Happy Snow Day!

We got a few inches of snow last night! The dogs are super excited that I am working from home today, because that means that they get to play in the snow a lot. Here are some pictures from early this morning when they got to enjoy the snow.

Dogs in the snow

Action shot of Rory stirring up the snow trying to play with Darcy

Darcy

Rory (Darcy went inside to get warm!)

Snow beard!

Running a fast as he can through all of the snow!

Hope you have a great day!

Happy Halloween!

We are not big into Halloween over here, but we still do some celebrating! We are excited for lots of trick-or-treaters to come by the house tonight. That's one of the fun benefits of living in a big neighborhood with lots of kids... you get to see some crazy costumes and hand out lots of candy each Halloween.

Last year's front porch decorations

I don't have any true Halloween decorations up, everything is more Fall/harvest themed. I just love the look of pumpkins and mums and I like that you can keep them out longer than Halloween decorations, all the way until Thanksgiving! I didn't go as crazy with the mums and pumpkins as I did last year, but I still have a few. Here's a picture I took last night. Maybe I'll collect some more before thanksgiving ;)

Darcy and Rory will of course be dressing up to greet everyone tonight. Darcy will be his usual hot dog, it's the easiest and most successful costume that we've tried with him. We got a last minute costume for Rory last night and he's going to be a pirate. We will see how long it takes him to destroy that hat.

Rory the pirate

Last year as a hot dog

Hope everyone has a great and safe Halloween!!

Happy Birthday Darcy!

Four years ago, our dog Darcy was born. He has been such a big part of our lives and I can't imagine what it  would be without him. He is constantly bringing a smile to our faces and loves unconditionally.  Here are some pictures all the way back from when we got him!

The weekend we brought him home, Oct. 2009

Halloween 2009, that pumpkin was a little too big ;)

Christmas 2009

His first snow, Jan 2010

On his first birthday

Christmas 2010

Getting his stocking on Christmas

At the beach

4th of July!

Fall at our new house

Christmas 2011

On the deck, Spring 2012

At the beach

Fall 2012

Christmas with his new brother, Rory

This weekend at the beach

 Happy Birthday Darcy!!

p.s. Way to go if you made it through all of those pictures, lol.

Hello June!

Wow, can you believe it's June already? I love this month and the warm weather that it usually brings, not to mention my birthday is coming up!

It was a great weekend and start to the month.  On Saturday, I went to the pool with a friend. It was warm and really nice to just relax and chat.

On Saturday afternoon, Kevin and I picked up Darcy from the groomer's.  He got his summer haircut and looked so cute. I know he is feeling much happier now to be rid of all of that hair!

Then, later on, we picked strawberries from a nearby farm. It's crazy how much better fresh-from-the-field strawberries taste than the ones from a grocery store.

Saturday night, we went to the movies and saw The Great Gatsby. It was really good, both of us enjoyed it.

Sunday, I made strawberry ice cream and strawberry cream pie (similar recipe here) with our fresh strawberries. I also cut and froze about a quart for future use in frozen drinks ;)

The rest of the weekend was spent relaxing and tending to my garden. Oh, and I can't have a post showing a picture of Darcy without including one of Rory. Here's one from this weekend after he stole my sock, lol! He's changed a lot over the past few months, but he is still so sweet and weighs less than 25 lbs. But, don't let the weight fool you though, he's lanky and definitely pretty high energy!

Happy Halloween!

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Happy Halloween everyone!

I hope everyone has a great day.  I'm excited to see all of the trick-or-treaters from our neighborhood tonight. There are always a lot of cute costumes, I just hope we have enough candy!  Darcy is being a skunk tonight ;) This is the picture from the package, hopefully he will cooperate and end up looking something like this too!

I love our dog!

I just picked Darcy up from the groomers and he looks so cute! I was actually able to get some good pictures of him.  :)  Just wanted to share them here.

Happy Fall!

So, yes, I'm a little bit late on the whole Fall thing. But, I hate cold weather, so it's taken me a little while to adjust to the change in temperatures.  However, with Fall and cool weather comes fun holidays, food and friends/family, so that's exciting.  I finally got around to decorating our front door a couple of weeks ago.  I got the wreath from Pottery Barn, added the ribbon, and then I had to get some mums. :)

Oh and Happy Belated Halloween to everyone.  Ours was uneventful, we didn't have any Trick or Treaters...  However, we did dress Darcy up for the Pet Parade at our apt complex. It was a lot of fun, there were a lot of dogs dressed up in great outfits.  Darcy was a cow and although I wasn't able to get a great picture of him, it was cute! Although, he didn't appreciate the head piece/hood, so he pushed it off a lot. But, he was so excited to get to see so many other dogs at once.  Kevin and I laughed that the Pet Parade ended up being more successful than the Trick or Treating.

 

 

We also visited my parent's house this past weekend. We got their dog Toby to try on the cow costume, it was hilarious.  He's bigger than Darcy and looked so crazy in the outfit.  Here are two pictures of the two of them. The one of them on the hearth is so funny, if only their eyes weren't so evil looking, I like the way Toby is peering around Darcy, and it kind of looks like he has a cow baseball hat on.  ;)

Other than that, school/work has been pretty busy recently. There's lots going on, but I can't wait for Thanksgiving and Christmas breaks! Only a few more weeks! :)

Oh and, last weekend we stopped by Sweet Memories Bakery (where we got our wedding cake) to get some Fall treats (although we ended up with cupcakes).  But, they are going to be on Food Network's Challenge this weekend on Sunday at 8. We're excited to watch!

Yumm, delicious cupcakes!