It's Vacation Time - WOOT WOOT

Happy TGIF guys and dolls!  How are you?  Great, I hope!  My husband and I are leaving today for vacation and are SUPER excited to say the least!  It's going to be a VERY long trip - we are driving - ugh!  One leg of the trip is going to be about 18 hours alone. :(  First Stop - Illinois and Indiana to see my husband's family that we've not seen in over 10 years.  We love his family and he's super close to his cousins there and we can't wait to hang out with them all.  We will spend a few days in Indiana and Chicago before heading back down towards Arkansas.  We will then meet up with his mom for a night or two before moving on to our daughter's home.  After that we will be making our way back home to Texas.  Like I said, we are so excited, but it's wearing me out right now just thinking about all of the driving.  But, Steven and I love road trips together and can't wait to get some alone time.  We are both ready for a break away from the daily grind.  

So what's on your weekend agenda?  Anything fun and exciting?  I'm not sure how much blogging I will be doing over the next week, but promise to catch up with your blogs when I return.  I will have a lot of pictures  to post each day from our trip.  I hope you have a great weekend ahead and be sure to check back here next Monday, if not sooner, to see highlights from our trip! :)  And because I don't like to do a post without pictures - here you go:

Thanks for stopping by!  :)

Lots of love and hugs,

Post It Note Tuesday - Vacation Style

Happy Tuesday my peeps! How was your day yesterday?  Mine was good but boring at work - it was a very quiet and slow day..... *sigh*   In other news - I went to the dr. last night for the actual results from my ultrasound on my gallbladder and the tests were definitely NEGATIVE - nothing is there - YAY!!! No surgery for me - thank goodness! WOO HOO! :o)

Now... onto today's post-its - I know you are waiting for it so let's get right to it, shall we?! :O)  You know the drill - hop on over to Supah's and check it out and play along or just go check out everyone else's as there are always some pretty cool ones to read.  So without further adieu.....

 

Lots of love and hugs,

Post It Note Tuesday - Vacation Style

Happy Tuesday my peeps! How was your day yesterday?  Mine was good but boring at work - it was a very quiet and slow day..... *sigh*   In other news - I went to the dr. last night for the actual results from my ultrasound on my gallbladder and the tests were definitely NEGATIVE - nothing is there - YAY!!! No surgery for me - thank goodness! WOO HOO! :o)

Now... onto today's post-its - I know you are waiting for it so let's get right to it, shall we?! :O)  You know the drill - hop on over to Supah's and check it out and play along or just go check out everyone else's as there are always some pretty cool ones to read.  So without further adieu.....

 

Lots of love and hugs,

We Are Home!

Happy Friday my friends!  How have you been? I've missed you and am SO glad to be home!  I will have updates over the weekend with pictures but today I am just too exhausted to post much more than this.  I hope you have a wonderful weekend and hope to catch up on your blogs soon.

Lots of love and hugs, 

We Are Home!

Happy Friday my friends!  How have you been? I've missed you and am SO glad to be home!  I will have updates over the weekend with pictures but today I am just too exhausted to post much more than this.  I hope you have a wonderful weekend and hope to catch up on your blogs soon.

Lots of love and hugs, 

Wednesday Words

GOING HOME:

Boy, do we miss our house! At least we will get to see it for a day next week! :o) (Btw - this picture was taken before we landscaped and took out the "builder basic plants".)  It looks so much nicer now and also has fruit trees down the other side of the house that should be producing a lot of fruit now after 5 years of fruitation.

Two days and counting....*sigh*

Happy Hump Day my friends! :o)

Wednesday Words

GOING HOME:

Boy, do we miss our house! At least we will get to see it for a day next week! :o) (Btw - this picture was taken before we landscaped and took out the "builder basic plants".)  It looks so much nicer now and also has fruit trees down the other side of the house that should be producing a lot of fruit now after 5 years of fruitation.

Two days and counting....*sigh*

Happy Hump Day my friends! :o)

Germany Vacation - Day 7 - Final Day! - Warning LONG POST - LOTS of Pictures!

Happy Hump Day everyone! Hope you are having a glorious and blessed week.  Ours has been good but very busy.  We have finally came to the end of our wonderful Germany vacation and the pictures that go along with it.  So.... without further adieu....

We began our day with the visit of Frankenstein's Castle - it was SO NEAT to see it in person!

Frankenstein's Sign to the Castle:

this is the road on the way to the castle: (looks kind of creepy to me)

 

This reminds me of the woods of Twilight:

The main road walking to Frankenstein's Castle:

Frankenstein's Castle:

This is the inside of the castle where the villagers came up through this gate to kill the monster and burn the castle down:

This is the outside of the gate that the villagers came through:

This is the trail that they came up from the City below:

This is a beautiful and neat little chapel that is right next to the castle:

After our visit to the Castle we headed to the City of Rudesheim for the rest of the day for some great food and some more shopping - it was such a cute and quaint little village:

This is a really neat thing that is powered by heat from the candles you see in the picture- the heat from the candle is what moves everything (not sure what they are called):

These bells were on the side of a building randomly:

And I thought this was the neatest stained glass window - it was BEAUTIFUL!

Steven found a really neat ice cream shop down the above path:

They scoop out their ice cream and put it in scoops in the windows so when you make your choice the scoop is already there and they just transfer it from the window to the cone, cup, etc.:

 

Steven's Drink - can't remember what all was in it:

This was my drink - it was D.E.L.I.C.I.O.U.S! The Cherries in it were full of some type of Brandy - YUM!

This was Chris's Hot Coffee - he said it was really good too:

This is the view of the river in Rudesheim from the road:

After all the fun of the day, we went back to the apartment, put stuff up and headed out for our last dinner for the night.  Needless to say - the food wasn't good, but the beer was very good! These are all of our sad faces since it was our last night:

 

 Well, I know it was long today, but I hope you enjoyed the last leg of our trip to Germany.  Thanks for stopping by and please say hello before you leave! Tomorrow will be back to "normal" posting! 

Big hugs,
Trac~ :o)