Pool Girls

Summer is a time to hang out by the pool. Of course, Lotti and Tulli both love to lounge around the pool and enjoy the sunshine! 

Tulli living her best life, poolside!

Just a girl, waiting for drink service at the pool

Tulli was so proud to pose by our new flowers!

Lotti and me relaxing after a swim

My blue-eyed beauty

I feel like this photo would be their album cover!

Proudly wearing their Pride scarves! Friends to all!

Furball 2024...

Our annual night at the Wayside Waif's Furball was a hit! The theme this year was Bark N Roll. This is by far my favorite gala to attend as it is more fun to wear a fun costume than a fancy dress!

Our table won the award for best dressed table!

Ken and me with Dolly Pawton!

Dee Snyder and Stevie Nicks!

We cannot wait to attend next year, when our girls are going to get to make an appearance with their photos on one of the cocktail bar signs!

More Life with the two Girls...

Tulli fits into our family effortlessly. It was like she was meant to be ours. We love spending as much time with her as possible. Lotti loves her very much and it is fun to watch how they have bonded and look to one other for comfort.

They are daddy's girls!

Learning to be best friends

Snuggle buddies

Our beautiful Tulli girl

Tulli loves to spend as much time with her daddy as possible!

My little hams

Playing in the yard

Going on their first walk together

Proud of her ball

We are looking forward to getting to know our Tulli girl even more!

Sisters

These girls became fast friends, which was a huge relief! Ken had an out of town trip the weekend after we adopted Tulli, so I was hoping the adjustment would happen quickly. We took it slow, but by the end of the weekend, these two were loving each other!

The first sister photo. My heart.

Sister kisses

Posing for a photo to send to daddy

My loves!

Tulli

Meet our sweet girl, Tulli Purcell. She is the newest addition to our family. She was one of my mama's dogs and today she came to live with us. We are so thrilled to have her here with us and cannot wait for our life as a family of four!

Our Tulli girl

Cruising to Kansas City, not quite sure what to think, but loving her blankie!

Stay tuned for many more photos and stories of Miss Tu and her sister Lotti!

Christkindlmarkts 2023...Day 9: Christmas and Traveling Home

Waking up in Munich on Christmas is both a happy and sad day. For one, it is Christmas! We are traveling home to see our girl, Lotti! Number two, it is sad because it means we are leaving our favorite city. When we leave, there is always the hope of returning the following year, but nothing is ever promised. 

We had breakfast at our hotel and took the S-Bahn to the airport. We enjoyed a little time in the lounge at the airport before boarding our flight.

Getting cozy for our long haul flight home

Christmas mimosas!!!

Our flight was very lowkey and not very full at all. We ended up talking to one of the flight attendants a lot and several great tips for future travel in the Alps! Our Christmas day flight was just as relaxing as we could hope for.

My Christmas dinner, pumpkin ravioli

Ken's Christmas dinner, goose. Our flight attendant said this is a German tradition.

We had a wonderful time in Germany. This trip was a little more stressful than other trips. We were dealing with my mom being ill and managing it from afar. When discussed with her, she 100% wanted us to go on our trip to enjoy our time away together, knowing we would see her when we returned home. Even though we had her blessing, she was always on our minds and it was difficult to fully enjoy our time knowing she was not 100%.

As I always try to do, I made a video of short clips of our time away to somehow try to show how cute the markets are. The video fails miserably at capturing the smells and the overall environment, but alas, it is the best I can do!

2023 Germany Christkindlmarkts

Christkindlmarkts 2023...Day 8: Christmas Eve

The Marienplatz Christkindlmarkt closes prompting at 2:00 pm on Christmas Eve. We enjoyed the market for final snacks and shopped around a bit for a few gifts. Sadly, it was raining so we were dodging the rain a bit. We decided to forego lunch at the market and was able to to get inside the Augustiner just before they stopped serving lunch and drinks for the day.

Christmas Eve lunch at the Augustiner

We dropped our purchases from the market off in our hotel room and decided to go for a long walk in Englischer Garten Park. It was a nice beautiful chilly day to enjoy the park. We were delighted to see that gluhwein was being sold at one of the stalls at the Chinesischen Turm Christkindlmarkt. Of course, we had to stop to enjoy a final gluhwein!

My handsome husband enjoying the last gluhwein of the season.

As we were leaving the park, we noticed that one of the drink spots we love so much in the summer was open and serving gluhwein! We had just enough cash left to be able to enjoy one more. Luckily for me, this stall sells rose!

Englischer Garten Park Gluhwein stall, open on Christmas Eve!

Buying our gluhwein

Three gluhwein options at this location

We were not the only ones taking advantage of this stall on Christmas Eve

So happy to be enjoying a bonus gluhwein!

This being our third time to spend Christmas Eve in Munich, we knew that our dining options would be limited. We also knew from last year, that there is a small cafe that is open that serves slices of pizza. We had pizza slices to go last year, but enjoyed pizza and drinks inside the cafe this year.

Christmas Eve dinner!

After pizza, we walked through the Marienplatz one final time to bid farewell, as we were leaving in the morning. 

Merry Christmas Eve!!

We ended the night with a glass of wine and paprika chips in our hotel room and feeling grateful that we got to visit our favorite city during Christmas.