Showing posts with label Willow. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Willow. Show all posts

Tuesday, March 20, 2012

First day of spring - or is it summer?

I wouldn't believe it if I wasn't here to enjoy it for myself.



(Yes I did look at this at 6:33am - right before I headed out the door to work - another reason why I love the weekends!)

It has been sunny and warm for the past 5 days in a row and it feels amazing! We have a few more to go :) It certainly doesn't feel like March in Vermont.

Willow loves it too....




The nursery is getting painted this week! Be back soon with pics!

xo

Wednesday, February 8, 2012

Happy Birthday Willow!

I'm a few days late in wishing a Happy 3rd Birthday to my Will! We love our sweet noodle. It's hard to believe she is 3 years old! Look at this face - could you resist it?!



xo!

Tuesday, October 4, 2011

William and Jess!

This past weekend we traveled to Bald Head Island, NC to celebrate the wedding of our friends Jess and William! Matt was a groomsman in this wedding as well...he and William have been friends for many many years - it's such fun to see our friends get married!

You are going to be disappointed because this post isn't going to share much of the wedding fun we had...Our plane landed at midnight on Sunday night and I've been playing catch up ever since then so the pics will have to wait. I just wanted you to know I'm still here.

Lucky for Will she had a great weekend as well staying with her grandparents at the lake :) I received this pic showing how much she missed me.




Here are a few pics to whet your appetite...

We spent lots of time on this.




Celebrating these two.




I caught William by surprise as he left the ceremony - here is a happy picture :)




AND we had WAY too much fun with some glow sticks.




More on that later.

xo

Saturday, August 27, 2011

Dog Love

I'm sorry for my absence...My computer was at the computer doctor getting a check-up :) She's running great now though! Things are getting busy around here so it might take me a while to get up to date but I have lots to catch you up on as we've been doing lots of fun things!

I'll start with some Will cuteness. Willow has a new love. This plastic orange buoy is her absolute favorite thing in the world. To give you a little bit of background on them...Will doesn't like to fetch sticks in the water (my mom thinks she can't see them to get them). Early in the summer she decided she would pretty much exclusively chase rocks instead. By the middle of the summer, we were in a difficult situation because she would only go after those thrown perfectly so that she could ALMOST catch them, but not. Anyway, she loved swimming but wasn't much of a fetcher, more of a rock catcher.

My mom bought her these plastic orange things on clearance at Orvis and they are a HUGE hit!





Dock jumping has returned :)







Check out this video of her new favorite activity!



xo

Sunday, August 21, 2011

Summer...Please Don't End

I have to go back to school on Friday. Where did summer go? There are so many things I love about this season...

Sunny days



Tired dogs



Sunsets







Flowers









Fresh vegetables from the garden



Boat rides on the lake









Not working. Ha! I have to tell myself there are lots of things to look forward to this fall. Babies being born. A new job and fellowship. Weddings.

Including our friends Katie and James here next weekend...



My first in this place since our own :) So exciting!

xo

Monday, August 1, 2011

Weekend Updates

Happy Monday everyone! Hope you had a nice weekend. Mine was relaxing...time at the lake with fam, an all you can eat pizza night, and a book club pool party (more on our book selection later). Matt's weekend was fun but not so relaxing - a one night bach party in New York - woo hoo.

I realized I haven't shared some of our recent weekend activities so figured I'd post all the rest of the iphone pics I haven't gotten around to yet :)

A few weekends ago we celebrated my friend Katie's bachelorette! Hooray! I can hardly wait for their wedding the end of this month!





I did some antiquing and came across something familiar.....





Our house is slowly coming along. They are working on the floors again today so my house update post is delayed once more. I did plant some hosta along the back of the house.



Matt and I hiked up Camel's Hump a few weekends ago - our first hiking opportunity this year!











Poor Will has to be on her leash at the top to protect the "fragile alpine vegetation."



Flattering photo, isn't it?



Finally - if you want to see the entire panorama click here. Just a warning - it will probably make you dizzy.



OK guess you're all up to date :)

xo

Monday, May 16, 2011

Willa Nug

I haven't written much about the Nug recently, but that doesn't mean she's no longer the center of our universe. In fact, she receives more attention now than ever because we're feeling so bad for all the disruption we've caused the poor thing.

Just check out the princess. (Please excuse the unedited iphone photos and multiple shots of the blue room - that's pretty much the only place we can be in the house at this point.)





If you look closely in the background, you will see stick mountain is growing larger as I tackle more and more of the yard....





Today Willow had her yearly check-up at the Vet. Oh how she hates the vet. There is lots of nervous panting, trying to climb in my lap, and tail tucking involved. Somehow I always end up being the one who has to take her (maybe because I work a lot less than Matt?) and it's a pretty sad experience. I can only imagine taking a baby for shots. Yikes.




Will has gained 12 pounds since last year. Not sure how that happened! She's also decided recently that she doesn't want to eat (contradictory I know) unless we coax her with small handfuls of food first. The vet said it sounds more anxiety than GI related.

Wonder why she would be anxious? MAYBE it's because we force her to live in a room that looks and sounds like this.

*Note - you need sound to appreciate this one - the constant humming in the background is some sort of compressor...*






OR maybe it's because she takes after her MOM and starts to become depressed when she sees the forecast looks like this (after 3 days of steady rain already).




I guess there's hope for Saturday.

In other news, the lake is still flooding. Check out these pics of the ferry.








Not operating. No kidding.





OK that's it for now! Back with more house updates at some point....

xoxo

Sunday, May 1, 2011

I did it!

My first half marathon is finished! I ran the 13.1 miles in 1:55:19 (unofficially). I think I really ran about 1 minute faster than that :) Hooray!

It was such a fun day. Mom and Matt came down to cheer me on and a bunch of us ran....Here we are before the start.



What's that? You're wondering why I'm so pale? Remember that we live in Vermont and barely saw the sun for the month of April. More on the rain in a later post - ug.

And we're off!




The race was in Middlebury, which is such a beautiful place! About half of it was along dirt roads and the other half through the little town of Middlebury and Middlebury College.

Here we are right after the halfway point.







The end is in sight! I felt great for most of the race - I'm sure I'll be sore tomorrow....







So proud :)




We spotted some other neighbors/friends running as well....




An after picture.




We had a delicious pizza lunch with our cheering squads afterwards (I'm so sad I don't have a picture) and came home to enjoy the sunshine and 70 degree temps with the dogs.

Aren't they pretty?










What a happy day! I'll be back soon with a house update!