Winter to Spring

Hi everybody!! Here's what's been going on in Ohio...

We went from too much snow to keep track of in February...



Frigid blue nights...



Hazy days



To this!! Color, grass, playtime!!! (And no, Chad's not in the MS13 gang even though he has tattoos...haha. - He got a lot of stares in the Miami airport after our cruise! It was quite comical)



Couldn't be happier to have some playtime in nice weather!!



Chad had just picked this up and didn't even have a chance to think about throwing it before Kado tried grabbing it out of his hands! He is ALWAYS up for playing!! Woohoo!



Shadow stalking something.... Can you guess what?...or whooo?



Stalking Kado! Who is apparently oblivious.



Still oblivious... Actually he just waits for her to get really close before pulling his ultra quick "juke moves." Shadow's legs are too short to keep up!



Some ducks even came to spend time in the creek. Chad and I tried to sneak up on them and get some pics, but by the time we could actually see them, they got spooked and flew away
:(



Umm, Shadow? You have a little something on your collar...
I'm not sure if burrs are in all areas of the US- they are little sticky/prickly weeds or something that stick to clothing and what-not. Not painful, just annoying.



At least she had fun, funny looking burrs on the collar and all! She's our little pot-bellied pig :)



But there are still signs of the storms of winter. See both of the big cracks in the branches? There is the obvious one, and then 2 branches below is a branch that is cracked in the middle. It would be interesting to know how that happened- wind, lightning?



Many trees were broken and cracked during this winter.



There's been lots going on around here! And today I remembered it's been about a year since I started this blog! It was March 2009, how cool- one year of blogging anniversary!

I also have another job for now, working with dog boarding. What's cool is this place helps a local dog rescue as well, so I get to spend time with pups who need a home. It's been nice so far, except that it gives a lot less time for telling all of you what's up! I'll try to blog again later in the week and read up on all of yours as well! I've missed spending all my extra time on here :(

How is everyone's 'Spring' coming along anyway!? I know I've been in a much better mood since the weather has warmed up. Hopefully it stays this way- the gloomy, cold, grey winter weather makes me feel, well, gloomy, cold, and grey (or is it gray?) lol! Hope all of you are doing well!

More Oldies

So... I've been having a lot of fun looking through all my old pictures! I thought I'd share a few more with you.

Yes, Spuds is a very good sport as some of you said :) He gets really excited any time we dress him up because he knows it means lots of treats! He walks around to everyone in the house as if showing off his new look. (He's very needy so I think he figures if it gets him attention from everybody it's a good thing!)

Another St. Patrick's Day 2006 pic:



I think he stole that camo scarf from the laundry needing folded in the background :) This was taken in 2007.



And this was taken in 2009..not so old :) Shadow 'smiles' a lot but I can never seem to get it in a picture! This is not very good quality but you can kind of see her sporting a smile in the hopes of getting some of daddy's food. It may look like a snarl in the pic but in person you can easily tell the difference. Do any of your dogs smile? Shadow and Spuds both do it a lot, especially when we first come home.



This is one of my parents' dogs you haven't met yet! Her name in Koko- her parents were a border collie and a border collieXcoon hound. She was still a cute little pup in this pic taken in 2005 while we were on vacation in the Outer Banks.



And this is Kyla, who you've seen in past posts. This was taken in 2006 while we were on vacation at a lake house....Kyla went swimming....she wasn't too impressed :)



I had some other pics I wanted to share, but for some reason they wouldn't load onto here...so I'll save those for another time. And to the commenter from the last post-I DO wonder what we did before digital cameras- it's so easy now! But I think I'm going to scan some of Spud's puppy pics because he was too cute for everyone not to see!

Hope everyone enjoyed :)

Wireless, Birthdays, and Old Pics

Chad has wireless internet at his house now so I can be on my laptop anytime! WOOHOO! I was looking through some of my old pics and found some cute ones of the dogs...

Here's Spuds dressed up for Christmas 2005, so that would have made him 1yr and 9mo old in this pic:



And this was Spuds on St. Patrick's day 2006, so he was 2 yrs old...and blinked in the pic, haha!



Finally, here's Kado from 2008. He was only months old if you can't tell. So cute! (His birthday is next month, he'll b a whole 2 years old!)



I have puppy pics of Spuds from when he was realllyyy little, but that was before the time of having a digital camera, so it will take some effort for me to get those on here. I plan on doing that at some point, he was the cutest little puppy.

We don't really have any puppy pics of Shadow because she was 11 months old when we rescued her. We aren't even sure when her birthday is, and really, not even sure when her "gotcha" day is because originally she was going to be more of a foster... but we know she's about a month older than Kado, so her birthday was probably the first week of February...and the first picture I have of her is from December 31st, but I know she was with us for Christmas because I had a stocking for her from last year. So I think she came to us about a week before Christmas. I meant to blog about her special days, but, OOPS! So there you have it! Let's here it for a happy estimated birthday for Shadow :) She's 2, and even though she's only been with us for about a year, I can't imagine what life would be like without her being part of the family. She's just perfect, and it seems like she's always been here :)

Well, it's 1:21am here, so I'm signing off. Goodnight!

Snow?

Have you heard how much it snowed in Ohio? Well...it's a lot!! My parents' dog Kasey (you've seen her in past posts) is loving it, so i took a short video to show the snow.. and Kasey. (Make sure your volume isn't up too high, I was calling her name).