Life Lately: November Barkbox, Two Thanksgivings and a New Bed

Happy December!! I can't believe we are in the last month of the year already, where did this year go?!

Today I want to share with you a little bit of what's been going on lately around here. First up, Sophie's November Barkbox.

Sophie LOVES when her Barkbox shows up! I swear she can smell it as soon as I put it down on the floor she goes crazy trying to get it open. She loved the Piggies in Blankies, those didn't last long in our house! The Piggie Puffs are still hanging around, and she definitely likes them but they don't give her as much joy as the other treats did! The long term chew didn't last long around here, it was gone within ten minutes.

The theme this month was BarkTV and we received the Sloth themed box. This messenger bag is her favorite out of the toys. She loves chewing on the bag strap, I think because she thinks it's something she shouldn't be chewing on, and she carries this toy around quite a bit! It's also been great for working on tugging because it's easy to each grab a side. 

She also loves these two toys. The sloth has lost an arm but he is a favorite around here. The remote has three squeakers inside and she often will bring this over to us to throw for her. Sophie has SO many toys and she will often be laying on the floor surrounded by toys and still get up and go to her toy bin to dig for a toy she wants.

We ordered a new Beautyrest bed for Sophie...

It's her big girl bed and she is starting to really love it! This came from Groupon and I highly recommend you purchase a dog bed off there rather than in store, the prices are so good!

One morning when I had Sophie outside this was the sky. So pretty and the camera doesn't do it justice at all!

I also went to see Frozen 2! It was great and I am obsessed with the soundtrack.

We do two Thanksgivings every year. One with my family on Thanksgiving Day...

Here we are heading to CT as our family of three.

Sophie at my uncle's house. She loves meeting new people!

The best part of Thanksgiving dinner! I really am not a Thanksgiving food person and really don't care for turkey, but chocolate turkeys I am all about!

What are you eating dad? Can I have some?

We only gave her one tiny piece of turkey and look how we spent the night.....

She was exhausted!!!

Love spending time with my family!

On Saturday we headed to Thanksgiving number two with Tim's family...

Sophie and her cousin Attie chewing on each others bones. 

We also stopped by Fetch, a local pet store for small business Saturday. Sophie got her picture taken and posted on their Facebook page!

Yesterday was spent lounging around! We definitely needed to recover before heading into the first week of December! 

Have a great day everyone and see you back here in a couple of days!

Three Things I'm Loving Lately!

Better Than Sex Mascara

This is one of the best mascaras I've ever tried! The name is a little awkward but the results are fantastic. I have never been able to achieve such great lashes with only a mascara and no primer before! 

Legally Blonde

I've been wanting to watching Legally Blonde for awhile now since I saw the above quote. I have always thought that Legally Blonde and Elle Woods character was very inspiring and I'm glad the world seems to be jumping on board. As someone who has grown up blonde and often treated like I'm not as smart as I am, Elle has always been an inspiration. 

Microwave S'mores 

I have been on a s'mores kick lately and I need to back off before I weigh a million pounds. Making them in the microwave is way too easy!

Life Lately: 4th of July, Puppy Playtime and Fireworks!

We had another full day on the 4th of July! We started out with heading to the movies with Tim's sister to see The Legend of Tarzan. If I'm being honest the movie was far down on my to-see list. Like, non-existent I had NO interest in seeing it but I went along for the ride and it was a great movie. It was entertaining and very different then I expected it to be and I'm glad I went to see it. 

After the movie we had some puppy play time!

Attie was a little resistant to her pool and hasn't been a huge fan of the water so far. 

But after a few different tricks we managed to get her in there and she had a blast!

After playing in the water and rolling around in the dirt...

And jumping all over Tim...

She was pretty tired! We spent the afternoon playing Hi-Low-Jack and made dinner on the grill before driving down to Wakefield and checking out the fireworks at Old Mountain Fields.

There is absolutely no filter on that picture, the sky was truly that gorgeous!

I also got to hang out with my favorite baby, Emma!

Brit and I have sat together during the fireworks at Old Mountain Fields so many times I've lost count. Although we don't necessarily go every year (I've missed a few years for various reasons) it is great to have a place to always plan on going for 4th of July!

Tim is so good with Emma and she LOVES him, she has been fascinated with him since we first introduced them which is so cute! She has been rolling around like crazy too so it was fun to see her rolling around on the blankets, she will be crawling before we know it!

Also; Emma, Bella, and Attie all were GREAT during the fireworks. You would think that between two babies and a puppy someone would've freaked out. Attie was fed treats once the fireworks started and didn't seem fazed by them at all. Emma and Bella both watched for a couple minutes and then passed out...amazing!

So that was our 4th of July and I hope you had a great one as well!

A Couple of Weekends...

How can it possibly be Sunday night again? My weekends have been absolutely flying by and it's been hard to believe that I have to head back to work every Monday morning.

Now that the laundry is done, the bedroom and bathroom are clean, and Tim is completely enthralled with his video game I figured I'd sit down and update you on the last two weekends.

Last Sunday was our one year anniversary! May 1st is the day we had our first date at the a local restaurant the Mews Tavern and I can't believe it's already been a year. Tim played golf early in the morning and came home with these beautiful flowers for me. So sweet :)

Later in the afternoon we went to meet Tim's sisters new puppy! We were so excited to meet Addie her new bernese mountain dog. She a sweet little puppy and it was so nice to spend some time playing outside with her.

Then we met up with the rest of Tim's family for dinner. Our anniversary is shared with his brothers birthday so we went to dinner at Kon.

All last week was pretty depressing here in Rhode Island. The sky was cloudy and it rained pretty much the entire week. Not a great thing to see out your office window!

Last week we did view some places to live and put an application in. Hopefully we will hear soon and I will let you know of moving plans! I started packing up things we don't necessarily need to have in our room right now. We are getting ready to move out and it's so exciting!

On Friday night this weekend I had after work drinks and appetizers with a few girls I used to work with. We had a blast catching up and it was so nice to see them. Unfortunately I didn't snap any pictures at all on Friday. After we enjoyed our time at Dan's place, I met up with Tim and our friends Fred and Marissa to see the brand new Captain America movie. It was an amazing movie and I really enjoyed it!

On Saturday I did remember to take pictures when we headed off to Foxwoods with Tim's parents for the Kentucky Derby!

We drank a few mint juleps and enjoyed the derby hype before heading to David Burke Prime Steakhouse for a delicious dinner! I cannot rave enough about the food there. The french onion soup was incredible, the steak delicious and the macaroni and cheese is mouthwatering! If you've never been, you need to head over immediately.

We hung out for awhile longer, spent some time hanging out at the bar and then stopped in Cake.

I could get in some serious trouble in Cake. They have so many sweets! I chose a chocolate bar and it was great but there were so many different things to chose from it was a little overwhelming.

Today was mother's day and we spent the day with my mom! We always visit the cemetery where my grandma is buried and put some roses on her headstone. Then have lunch at the Pizza Place in downtown Westerly. The Pizza Place is not my favorite restaurant at all, the food is nothing special but it's never crowded and it's nice to sit and catch up with my family.

After lunch Tim and I took a hike with my mom down in Charlestown. It was so nice to see the sun finally shining after looking out clouds for so long.

We will definitely be enjoying more hikes and exercising in the coming weeks. We have been talking about making sure that we exercise and enjoy our time outside now that it's light out when we get out of work at night.

I did put together a new exciting thing today as well!

A laundry sorter! I can't be the only person who gets excited over things like this!

I've already started sorting our laundry! :)

Have a great night!