Life with a Dog

The weather has warmed up recently, thank goodness. We are able to get outside and breathe fresh air and actually do things. Sadie and I started back to our regular daily walk routine. She's doing great on the leash and actually walked beside me properly without much correction and without pulling my arm off, which is what she is accustomed to doing. It's extremely annoying to try to pull her back and walk at a productive speed, but learning to heel and be obedient is part of her training, so I'll do it. Sunday we took a hike to King Creek Falls. She absolutely goes nuts when she gets close to water, or when she can hear it actually. She barks and runs through the water and swims down the current and is just in heaven. I'm becoming concerned about how we will manage her when we go to the beach in July. She's likely to lose her mind with excitement at the vast amount of water.

Speaking of Sadie, I noticed a small red spot on the inside of her leg yesterday. So she's made a trip to the vet this morning. And she has some type of fungus and we have gotten an antibiotic and a spray to treat it. The vet also informed Bryan that Sadie will be coming into heat soon!!! I have no words for this news. My brain kinda freaks out just thinking about it. I thought we had a while before this part happened, I'm so uninformed and unprepared. Bryan has a few classes coming up that will take him out of town for two weeks, so mark it down, the "heat" will most certainly start then and I'm going to have to tackle that problem on my own.

Oh my, I never knew how much I'd love this little brown dog, she is my third baby. I hope she feels better quickly and I hope I can manage all these upcoming issues. For sure, there's never a dull day when there's life with a dog....

~Tara

Surprise Pics

It's been three months since my trip to Colorado. While I was gone, the kids decided to have an impromptu photo shoot, apparently when their Dad wasn't home. Last week, I was transferring some other photos to my laptop and discovered these sweet babies...

I don't think I could've done any better myself.

~Tara

Tamara's Wedding

My sister Tamara got married on Valentine's Day. I was busy doing other stuff so Blake was the photographer for the day and here's a few of the pics he took.

This is the veil I wore in my wedding. My sister in law wore it when she married my brother and Tamara wore it also. I have hopes that all my sisters will wear it as their "something borrowed" and it will be a tradition that Maddie will carry on too.

I stitched this blue heart onto the hem of the dress to be Tamara's "something blue".

Here are the newlyweds during their reception.

And a quick one of the bride and me. It was a nice day considering a lot of the planning and prep was done last minute.
Tamara and Ethan are off to Oklahoma City to begin married life together and we wish them all the best.

~Tara