Quick stop at the Morristown dog park before NYE with Ian, Amanda, and Sandy.

bed/dead time

Ollie was superexcited about his new toy from I and A, but like most of the toys that he got from my mom this week, it didn't last him very long :(

I was convinced that I lost my camera yesterday. I thought it fell out of the car at a rest stop. It had all of the pictures on it since December 6th. I was SAD, but continued to take pictures with Ben's camera this morning:

But then this afternoon, I FOUND it!!! We were on our way to I and A's house and I decided to look one more time...

This is where it was. I looked there last night, but it was dark:

This is Ben's face when he saw that I had found my camera:

This is my camera:

When we got to Ian and Amanda's house, Ollie and Sandy played together and passed out together:

Ben and Ian both tried on a silly looking hat:

and Amanda kicked all our butts at wii golf:

Leaving Mattapoisett. No more snow.

at the wharf in Mattapoisett on my solo walk with Ollie.

Ollie is so excited by his rawhide that he doesn't notice the tissue paper, wrapping paper, and chocolate all over the room!

Ben's granny wears Ben's mom's new hat as she opens her Christmas presents.

TIRED on Christmas eve.

Ollie loves the snow!!!!

I dunno how Ben's mom does it, but this is how much apple she piles into a pie.

After a day of packing and cleaning, we headed to Ben's mom's house for Christmas:

When we got there, Ollie got to play in the deep untouched snow in the backyard:

I never manage to drink my whole cup of coffee, so Ben has started making me appropriate sized cups of coffee:

Ben rode Ollie today. It looked like fun.

Ollie and Ben love to play:

and I made yummy dinner with almost all the stuff I needed a use for from the farm:

Since I desperately needed to finish a paper today, we sent Ollie to doggie daycare. They take pictures there and post them on the internet. We were pleased to see that he wasn't so scared and anxious like his first day there, and when Ben picked him up, he was told that Ollie had found a girlfriend!!! Check it out:

Disclaimer: I'm almost completely sure that these pictures are out of sequence and we don't actually know the full story of what was going on, but we sure can make up fun things about what might have been going on!

Ollie brought home a Christmas tree from his walk.

Ben only hires employees who dress like him... Well, backwards of him...

The book of the week.

Ollie's got cotton hanging out of his mouth. Crazy dog.

Kisses.

Ben got me a pomegranate that I will consume when the semester's over. I'm a lucky lady.

Ollie says "What? What did I do?"

Don't know why I took this picture, but I did.

Ben lost the puppy.Then he found the puppy.

Then he constructed a new attachment for the puppy's leash, which the puppy chewed through later today.

I bundle up with a million clashing layers on in order to walk the pup.

Ben's favorite game to play is "puppy in a blanket."

My favorite game to play is "cuddle cuddle cuddle."

First night of Chanukah. Ben got me to light the candles. I was TIRED.

Good game of fetch!

I figured class might get cancelled when this snow plow repeatedly got stuck on our street:

So, for our snow day, we walked about three miles round trip from our friend F's house so that we could play with Ollie in his backyard. It turns out that my snow pants are only waterproof in some spots:

Mid-afternoon walk with Ollie in College Woods