Moved to IL !!

Wow, it's been ages since our last post! We all have been very busy in the past few months since I got a new job in Chicago area and we relocated to the midwest a month ago... woo hoo.. !! We are still settling in, adjusting to apartment living again :( , selling our house in PA and locating all the basic needs for the entire family (including the dogs, of course :) ).

Things have been fun so far, we found a new daycare place for Oliver and he enjoyed it! It's a bit more expensive than what we used to in PA, but apparently IL is a more expensive state compared to PA in general! Just when you think you are moving to a more affordable midwest area... oh well...

In any case, we'll keep you updated with what's going on. Hope the next post won't take as long :) Stay tuned!

Picture with Santa!

Eddie and Oliver went to see Santa today at Bucks Country Gardens and here is their picture:

As expected, Oliver jumped at Santa and it's a bit difficult to have him settled down and focused on the camera, but we managed to make him sit still long enough to take 1 shot. Eddie, on the other hand, is always easy. He just sat nicely on Santa's lap :)

Updates after the Storm

We all survived! :) It rained hard starting Sunday morning and got scary windy on Monday and we finally lost power Monday evening. Good thing we are prepared because we are still without power right now and don't know when we will get it back. The generator is up and running so we can power our refrigerator, sump pump, several lights and TV. That really makes this whole thing more bearable. The stinky part is not having running water, but at least we saved some in several plastic tubs before the storm hit so we should be good for a few more days.

Preparing for Hurricane Sandy

We've been busy all weekend preparing for Hurricane Sandy. We live north of Philadelphia which is supposed to be hit pretty bad by the storm. Last year our house didn't get hit much if at all by Hurricane Irene, but we were quite miserable during the early season snowstorm where we lost power for almost two days. At that time, we just moved in to our first house and were not equipped to handle power outage in a house that relies on well water with a sump pump that runs quite often.

New Dog Food... Sort of

Oliver has a sensitive stomach and he could get diarrhea pretty easily. It is getting better now as he gets older, but I'd still like to be careful with what he eats. When he was a puppy, I had to switch him to so many dog food because of this issue. He (or rather his digestive system) finally finds a match with Blue Basics.

Wordless Wednesday!

Maine Vacation

We typically do not do a summer vacation. We don't like the crowds, the crazily hectic situation of vacationing at the same time as millions other people, having to wait in line for everything, struggling to even find a parking spot and the likes. But this year I have enough crap at work and needed a break and when hubby said he was cancelling our trip to Minnesota just two weeks before we were supposed to go, I told him that we are going somewhere anyway.