Showing posts with label Mia. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Mia. Show all posts

Monday, October 17, 2011

toy love

Mia and Callie love playing with destroying stuffed animals.
I find ones w/o any beads at garage sales and stock up to last all year.
They go crazy when I pull out a new one!!!






Mia holds hers in her mouth for a while before she starts chewing. She often falls asleep with the new toy just sitting in her mouth... so cute!




Callie loves playing fetch with her toys and will run back and forth as long as you are paying attention!


Monday, October 3, 2011

camping & climbing in the wild

This past weekend we went camping & climbing with our good friends, Sam & Rich.
Here are a few of my favorite pics of the weekend:


Sam was wonderful and made all the food for us the whole weekend!




Mia loves being outside and especially wanted to play with all the horses she saw




This was Kevin's first time climing outside - I think he wants to go again!




Mia & Callie didn't want to be left behind so they tried to climb too!!!




I didn't do any climbing. I just sat and knitted (more on that later), napped, read, and played with the doggies. It was so relaxing!!!




Hobbes (Sam & Rich's second child doggie) didn't like not being able to climb either




The weather was absolutely perfect - I'm so glad we got in one more camping weekend before we're shut indoors for the winter.

Thursday, September 22, 2011

bath time for the puppers

Just a few pictues we took while giving the puppers baths.

Mia in progress




Callie in progress




Beautiful Mia all done




Cute Callie all done


Wednesday, July 20, 2011

mia's love affair with peanut butter

Mia loves peanut butter! When we're at the end of a jar she always gets to like it clean and she takes as long as she need to make sure every single speck of peanut butter is gone! It's so fun to see her so engaged in her project!


















I wish I'd taken an "after" shot of the jar... it was clean clean clean!!!



Monday, June 6, 2011

Doggie Bath Time!

If you can remember all the way back to Memorial Day weekend you'll remember that it was not the perfectly clear and sunny weekend the weathermen told us it would be. You might also remember that we went camping Sunday evening... with the doggies.

Let me share an interesting fact with you:    muddy ground = muddy dogs = muddy everything!


Given this re-discovered fact, we decided to stop by the Super Pantry Gas Station & Car Wash on Towanda Barnes Rd. to check out their dog wash.

It was a really nice set-up with 2 dog washing stations in a contained, but well ventilated area. And it was so nice not have to worry about cleaning up a messy bathroom at home, BUT it cost us $11 to get Mia cleaned and mostly dry and that's a bit steep for me. Admittedly, she was a lot muddier than usual and she is a rather large dog (115lbs), but she is so well behaved it would be almost just as easy to wash her down with the garden hose. Also, the dogs still have to climb 3 larger steps to get into the dog wash which makes it nice that you don't have to bend over when washing, but it's just as hard as trying to get a big dog into the bathtub (at least with Mia it was).


This is a picture I found online, but it's pretty much what the dog wash looked like...


Pet Wash #1



To summarize:  My review is mixed. If you don't want the mess at home it's a great option, but considering the price it won't be an option we use very often.



Callie got her bath in the tub when we got home and I had a video clip of how crazy she goes after a bath, but my clip won't work so here's just a random pic of how cute she is!