A picture a day...

2010-03-19T20:51:00.000-04:00

Ollie shows off how big he is while mom and dad do work.

2010-03-18T20:49:00.000-04:00

Good night.

2010-03-17T20:48:00.000-04:00

Puppy and mama cuddle.

2010-03-16T20:47:00.000-04:00

Cutest doggie ever in his new favorite spot.

2010-03-15T22:18:00.000-04:00

"I'm a dog."

2010-03-14T21:21:00.000-04:00

Another rainy day :'-(

Good thing I've got my dad to play with!!! :-D

2010-03-13T22:29:00.000-05:00

Again, I didn't take this picture, but found it on loldogs today and wanted to share my excitement with you, gentle readers.

2010-03-12T20:45:00.000-05:00

It's Spring Break, so I got to park in the first spot in the parking lot today! Woooohooooo!

2010-03-11T20:45:00.000-05:00

Me in my new fleece at my internship. Yes. It's a little bright.

2010-03-10T20:43:00.000-05:00

My hair's getting longer and I can do stuff with it!

2010-03-09T20:42:00.000-05:00

AMAZING day outside.

2010-03-08T20:41:00.000-05:00

My head often does this at the end of the day.

2010-03-07T23:05:00.000-05:00

I don't have a picture for today, so here's the wikipedia article on March 7: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/March_7

2010-03-06T22:26:00.000-05:00

I didn't take this picture, but I found it on loldogs today and thought I'd share it :)

2010-03-05T22:20:00.000-05:00

A few weeks ago, I replaced my ugliest phone ever with this slide phone, which was one of the 3 or 4 possibilities whose primary purpose was to make phone calls.

2010-03-04T20:39:00.000-05:00

Pre-bedtime photo shoot. I love my pink shirt.

2010-03-03T20:38:00.000-05:00

In the office. Computer mirror.

2010-03-02T21:17:00.002-05:00

Meant to make dinner for 2. It turned out to be dinner for 20. Pulled chicken, beans, potatoes, spinach, corn and cole slaw. Oh. and there was some outrageous Ben and Jerry's ice cream flavor for dessert that we had to put off until tomorrow.

2010-03-01T21:19:00.000-05:00

Ben puts tripods on my head.

2010-02-28T20:36:00.000-05:00

Sometimes I use my computer's camera instead of a mirror.

2010-02-27T20:35:00.000-05:00

Power always comes back on at Frank's house before our house.

2010-02-26T20:34:00.000-05:00

Power outages bring us all together at Adelle's.

2010-02-25T21:43:00.001-05:00

This picture is the only proof we could find that Ollie was actually at daycare today. Some days he's a camera hog. Some days he disappears into the background.

2010-02-24T20:32:00.000-05:00

My computer takes pictures backwards.

2010-02-23T20:30:00.000-05:00

Daddy cuddles puppy.

Puppy punches daddy.

Daddy recovers while puppy licks his own stuff.

2010-02-22T20:29:00.000-05:00

Ollie loves looking out the window

and may very well be the longest dog ever.

2010-02-21T20:27:00.001-05:00

Of all the things in this house to eat, Ollie, my computer may very well be the worst.

2010-02-20T20:25:00.001-05:00

ALWAYS the dirty kid at the dog park. Today, he led all the other dogs into the mud puddle before he claimed his place as king of the upside down empty doggie pool. Thank goodness his dirt repellent fur makes the mud magically disappear within a couple hours :)

2010-02-19T20:22:00.001-05:00

Last night I hosted a (not during Passover) Seder as a multicultural event for twenty counseling students. I suppose I need to clean the kitchen now.

2010-02-18T20:21:00.000-05:00

Ollie found a yummy cardboard box.

2010-02-17T20:21:00.000-05:00

Yep.

2010-02-16T20:18:00.001-05:00

Ollie and Ben both love snow.

2010-02-15T20:15:00.002-05:00

I and A came for a visit, which was great! Ben got to go to Freeport two days in a row. I was exhausted/cranky/silly the whole time. Weird day. Anyway, I wanted to get in this display, but was convinced not to.

2010-02-14T20:14:00.001-05:00

Ben went to Freeport with friends while I stayed home and did homework on Valentine's Day, so he came back with this awesome shirt for me from the Patagonia outlet. Best Husband Ever.

