Joe's Booth at the Home Show

I realized today that I never posted this. Bad me! Joe worked all weekend last weekend at the Bristol Home Show, about 25 minutes from where we live. He had a booth and talked to people about chiropractic. It was kind of a slow show, so it wasn't as successful as he had hoped, but he did get a couple new patients out of it. How could you not stop by this booth? Look how cute that man is!

In other news, it has rained non-stop here for the last 48 hours, and now today it started snowing again. I'm starting to think Spring will never come. But I'm getting away from it all for the weekend! Flying to Seattle at 4:40 p.m. today. Can't wait!

Looking forward to seeing a lot of you soon!

More Snow!

We woke up to a huge snow again the other morning. For some reason, the big snows always come when we're sleeping, so we never really get to see it coming down. But even though it snowed all night, it continued to snow throughout the day, too, so we got to see a lot. Joe was thrilled - finally a huge snow!

What we woke up to.

Joe had to shovel out the car... again. (He still lets me take the garage with the car I'm borrowing from my mom.)

Jackson and I starting out on our morning walk.

Jackson loving his snowy walk.

Ava, during most of the festivities.

I did actually get Ava out in the snow this time, though. It's the first time I have coerced her outside when there is snow on the ground. But I just had to at least get her to experience it. As you can see from the following video, she was none too pleased that I made her come outside for nothing.

The snow is sticking around this time. It's really pretty, but I'm pretty much ready for the spring now. Actually, I'm ready for summer. We can even skip over spring!

Valentine's Day

Joe and I had SUCH a nice day for Valentine's Day! First, we treated ourselves to Starbucks. The perfect day starts with Starbucks. :)



Then we took Jackson for a long walk along this trail in Southington. It was the perfect holiday for both our dogs - Jackson got a nice long walk and Ava got to sleep in uninterrupted at home.



After our walk we came home, got dressed up, and went out to lunch at this Thai Place we've been wanting to try. It was great food (and of course great company!).




After lunch, we headed to the theater to watch a movie. We don't get to go out that often, so it was really nice. We elected to watch Wolfman, which kind of cracked us up, since there were a ton of romantic movies to watch on Valentine's Day, but we chose the horror film.

The movie didn't get very good reviews, but we thought it was really good. Definitely worth watching if you like werewolf movies and don't mind a little (okay, a lot) blood and guts.


We headed to the store to pick up some dessert (hot berry pie for me; chocolate ice cream pie for Joe) and then went home and ate our dessert as we watched the newest episode of The Biggest Loser. (I know, something about that seems really wrong, but whatever).


It was a great day!

Joe's Home

Joe made it home safe and sound last night. We were all happy to have him home. As you can tell, the dogs missed him terribly!

Cute, huh?

Joe In Chicago

Joe is in Chicago this weekend and sent me a picture of his hotel room. I thought I would share it with you. He is having a great time at the conference, and is currently out having drinks with Dr. Grant and some of her friends. I'm jealous!

Look at how big that bed is! The dogs would love it! haha

Ava Walks!

Ava seriously hasn't been outside in, like, a month. I know that is horrible, but she is very good at manipulating me! It's been so cold and windy and rainy and snowy, and she just looks at me with those big eyes and digs into her blankets and basically begs me not to take her outside. And she really doesn't need that much exercise, so it's been okay. Probably not the healthiest, but okay.

Anyway, today I decided that it wasn't AS cold as most other days, so I was going to take her to the dreaded... OUTSIDE. You would have thought I was beating her with a stick the entire way. She really just hates it. The only dog I've ever met who cowers when she sees a leash. Ugh.

But she does look damn cute prancing around outside, I tell you. I just wish she didn't make me feel like crap for taking her for a walk!

I hate you mom! HATE YOU!

This shows the difference between our two dogs. Love them both though!

All By Myself (With the Dogs)

Joe left this afternoon for a chiropractic conference in Chicago. I just talked to him and he landed safely and he and his boss are headed out to dinner for traditional Chicago-style pizza. Sounds yummy.

It's strange being all alone in the house... I should be taking advantage of it, right? Hitting the town with some girl friends or at least watching Dirty Dancing in my pjs. But I miss him. He really wouldn't care if I watched Dirty Dancing in my pjs if he was here, that's the thing. He's that kind of guy.

But the dogs and I are making the most of it. I just took Jackson out for his nightly walk and now he is standing by the front window, looking outside and waiting for his dad. It's kind of sad. He is a daddy's boy. But it's good for the dogs and me to have some quality time together. (By the way, Ava just finished eating dinner and is now snuggled up under her snuggie again, where she lives 99% of the day. I'm pretty sure she's clueless anything different is going on.)

Joe will be back home on Saturday, which is great, because Sunday is Valentine's Day and although we don't have big plans we do want to spend it together.

I'm just hoping he takes advantage of his time in Chicago. It's not every day you get a free trip to a kick-ass city, right? Plus he will actually get to watch real-time television in his hotel room! Imagine that!