When you live with a little kid, Christmas starts to take on a whole new life again. I've always been a fan of Christmas, but there were definitely a few years before we had Mackenzie that we we starting to feel a bit fed up with all the commercialism. When you've got...

A Chocolate Bark Extravaganza
Late on a Saturday afternoon in 2010, less than two weeks before Christmas, Stefan and I were sitting around in our farmhouse in Germany and thinking about our plans for the rest of the weekend. We'd gone out running errands in the morning, buying everything...
Mackenzie Frames winners
Firs off, let me just thank everyone who entered for such an amazing response! This was by far the biggest giveaway that NOH has ever put on. And many thanks to Mackenzie Frames again for sponsoring these two gorgeous frames! If you didn't win, be sure to hop over to...

Top 10 lists of last minute gift ideas
It's not too late to WIN a gift for someone else or yourself! NOH is giving away two beautiful handmade picture frames from Mackenzie Frames. Just hop on over to the giveaway page and find out how to enter! Are you still wondering what to get some(most/ALL of the...
Mackenzie Frames Giveaway!!
Thank you very much for your interest and for any entries you may have submitted. This contest is now closed! Now before you get confused, no our little Mackenzie has not already started up her own business. Although that would be nice. But I fear that she's not...

Blogmania is open again!
You've probably noticed by now that I'm new to Blogmania, but so far it has proven to be a lot of fun. Not only do you get to see a lot of amazing blogs/bloggers that you probably never would have come across otherwise, you also get to potentially win a ton of prizes!...
Christmas-ify your walls
Several years ago, we bought ourselves a few art prints on canvas that we never thought about framing because we loved them just like they were. As it turns out, that was a very good thing for us this year, because we decided to take a new adventure into Christmas...

Capturing Thanksgiving
I know you're used to seeing my YouCapture contributions on Thursdays, but Beth gave us the assignment of capturing what we ate. Now that would have meant getting in photos of Thanksgiving treats for most...but since we're here in Germany there they don't celebrate...
Last minute Thanksgiving table project
I was skimming through a few of the blogs I haunt and over on Going Home to Roost, Bonnie threw out an idea which I really thought would be fabulous for our Thanksgiving Day table. I have a few more days to get this all pulled together since we're not having the big...

10 Things I’m Thankful For
This will probably be the top ten Tuesday topic of the week, but I'd say that it's pretty darn important for us to all take a few moments and reflect on the things that we are thankful for in our lives. Unfortunately life gets hectic and we forget to be grateful for...


