Watch Out Long Island...

 ...we're coming for you!
13.1 on 5.6.12
This half doesn't stand a chance.

FIVE!

It's happened. I am the mother of a five year old.

It's crazy that Charlie is now five years old. I'm pretty sure that he was just 5.5 pounds a year or so ago.

This morning to celebrate we attempted a photo shoot. As you can see from the photo below, Charlie was not very on board with that and opted to start shredding the newspaper instead.

We attempted again during my lunch break after a long birthday walk.

Things went much better.

Until Charlie discovered that my "5" was made up of chewable cardboard.

The shoot quickly derailed.

 

 

Happy 5th Birthday Charlie! We are the luckiest people in the world to have such a wonderful pup.

Twinsies

Christmas Eve 2011 brought us twins in the form of my dad and Eric. Playful posing quickly went from this:

to this: 

I still am unsure about what happened here, but it gives me a good laugh.
Dan also joined the white T trend on his own terms

Obviously it's been a very good year. Happy New Year to all! Hopefully regular posting will begin again soon :)

Remember

When Melissa's eye got all red

and she walked around in sunglasses for the entire day?

 but then accidentally took them off in the subway?

yeah... me too.

I laughed so hard I cried

Did anyone end up buying this photo?

It makes me laugh.

Miss your face

 

I've edited about .05% of my photos from our trip. I plan to continually post randoms until I'm done.

I think these two might be related...

Even the Mailman loves Charlie

Did you know that our mailbox is a basket?

I love it. But mostly, I love when I get fun things like notes, cards and invites in it. While the Red Plum circular that we got the other day didn't make me very happy, the treat that came with it certainly made Charlie smile :)

He makes friends everywhere he goes!

A Message from Charlie

Lucky Number 7

Seven years ago today, Dan and I had our first date.

I wasn't too sure of him at that point in time, but after a lot of persistence and quite a few dates, he ended up winning me over :)

I know that Dan looks at those days as pretty much the luckiest time of his life... right hun?

Looking back, it feels like forever ago and not very long ago all at the same time.

In seven years, we've moved across the country with each other, been through various jobs, bought our first home, done a million and five home improvement projects on said home, taken many a road trip through the plain states between Colorado and Michigan, traveled to exotic and not so exotic, but fun locales, seen plenty of concerts, attended too many weddings to count, and raised our pride and joy Charlie boy!

Not too bad for 7 years if I do say so myself!

In many respects, we are total opposites, but I think that is one of the main things that makes us such a good fit.

He reminds me pretty much all of the time to slow down and take things a bit less seriously.

And I can always count on him to have made coffee in the morning (a highly desirable trait in my book). 

He is hardworking and diligent...

a dedicated teacher and coach....

a creative spirit...

and my very best friend. (Even if getting a smile out of him for pictures can be a task.)

We make a great team,

and we're lucky to have each other.

Love you D.

Cheers to lucky number 7.

xo

Back at it

This weekend I got back into running again. It's the first time I've run since the end of 2010 and it felt really good to test out my new running gear from Christmas, which I'll cover off on in another post. I did a quick run with Charlie on Saturday, which was rough. But my run with him today was the best because Dan came along! We had never run together before and it was fun. I'm not sure that Dan would characterize it the same way, but with a regular running habit, I think he might.

My training plan for the half marathon kicks off the week of 1/31 and it has me running 11 miles the first week. Since I have not been running any, it's time to get my butt in gear.

Ode to 2010

Thought I would do one more 2010 recap in photos to capture the year in one post (last 2010 post, I promise). It was really a fun year all together and seeing all of these photos in one place, reminds me that I should really blog more throughout the year to capture all of these events.

Four!

It's hard to believe that this little guy went from 5 weeks old...

...to four years old in what feels like such a short span of time!

We are so thankful for our pup. Happy Birthday Charlie!