Friday Things
1. Duke is growing! He will be 11 weeks old on Sunday, and is definitely developing his own little personality (as well as some super long legs). He’s starting to look more and more like a “grown-up”. Last week a couple of you suggested some side by side photos (awesome idea!) so you could see his progress, so I made a little collage. I’ve been taking a photo of Duke every Monday, so above are pictures of him at eight, nine and ten weeks. So much change already!
2. Duke and Einstein have been getting along well and playing quite a bit. Sometimes Duke takes his puppy raucousness too far and takes one bite too many out of Einstein’s ear, face, mouth, tail (you name it), and Einstein has to put him in his place. We dubbed this photo “The Honeymoon Is Over”:
3. Thanks to everyone who weighed in last week on the “Chief Culinary Consultant vs husband” debate. Your responses have been tallied and the result was… an overwhelming 70% of you would like me to keep referring to my husband as my Chief Culinary Consultant. And so it shall be :)
4. I know many of you have been asking for some details about our wedding… a post is coming soon, I promise!
5. I went to Target yesterday and came home with Apple Berry Spice and Apple & Pumpkin Picking Yankee candles, as well as an Apple Berry Spice reed diffuser for the bathroom. I’m going all-in on fall. I’ve officially bid adieu to summer.
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6. I don’t feel like I ate nearly enough soft serve ice cream cones this summer. Maybe I can remedy that during fall since most of the soft serve places around here stay open into November. We’ll call it Operation Sprinkles.
7. Fall shows are finally on their way back! We caught the season premiere of Boardwalk Empire a couple of nights ago, and I’m counting the days until the Homeland premiere. What shows are you watching this fall?
8. I went to Costco last week and it was stacked with Christmas decorations. Did I miss Halloween? That being said, I can’t wait to deck the halls in our new house this year!
9. We moved into our new house at the end of May. It’s only 3.5 miles (less than 10 minutes) from a Chick-fil-A, and I have yet to get food from there. I just realized yesterday how absolutely ridiculous that is, and I vowed to remedy it today. Waffle fries, here I come!
10. TGIF! Here’s to learning something new this weekend!
I love that last picture of Einstein and Duke – very The Lion King. “Everything the light touches is our kingdom”….
I’m so looking forward to fall TV. Bring on Homeland and Grey’s Anatomy along with the other 20 or 30 shows I’m sure I’ll watch. I picked up my Christmas cards at Costco this weekend.
I missed the Chief Culinary Consultant v. Husband debate, but I would have gone with the majority. I like the quirkiness of it. Good choice!
I’m super excited for Scandal to come back, and also Revenge and some random sitcoms. I’m so sad that Whitney was cancelled :(
I’ve been so busy this week I am just now getting to my Friday things!!! I too have gone into Target on numerous occasions and have walked out spending much more than I anticipated but really love all the great deals! If my daughter goes with me I am toast, I’ll easily spend over $100! I love burning candles all year long and love the lingering fragrance they welcome me with the next time I come home so I’ll have to go sniff these out next time I go, I just don’t like that many of the autumn candles smell so artifically sweet and not like autumn at all. So what happned to the boot purchase, did you buy them? Enjoy your week! :)
Hi Lucy, I didn’t yet, but I do plan to! I actually still have a Nordstrom gift card my mom got me for Christmas for boots last year that I never used! It will be put to good use this month :)
Awe…both your “boys” are adorable! When my Hadley (now 4 years old) was a puppy, I also took her photo every week and wrote a separate blog documenting the raising of my first puppy. It was a great experience and I still love to go back and see all the photos. I’ve always thought that the older dog actually helps raise the puppy by training it on proper behavior and it sounds like Einstein is doing exactly that when he puts Duke in his place. Someday Hadley will get a little “sister” and I hope she’ll help train her to be as good as she is. Oh, and don’t get me started on the Christmas decorations at Costco or anywhere else. One holiday at a time, people! :)
How did you get that last picture? So cute!!
My husband was standing to the left of me with little training treats… they both stood at attention and waited patiently :)
Too, too cute! Especially the one where they are sitting at attention.
You take the best doggie pics!
Your blog is one of my fave cooking blogs! I enjoyed reading this post and laughed as I was reading about your new home as I finished off my Chick-fil-A waffle fries. :) Congrats and many blessings on everything in your life!
Yea for waffle fries! And I forgot to weigh in on last weeks baked bacon question. It turns out amazing. It stays meatier but doesn’t get crispy. So we still do it both ways depending on the day.
You should take a photo everyday and make a short video/gif at the end. It would be fun ^^