Saturday, October 20, 2012

happy 40th anniversary



40 years!

that's longer than i've been alive!

what are they drinking here? bourbon? cranberry juice?

my dad's tuxedo is brown.

my mom is barely 21 years old. 

this is what weddings looked like in 1972. patterns, accordions.


this is what weddings in the 70s looked like


 here's wishing the lovely couple 40 more years of wedded bliss! 


parents married

Thursday, October 18, 2012

nacho & guacamole



i won a contest!

from the fantastic site betsylife, partnered with wholly guacamole.

a cooler just showed up at the door full of vacuum sealed guacamole and salsa!

fiesta! foreva!

autumn is a second spring...



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

Tuesday, October 16, 2012

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!

Saturday, October 06, 2012

eli




would like you to throw that ball

Friday, October 05, 2012

self portrait shadow


mushroom ball paw


Thursday, October 04, 2012

fall colors pouncey



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

Wednesday, October 03, 2012

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? 

Saturday, September 29, 2012

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.  

kevin baby cutest thing ever

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.

Wednesday, September 26, 2012

3 dogs asleep on a bed



they're so cute when they're snuggling!

Tuesday, September 25, 2012

week at the beach


a week at the beach was awesome.

we took the dogs, and they were good boys.


Nacho is not afraid to climb in a lap for love. #dog #yellow #lab #love

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.

I like long walks on the beach. #pinacoladas

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.

scrabble

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.

WANT

we boogie boarded. scrabble. rummy. chillin.

nacho pouncey sleeping together

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

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

fall blue ridge