Irene Aftermath

So proud to say that this is where I grew up! Vermont is an amazing place and my heart goes out to everyone there that was affected by the hurricane!

XOXO

Olive meets her new friend Jordie!!

My Mom just got a new dog, Jordie. She is part beagle and seven years old. She is so adorable and such a good little girl. This weekend Shawn and I and Olive all got to meet our newest family member and we all fell in love with her!


Olive and Jordie running free outside




Jordie on the couch (Olive taught her to sleep up there hehe)



Look at this beautiful face!





Cuddling together on the couch after a long day of playing






Cuddling up to me!




They can run so fast!

Digging through the snow







Following close behind my mom while we were snow-shoeing in the woods



This is how we found them while we were enjoying our delicious homemade chili for lunch!

We love you Jordie, welcome to the family. Olive misses you already :)

i know I am so late...

But I wanted to share these Halloween pictures!! We went to VT to visit my mom. Took Olive on a nice long walk, where we laughed about how much energy she had to run around and carved pumpkins. It was great :)

Shawn's pumpkin, my pumpkin & mom's pumpkin



Shawn's pumpkin made me laugh...Love the nose


Olive eating sticks on her walk





Mom & Shawn walking together

New Cookbook: Dishing Up Vermont

I saw this post on a blog I read from time to time, by someone who writes about restaurants in Astoria, N.Y. and other parts of NYC. Since I live in Astoria, I am always looking for new restaurants in the area to try and because I don't have much money, its nice to go somewhere that someone else has tried first, to see what their experience was.

Anyway, this blogger The Foodista wrote about a new book that was coming out called Dishing Up Vermont by Tracey Medeiros. Since I am from Vermont, I am interested in checking out this book to see what kind of recipes it has in it.

There is an event for the book in NYC at Murray's Cheese Shop in the East Village, you can read more about this at here:

http://www.foodistanyc.com/2010/03/win-murrays-cheese-event-dishing-up.html

Some Recent Vermont News

I am originally from Vermont, which has been in the news a lot lately, for both some good and wacky stories. Here are some of the interesting stories from my home state.

The first story looks at skiing at Sugarbush Resort in Warren, V.T. I actually know the people interviewed for this article :)

http://travel.nytimes.com/2010/02/19/travel/escapes/19sugarbush.html?ref=travel

This next one is a bit on the strange side, but very amusing.

http://www.timesargus.com/article/20100218/NEWS02/2180323

I even found out that someone from my hometown made it to the Olympics, which is pretty cool.

http://www.valleyreporter.com/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=2950&ac=0&Itemid=42

The beautiful picture above was taken by me in Vermont, from the top of Sugarbush, during a summer hike.

Enjoy!