Little Bo's First Christmas!

Cuddle time with his Daddy!!
He chewed on that thing for at least an hour and a half-- the whole time we opened presents!

He loved his rawhide candy cane :) Notice the paw stocking...

For C-Diddy, As Promised :)

The picture was a wedding gift from Mr. and Mrs. C-Diddy and we adore it! A friend of theirs painted it by hand... it's perfect. We have it on a stand above our 3-sided fireplace so we can see it from both rooms on the first floor. Thanks C-Diddy (and to your parents too!!)

Merry Christmas From the L Family!

Merry Christmas!! More posts soon... Promise!

Inspired...

After looking at tons of pictures of Elkhounds online I got pretty inspired... This was the best I could do for now. The only one I got him to stand still for really :) He just wants to run around and eat the snow and dig up our mulch!

Somebody LOVES the snow...

New Wings Video!!

Pretty awesome!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hRJ1Nb22BFo

The Dragon

A friend of ours has a 3 year old named Maddison, or Maddie for short. They stopped by to kill a few minutes the other day and Maddie positioned herself on the stairs as the princess and kept calling Bo the dragon. Every time she came downstairs he tried to lick her face, so she said "No Dragon No!" It was so cute. So now we call Bo "The Dragon" when he's acting up or being a pain... And he does act up. I left the other day and he peed on the floor as soon as I left. I guess he didn't want me to leave. And when the snow first started we wouldn't let him out every time he scratched at the door because all he wanted to do was play, so he peed in the laundry room. Those are the only times he's had "accidents" and I think they were on purpose... Dragon.

Learning Tricks

Getting Bigger...

Taken today!
When we first got him...

Little Bo had his first vet appointment yesterday. He weighed in at 30 pounds and got a clean bill of health :) I couldn't help but see how much he'd grown... He's hit a growth spurt in the last few weeks. We noticed it when we couldn't get his collar on and off easily :) He has also discovered his big boy bark and barks at everything...

Send your own ElfYourself eCards

Thanksgiving bloopers

I don't have any more photos other than this one, but I do have some funny stories :) First off, Mr. L had to have his grandma's potato rolls, which apparently were the test as to whether I've officially become a Lucas. I passed with flying colors! But he was concerned because I didn't start until the day of, and it took me until 3:00. I got up at 7 am. Crazy...
So the big blunder of the day was when I sat an empty pyrex baking dish on a burner. A burner that just so happened to still be really hot. So after a small explosion, we had tiny shards of glass all over the kitchen. So that was crazy enough, but then when we were in the last 15 minutes, Greg took a taste of the mashed potatoes and found 3 pieces of glass. We think the spoon we were using to stir them got some glass on it. But we went ahead and ate them-- nobody found any more...
We only had to make 2 grocery store runs. I had to get cream for the rolls (thought I had some but didn't), and we had to send Mr. H out for more baking pans because I couldn't find the ones we'd bought to bake the stuffing in.
So all in all, it was a great day! We didn't end up having dessert because we went over to a friends' house and played cranium. So fun... I dominated of course. We baked the pies after we got back from the slopes yesterday. They were still tasty :)

Happy Thanksgiving!

Working hard...
Notice the perfectly rising potato rolls in the front :)
Even Bo got some turkey!
Mr. L carving up the turkey
The table all set and ready to eat!

Our First Time Skiing!

Gorgeous View from the top!
Just as the sun was setting
Mrs. S and her PATIENT teacher Greg... he was so great-- stayed with me the whole day
Mr. H looking cool on his snowboard
Mr. L and Mr. H in the gondola on the way up
Miss S and Mrs. L on the way up!
All 4 of us... pretty good looking group, huh?

Manitou Cliff Dwellings

We checked them out before Jimmy got off work...

Garden of the Gods part 2

Balancing Rock
On the way through the Park

Garden of the Gods!

Notice the difference between Pikes Peak and the Cheaha Mountain in Alabama-- it's the same height as Massanutten back home. Crazy!!
Mrs. L and Miss S
Miss S and Mr. H

Cog Railway to Pikes Peak :)

Miss S and Mr. H
Mr. and Mrs. L
The 4 of us at the top!

Updates

What a busy week! Here are a few updates...

Bo got really sick last week with diarrhea. We had to give him about 4 baths because he kept having accidents. He's much better now- after 2 days of a plain rice diet he finally has solid poo again! Yay!!

My sister is here!! Yup, she and her boyfriend came in for the week. They are headed to Breckenridge to ski today. Mr. L wanted me to wait so our first (yes, our first) ski experience could be together. The plan is to go Friday. Which will be good because we'll have the scoop from Miss S and Mr. H.

