Roll your eyes if you must, but (as you know) I consider my dogs my kids.
But lately, I feel more like I’m raising teenagers. Yes, 4-legged teenagers.
Case in point:

That’s Ryder, riding shotgun in my car.
Remember those teenage years of riding in silence with your parents because you were too cool to talk?
Doesn’t it look like […]

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I have a bone to pick with this guy:

You know him, he’s the Dyson Vacuum inventor. Sir James Dyson, to be exact.
But I like to call him Sir D, because it makes him sound like a rapper, and that’s cool.
Not so cool? Sir D has led me astray in my domestic duties.
I first started to […]

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In two days I’m heading down to New Jersey for Johnson & Johnson’s Camp Baby.
Kind of wishing J&J had decided to plop down their headquarters somewhere with weather more akin to, oh I don’t know, Bermuda… but I suppose New Brunswick, NJ will do.
I’m most excited about meeting some of the Mommy bloggers I’ve had […]

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Yesterday was my little baby girl’s birthday!
Ryder turned 6 years old!
So today’s Throwback picture is of Ryder on the first day we met her - March 23, 2002. She was 7 weeks old!

I brought her home from Pennsylvania, where she was born, and put her on my Mom and Dad’s front porch for them to […]

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A few pictures from our vacation in breathtakingly beautiful Rangeley, Maine…
The view from our condo’s deck:

The view of frozen Rangeley Lake, covered in snow:

The snowy mountains, seen from a trail on Saddleback Mountain:

A view of Saddleback Lake from Saddleback Mountain:

Yes, my doggies came on vacation… and they played…

… and slept:

They weren’t the only animals there, […]

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One of our holiday traditions used to be the family trek to the tree farm to pick out the Couto Family Christmas Tree.
We would usually go the Friday or Saturday after Thanksgiving, pick out the perfect tree, take turns cutting it down with our saw, and spend that evening decorating our fragrant, freshly cut evergreen.
The […]

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Melody at Slurping Life is hosting a Hippie Photo Contest - and it’s such a groovy idea that we have to join in!
Melody’s instructions? She is “seeking spontaneity, expanded consciousness… shoot from the hip.”
Here are our two entries:

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The guy behind this very sweet face has one very bad habit.
Seth is a chewer.
Or rather, I should more accurately say, a destroyer of most things he can get his teeth into.
I have a shelf of toys that I’ve had to take away from him (the ones that have been salvageable, at least) because he’s […]

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A la David Letterman, in no real particular order, here’s my list of the top 27 things about my 27th birthday:
27. Since it was on a Sunday, I was able to have an entire weekend birthday celebration!
26. Watching the Boston College football team lose to Florida State (Steve went to Boston University and therefore revels […]

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OK, this isn’t exactly throwing it back very far… in fact, we’re only throwing it back to last night. But we just had to show the Pinks & Blues kids (human and canine) being cute on Halloween!
Elmo/William:

The Lion/Alexander:

The Monkey/Benjamin:

The Pretty Flower/Ryder:

The Clown/Seth:

And now we’ll really throw it back… to last year, when my big boy […]

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