A perfect day in the city

Today, Jeff and I decided to take the train into the city for the Philadelphia Home Show. We made a few stops along the way . . .

First we had lunch @ Chipotle - which I absolutely love!!! I even paid $1.50 extra for their guacamole and I never splurge like that.

After lunch we accidentally stumbled upon the Naked Chocolate Cafe (love the name).

A little over four years ago we got engaged in the city and Jeff took me here right before he proposed on boat house row.  It was perfect . . .

I didn't realize that when I ordered "hot chocolate" that they literally heat up pure chocolate and pour it into this tiny mug - how cute and yummy!!

I saw this store, jumped up and down and couldn't wait to go in. I love everything dog . . .

I enjoyed shopping for my boys a little. We got Cooper a life vest to wear on the boat this summer and a new food bowl because he eats too fast.

Hey Mom, it took me way too long to finish my dinner tonight. Ridley actually finished before me and that never happens.   I hate my new bowl and I'm not too fond of this life vest either.  ~  Cooper

We finally made it to the home show. I didn't realize it would be so much fun. It is like having all the infomercials come to life all in one place. The wrong place for me! I wanted to buy everything. . . $35,000 fiberglass pool, $4,000 inflatable hot tub, steam mop, pet hair remover (even though my pets don't even shed), blender - you name it! I only walked out with jewelry cleaner and a new Tupperware container for my salad dressing so I'd say I did pretty well.

Compound Dinner

As many of you already know, we live in a triplex. We rent out the other two apartments in our house to 2 families that are good friends of ours. Tonight we had dinner with what most of you like to call the compound!

We enjoyed eating scraps off the floor from the kids, going through diaper bags and chasing toddlers around the house. Here are a few pictures from our night . . .

 Little Phil playing in our water bowl

 Ooohh, Look Ridley - a diaper bag . . .

cuddling with the babies . . .

Pizza for Lunch

They should know better by now . . .

1. Don't leave empty pizza boxes on top of the trash can.

2. Don't leave the exercise ball out or we'll play with that too.

Schnauzer Slippers

I love dogs, I always have and always will. I've loved them ever since I can remember, ever since I was a little girl. More recntly, I've fallen in love with everything schnauzer. My dream come true (I do use this phrase a lot) would be to train schnauzers to work with kids with disabilities. . . maybe one day . . .
Here is a picture of my favorite Christmas gift this year, from my Dad. I have to take another picture, this one doesn't do them justice. They are actually little schnauzers on my slippers. Ridley and Cooper think they're chew toys though.


I can't figure out why she keeps wearing these on her feet and why I can't find the squeaker when I chew them. Every time I stare at this Mommy yells at me.

Tasty Books

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Mommy leaves for work every morning @ 7:15, and every morning we howl @ 7:15 in attempt to convince her to stay home and play with us.  Every day, we jump on the  windowsill,  watch her pull out of the drive way,  and then sit there until the mailman comes. After we bark at the mailman we usually look for something to eat, chew, tear apart or destroy.  Every morning before work,  Mommy and Daddy puppy proof the house (basically walk around looking for things that we could get into). This morning Mommy put the chair infront of the bookshelf so we wouldn't chew the photo albums on the bottom shelf. I guess she didn't realize we could use the chair to get the books off the top shelf . . .  

Halloween 2010

Every year for Halloween Mommy makes it her mission to come up with the most creative Halloween costume for their annual Halloween party. Its quite a difficult task because Daddy usually refuses most of the ideas she comes up with. First, we were goiing to be the 3 Little Pigs and the big bad wolf but Daddy didn't want to wear a mask all night. Finally Mommy came up with Sesame Street! Cooper and I were Cookie Monster and Elmo, thanks to Nana - she made our costumes out of baby towels from Babies R Us.  When we weren't trying to bite the eyes off each other's costumes we were stealing food out of little Charlie Isler's hands at the party. . .

Here I am in the Pig costume (Mommy made me try it on in the car @ Sam's club to make sure it fit). 

Obviously this wasn't my first choice. I liked my Cookie Monster costume much better. What kind of schnauzer wears pink anyway??

Here we are as Sesame Street! 

~ Ridley