Guinness is 4 years old!

Guinness turned 4 years old yesterday (on Groundhog Day!). So, we celebrated by playing LOTS of frisbee outside (it's his favorite thing ever I think), and then we gave him a little bit of boiled chicken and rice with his dinner. He's had chicken and rice before when the vet has told us to give him that to help an upset stomach, and he loooooves chicken and rice. So, we decided that could be his birthday treat! And we also watched Groundhog Day, because we HAD to since it's Groundhog Day! We both love that movie so much.

Working on his training ("stay"), and that's Groundhog Day on the TV! 

Last weekend was FUN!! On Saturday we started off our morning by driving into the city to see our friend Michael (aka Big Mike aka the opera singer) at his apartment, because he's getting ready to move into a really awesome apartment!  I think his move-in day is today, actually.  So there were a few last minute things he needed some help with (taking his TV off the wall, etc). It was great to see him, as always. And I'm so excited for him that he's going to be moving into a great new apartment. After helping Michael, we drove to Sly Fox Brewery for some snowshoeing fun!!  REI was there demo-ing some snowshoes. We went into the brewery first and had a few beers, and then we were totally ready to try out the snowshoeing!  It was FUN, and we both totally want to find some cheap (used?) snowshoes now. REI had to bring in some snow for the demo, because there is no snow anywhere right now!  It's such a weird winter. We both took a few photos of the whole experience!

This is when we decided to head into the brewery and have a few beers before we started snowshoeing. That wasn't as much snow as we were thinking would be brought in! 

Here's when we came back out! It was a bit busier. But everyone was having fun! 

The hardest part is getting the snowshoes on!  And they have these sharp metal blade-like teeth on the bottom of them (I had no idea!)

Here's Kevin waiting at the bottom of the hill for me to walk on down in my snowshoes! 

I had no idea he took this picture... but I was putting on my gloves. It was chilly! 

After our fun snowshoeing adventure, we went back into the brewery and had some more beer and then also went on a brewery tour!!  We have been on a LOT of brewery tours, and this was the first time ever that I was the only girl!!  It was really weird. 

In the brewery! 

This was our tour! All men!  So strange. 

Last weekend we also watched a few of the Oscar Best Picture nominees!  We checked two more off of our list, so now we have 6 left! We went to the movie theater to see Lion, and oh my gosh you guys... SUCH a beautiful movie!! We both really loved it. "Beautiful" is the best word I can think of to describe it. Just incredibly beautiful and touching. Go see Lion!  You won't regret it.  We also saw that Hell or High Water (the one with Chris Pine) was available at a RedBox at our grocery store, so we rented that for a night and watched it too.  It was good!  Definitely a bit violent though, so keep that in mind if you're not a fan of violent movies. So far (and I know I'm very early in the Best Picture Nominees viewing list...), I'm rooting for Lion to win, for sure.  But I also think that La La Land will win, because Hollywood loves movies about Hollywood (and it was awesome, but I loved Lion way more). 

I'm SO happy that today is Friday!!  I hope you all have a great weekend!!