Arlo turned 13 weeks old this past Sunday, and Monday was his three-month birthday! We celebrated by going out to dinner at the Farm Cafe with Jon and Katie, who just happened to be passing through to...

Arlo is eleven weeks old! We're having more and more luck each Sunday catching him when he's bright-eyed and in a good mood. With the hot weather we've been having for the last few days, he has...

Arlo is eight weeks old and coming up on his 2-month birthday on Friday! Within the last week, he has discovered his feet (which he finds especially interesting when they're inside his new st...

We've got baby smiles! So great :) Arlo has become alert for longer stretches of time in the last few weeks, which is so fun! There's still plenty of crying, but at least it's balanced out by l...

Thirty-two weeks! This marks the start of the eighth month--whoa! If I think in terms of months, two months still sounds like a decent amount of time to get ready, but 8 weeks, not so much. Babies are...

Twenty-nine weeks! This belly means business. I wasn't sure if I should mention this, because it might move me from the "slightly unorthodox pregnant lady" category to the "crazy new age pr...

Thanks for your kind words about yesterday's post! Patches is back home, and she seems to be feeling like her normal self again. They still don't know what caused her problems yesterday, but she ate s...

Our poor kitty is staying overnight at the pet hospital tonight. When we got home from running errands this afternoon, she had thrown up outside, and then she came in and proceeded to throw up four mo...

This past year has definitely had its ups and downs for friends and family and for the world in general, but we were lucky enough to have a pretty good year. Some highlights: We made new friends ...

I spent the past week in California for work and took a few days to visit my mom, grandma, and aunts while I was in the area (it's always so much fun when they all get together!). Now I'm back home in...

While working our way through the third season of Buffy tonight, we realized that we inadvertently named our sweet kitty after a gross zombie cat. Specifically: Cut to the library. The caged cat is...

While I'm writing, I wanted to acknowledge that 2008 was a really good year for us, what with moving to Portland and buying a house. I'm so glad that things have worked out and that we love Portland a...

I haven't written in a while! When I last wrote, Tree and Andrew had just arrived in Portland for a visit. Soon after, the snow started. It kind of put a damper on our fun Portland activities, but it ...

Patches is officially our kitty as of Saturday! Her owner brought over her vet records while we were planting our trees (and I didn't recognize him, which made me feel totally dumb after I realize...

We had a great time in Colorado this past weekend. We crammed a lot of relaxing into four days! Friday, September 22: We arrived late Thursday night, took the shuttle home, and went straight to...

As I said earlier, camping last weekend was fun. Every year, my stepdad's family goes camping for a week in Shaver Lake, CA, at Dinkey Creek campground. Patrick and I joined them (and my mom) for th...

We had a really nice visit to Colorado. I wish it had been longer, but we made the most of our time there. We had the usual Christmas morning brunch with my mom, stepdad, stepdad's ex-wife, stepbrot...

My mom is on the next leg of her adventure now (the deal is that my Auntie Nance bought some land in Corvallis, Oregon, so she's flying out to take a look at it, and my mom and grandma are driving up ...

Patrick posted his pictures from the past few months, so I have a few new ones up now too (good thing he lets me put his pictures on my website!). There are a few older pictures of us in the Caitlin ...

I was looking through the Thanksgiving issue of Cooking Light while at my mom's house, and they had a bunch of good-looking recipes, including one for roasted brussels sprouts with ham. Of course, it...

Okay, here we go (and might I just add, I had a wonderful time on this trip, despite how busy we were): Tuesday: My flight got into San Francisco around 8pm. Patrick picked me up, and then we wen...

I got the best surprise in the mail today! My Auntie Nance sent me this picture, matted and framed (but the one she sent me is better quality): That's one of my favorite pictures of little Cai...

I'm back in Cambridge, safe and sound. My flight got in after the T stopped running last night, so I took a cab home. I hate to take cabs because they're so expensive, but it sure was nice not to ha...

Merry Christmas! I had a very nice Christmas. My dad and Vicki came over (I'm staying with my mom and Alan, but Dad and Vicki live only 15 minutes away), and we all had our traditional Christmas bru...

I'm having a very relaxed weekend. I haven't left my room much, which is fine with me. I hope people don't think I'm depressed or something; I just like having time to myself. I do miss Patrick tho...

So my bus trip was 2/3 nice, 1/3 painful. I got home to good old Fort Collins, CO, safely. I'm very happy I'll be taking the train back to CA instead of more bus. I'm too busy being lazy to take ...