I'm getting excited but nervous about Thanksgiving. I have Miss S here to help, but apparently Mr. L tells me the true tryout to be the real Mrs. L is to get his Mom's potato roll recipe correct. I hope I get it right!

Yesterday we discovered the outlets at Castle Rock. One word... AMAZING!!! Lets just say Miss S and I went a little crazy at the Coach outlet... But their prices were out of this world. Half the price of their normal prices, which are outlet prices. So I said Happy Birthday to me :)

And now the bad. I took Bo out this morning just after Miss S and Mr. H left and I sprained my ankle. :( He pulled and I lost my footing and rolled it over. It hurts pretty bad so I guess that means no walk for Bo today. I hope I'll be able to Ski Friday... but with the boots locking me in, I should be ok. I hope. :(

Master Bedroom!

Before...
After!

Snow!

We got a few inches last night... So we let Bo out this morning to play!

Garden of the Gods

Our friend Greg came down from Denver to spend Veterans day with us because he and Mr. L had the day off. We went for a short walk at Garden of the Gods, then stopped in Manitou Springs for a sandwich. So fun!

Thank a Veteran!

Happy Veterans Day! Mr. L has the day off, and we are enjoying the time together. Seriously, thank a Veteran or anybody who's serving in our military. They appreciate it and they definitely deserve it.

Food Aggression :(

Well Mr. Bo had his first bone. And he growled and bit me when I went to take it away. I probably should have approached slower- he has shown ZERO food aggression so I thought nothing of it. We play with his food and take it from him every time he eats, with no problems. I read online about how to handle it and successfully took it away from him about 10 times. We will have to work on it daily because that's a big problem. I started off by letting him chew it in my hand. Then I "chewed" it with him watching me. I put it down, and took it away before he could grab it. Then I gave it to him for a bit and took it away. Some times I had to pry it from him holding the scruff of his neck, but for the most part I was able to take it right from him. He growled once or twice, but no biting. I'll have to give his progress report after we've worked on it for a while.

A Poem from Granny!!

Granny sent me this a few days ago and Mr. L and I LOVED it!! We had to share!

A dog, we have found.
His breed is elkhound.
His body is sound.
A beauty, all 'round.

His name is "Bo"
A nickname, you know
'Should be spelled"Beau"
He cost a lot of dough!

We love him a lot.
He is our only "tot"
He's the big shot
'Til our little one is got.

He loves to run about
Of that, there is no doubt!
Gives a real work-out
'Til he wears us out.

Then in, out the cold
He begins to unfold
On his rug, a big roll
And he's under control.


by: Granny :)

Complaining.

So we have LOVED Bed Bath and Beyond and working with them on our registry. Their return policy is great- so long as it's on your registry, you can return it, no questions asked. BUT I have my first complaint. You can only use 2 gift cards online for any given transaction. Even if you call customer support. Lame. So you have to do all separate transactions, and forfeit the 10% discount on the entire registry because you can only use that once. Makes more sense to use it on everything and save the most you can. So now I have to take my stack of gift cards into the store to close out the registry, use them all on one transaction, and still have everything shipped. Lame-o.

Bo, the WolfDog

This was taken after a long walk... We took him to a pep rally and bonfire for the Army/Navy game. Not only was he prancing around owning the place, but he was so calm and collected with all those people. We were amazed. Yet another reason I'm in love with Bo and his breed. Tons of people came up to him and he was happy to see them all :) We laugh at all the guesses of what breed he is. The most common we hear is Akita, because of the curly tail. We also hear husky a lot, but most of the time, people say "what the heck is he?" or "he's georgeous!" I guess the Elkhound isn't too common of a breed. But when he lays like this with his tail relaxed, we think he looks like a wolf.

Just like his (real) daddy apparently...

So the breeder was right. Bo's Dad apparently LOVES to carry around his food/water bowls. And Bo figured it out! We got him one of those tall-good-for-his-neck feeding dish/stand thing and he managed to pry out the dish for his water. Full of water. So water everywhere, Mr. Bo proceeds to carry it all over the house. So funny!

BREAKTHROUGH!

Who knew. Mr. L had the idea last night to put a blanket across the top of the crate. The one we have is really open-- not the plastic type with holes in it. Like an actual crate instead of a kennel. Bo has not had any problem "going" in the crate all the time. And since we brought him home, he would bark for a good 1/2 hour every time we put him in. Well putting the cover on top of the crate has been a miracle. Not only does he bark about 3 barks when we put him in, but he didn't wet or anything last night, he slept the whole night. AND today was the first day I had to work almost all day long and we :( had to leave him. I try not to let that happen, but we had to today. I came home at 4, and even having been in all day, no accidents in the crate!!! Who knew a blanket on top would fix all the problems!!