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!

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.

callie gets a haircut

Callie's hair was getting a little shaggy - as you can tell from these two pics...

Cute, but definately shaggy

So I got the clippers out on Saturday morning and went to work. I am very fortunate that Callie loves attention and doesn't mind sitting for a haircut too awful much (not that she looks that comfortable in this pic, though).

This is only the 4th doggie haircut I've done so it still takes me about 5x as long as it should, but my mom says I'll be able to hang my shingle out soon enough! haha!

Next we had to wash off all the extra hair. Even though Callie is so patient for the haircut part she never likes the bath part!

please get me out of here!

she becomes a crazy dog after a bath! apparently smelling clean just isn't the doggie thing to do!

This short video is the post-bath obsessed Callie :)

She'll be this crazy for a good 10 minutes!!!

Once she calmed down and smelled a little more to her liking she sat in the window to finish drying in the sun.

For being such a patient doggie, she was rewarded with a new piece of jewelry (and one for Mia to!)

Here she is showing off the new bling!

and Mia showing off hers

I love my doggies!!!

doggie sitting

We had a housefull of dogs this weekend!

Harley & Zozo came to visit for a couple of days and while it was fun I probably tripped a dozen times on some furry little body sprawled on the floor!

Zozo

Harley

Mia

Calllie

And here's just a cute pic of my parents dog, Taffy, she wasn't here, but it seemed like this pic would fit with the other doggie pics :)

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...






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!