birthday pup

Chalmers turned 6 years old this weekend.  

His weekend celebration consisted of

chewing on a new bone,

watching the Macy's Thanksgiving Parade,

and dressing up in his new, stylish sweater...

...that has flashing Christmas lights around the neck.  (A handmade gift from his Aunt Amy)

fall.

Thus far, Fall has been pretty nice (warm).  On the news I heard that we've had the most days in the 60s since 1996!  Than you, Mother Nature!

I had lunch with a friend in the Public Gardens a few days ago.  I wish I brought my camera, but this is essentially what it looked like + people walking along the paths or sitting on benches and a few musicians playing on the corners.  (I wonder if people were photoshopped out of this picture or something.  I feel it would pretty uncommon to have no one walking around here...)

I felt bad that Rob wasn't experiencing the great outdoors before it got too cold, so that night we went to Boston, had dinner, and then walked around.   We walked around the cobblestone roads of Beacon Hill first (rated 10 on the charming scale) and then around Boston Common (a park in the middle of the city).  

Not gonna lie... I miss warm fall, winter, spring, and summer back in CA.  But I'll take all the warm days I can get here on the East Coast.

what's red and pretty and holds the key to happiness?

(just joking about holding the key to happiness...)

For the few people that view my blog and aren't friends with Aaeran, and therefore aren't aware of her beautiful new website... this one's for you...

Aaeran, one of my beautiful and talented old roommates from BYU-H, has started a new style blog called the 

For the month of November she is doing ThanksGIVEAWAYS.  This week's giveaway is a stylin' Hobo wallet.  You probably want to own it, so instead of buying it, maybe you should just try to win it.  

Just sayin'.

Enter to win here.

On a different frontier... not much is new here.  We lost power for 2 days during the "snow storm" in the East Coast.  It kinda sucked, but we are fortunate enough to have nice friends who invited us over for food and movies, and a gym membership that includes hot shower, steam rooms, and working electrical outlets.   Mr. Rob and I are attempting to plan a vacation for January/February, so that is something fun.  If anyone has any ideas, let me know.  We're thinking warm/hot location.  Other than that, it's been low key.  I'll make a point to take some pictures this week and post.  Have a joyous Sunday night.