BIRTHDAY!

Today is Chris' 26th birthday and it just so happened to be AMAZINGLY gorgeous outside (probably to make up for the Nor'easter from last year). We went to DC to see the cherry blossom trees - highly recommend this to everybody. We've decided to make it an annual tradition from now on. The 75 degree temp, no clouds in the sky, and no humidity probably helped. Also visited the WWII Memorial, which we had never seen before ... it was pretty amazing. Ended the day with dinner at Lemongrass (in Baltimore), a long walk around the harbor, ice cream at Haagen-Dazs, and a new episode of "The Office." Perfect birthday.

Happy New Year!

Some of our pics from New Year's Eve. And YES we did see a dead body, about 3 feet away, around 12:10am. That's an awesome way to start off 2008 ....... love Hampden .....

dinner at the helmand

The Fence, Part III

The final phase of our backyard fence project:

(I did these by myself!)

The final results!

The Fence, Part II

So today was part two of our fence building ....

thank goodness Jeremy was here to guide us!!

Here are some photos of our progress:

All posts and 2 panels - complete!

Kelly and I did this one all by ourselves!

Larriland Farm

Today we all took a drive to good ol' Larriland Farm to partake in the annual tradition of pumpkin and apple picking. Here are some of the photos from the morning's events ...

The Fence, Part I

Well, our new project for the month (I really need to get a job!) is to remove the old fence in the backyard, build a new one, and then put up a picket fence in the front yard. Backyard fence is to keep our homeless friends and drug addicts out of our yard (such a convenient cut-through from the alley) and the picket fence is to keep the nasty dog poo out! We have some habitual poo-ers that visit us every day - even though Chris has followed them home and put the poo on their porch. Okay, that's a lie - but it's been threatened! So here are the pictures from our favorite part - the demolition!!!

Fence?! What fence!?!?!??

The burial grounds.



There actually is a fence under all that ivy!

I'm naked! (says the yard)

Not in our yard!! (Chris actually ripped up

half of the yard trying to pull these out.

That'll be project number 2 ....)