Happy Valentines Day!

Happy Valentines Day!  This flower represents one of the nicest things anyone has ever done for me.  My friend Jo at the hospital gave this to me.  She is an angel.  What a great friend.  I only wish everyone could have such a delightfully wonderful friend like I do.  Thanks so much Jo!

snow-shoeing Round Valley

Gus was at an adoption event today so Jack and I decided to head up to Park City snow-shoeing.  It was an absolutely gorgeous day with temps in the 40s.

Happy doggy mommy

Jack completely loves to be outside

Such a great day up here today

You can see the canyons ski resort behind me.

We found this random bench in the middle of nowhere.  Of course we had to do several shots

I had to run to get in the shot

Brrrrrrrrrr!!!

Today the wind was blowing.  And by blowing, I don't mean blowing.....I mean roaring!!!  I don't think I have ever felt more cold in my entire life.  It was maybe 2 degrees outside, but with the wind-chill it felt like

-25.  You think I am kidding when I put that.  I am being completely and freezingly serious. 

My dogs have to pee.  They do it outside multiple times a day.  Can I just say that today was thee most incredibly painful day ever for taking a dog out to pee!

I finally had the ingenious idea of wearing my ski goggles out.  It was the best idea of the year.  Deserves an award really.  I was finally able to open my eyes when we went out.  It is nice to be able to see when you take your pups out. Imperative really.  Ingenious!

Yep, in case you had already guessed it and you wanted me to just confirm your suspicions, that is frost on my sliding glass doors.  FROST!  Inside my house!  What kind of ridiculous world is this?  Yes, it is THAT cold.

Jack and Gus take a bath

I took Jack and Gus to the groomer and boy do they look good!  Jack is just tolerating me here by indulging me in my photo taking habits!

There, that smile is much better than the eye rolling in the above pic

Cute boy being forced against his will into more shots

Cute boys chilling in my room.  I LOVE bath day!

Gus's first snow-shoeing experience!

I took Gus on his first snow-shoeing adventure ever today!  Jack has always loved to snow-shoe and I thought Gus would think it was great.  I kept Gus on leash at first because I did not know how he would do off leash.  I found out the extremely hard way that Gus does fantastically off leash.

Cute Gus having a blast!

Jack is licking his chops for..........something.

Cute boy

Gus and Jack running and having a blast!

Playing together

Gus decided to try a hill.

Jack and Gus found some water to play in. I just think it is a delightful mess.  But they LOVE it, so I guess it is worth it

My sweet Jack

I just felt like I wanted to post some pics of my completely handsome boy Jack.  He has had a rough week with the addition of Gus into our lives. He has been through a lot and I think he feels a little unloved. Trust me, he is not unloved. He makes my life worth living.  He is so sweet and such a good dog.  I am so thankful for him.

He is such a handsome boy

Just about to sneeze when I caught this shot

I love his paws

He can't keep his eyes open due to the flash.  Cracks me up

He is the best dog on earth

I love this boy

My sweet dog.  What a great boy

Jack and Gus

The new brothers have an absolute blast playing together!

They love to wrestle

Sometimes it looks like we have a dog-fighting ring at our house, but they are just playing and have a total blast

You can see they love each other

I don't know why it always looks like Jack is the mean one! :)

Cute boys begging for my dinner. Nope, I'm not sharing

Meet Gus!

Meet Gus!  He is my new foster dog and Jack's new younger brother until he finds a forever home.  We couldn't help but spring into action when we heard that Gus (who is a one and a half year old lab mix) had been tied to a tree his whole life and was currently outside in (-) 12 degree temps with minimal shelter.  So, we went and picked him up.

He has been a great dog!  It has not all been perfect.  The first couple days, he had some food aggression problems toward Jack, but now they can eat together without any issues.

He really is a handsome boy

What a cutie.  He will be even better looking when he puts some weight on his bones.  He was not fed or watered regularly and you can see his ribs.

So incredibly sweet!

Gus absolutely loves the rawhide bones!

A new pup

So, I went and picked up a dog today who needed to be fostered.  There was some trouble in paradise.  He had some food aggression problems today and attacked Jack several times.  Jack is a very docile dog and instead of fighting back, went and hid under the table.

Or hid on Heather's lap on my chair

Or just sat on the chair himself and absolutely would NOT get off

Cutest, sweetest, most gutless dog ever!

Meet Gus, the cute little trouble maker. More blogs to follow.