2010-02-13T20:12:00.001-05:00

I'm a cruel puppy mama and love to tie pieces of fleece around Ollie's legs so he can untie them himself. He's good at puzzles! I think it's fun for him!

2010-02-12T20:10:00.001-05:00

This is what I look like when I sleep, and sometimes when I do school work.

2010-02-11T20:08:00.000-05:00

This seems to be a picture of my floating head on the floor next to the couch. I'm sure that's not actually what's going on, but since I'm not sure what is going on, I'll leave it at that.

2010-02-10T22:15:00.000-05:00

I think this is America's Test Kitchen and I think they're making chocolate chip cookies, but I wouldn't swear to it.

2010-02-09T20:07:00.001-05:00

Ollie, if you stop licking your hurt toenail, you won't have to wear that lovely Elizabethan collar anymore!

2010-02-08T20:06:00.000-05:00

Carrot parsnip cake is fabulous (as are baking dates with fun friends)!

2010-02-07T20:02:00.002-05:00

During the Superbowl, Ollie and Juneau played nice, despite the fact that Ollie invited himself onto her bed. We've gotta teach that boy some better etiquette.

Also, Juneau is not so camera shy:

2010-02-06T20:00:00.002-05:00

After the show, we stayed at R and K's apartment and met their cat, Sylvester, who seems as if he may have udders. Sweet boy, though.

2010-02-05T19:58:00.002-05:00

Knowing that I had made people call me Queen Elizabeth as a child, my former boss bought me this. Appropriately, I drank out of it on the day when I was lucky enough to go see my former students put on a production of Jekyll and Hyde that just blew me away.

2010-02-04T19:57:00.002-05:00

Went ice skating today for internship. Got lots of compliments on my blade protector things...

2010-02-03T19:55:00.000-05:00

Ben teaches Ollie to balance on two legs with West Wing on in the background.

2010-02-02T19:54:00.001-05:00

This is how I felt at the end of this day.

2010-02-01T19:51:00.001-05:00

There was a heart in my pancake this morning. Wasn't there a blog or something that started kind of like this?

2010-01-31T22:13:00.000-05:00

Ben got Ollie manlier looking looking poop bags than our usual ones.

2010-01-30T19:49:00.002-05:00

The two best pictures to ever come out of doggie daycare:

"Husky girlfriend, how did you get under there?!?!"

"She's so sweet!"

2010-01-29T19:47:00.000-05:00

Big dog. Little space.

2010-01-28T19:44:00.000-05:00

Ben has been trying to get me to buy rain pants for years. Today, mine came in the mail!!! Marmot Precips with full side zips and in a petite length. Score!

2010-01-27T19:42:00.001-05:00

Ben figured out how we could get New Hampshire Public Television on our TV again, so we hosted a State of the Union Address gathering.

2010-01-26T19:41:00.000-05:00

Ollie still working on the rope toy his grandma gave him for Hannukah....

2010-01-25T19:38:00.001-05:00

Looking kind of pretty at my internship and wearing earrings given to me for my birthday by R when I was living with her a couple summers ago :)

2010-01-24T19:36:00.000-05:00

These are the notes I took during what was perhaps the best debrief of an activity that I've ever facilitated.

2010-01-23T19:34:00.000-05:00

Every year, in late January, we decide it's time for Ben's car to start again. This is us trying to jump it with my car. It didn't work.

Later in the day, I experimented to see whether kumquats would be a good substitute for oranges in my Blue Moon. Verdict: Lovely.

2010-01-22T19:32:00.001-05:00

Simultaneously cuddling the puppy and doing school work... It's an acquired skill.

2010-01-21T19:28:00.000-05:00

Today, I tried to bring a banana to my first day of internship. Unfortunately, I was holding so many things (and taking the dog out to the car with me too so that I could drop him of at daycare) that I dropped and stepped on the banana. :(

2010-01-20T21:34:00.001-05:00

Doggie and toys.

2010-01-19T18:11:00.000-05:00

We had the other GA's over for dinner. The buffalo chicken pizza was a big hit. Here's a picture of the men keeping the pups from crazifying all over each other.

2010-01-18T18:09:00.001-05:00

Me, Ollie, cross country skis, snowshoes, and Ben. It's snowing!

