Yesterday Davey and I took Buster for his first bath.  David and I had many years of giving the dogs baths in the backyard or in the tub.  It always involved a lot of bending and pain to our backs.  So when I learned about the “Self-Service Dog Wash”, I was ready to give it a try!

Davey and I went to check it out.  It was great.  The tub was elevated.  They provided shampoo, conditioner, towels, aprons (for Davey and me – but we didn’t really think we needed them.  Well until Buster started shaking the water off, and then we were wishing we had them on), and blow dryer (that was a disaster.  I turned it on for 5 seconds, and poor Buster did not like it one bit.  We quickly turned it off and went for the towel dry).

Davey was a great help.

After we got Buster sprayed down, Davey helped scrubbed the shampoo in. Buster tolerated all of this really well.

I think he kinda liked the warm spray although I’m not sure what kind of look he is giving Davey here.

He finally had had just about enough I think.  To make matters worse, Davey had momentarily deserted him so he could play with another dog.  This didn’t make Buster too happy.  He looks rather forlorn here.

What a clean dog though.  Self-service dog wash – awesome way to go.

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And then today Davey had soccer.  Davey really enjoys his soccer games.  He always hustles and tries, but he is as happy when a teammate scores as when he does.   Today I noticed Davey stopping to talk to a little boy from the other team.  It was right after Davey’s team had made a goal.  Davey and the little boy paused in the middle of the field, Davey talked to him for a second, and then I saw him shake the little boy’s hand.

When Davey came back over to us, I asked him why he had shook the little boy’s hand.  Davey said, “well he was sad that our team just made a goal, so I told him “good game” and shook his hand.”

Sweet boy.  I had to write that story down.

Easter!  We had a great day.  Today it has been raw and rainy.  This is rare here, so I’ll take it, but on Sunday we had a beautiful perfect day.  Davey loved his Easter basket.  He loved hunting eggs at our house.  He hunted eggs for the second year in a row with his friends across the street.  The little girls came back to our house in the afternoon, and we hid eggs again.  And – there was Easter dinner.  That didn’t impress Davey much, but David and I really enjoyed it.

I guess we really began the evening before with our egg dying.  Davey was being silly and having a fun time.

Sunday he was up bright and early ready to open his Easter basket and to hunt eggs.  It was a chilly start to the day, but that didn’t phase him at all.

Davey got a battery powered bubble maker in his Easter basket.  This became one of the highlights of the day.  Turns out Buster loves bubbles.

He followed Davey around and tried his best to capture many bubbles.

Here’s one of my favorite Buster action shots.

He’s a funny little guy, and Davey found it all pretty hilarious as well.

We had a great Easter lunch.  You can tell how great it was by how Davey piled his plate high with food.

I have to announce proudly though that he ate that entire stalk of asparagus.  We were excited (an asparagus first for him!).  I also made a new potato au gratin recipe.  The cheese in the recipe was asiago (and a little parmesan).  I also used turkey bacon instead of regular.  I’ll be making that one again!

On Easter Eve, Davey and I were talking at bedtime. Davey tends to get philosophical right before he goes to sleep.  He talked for awhile and then ended by explaining to me that the most important things are love and family.  Well said!

Yesterday, Davey and I decided to go to a park and have a picnic. We’ve gone from lots of snow last weekend to it being almost 70 degrees yesterday.

We decided to take Buster.  He immediately jumped in the car ready to go.

After relocating Buster to the back of the car, we headed out to Cotton Creek Park.

It’s a really pretty park in Westminster.  It sits up on a big hill, and so we had a really nice view of the mountains and the big sky.

Davey and I sat down to eat our lunch although Buster wanted his too and so immediately sneaked in and took half of Davey’s sandwich.

We forgave Buster of course. It is completely by accident that he is quickly developing a taste for human food.  We wanted to avoid it, but he’s figured out that following around a 5 year old can result in capturing some delicious treats.

Davey played on the playground for awhile.

Buster always had an eye on him.

Here is Buster looking pretty handsome!

This is the more typical goofy Buster. Those ears!

As usual, