Hi ya'll! Sorry it's taken us a while to make some updates to the blog (we'll try to get in the habit of doing this more regularly). Everything here continues to be going well. Eric and I are now completly settled into our new place and we have actually taken a few photos so you can see our new home (if you look closely at the one of the living room you can see Buddy nestled in his favorite place...the back of the couch and Eric has a funny look on his face...not sure why). Not bad though, I do miss the "spaciousness" (ha! ha!) of our old 1,200 square foot home. We are close and cuddly in our less than 800 square foot place! Yikes!!

The past couple of weeks we have been exploring our new home. We took Buddy to the Locks and to the beach one afternoon and between the new "smells" of fresh fish and water he is loving life! I guess we had never taken him to the beach before so he didn't know what sand was. Eric and I were dying laughing as we watched Buddy freak out and run as fast and hard as he could in the sand making the endearing "devil" noises as we call them. I'm laughing just thinking about it. He loved it!! Here's a photo of Eric and Buddy watching the fish swim at the Locks.

A couple weekends back, Eric and I decided to take Buddy for a romp in a dog park (there are lots of them out here) and he had loads of fun. He wasn't so much into the other doggies as he was all the great smells. Almost every day, he enjoys a car ride and going to pick up "daddy" from work. He especially likes it when he can sit on Eric's lap on the ride home and stick his entire head out the window (ears flapping in the wind, nostrils flaring, etc.) smelling all those wonderful smells.

Since then, we have been busy with our first visitor, Nick (Bowman), and our second visitor Doug (Delvigna). Doug came dressed in his best so we could show him the town. Nice teeth!

Eric and I also had a first...in the nearly 13 years that we have been together, we have never dressed up for Halloween. So, this year, at the spur of the moment we decided to go to the local costume shop and buy whatever was left (which wasn't much). We ended up throwing something together and went as "WT." Great fun and love the teeth and glasses!

Good news for me....I got a job!! I started last week for the Make-A-Wish Foundation of America and I'm going to be a project manager for a huge marketing campaign that will roll out this summer. The best part about the whole gig is that I'll be working so that means I'll be in my PJs for half the day and comfy as can be. It's a huge step up for me career wise and I'm a tad nervous though I know it'll be old hat a couple of months from now. It's a temporary contract where I'll be on staff until the end of June and then both myself and Make-A-Wish will determine if we want to continue the relationship. I'm looking at it as something to get me through the next couple of months and then if I want to try something new then I can part ways and get on with it.

Eric's work is continuing to go very well and he is enjoying being gainfully employed (as am I!). Next on our schedule is a visit from our college partner in crime, Jamie Smythe. Anyone else want to come for a visit?!!

Miss you all!
Nettie and Eric (Buddy too)