Schloss Stolzenfels

A couple of weeks ago we drove up to Koblenz, and visited Schloss Stolzenfels. It's a gorgeous castle with an interesting past. We were able to take a tour of the inside (no pictures allowed though, sad face.) We even had to put on slippers over our shoes so we wouldn't ruin the original wood floors. The kids had a blast skating around in them.  The funny thing is last night I found a 2011 calendar in our drawer that shows castles from all around Europe. I kept it thinking maybe I could do something with the photos. Right on the cover was the castle we had just visited! How cool. (This is a calendar we bought in South Dakota while we were home visiting!) I had to show my husband and ask him if it looked familiar. We saw some other castles while we were up in the area but I'll save them for another post. (One of them was in the calendar too...)

Here are the pictures from the calendar...

Save the Date

I got the cutest save the date in the mail the other day, I just had to share it with you. I can't wait to see the invitations.

 It's a magnet!!

The Rapture

It's a very good thing that I don't believe in the rapture because seeing this would have really freaked me out....

There was even a pair of underwear in the pants!!!!

She told me she was picking out her clothes for school the next day :)

I've been coming across more and more "flat kids" over the last couple weeks. There was even a flat ballerina!  (The tights were inside the leotard along with a pair of underwear inside the tights, a pair of leg warmers over the legs of the tights, and skirt around the waist.) 

A surprise for the entrants in the January hat give-away

I'm feeling generous this week so to show my appreciation to every one that entered the hat-give-away last month I have a  Surprise! 

Every-one that shared my blog on Facebook and commented on the blog post is going to get a custom made hat :) The hats are finished. I will try to mail them out as soon as possible. If I don't already have your addresses please message them to me on the fan page. Thanks!

This one is my favorite. There is something about baby hats...

That one ^^ is for Mike and Brandy

Miss Amanda ^^

Cathy ^^ (If you want something else let me know, I didn't know what to make you)

And this hat belongs to the winner - who has already received it :)

Superstitious?

When we stayed at the Hilton in Nuremberg I noticed something odd about the room 213.....

Curiousity got the better of me and I had to check out the other floors as well...

The rooms ending in '13' were the ONLY rooms with a horseshoe under the room numbers in the entire hotel. Have you ever seen anything like this at a hotel before? I tried to Google it but I didn't find much although this page was an interesting read.


Are you superstitious? 
(I was born on the 13th and have had 4 black cats so I would have to say I'm not)

My little monster

Little h got face paints today...

Why won't she pose like this withOUT the make-up? 

I wonder what she'll want to be tomorrow?  If it doesn't wash off I guess she'll be a witch again ;)

Hat give-away winner

Yay! I finally finished the hat for the hat give away contest I had awhile back. He requested a monster but I had to try to man it up a little. I was a teeny bit out of practice so I had a make a couple other hats before I got it right but here it is. I hope the winner's husband enjoys it and still gets a little use out of it this winter since it took me so long to finish. It'll probably be cold in Kansas for a couple more months, hehehe!

I was thinking I should have another contest when my facebook fan page gets to 100 likes. Keep sharing the statuses and referring your friends and you could be chosen for the next hat give-away!