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 Rory!

Rory turned 1 year old yesterday! It's hard to believe how fast the year went.

Let's look back at the pictures from this past year...

4 weeks

9 weeks

12 weeks

12 weeks

20 weeks

20 weeks

21 weeks

22 weeks

23 weeks

25 weeks

6 months

6.5 months - first haircut

7 months - just neutered

7.5 months

8 months

8.5 months

8.5 months

9 months

9 months 

9.5 months

10 months

11 months

11.5 months

12 months

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!