Nico’s Aquadic Adventures!!

Yesterday we decided to take our 3 1/2 month old pup Nico out to a park with our friend Kristen and her dog, Dakota.  Dakota loves the water and the breeder (www.chercarkennels.com) had advised that a pup usually needs to see what he is supposed to do in the water, by watching another dog that enjoys swimming and playing in the water.  Needless to say, Nico had a blast, as you can see from the pictures below!  There are a couple of pics of Nico in the kitchen too.

Nico Retrieving

Nico swimming to shore

He Made It!!!

More Swimming

 

Tired after hours of swimming!

 

Somebody is hungry!!!!

Still hungry…..

Yes! Food!!!

06-07-2008 Few newer Nico pics

Here are a few newer Nico pics we took while playing fetch in the yard.

He is doing really well - he is very intelligent, as well as obstinate.  :)  He knows ’sit’, ‘down’, and ’shake’ pretty well and is learning other commands too. He’s 11 weeks old today (so 10 weeks old in the above pics), and weighted in at 23#’s at the vet this morning. He is very healthy, with the exception of round worms (which 95% of puppies and kittens get). He’s a handful at times, that’s for sure.

05-28-2008 Nico & older flower bed pictures

Well, we got Nico home. Here are a few early pictures.

Another with Nico and Wicket, who has been keeping a close eye on Nico.

And a few pictures of our flowerbeds. We’ve since had the big rocks moved into place, but we have yet to take new pictures.

I got motivated and took a picture of the beds with the rocks in them.  The lighting isn’t very good, as the sun is about to set:

04-26-2008 - Trip to Cher Car Kennels

Today, Brad & I went to Cher Car Kennels in St. John, Michigan to visit our new puppy and his parents Rush (mom) & Touche’ (dad).  We hung out with the owners Cheryl & Lori and their dogs.  They also let us participate in handler protection training with a German Shepherd named Santos and also with Rush (our puppy’s mom).  All in all a super duper fun day!!!

To the left is a picture of Brad with, most likely, our puppy Nico. Below is me, paying the price after faking an attack on Lori, the owner of Rush. Rush is the mother of our puppy - she gave birth to 10 puppies 4 weeks ago:

We had the chance to be decoys for Rush, as well as Santos, a German Shepherd. It was pretty exciting. We’re looking forward to bringing Nico home in 4 weeks.

Here is a picture of me, having a ton of fun while being chomped on by Rush:

Here is a picture of Brad & Rush, Brad did a great job with her bite work:

We also got the opportunity, and priviledge to meet Max the German Rottweiler and his human, Dan.  Max is a fully rehabilitated Rotty, he used to be really aggressive toward humans, but is now basically a 110lb. lap dog.  He really took to Brad & I, so much so that when he came out of the training ring he ran over to us and plopped at our feet.  Dan joked that maybe Max would be going home with us!  Which would have been fine with Brad and me!  Below is the Almighty Max, 110lbs of muscle, with a little sweetie-pie mixed in!!

We also both got to do bite work with Santos, a beautiful, well-balanced German Shepherd, his bites were different from Rush, but just as effective:

Brad & Santos - Working hard!

Me & Santos.

Here are more pics of the puppies, not just Nico:

They seem to like making puppy piles….

And last, but certainly not least, Taigan the Great - little but mighty, she rules the roost at Cher Car Kennels:

03-14-08 Some new pictures

I’ve uploaded a few of the pictures we took a few days after the snow storm while we were out shoveling, which we did a lot of last weekend.  Thankfully we have very nice neighbors, two of which helped to clear the entire cul-de-sac with their snowblowers.  I thought we made it through the year without needing one - I was wrong.

Here is a picture of the front of our house.

This is just a picture of a really cool patch of snow in our backyard:

And finally, a picture of Wicket in his favorite seat in the house:

03-14-2008 It’s been a while

I can’t believe it has been over 3 months since we’ve updated the site.

Not much new going on with us, we’ve just been busy around the house as we continue to settle in. Looks like the ice season here has come and gone without us getting out to climb even once, I hope that doesn’t happen again next year, or ever for that matter.

We took some pictures of the big snow storm we got here last week, so I hope to sit down at the computer this weekend and post a few of those. Maybe we will take some pictures of the upstairs this weekend and post them as well, but there is still a lot of work to be done in the office and spare bedroom - we don’t use the rooms very often (unless I am on call for work, then I spend too much time in the office) so they have been neglected. Maybe if I threaten to take pictures of those 2 rooms, that will motivate Rachel and I to finally organize them. 

12-08-2007 Inside pics

Finally took some decent pictures inside the house. I took some earlier this week, but it was already dark out after we got home from work and they did not turn out so well. These are a bit better, but still not the best lighting.

Here is a picture of the living room from the foyer:

Here is the kitchen from the living room:

This is the living room from the kitchen:

Foyer looking up stairs:

And the foyer looking from above:

That pretty much covers the downstairs, with the exception of the 1/2 bath and laundry room. Not much to see there anyway. We’ll try to get pictures of the rooms upstairs sometime soon.

11-30-2007 Brief update

Well, we’ve still not had the time to take pictures of the finished house, or the inside.  I hope to take the time to do that this weekend.

09-something-2007

Well, we’re in. To say we’ve got a ton to do is an understatement, but we’re here. We’ve got all the big stuff here, the 120 gallon tank is here (absolutely the most difficult part of this move - a giant thanks to Brent and my dad again for helping with that, I was on pins and needles moving it.), the reef tank is here (the move went surprisingly well - I think all fish, corals, and inverts are fine), both snakes are here, one of our dragons is here, and all our furniture is here - basically everything. We’ve still got some plants in Lakewood, as well as a small fishtank left to move. Compared to the 120, it’ll be a joke to move. We’ve got our living room set up, so we’re about to relax and watch a movie tonight.

Tomorrow we are getting our cable/phone/internet hooked up here, and getting the gas transferred back into the landlords name in Lakewood. We also plan to move pretty much all the plants and the rest of the animals tomorrow. It’s finally supposed to cool off - it was 87 degrees here today. It’s been in the 80’s for this entire move, and you guys know me, I -hate- the heat. Hate it.

We’ll take some pictures of the inside of the house once we have things arranged and post them. I wouldn’t hold your breath for pictures anytime really soon, it’ll be a while before I even find the camera. It’s been a wild ride - I’m not really sure of the date, day of the week, north….anything. I know I’m dead tired, I hurt a lot, ibuprofen doesn’t seem to help, and that’s about it. Time to go make sure the couch is still comfortable.

08-27-2007 More inside

Again they seem to have done a lot in a week.  Counter tops are all in, most if not all of the trim is in, and the hearth is done: