Christmas Eve!

Christmas Greetings to All!

The year has gone by quickly and as it comes to a close it is time to stop and let everyone know how much you mean to us. It has been a busy year and there are many we have not seen or spoken to as often as we would like but please know you are in our thoughts often. We know we are blessed to have wonderful friends and family.

The last 4 months have been exceptionally eventful, fun and busy with Nati and Her Nine. Our world has been expanded with new friends in many parts of the country with the addition of the pups new families being added to our dog family... We are grateful they have found warm and loving families. We are also grateful to  the many people that have participated in the pups 4 months of life,  it  has taken a "village" to raise them and there are too many individuals and too many kindnesses to mention just know each are appreciated more than words can express.

Merry Christmas & A Happy Healthy New Year

Ann, Dave, Nati, Baci, Pippa, & Zamboni

The month of December for the 3 Pups at our house!

The month of December has been an eventful one for Zamboni, Baci and Pippa. They have been doing 5 to 7 days visits with friends to learn independence, confidence and environments outside the home they have known since they were born. Zambonin went to live with our friend Lynn and her Dalmatians for 7 days. In that time he played with Brittney Spaniels, visited Lynn's training club among lots of others thing.  He came back more grown up. While he was gone Baci went to stay with our friend Cat, her  3 Chesepeake Bay Retrievers and her kitty cat. She went every where Cat went which included training classes. That left Pippa with us to be an only puppy for a while. She got lots tof one on one time, visits to and pet stores etc. Baci came home and then Pippa went to Cat.s. She was an only pup for one night then Zamboni came home. On Pippa's time away she meant her first horse, found she loved Cat's kitty and time sleeping on Cat's bed with Kitty. Then we switched Pippa for Zamboni...He got  to experince an early Christmas with Cat and her family and was a big hit from what we heard from her Mom....they  said he  mghtt have stayed if he didn't already have a forever home to go to ... :-) Cat promised to share pictures...which I will share with when I get them...
We had all three pups picture taken at our training club - amazing we got 3 pups less than 4 months old to sit for a picture like this... Enjoy!

Trying to catch up..

First things first I never did post about Pebbles and her new forever home so here goes - they all deserve to have there time... :-) I just never had enough time. So here goes, better late than never since it has been a month since she has been in her  new home. Now known as Chloe (previously Light Pink - Pebbles) went to her new home the day after Thanksgiving. She is now living in Marshall Michigan with Whitney and Vince. Chloe is a lucky girl with an extended dog family that includes Whippets at Whitney's Mom's house where she visits often.

Here are few pictures  of Chloe on  way to meet her new family!!!





Chloe meeting Whitney for the first time!

Whitney and her Mom with Chloe.

"The Hurrider I go the Behinder I Get"! And "Happy 4 Month Birthday to Nati's Nine"

Strange title for many I'm sure but that is my life these days it seems. The saying is a memory for me from a childhood trip we took to Amish country in the Lancaster PA area. In fact I remember one of the things bought on the trip by my Mom was a hot plate that had this statement. The hotplate is long gone but for some reason this quote stuck with me and for many reasons it has been resonating in my head a lot lately.

I am so far behind in all I have wanted to post. I will still get in the information that I've missed the past few weeks but just not now. Just not enough time to add the pictures etc. I just could not let today pass though  without posting a birthday message to the pups. An update - currently we have 3 pups at home but actually haven't had all 3 there except for a couple of days this month since they have each been going to week long sleep overs with our friend Cat and Lynn. Lots to tell about these experiences but that will have to come later. Right after Christmas Zamboni will go to his forever home. That will leave Baci and Pippa to keep Nati company.  I promise a full report on where everyone is soon.
Happy Birthday Sweet Puppies!


Nati and the Nine just 4 months ago!!!!



Random Pictures from the past few weeks!

Argus and his granddaughter Sparkle at Sue's

Sparkle at Sue's

Bacit & Pippa at our training club for socialization time!

Liver kids... Pippa - Zamboni - Pebbles (now Chloe)

Zamboni as a frog dog!



Dave enjoying time with the pups the night before Pebbles left for her forever home. 



Baci and Sparkle at Sue's after a good nights sleep!





Pebbles (now Chloe) a day or so before leaving for her forever home with Whitney & Vince.

