Little bit of drama at work. Little bit of red wine in the evening.

Made microwave brownies - split between these two ramekins  - 6 T hot chocolate mix, 4 T flour, 1/4 t vanilla, 3 T water, 2 T butter, handful of chocolate chips -- mix with fork, microwave for 90 seconds. Will NOT make these every day.

Ollie looks funny when he eats from his food ball with his cone on.

A's first ever game of Settlers of Catan. He won.

Five Guys for dinner!

Frozen paw print on the back deck.

Ollie cuddles a pillow.

Ben's check engine light came on, so we switched cars for a few days because I have the short commute. I called campus safety to let them know that I'd have a car without a sticker there for the week, but in order to do so, I needed the plate number. So here's the picture I took so that I knew the # (except I blurred it out for the internet).

My peeps/pups -- Also, cones of shame look funny in pictures.

So, a month ago or so, Ben came home from a bike ride and then answered the door in his spandex to see some girl scouts. He felt that because we were new to the neighborhood and because he looked weird, he should order some cookies. They magically arrived one day when I came home at lunch time to walk Ollie, and we happily spent the week or so eating them. Today, we went skiing and brought the last of the girl scout cookies with us (half happy to get them out of the house and half sad they'd be gone). Little did we know, there'd be more for sale in the ski lodge (we didn't buy them, though...).

I think I was trying to get a shot of Ollie doing something awesome, but somehow this is all I got.

Came home from Banff with these! Free (good) coffee!

Walking from the parking lot to the climbing gym, we came across this random piece of bread on the sidewalk. 

Hamilton College - the next generation (These babies are -2 months, 2 months, 6 months, and 10 months old.) at the Febfest chili cook-off.

One of my valentines

These boys do the best cuddling.

Internship lunch success!

Fridge finally broke forever. Contents in garage. New one to arrive at the end of the week.

Giraffe friend!

Family cuddle in the kitchen (I think Ben must be sitting on a stool while Ollie and I are standing.)

Too cold to not be grumpy.

Comfy boys.

Ollie standing upright to stalk this bush. I should have known this would happen, but later this week, I was home at lunch time talking to my third customer service rep in order to pay my mortgage and looked out the window to see Ollie laying calmly in the middle of the yard chewing on a bird... blech.

Took this picture to remind S that she had left this bottle top here from H's superbowl dinner.

Just your average superbowl party?

Decided not to do any physical outdoor activity and go to to the Saranac Lake Winter Carnival. Here's a picture of the ice castle being built. Since it had just rained that week, they were reconstructing parts of it for the big lighting that evening. The best part was watching them literally take the ice out of the water, where bricks of it had been cut and queued up, and then seeing it go almost directly onto the castle... Other highlight of the day - recent alum competing in the fry pan toss. What a weird and quaint day.

Arrived for Winter Extravaganza. Cross country skied superbriefly and then cooked three cheese ziti with eggplant, zucchini, and chicken (plus veggie versions and gluten free versions) for 50.

Ollie carry piece of wood on walk.

When I walk the pupster at lunch, I throw my funny looking boots on regardless of my outfit.

I seem to have dropped a piece of popcorn in my glass... whoops?

Ollie, what are you doing?

In the local supermarket - this definitely freaked me out - not just the first time I walked past it.

Ollie looking dignified as he guards the house

This morning Ollie followed me into the garage when I was going to work. I figured I'd put my stuff in the car and then open the door and he'd go back in the house, but he refused to come anywhere near the door. He seemed determined not to let me go to work. But there's nothing a little cheese in a kong can't fix. Yay for food motivated dogs. 

Sarah never expected to love Ollie as much as she does.

Ollie carried this big stick for a longer than average amount of time and it was so cute that I decided to take a picture, so he put it down. :-\

These are the things I found scattered around the house when I came home to hang out with the pup at lunch today. Oliver Quoz Oliver!!

This wishbone is from a teeny little chicken from our farm share that went into out Christmas Eve and New Year's Eve chicken pot pies. I decided that today was the day to finally make wishes, so I called Ben into the kitchen, we made our wishes, and then this happened. Ben was sooo sad. Whatever, we already have all the wonderfulness we need from life. 

Ben does weird stuff to our dog when I'm not around. 

Google Hangout with mom and sister on mom's birthday. My favorite thing to do is add hats and stuff 

Ollie sit like weirdo.

Yay for WINNING!!!

Sarah's mii is pretty amazing, and I think it's a good match for her new haircut.

I won by like a million points at wake boarding even though I didn't know what to do and looked like an idiot doing it. MAGIC!

Group of people and dogs who I love so much.

Fiveish years ago, I worked at a school and residential treatment center for behaviorally disordered teenagers. It was stressful for a whole number of reasons, and one of my coworkers and I would spend time making each other laugh on a regular basis. I'm not sure where this doll came from, but we began adorning her in hilarious and borderline inappropriate ways at some point as part of our fun. I can't begin to explain why, but this was an amazingly good release. Notice she's wearing a properly tied harness and chest harness. Well, I was unpacking boxes that had never been unpacked at our old house and found her. She is now somewhere in a trash heap, but I took pictures so I'll always remember "Baby."

Note to self: pausing on walk to take picture of jelly donut Ollie did

not eat gives Ollie time to pick up jelly donut. Pausing to take

picture of jelly covered finger from removing said donut from Ollie's

mouth gives Ollie time to pick up again and this time consume donut.

Ollie relaxing with Ben, contented to have eaten his first ever jelly donut.

Ben brought home a Noon Mark pie after winter trip!!! 

My coworker Leslie came home at lunch with me to repot a plant that I have somehow kept alive for a year and a half in an oversized mug. Look at those bizarre orange roots!