Trimming the tree

    We went out Sunday to Hirzbacher Höfe in a little town called Hammersbach. It is one of the few places around here that seems to cut their own trees from their own lot. You can even go into the forest and cut a tree fresh if you don’t like anything in their...

    Getting festive

    We went to get our Christmas tree yesterday…and Stefan has been putting up lights and building yard decorations over the last couple of weekends. We were hoping that some more of our neighbors would find their holiday spirit…but so far they seem to be...

    Got any grapevines hanging around?

    The sun is shining here today, for the first time in what feels like weeks. And although it’s supposed to be only in the mid-50’s the next few days, I definitely prefer cool days with sunshine than grey, miserable, rainy days like those that usually fill...

    The bedroom overhaul

    We had a lot of work ahead of us this weekend. Thankfully we are IKEA building pros so the stack of boxes laying in Mackenzie’s future room wasn’t all that daunting…but actually figuring out how we planned to arrange all the new closets with our...