Love!
Zamboni - Pebbles - Baci!

Kathy getting a kiss before we left to take Pebbles (now Chloe) to meet her new family!

3 Months Old 11-20-11 !!!! This post was started 3 weeks ago..Better late than never!

Sorry it has been a while since my last post but it is the age old saga - too little time and way too much to do! Ha, maybe they could clone me -NOT! The world, my husband, my friends, etc could not deal with 2 of me - heck I couldn't deal with 2 of me. Enough of that...

The pups were 13 weeks old Saturday - official 3 month birthday was the 20th! The weekend was eventful, I left Friday on an adventure with Baci (hot pink) and Sparkle (sparkle green) driving to St. Paul MN to visit Sue MacMillan and drop off Sparkle. Sparkle will be living with Sue for a while to be an only puppy. Sparkle is lucky she gets to live with her granpa Argus and also experience the home where her Mom had lived. Not many pups get to do that ... The trip to MN was done in 2 days stopping for a stay in Madison WI. This of course was Baci and Sparkles first experience in a hotel. I think we all enjoyed our stay. On Saturday we completed the trip to St. Paul being greeted with sleet, ice and snow about 1/2 hour before arriving at our destination. Yuck! We did make it and snow continued with accumulation to about 3 inches. The snow was a new experience for Sparkle and Baci. It was fun watching them play in the white stuff. It was also fun watching them explore the new surroundings, and see them play with their Gramps, Argus, Troads were so icy that night that Sue, Ron and I walked to a great local Italian restaurant for dinner. It was yummy! On the walk back there was lots of ice covered with snow and we saw an accident on the road in front of the restaurant.

Enjoying their night at the hotel!

 

Sparkle and Baci snoozing before we get on the road to finish the last leg of the trip!

First Snowfall of the year in MN - Sue' backyard..

Sparkle

Baci

Sparkle in the snow for the first time..

Baci watching Granpa Argus

Sisters, Baci and Sparkles last night sleeping together! Such good puppies didn't utter a peep all night! 

It's about AMARE! And on 11-12-11 Nati's Nine turned 12 Weeks Old

Sweet Amare is now living with her forever family in South Carolina. She is the one pup that will get to winter in warm weather... :-). Thanks Donna for bringing us all together! We met Amare's new family (Karen, Shack, & new big brother - Logan - a black & white 6 year old Dal) in Knoxville on Saturday. Our trip to Knoxville went well and so far all the pups have been good travelers - Yeah! Karen's big concern was if Logan ( an only dog for nearly 6 years) would accept Amare and within minutes of them meeting they looked like they had been together forever. (I've included pictures of Amare and her family) The most important thing when placing pups is making sure they have loving homes and so far all of the pups have just that - warm and loving families. We've also been very fortunate that all the new members of our extended family have been keeping us posted on how things are progressing with the pups. :-) Thanks everyone!
Enjoy the pictures...

Sparkle and Baci nice and comfy on Friday...

Amare on Friday evening



Zamboni took Amare's spot! What's up with this?



Baci & Amare on Friday evening.

Amare giving Kathy a kiss, Saturday  before the trip to Knoxville!

Dave & Amare before heading to Knoxville... amare giving more kisses!

Amare & her pig on the trip!

Amare asleep on the trip!

Karen, Amare, Logan and Shack taking a walk to get acquainted!

Family Portrait!

Pippa & Baci on Sunday!





Zamboni - stretched out and comfy!

Sparkle & Baci today -Monday morning!

Random Pictures! Enjoy -

No time to write - Here are some random pictures ...
Pictures below are from our friend Steve. He brought his daughter Kylie and son Quinn over Sunday to visit the pups. No doubt kids, puppies and also the adults enjoyed the visit! :-)

The pictures that follow here are random shots of mischievious pups and their Mom from the past few days

You caught me in Mom's crate!



Sparkle

Pebbles and Baci taking a snooze!



Zamboni




You caught me in the act ....




Nati exploring the pups crates - turn about is fair play - right!




Sparkle with a kong toy.




Sparkle





Pippa

 


I like this perch!




Sparkle like the soft perch too!



Amare exploring her Mom's toy trove...

Zamboni and Amare found something fun of their Moms!



Nati happy that a couple of her pups escaped into her room so she could play with them!