Big Week!

This past week John and I celebrated our 3rd anniversary and Winston's 1st birthday. Now, we are in NC for my Defense, which is today. I'm feeling good about things, but feeling the jitters from all of the anticipation. I mean, I remember when I was a first-year seeing the more senior graduate students go through this and it felt so far away for me. Now it is hours away. Yikes! Well, everyone is here and John and I had dinner with Dad and Carol, and Brian and Heather. Happy Birthday to Brian....yesterday he turned 31! Also, many congratulations to the new Dr. Willow Gabriel!

Weekend fun

This past weekend was fantastic! Now that my dissertation is in to my committee members, I feel very excited about the defense coming up, and way more relaxed than I've felt in a long time. Friday night we had an unintentional "puppy party." We had invited James and Somer over for drinks and appetizers, so our dogs could meet since their dogs are staying with us next weekend. Well, word got out to some of the other dog owners that we're friends with and we ended up inviting them too. The pictures are a bit chaotic, but so was the evening....it was great. On Saturday, John and I drove up to Mt. Lemmon to cool off and walk around some trails. Finally, on Sunday I volunteered at an adoption event where we had puppies from the Pima Animal Care Center ready to find new homes....I came home stinking of pound puppies and totally happy.

(I know I have a small head, but is it really smaller than the head of my 36-pound dog?!)

The Campbells go to Hollywood!

This weekend we drove to L.A. to visit Brian and Heather for Labor Day. It is great to be able to hop in a car to see my brother, and I love that they are so much closer to us now. L.A. is going through a pretty nasty heat wave, which comes with daily blackouts....bring out the candles and board games! Queen Heather found the baby in the King Cake at a Mardi Gras-themed party, while Winston got to romp under the Hollywood sign and face-off with Winnie the cat.

Even more fame!

If you guys remember, a few weeks ago I submitted Winston's picture into a "Dog Days of Summer" contest. Well, the website that ran that contest emailed and asked me for more pictures of Winston, so he could be featured on their website. So, head over here to see Winston in all of his glory on www.luvmutt.com! The description of Winston, as well as the captions, were written by the people that run the site, based on my email about Winston (just in case people were wondering).

Oh, by the way, I realized that this is turning into Winston's blog. Winston just happens to be the one that keeps track of me all day while I'm at home, and I can't help his puppy-dog trance. I promise to post some non-Winston material soon!

LOLWinston

Many thanks to Brian for making this LOLWinston!

Winston's been busy....

These days Winston has been busy helping me write my dissertation. When he finished helping today, he found some time to sneak away for a little misbehaving.

Celebrity in the family

Just wanted to quickly let everyone know that Winston is famous. Check out http://www.luvmutt.com/blog/ for his picture that I submitted into a contest. The blog is a cute blog where they have people submit pictures of their mutts (no purebreds allowed!), and they are having a "Dog Days of Summer" contest. We're crossing our fingers that he wins....it would be a gift certificate for treats and toys.