Those random days off throughout the year
Greetings from The Mount Rushmore State – South Dakota! We hope you have a wonderful Independence Day! The Mount Rushmore Memorial grounds are huge and there are lots of hikes you can do once you park your car. You can view Mount Rushmore from SD-44 but it is well worth the $10 parking fee to…
We are celebrating Chris’ birthday in Wyoming! Chris said he really just wanted BBQ for his birthday dinner. Our campground happened to have the best BBQ in Cheyenne on the property (this is exactly why I booked the campground – for the birthday BBQ!). The only thing I didn’t realize was that AB BBQ is…
After James ate some cupcake he posed for some birthday portraits to celebrate turning 12 years old. This one is my favorite. He has his sweet old man face in this photo: The cherry blossoms are blooming here to celebrate James’ birthday: The Virginia Bluebells are also blooming:
James is 12 years old today! We went out to take some portraits and to let him have a little bit of his birthday cupcake. We will play frisbee on our breaks today, too!
We are celebrating James the Poodle turning 12 this week and I found some old photos from his 7th birthday celebrations that we never posted. We went on three little road trips not far from Washington, DC. Our first trip was up to Lake Linganore near Frederick, Maryland. Lake Linganore has trails and boardwalks all…
James has a big birthday this week – he is turning 12! I am going through old photos and I realized I never posted any of his birthday photos from 2017. The wisteria is blooming! The tulips are also blooming: I love this series of birthday portraits. 7 years old seems so long ago! This…
Halloween was definitely a little busier with houses handing out candy this year! We decided to dress James up in his pumpkin costume and walk around the neighborhood.
It is hard to believe little Poodle James was born 11 years ago! What do you think of his fedora hat?
My rainbow leopard dress matches James’ Halloween hat perfectly! So I decided to tuck up and stitch the floor length dress to make it look more like a circus ringmaster. If only I had a cane and a top hat! Happy James: What do you think of my dress? I think it is fun and…
I wasn’t going to dress James up in a costume this year for Halloween since we knew kids really weren’t going to be trick-or-treating because of Covid. But I was at Target and I saw this cute sequined hat for dogs and I had to get it for James! He wore it for a few…
We took some portraits of James on Monday celebrating James’ 10th birthday! I was surprised his tongue wasn’t completely hanging out of his mouth in the portraits because he played with a lot of friends along his walk to Old 4th Ward Park for these photos! Spring is here in Atlanta and the trees have…
Today is Monday April 13, 2020 and it is James the Poodle’s 10th birthday! Last year, James was really sick on his birthday. Thankfully James is doing great one year later. But this year is a little, odd, too. We are in the middle of a global pandemic and we are under ‘stay at home’…
I hope you are having a great Valentine’s Day! James the Poodle has been wearing his heart bandana. I took some portraits of James for his Instagram fans and I also had some cards printed. James has a few friends that send us mail throughout the year with cards and photos and it is so…
Right after the new year, we were in Dallas, Texas. I always love *wandering* around Walmart (something I learned from my Grandma – funny I was always in a hurry when I was a teen shopping with her but now I know why she loved wandering Walmart! It is always full of fun surprises!) In…
I celebrated my birthday this week and Chris asked me what I wanted. I told him I wanted a balloon! I love seeing all of the fun balloons at the grocery store near the checkouts. Chris found a pretty balloon with flowers that said Happy Birthday and he also brought me some tulips! They are…
We had a great Thanksgiving day! We took James to the dog park and we had an awesome Thanksgiving buffet dinner.
I found some cute fabric at Walmart so I made James a new Thanksgiving bandana this year. It has turkeys and pumpkins on it and it says “Gobble” all over it and I thought that was so cute! We are heading to a buffet for Thanksgiving dinner. We haven’t done that since we lived in…
My friend Jen told me about this Christmas garland at Michael’s with Poodles on it. Of course, I had to go look at it. The garland has 7 dogs featured and the white Poodle is in the middle. The 6 foot garland at Michaels is $20 but if you go during a sale, it is…
James has a pumpkin costume and a few other fun costumes he wears during his therapy dog work. But when I saw this Playboy Bunny costume in the store the other day I knew I had to get it for James. The ears had pink sequins but turned around, they were white. And the pink…
We will probably have a quiet Halloween today. But if that changes, I will let you know! Remember last year, when we were in Germany, and we were caught without candy? We got toilet-papered! Here are some photos we took the other day of James with his Halloween bandana. The leaves are changing and it…