one post for january, one post for february...

hahaha, let's hope I don't stick to a once-a-month-post plan for the rest of the year! I would allow you all to call me lame. You can't call me that unless I only post once a month, though. No need to be rude.

Joe and I got tivo for Christmas three years ago and yesterday was the official LAST DAY of our service (technically, the last day of our 3 yr service plan). We had talked several times about canceling our cable when the tivo service was going to expire; I was actually the one who first mentioned the idea to Joe. Yesterday rolls around and I actually think my palms started to sweat! Only because I was all paranoid all the shows I had recorded and saved to watch later (apparently, months later) would disappear on February 1st. Throw that fear in with Joe leaving to go out of town yesterday after church (what the heck was I going to do when the kids go to sleep??!?) and I totally caved and renewed the subscription -- Joe wasn't there to stop me! hahaha!! Okay so I have till the end of this month to decide what I am going to do with this 'dilemma.' Some people have had great success with canceling their cable, while others have told me that if I want to save money I can cut corners elsewhere. What to do.... would I need to buy a satellite since the channels are all digital now? If that's like 80 bucks I'd rather just keep my awesome tivo and pause and rewind at will. Well I'm not going to type all my thoughts out about this. Although, not having tivo reminds me of when I was nursing Boston at 3am. All I can tell you about that experience was that had I had the phone AND my wallet next to me while the babe was attached to me, I would have bought several different, yet all incredible, products: MagicBullet, Shark steam cleaner, a straightener/curler/brush all-in-one, and too many other things to name from the Q. It's embarrassing how weak I am...

Alright, well here are some pictures from October (I'm not that far behind -- NOT!!)

These were our neighbors back when we lived in Connecticut. They STILL live there, although they recently put their house up for sale. Joe and I stopped in Connecticut one day because he wanted to see where I spent 8 years of my life :) They were kind enough to let us stay the night. It was weird seeing their kids all grown up (I babysat them all throughout middle school).

Our old house -- I hadn't seen it in almost 10 years.

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I was seriously boooorrrreeeed driving from New Hampshire to Boston so I took a bunch of pictures out the window. The scenery was gorgeous and I couldn't resist. Joe was teasing me about taking so many and now that I'm looking through them all, I totally think his teasing was legit. Really, get a hold of yourself, Ashley. So I'll spare you all the pictures and I'll just post three :)

 

FINALLY!! We made it to Boston! We made a stop over there because Joe's brother, Luke, is going to school at Berklee College of Music. Here is his 'Full House' style house. I wanted to live in it simply because it looks so cool from the outside. The street it is on reminded me of San Fransisco and how incredibly hilly it was. I think all the roads leading up to his house were a 10 incline, if you speak treadmill talk. Remembering that made me reconsider living in this cool green house.

Luke's room. The size of this apartment made me completely revise my previous statement of wanting to live there. so. ridiculously. small. Not too great of a picture of Joe, but Luke was looking good so it's getting posted! I offered buying Luke some hangers, but he would have none of that. When it comes to his room, he is one of those people that lives by phrase, "organized chaos." So I dropped the offering of the hangers and tried to convince him to put his mattress on top of his suitcases to free up some floor space. I have decided that neither Joe nor Luke like being told what to do.

  Luke, look there! Ben Franklin -- in the flesh!!

Joe really, really excited to be a Quincy Market! hahaha, not really. I told him to do that.

 

Aww, brothers :)   hmmm... Joe is not looking his best here either... I need to find a good picture of him from this trip...

 

Yes! I FOUND ONE!!!

Sweetest wigs at the sweetest store ever. Or would these be considered hats?? I should have asked...

OH MY GOSH -- THIS IS WHY I NEVER BLOG!! I gave Reese some marshmallows and she proceeded to put them all in her mouth and spit them all out on the carpet, bookcases and walls. What a sticky mess! While I was cleaning that disaster up, Boston came out of the bathroom and had sprayed the concentrated room fragrance in his hair -- since apparently it is "hair spray." Ugh... Reese scrambled down the stairs after her smearing of the marshmallows and grabbed the popcorn bag from the trashcan in the kitchen and left a trail of popcorn kernels -- Hansel and Gretel style -- from the table, up the stairs and to the loft upstairs.

So I guess I'll finish the rest of October later tonight... we'll see. I'm going to go to the gym and give myself a break from childcare. I might go work out while I'm there, too :)