that they're out of order...

 Hohenzollern Bridge, Köln.  Also known as the Love Locks Bridge, on which the locks can be seen covering the entire length of the railing.

 One of 11 Christmas Markets in the city.

I think I'm stylish

Don't you?

I skipped Weekend in Pictures this week mostly because of the sponsor give away, but also because I honestly haven't taken any pictures lately.  All we've had to work with here in the Kaiserslautern area is rain, fog, and more rain.  The weather refuses to cooperate with me at all.  But, today starts the hubster's three day weekend, so here's to hoping he takes me out of this house and away from this gloom.  [pretending to raise my cup for a cheers, when in actuality I'm too afraid to do that near a computer.]
Despite not taking photos with the Nikon, I have done a little bit of Instagraming, so here's a 'mini' Weekend in Pictures.  No link up this time, but for sure next week.

Got my hairs cut and a little fringe just for kicks.

 This monster took up the entire road in every village we passed through.  Ridiculous.

 I headed out Christmas shopping in downtown K-Town :)

 Broke out my favorite mug and vanilla liquor to enjoy some spiked hot chocolate!

 I'm not going all out on decor, but I couldn't resist these pretty felt snowflakes to hang in windows.

 A very horrible picture of our new holiday centerpiece for the dining room table.

What did you get to enjoy over the weekend?  Hopefully not rain, like me.  Don't forget, there's a sponsor giveaway going on until Friday!  All the glitches have been fixed, so you should be able to enter as many times as you'd like now :)

Presents from Home

We received our first package in our new house/country!!!

A wonderful treat from my family, and included a surprise card from my Grandmother, & was also accompanied by another surprise card from my Uncle!!!  Wonderful wonderful treats to make our Christmas a little better.

Tons of junk food.  Not helping my new diet, but I do love me some chocolate.

Wouldn't be a real Christmas [or package in general] without Goldfish.

Reindeer antlers.  :)  These made me & Ninja happy.

They made Sass angry.  

Oh, Caribou, how I miss you!

Amazing new toy for the pups!

Thank you, Mom & Dad & Hunter & Cole for such a great box!!!
Love, English, Timmy, Ninja & Sass

Merry Christmas!

We are currently lounging around after stuffing ourselves full of amazing Christmas dinner.  Thank you Henke family for hosting us!

We moved into our house yesterday, and have two choices; lay down or stand up.  We have no furniture except for a blow up mattress, no rugs to protect our feet from the cold floors, and froze our butts off last night.  But at least we have a house!  I'm looking forward to receiving our household goods so I can use my own dishes and cooking ware, plus our bed...oh I miss my bed.

Timmy works on Sunday [Christmas], so I'll be back over at the Henke's so I don't spend the holiday alone.  We also had an early Christmas celebration, and I let the dogs & Timmy open their presents since we were all together.  We weren't supposed to do gifts, but I just couldn't help myself.  I wish I had remembered to upload the pictures of Timmy opening his gifts, but at least I have the pretty pictures of gifts under the tree.

And here is our Christmas dinner celebration.

Candy Cane Martini [without the candy cane]

If you're wondering where the blog posts are over the next couple weeks, there might not be very many.  We don't have internet in our new house yet, so I won't be able to post anything very often.  If you need me...please wait patiently.  I will get back to you eventually.  And Merry Christmas to everyone!!  Hope you have a fantastic weekend and holidays :).

Ready for Christmas

Christmas in lodging & without any of our housing goods is going to be pretty nonexistent, but at least we have a mini Christmas tree!

Last year, we bought a huge fake diamond ring to represent our engagement and marriage.  This year, we bought a German Christmas decoration for our move to Germany.  Spin the top, & the dogs & people turn in circles.  So cute!