Lily has been here six days now, and so far, so good! Shiloh continues to taunt her and she continues to tolerate it like a champ.
We are starting to see signs of Lily relaxing and coming out of her shell, ever so slowly. We have weeks and months of acclimation in front of us, but at this point we are really optimistic. 
Details to follow…she is a rescue and she is the sweetest and most grateful baby we have ever met.
my very own "Hugh toon" by @gapingvoid!
I cannot believe it’s been 10 days since we’ve last updated! I cooked three amazing new recipes last week (all thanks to Pinterest, of course 
) which I have pictures of and every intention to post; just haven’t gotten there yet. But I will!
My work has really picked up recently, and we’ve been spending a lot more time outdoors with Shiloh since spring summer decided to make a bold, early entrance back in to our lives. So we’re good; just busy.
As you can see in the photo above, I was shocked and honored to learn that our very favorite artist, Hugh MacLeod (a.k.a. @gapingvoid) drew a customized “Hugh toon” just for me! Many many thanks to our dear friend Michael Long for that!! We have a “Hugh wall” in our living room with three of his prints and plan to add significantly to our collection. We have both been using his cartoons on our blogs and business cards for years; long before we even met!
A long-time family friend is throwing a bridal shower for me in May. We are keeping it very small; mainly family and a couple of close girlfriends. The shower will be near my parents’ house on Treasure Island, FL, so Todd’s parents will come over from Orlando for the weekend so that his mom can join us at the shower, and we can all enjoy spending some family time together before the wedding.
It’s shaping up to be a very nice weekend…we’ll also be celebrating Todd’s birthday, his mother’s birthday, his parents’ anniversary (49 years!), and Mother’s Day. Really really nice to be able to do all of that together.
Shiloh came home from being spayed wearing this “cape” in order to keep her from messing with her stitches. As you can see, she is *really* cooperating…
We are supposed to keep this on her for 10-14 days, until she gets her stitches out. It’s going to be a loooong two weeks…
I took a photo of the front of one of our notecards (they are foldover) with my iPhone, and for some reason between iPhone 4S editing and Picasa I’m having a heck of a time getting the colors to look right online.
They are much prettier than this…I’m really in to grey and yellow right now, and that’s what they look like in real life. Very pretty.
Mailey used Shiloh to demonstrate a “down” command technique tonight:
Tonight we had an amazingly romantic Valentine’s Day celebration!
Just kidding. 
(We actually celebrated a few nights ago with a really nice dinner and evening at Sprig…more on that later.)
Tonight we had puppy class with Shiloh, so beforehand the three of us went for dinner at Yeah! Burger in midtown – one of our local favorites and just down the street from the Atlanta Humane Society which is where the class is.
Shiloh was a little rock star in class tonight…
Shiloh and I in puppy class