autumn is a second spring...

...when every leaf is a flower - albert camus

happy birthday DAD

happy birthday to the greatest DAD, aka big popi!

this picture reminds me of what my brother chris looks like these days - exhausted but full of love!

eli

would like you to throw that ball

self portrait shadow

mushroom ball paw

fall colors pouncey

fall seems pretty early this year. but it's pretty pretty too.

don't drink the kool aid

this ad is from 1975.

"so do something sweet for yourself. save yourself some money. mix your sugar with our unsweetened kool-aid."

what kind of craptastic advice is this? 

put kimmy back together!

the year was 1980 ish.

the family had 3 kids under 6 years old.

the family had some gerbils.

the gerbils were kept in a cage with a wheel in the spare bedroom.

they named one of the gerbils kimmy.

kimmy learned how to escape her cage and was found in another bedroom.

for the safety of kimmy, everybody agreed to make sure she stayed in her cage in the spare bedroom.

one of the boys was playing with her and she tried to run out the door.

the boy may or may not have looked like this.  

the boy slammed the door shut to keep kimmy inside.

the door slammed shut on kimmy.

kimmy was split in half.  there were two arms on each side of the separated animal.

the boy screamed at his mother for the first time

PUT KIMMY BACK TOGETHER!

the mother laughed.

the children got a cat.

the children named the cat princess mary.

princess mary lived for 20 years.

3 dogs asleep on a bed

they're so cute when they're snuggling!

week at the beach

a week at the beach was awesome.

we took the dogs, and they were good boys.




pouncey had some trouble staying in control. he wanted to pounce after everything he saw. dogs are not allowed off-leash until november 15, so this was a challenge. nacho and eli had a ball.



we took some loooooong walks on the beach.



we ate like kings. the place had a kitchen and kevin made seafood feast after seafood feast. we had an awesome dinner at the fat hen.



we turned a gift bottle of grey goose into daily 'boat drinks' that improved the tone of the whole week. we played lots of pro-kadima.



we boogie boarded. scrabble. rummy. chillin.



celebrated 4 years of dating. all was well. all is well.

as fantastic as the beach is, there's no place like home. 

nacho wants to say hi

busted

i tried to take a sneak picture of all 5 of us sleeping on the bed, and instead caught kevin & pouncey holding hands/paws.