3-21-2012

I'm nearly positive that Nicole is conducting a scientific experiment to see how fat she can make me no matter how much I run. She's winning.

3-20-2012

This is a self captioning photo.

3-19-2012

I suppose this is probably a vote for wearing socks. I still don't want to.

In other news, Nicole managed to squeeze in an extra day of birthweek+ and talk this lady into buying her yet another birthday dinner. I wonder if she can keep this up until next year.

3-18-2012

All I ever want to do is be outside. This snake is lucky because he'll probably never be stuck inside of a building in his whole entire life. Granted he and his friends have to worry about being eaten by giant birds all the time, but plenty of snakes life a perfectly good life and get fat and happy. I think I want to be a snake. Speaking of life and death, I saw the turtle life cycle today from start to kind of smelly finish.

I also saw Nicole complete a present opening marathon to finish off the end of birthweek.

3-17-2012

This St. Patrick's day, I ran trails, ate festive junk food, watched Nicole buy an entire Anthropologie store for her birthday, and had corned beef sandwiches for breakfast and dinner. Hopefully I'm not too hung over tomorrow.

3-16-2012

This little Asian man that we found on the street looked malnourished. So we made him buy us dinner for Nicole's birthday.

3-15-2012

This is kind of big, life altering news. I got Nicole a puppy for her birthday! Actually I kind of just made him. But he winks at you if you flip him over. In other less significant news, Nicole quit her job today and we were almost murdered by a lightning bolt that struck about 100 feet away from us. What were we doing tempting Zeus in a thunderstorm you may ask? Well I'll tell you.

We actually do it every year so I've posted about it before (3-31-10 and 3-18-11 and 3-20-11), but it's salamander season! You can generally tell when it starts because these little buggers start peeping and won't shut up. So yeah, every year we go to look at the spotted salamanders and frogs when they go to lay their eggs. I've posted a lot of pictures of us picking up and wrangling them in the previous posts, so this year I tried to get more of them swimming in their natural habitat since they were the most active I've ever seen them tonight. Then we almost got struck by lightning in the woods. The end.

3-14-2012

These are birthday shoes. Ready to party. And by party I mean smell ice cream cake with Sienna, eat really good food, and watch an animated movie about cats. Happy birthday, Nicole.

3-13-2012

What's a birthdayweek without cake right? Rumor has it that this cake was interviewed on Oprah and costs over $150. That would give just these two slices a street value of at least twenty to thirty bucks right? This cake might cost more per ounce than many recreational narcotics.

Full disclosure, I did not pay $150 for this cake. I don't think I would ever pay $150 for cake. Maybe for a ton of cookies, but definitely not just for one cake. No, I got these two slices for free from work.

3-12-2012

We started little bit of early celebration already this weekend, but today is the official beginning of Nicole's birthweek. She's turning two.

3-11-2012

After breakfast, nap time, and second breakfast, Nicole and I went wandering in the woods to look for shed deer antlers. We found its whole head but no antlers instead. We did find our first butterfly of the year though. And some skunk cabbage, some very tiny bubbles, and a babbling brook. I'm sure I'll be back to take more pictures at this place since the weather is getting so much nicer. Here's another picture I like for good measure. It's kind of crazy to think we were hiking in the snow a week ago and now it's almost too warm to wear a jacket.

3-10-2012

I did this in one month and one day short of one year (4-11-11). This is kind of a big deal for me right now. I fully intend to make this amount of mileage minuscule eventually, but I'm pretty happy with it currently.

3-9-2012

3-8-2012

The tops of my lap can assure you that these hooks are even sharper than they look.