2010-01-17T23:32:00.002-05:00

We had an impromptu gathering at our house tonight. I've been feeling lonely and around 4, I demanded that we have friends over, so I invited over a couple people, and then another, and then another couple, and another... We cleaned and cooked fast.... And then we had a mini-games night with venison stew, baguettes, cheese, olives, and mini buffalo chicken and tomato mozzarella basil paninis... Plus some cookies and ice cream. Such a great night.

This picture features everyone trying to solve little metal bar puzzles, which we did while playing a huge game of Flux. Now it's time to watch Harry Potter and go to sleep...

2010-01-16T11:57:00.001-05:00

plus

equals:

YUM!!!

2010-01-14T11:55:00.000-05:00

Ollie went to doggie daycare and we cleaned the house and then went to Freeport. While in Freeport, we met this very angry glove:

2010-01-13T11:52:00.001-05:00

Ben made a prototype hat:

The fleece on the inside was my idea!

2010-01-12T11:48:00.001-05:00

Ben set up and began to use our new sewing machine.

I used red cabbage and red onions to make this purple-y mushu concoction

2010-01-11T11:45:00.000-05:00

My hair's getting long.

2010-01-10T11:41:00.001-05:00

Last night, I made yummy baguettes.

Today, the boys relaxed...

and Ben scared Ollie with his new foam axes.

2010-01-09T11:39:00.001-05:00

Very cold lots of layers day.

2010-01-08T17:35:00.000-05:00

This morning, Ben and I both had to go in to work, so we tried to get Ollie into his wire crate in the bedroom upstairs. He refused to even come up the stairs because he didn't want us to leave him, so I went to the car and got his travel crate out. Before I was even done setting it up in the living room, he happily climbed in. This is what Ben came home to 4 hours later (Well, this and a puppy with duct tape stuck to himself in various places) :

That white thing used to be a tightly fitting fuzzy cover for the wooden bottom (which Ollie had already cracked a couple times, necessitating the duct tape). All Ben could do was laugh...

2010-01-07T16:32:00.000-05:00

While on vacation, we found that Ollie likes to sleep under the table while we eat. When at home, we used to eat at the coffee table, which has no underneath, and Ollie would bark incessantly at us and make the process unpleasant. So... when we got home, we cleared the table and the space underneath the table so we can experiment with the idea of eating in peace.

2010-01-06T11:31:00.000-05:00

Ollie tries on his new backpack!

2010-01-05T12:11:00.000-05:00

ummm.... I'm looking for a picture now?

2010-01-04T11:29:00.000-05:00

Ollie cuddles my face as we head home.

2010-01-03T11:25:00.000-05:00

hmmm....

2010-01-02T20:23:00.001-05:00

I got Ben mad and he went into hiding. I forget why.

Update because I remember why: We were leaving the Indian restaurant we went to with my dad and his girlfriend and I ate the stuff that you eat when you're leaving... You know, the stuff with the fennel and licorice-y tasting sugary stuff... Ben hates that and apparently I reeked of it.

2010-01-01T12:11:00.000-05:00

happy new year! picture to come.

2009-12-31T16:21:00.000-05:00

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

2009-12-30T23:19:00.000-05:00

bed/dead time

2009-12-29T21:11:00.001-05:00

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 :(

2009-12-28T20:59:00.002-05:00

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:

2009-12-27T20:57:00.000-05:00

Leaving Mattapoisett. No more snow.

2009-12-26T20:55:00.000-05:00

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

2009-12-25T20:53:00.002-05:00

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.

2009-12-24T21:16:00.000-05:00

TIRED on Christmas eve.

2009-12-23T20:44:00.000-05:00

Ollie loves the snow!!!!

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

2009-12-22T20:38:00.003-05:00

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:

2009-12-21T20:35:00.002-05:00

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.

2009-12-20T20:27:00.003-05:00

Ollie and Ben love to play:

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

2009-12-19T21:51:00.001-05:00

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!

2009-12-18T19:36:00.001-05:00

Ollie brought home a Christmas tree from his walk.

2009-12-17T19:35:00.000-05:00

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

2009-12-16T19:20:00.000-05:00

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.

2009-12-15T19:18:00.000-05:00

Ollie says "What? What did I do?"

2009-12-14T21:21:00.000-05:00

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

2009-12-13T21:35:00.001-05:00

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.

2009-12-12T21:35:00.000-05:00

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

2009-12-11T19:14:00.001-05:00

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.

2009-12-10T21:31:00.000-05:00

Good game of fetch!

2009-12-09T21:28:00.000-05:00

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: