Capping the night off with a walk home along the Arno River, eating some stunningly delicious gelato. Deb got coconut and pistachio, Eren and I got Hazel nut and white chocolate cinnamon ❤️
🙂↔️ We made it through the monsoon ✅
🙂↔️ Pulled a Hail Mary and had the USDA overnight the pup’s “passports” to my old office downtown ✅
🙂↔️ Dropped one of the pups with TSA 😭 ✅
🥳 Amen & AMEN - GOD is SOOOOOO GOOD!! 🙌🏻
🥳 ITALY, HERE WE COME!! 🇮🇹 🥂
@VivaLaAmes11
Gilly & Buster are all snuggled up and enjoying a post-dinner siesta. 🙌🏻🙌🏻🙌🏻 So happy they are sleeping (finally) and eating like champs!! 🙌🏻♥️
@VivaLaAmes11
The only way we grow is by pushing outside our comfort zones!!
Ames, you’re such a TRUE inspiration - I can’t thank you enough!!
I’ll say it again… My beautiful Cousin - I just love you sooooo much I could BURST!!!!
Auntie Maggie and the cousins are enamored with the exciting details
@VivaLaAmes11
is telling them about their new home in Florence!! 🇮🇹 Watching this is nothing short of magical. 🤩😍♥️ Soooo much love!! ☺️
Airport officials caught Gilly on the runway. She’s being aggressive so they had to take Eren off the flight to go calm her and get her back into the kennel.
It’s no
@VivaLaAmes11
cooking, but I think I did pretty good?! My momma (aka Auntie Linda), loved it so I must’ve done something right!! 🙋🏼♀️👏🏻👏🏻
Hurry home, Ames!! 🙏🏻♥️ I loveeeeee you!!!!! 🙋🏼♀️♥️😘
Happy Birthday to my beautiful, amazing, sweet, humble, strong, hardworking, smart, loving cousin Deborah. I can't wait to see you for b-day sleep overs and Christmas fun!🎄
I love you to the moon and back, Birthday Girl!❤️
@travel_debs
Run out to grab a drink with a friend and hit the “find my friend”
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location to get home… 😳 🥸🤣 Only 4564 miles 🤷🏼♀️ 🏃🏼♀️🏃🏼♀️🏃🏼♀️I’m on my way!!
Dropping by your BFFs house unannounced cuz you miss her sooooo much and need to squeeze her (when she lives 1.5 hours away) deserves a photo!! I love you, She!!!!! 🙋🏼♀️♥️😘😘😘
As the saying goes, 'home is where the heart is,' and indeed, this house will forever hold a piece of our hearts, filled with cherished memories and SO MUCH love!!!!!! ♥️🙏🏻
I love you more than you’ll EVER know,
@VivaLaAmes11
!!!!
🚨 🚨 🚨 Proud SISTER Moment 🚨 🚨 🚨
& a huge SHOUTOUT to
@carrieunderwood
for writing this amazing book's Foreword!! 👏 👏 👏
Pre-order your copy TODAY!!
#mealsinajar
My Cousin Di (Cousin Deb's sister) has just finished writing another amazing cookbook. She's the "Canning Diva," and has made a name for herself in the food preservation biz. If you're into that or know somebody who is, please, pre-order her new book "Meals in a Jar"
After shoveling ice/snow in the below-zero temps, my AMAZING cousin Amy made me THE BEST cup of hot chocolate I’ve EVER had!! 🙌🏻 Perfection. ♥️♥️♥️ Thank you, Ames!! 🙋🏼♀️♥️😘😘😘
Good ol’
@realDonaldTrump
back in the day on The Nanny - Circa 1996, S4/E4 “The Rosie Show” (of all seasons & episodes, that’s the one he’s on…?! lol)
@frandrescher
🥰
The yogurt at this market by my house comes in a glass jar, and is much thinner than back home. I got some fresh fruit for Deb and made her toast and jam! She loved it!
Deb is covered in “no-see-um” bites from her trip to Florida. I just got done putting her goofy homemade concoction all over her. She’s COVERED in them & itches so bad. Never heard of these little a-hole bugs, have you?
Deb loves animals, but she has none because she travels a lot. But that’s all changed now. Meet “Sassy,” Deb’s pet fish, who she brought to my house in a Tupperware container (she drilled holes in the lid) filled with water & rocks 😆 I will say, she’s very attached to Sassy! 😆
Me and my cute lil momma are making signs for our neighbors yard sale!! 🥸🤭🤩 These are gonna be great!!
(And yes, that’s golden girls on the tv playing 🤗💯)
Part One:
Lovely. 🤨 My neighbors have decided to get all sortsa turnt-up on a Monday. 🤦🏼♀️ I mean, come on, it’s after midnight and homegirl has to be up early. Just go to bed already, ya idiots!!!! 😫
🚨Super Proud Cousin Moment 🚨
I’m SO dang proud of my Cousin Eren 🙌🏻She slayed her first 60-min HOT (Bikram) 🥵 yoga class!! 👏🏻 She killed it!! 💪🏻
I can’t wait to take a the ‘official’ 90-min with her next week (post-holiday/Ames’ surgery)! 🥳🤩💃🏼
#namaste
🧘🏼♀️🙏🏻
In case you’re wondering where Cousin Deb gets her “work ethic” from… the Apple doesn’t fall far from the tree 😆 Auntie Linda insisted on dusting the entire house today!
@travel_debs
This is my beautiful mom when she had her whole amazing life ahead of her. Her name is Diane & she's a spitfire, fiercely loyal, complex & generous. She had battles, but her faith in the lord guided her. She's taking her final breaths, and I just wanted you all to see her.
Tonight Eren made Beef & Broccoli, “Chinese takeout-style.” She did the “velveting” of the beef like the restaurants do. We used a cheap round roast and it was super tender. It turned out so good!
Would you let this lady into Italy?🇮🇹 This is it, guys, I’m ready to go to my big meeting at the Italian consulate. I’ve got on my white flowy shirt, my stripped euro palazzo pants & all my paperwork is in order, this is for all the marbles! LFG!
Then there’s this majestic, sweet, loving boy, Bentley!! He has the patience of a saint with that crazy precious lil Hazel!! I love this sweet baby boy sooooo much!!!!!! 🤗🥰♥️😍🥰
Plastic surgery update day 26 post op: still have some swelling under eye and along jaw line & redness, but over all huge improvement. I have on full face of makeup today (although I just noticed I didn’t blend my contour very good lol) anyhoo, on my way to Sunday dinner with