Wild animal.

Findlay lately

Tea time.

Tiny tree, tiny cat

Findlay's window

Findlay spends most of his waking hours in the window, watching the pigeons. He had never seen a pigeon before we moved.

Cold

I always find winter difficult, but so far, Pittsburgh hasn't been so bad! No snow, and nothing particularly frigid.  Compared to the unrelenting snow in Halifax last year, I could get used to this!

Sunday afternoon

Snacks, books, and Findlay Bear.

Yellow chair

Slowly but surely we are turning our apartment into a home.

Watching me cook

Findlay is always peering over the bar to check out what I'm up to.

Birthday things and a long overdue update

We've had an incredibly busy past couple months, which lead to my basic disappearance from this blog. Oops. I finished my student teaching and graduated, and ever since then, I have been working on getting my teaching license for Pennsylvania, finding an apartment, working on getting rid of things and getting ready to move, and our wedding! It's been pretty hectic.

My birthday was last week, and I had the best day. Aaron made me an amazing breakfast, which we ate on our patio. One of the reasons I love this apartment is because it feels like you live in a tree house in the summer, particularly on the patio. Then we went to a couple of beautiful spots around Halifax. We're trying to stop at all our favourite places before we move. We had dinner on the patio at The Bicycle Thief, which was delicious and had a fantastic view, which you can see in the photo with our cool blue water glasses. I made one of my favourite cakes, and Findlay played some cat games on my new iPad. It was hilarious.

I'm hoping to start posting a bit more regularly, but with the wedding and the move to Pittsburgh it's a bit dubious. We'll see how it goes! I can't wait for the next big adventures with Aaron.

Snowy days

We have had so much snow this winter. I don't think I've ever in my life seen more snow. I've heard it's been record breaking amounts. Since last night, Halifax has gotten about 50 cm, on top of the 30 cm that fell on Sunday. Suffice to stay: we have spent A LOT of time indoors this winter.

Since almost everything has been closed today, Aaron got to stay home! We've made the most out of the situation: we've been living in cozy pajamas, drinking lots of home roasted coffee and espresso, played a board game, watched a few movies and Better Call Saul, enjoyed our #stormchips, we've been listening to the incredible new Modest Mouse album, Strangers to Ourselves, and we've just been spending time together and with Findlay. I took several photos of our day, including our Monopoly game, which Findlay was extremely interested in.

I hope that all of you are staying warm today!

 

Leaving Halifax

I'm currently sitting in the airport waiting for my first of three flights to board! I'm extremely excited to see my family tonight. It was really hard saying goodbye to Aaron and Findlay Bear, but I'm sure they will keep each other company. Here are a few photos I took of Findlay over the last two days! He is so adorable.

Holiday love

I absolutely love this time of year! I started decorating for Christmas as soon as we got home from Seattle. I wanted to make sure that I could enjoy it all for at least a whole month before I head to Albuquerque for Christmas. Our living room is home to most of the decorations, but I put snowflakes in every window of our apartment. The kitchen also has my cute rosemary plant decked out with ornaments! Findlay has only knocked the tree over twice so far, which is a huge improvement to him knocking it over closer to two times a day last year. However, I think he thinks that he is a Christmas decoration, as he is always hanging out and posing with them. But he also likes to knock over the flowers and chew on them, and move everything off the radiator to stretch out and sleep. I wish I was going to be with Aaron and Findlay for Christmas this year, but it's going to be so nice to see my family in a week! I hope you are having a wonderful holiday season!