BOOO!

*** It has been brought to my attention that we are bordering on Crazy with the amount of Chester photos on here. It's kind of a sad comment on the excitement level of our lives that the only thing we want to tell people about is our puppy. To make up for this, I will try to keep the Chester to a minimum and try to add more about us..

See!! We have faces! We do exist!

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So tomorrow is Halloween. Which means that Thanksgiving is coming!! Happy day, happy day, HAPPY day, happy DAY. Bet you couldn't tell that I like Thanksgiving. What's even better than Thanksgiving is Christmas. Cause you get food and presents. What more could you ask for??

Drew is laughing at me because I'm already starting my Christmas vacation countdown. I haven't had a vacation from work since May. Definitely learned the hard way that I should take a summer vacation. As a result, I am very much looking forward to a 2 weeks Christmas break so thank you Peter (and Becca) for deciding to get hitched because that gives me an excuse for a long break. :)

It's been  a somewhat busy past couple of weeks. I had to go off to Dayton, OH for work two weeks ago. I was not a huge fan of Ohio from our cross country trip and I was hoping to have that remedied but no such luck.It was cold. It was wet. It was dreary. I ate nothing but fatty food (not necessarily Ohio's fault but I don't care). I did have some amazing pizza though. And there was a zoo on the loose when I was there so that was kind of exciting.

Then this last week was a lovely trip to Fort Walton Beach, Florida - still for work. It was GLORIOUS! At least the part where I got to be by the beach, especially because my hotel was right on the beach. I mean, this was the view from my balcony:

Obviously the only time I saw the sun when I was there was in the morning when I was getting ready for work and at night when i was getting back from work. And the latter was more questionable since we often wouldn't get back to the hotel until 8:30. But I was able to get up early one day and take a walk on the beach. In shorts and bare feet. Happy. :) 

And then I came home and then it snowed.

Pooh..

Last weekend we went to the Baltimore Aquarium and that was purdy sweet. Drew was like a kid in the candy store, it was funny

and I just got frustrated that the fish wouldn't slow down enough so that I could take a picture of them. It was a sad day because it hit home that my photography skills are definitely lacking. <Sigh>

So I settled on taking pictures of stationary objects like creepy crocs...

... and whatever this thing is..

And now my quick snippit about Chester. Promise it'll be short!!
Chester is officially less of a man now. We were mean, horrible people and took away his God-given right to procreate. Not that I feel bad about that though; I was not a fan of the marking every single thing that was standing upright outside (trees... poles... an occasional fire hydrant) nor the <ahem> other thing that happens with male dogs. Poor thing has to wear the Cone of Shame for the next week or so. It's tragic and yet absolutely hilarious. He runs into walls and chairs, face plants a lot, and has taken to catching the toys we throw with the cone. It's like I get basketball practice every time i play with him!

and his little needle injection site where they had to shave a bit of his arm so he's now bald in that spot

On that note I'm going to sign off until the next post. Whenever that might be...

Happy Halloween and YAY NOVEMBER!

Fancy Meeting You Here

Well well well... so we meet again.

This is turning in to a monthly meeting. And by meeting I mean monthly upload of Chester pictures scattered with  pictures of random Drew and I stuff... but mostly just Chester pictures.

The agenda for this meeting, Chester sure cleans up good. I mean, look at him before (my cute little demon dog..):

And now him after we took him to PetSmart

I didn't know his hair could be so straight. And now he really is a puff ball on legs. Plus, he now has more of a  'stache rather than a beard and stache.

He wasn't feeling well a few weeks ago and it was really really sad. The Sunday of conference he was just zonked. He wouldn't move much and he just slept. The funny/cute thing was that he only wanted to sleep ON us. He would sleep on Drew's head

or else on my legs..

He wouldn't eat much though, he had the runs, and he was just so exhausted. I felt so bad for the little guy. We took him to the vet the next morning and they said he had an ear infection and they weren't sure what was wrong with his inards. They gave us some meds to help with the ear infection  and some more to help with his.. um... bathroom business. He's definitely feeling a lot better now so hallelujah it's great to have our puppy back.

But yeah, we're rather attached to our cute little guy. I know a lot of it is compensating but hey, I'll take a cute puppy any time :)

In other news here is our brand new-ish aquisition:

And I greatly dislike myself now because about 3 weeks ago when our car was still only 3 weeks old, I scratched it.. really good. Grumble grumble grumble. It was my first day back at the client I love oh so very much <insert eye roll here> and I was late in getting there since we had taken Chester to the vet earlier. The parking garage was really full so I had to pull around in there and I was coming around a corner when I had to pull my turn in tighter since there was a car coming. didn't know there was metal at the bottom of the column I was pulling around and it scratched the back passenger-side  about an inch away from the wheel well and then above as well. oh how I dislike life some times. The sad thing is I think we may have to break down and get it fixed since it's starting to rust a little bit already. Definitely don't have the money to be doing something like that. Yikes. We'll figure something out. I guess Drew and I are even from our car chaos this year.

In other, other news we took Drew shopping with money his parents gave him for his birthday. He cleans up pretty good too I guess :)

Also, I have to give a shout-out. I am going to be an aunt!! I'm super excited and it feels so weird but yep, as of around May 14 there will be a mini-Goodrich roving about. Yay Natalie and Ryan!!!

In closing, Happy Halloween from Chester :)