Happy Birthday Steve!

Today I made up a breakfast dish for Steve - breakfast nachos.  Scrambled eggs with sauteed peppers and onions, cheddar cheese, avocado, sour cream, and salsa on top of tortilla chips.  For breakfast.  It was really good!

Steve had to work today (totally a bummer because it's his birthday but also because it's really nice out today), but tonight we're going downtown for dinner. 

I took Seca for a walk in the sun, so beautiful.  The sun was warm enough to make this sign steam!

Feeling nostalgic

Yesterday I grabbed a few boxed of photos from storage to sort through.  Inside were all the photo negatives I've kept over the years, so I started scanning them in to digitize them.  It was so much fun seeing pictures of things I haven't thought of in years and years. 

Here's a fun subset.

On one of our first dates, way back in 1999, at a local state park in Wisconsin.  We look so young!

OMG, Seca as a puppy.  So adorable.

 At Jane's house, first 'family photo' with the new puppy.  

 Steve and I in northern Wisconsin on a camping trip, probably around 2000-2001.

Steve being silly, dipping his toe in the Atlantic on our trip to GA where he proposed.

 Seca, and Seca and I on a backpacking trip in Wyoming in ~2005.

 Finally, Steve and Seca playing in a fort that our nieces Natalie and Margaret built, not sure of the year.

Getting through winter

We're almost at the winter solstice, the shortest day of the year.  It'll be nice to turn the corner and start getting longer days.  Right now, we're down to about 5 hours of wan light.  It's good for staying home and watching movies with popcorn.  And that's exactly what we did last night.  Last weekend I found a cheap movie bin at the grocery store and picked up nine movies...except that some of the boxes had multiple movies in them - like the 10-pack Fantasy movie collection, which I solely bought because it contained the movie The Beastmaster, which was Brian and my favorite movie as kids.  I've probably seen it 50 times or more, but the last time was probably when I was 10 years old.  Yes, it did stand the test of time and I thoroughly enjoyed seeing it last night.  It was rad.

Also in the movie purchase was a 20-pack of crazy old Sci-Fi movies (like 'They', 'Journey to the Center of the Earth', and '100 million BC'), Grease, the original Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Gremlins, Tropic Thunder, and the first season of the tv show Charlies Angels.  It should take us a while to get through all those!

The 'Fantasy Collection':

The upstairs neighbors are back from vacation, so Cassie and Alfie are back home.  :(  I kinda miss them.  On their last morning with us I had to get up and leave really early with Steve, so the pups all got food very early in the morning (~3 hours earlier than usual).  Cassie doesn't seem like much of a morning dog...it took all she had to drag her front half over to her bowl, then she sat there with her head in her bowl for a good minute or two before slowly eating, then retreating back to the bed (all while never moving her back end, I might add).  It was pretty hilarious. 

Welcome to December!

After the snowfall over the weekend, Monday is bright and clear!  It almost makes up for having to shovel the driveway twice yesterday.  I took this from my office this morning (with my phone!).

Happy Monday!