J + A

Friday, March 8, 2013

Growing Up

What happened to our tiny puppy?! Seemingly overnight she has become a 30+ pound dog!

2 months old (left) and 7 months old (right)

She's finally grown into those big paws and is starting to get her lady-like (or not so lady-like) schnauzer beard. And don't get me started on her crazy eyebrows!

I can honestly say that I miss the cuteness of the 2 month old puppy but I'm relieved to see Allie's adult personality start to develop. She's beginning to entertain herself for longer periods of time and is becoming more trustworthy about not getting into everything.*

So happy 7 months to our young adult Allie Gator!

* In an ironic twist, Allie just ran past me carrying one of my slippers!

Thursday, March 7, 2013

Snowquestration

After all the recent news coverage, we can't stand the term "snowquestration," but I'm using it anyway (sorry!). This link tells you everything you need to know about what the storm was like.

I would say that we survived snowquestration, but a better description might be that we slept through snowquestration.

It's too bad sequestration won't be as painless as snowquestration was.

Wednesday, March 6, 2013

Training: Then and Now

Week 2 of basic obedience training:

Week 8 of basic obedience training:

Training works!

Tuesday, March 5, 2013

Obedience

Last night was Allie's final exam for her basic obedience class.

Here she is completing the rally course with J:

As you can tell, she passed her exam and graduated!

Next step - advanced obedience class to prepare for the Canine Good Citizen test:

We start in two weeks!

Home-iversary

Exactly one year ago we closed on our house. Remember this?

Here's what the living room looked like after we moved in the new furniture we'd bought. It consisted of a pub table and stools that J assembled and two teak chairs with cushions that were awaiting assembly when this photo was taken.

And here it is after everything got moved in. The teak chairs have now moved to our back patio along with our new picnic table. My grandpa's recliner that used to be in the office has replaced one of the chairs but we're trying to figure out what to do about the other. Sofa? Love seat? Big cushy chair? We'll see!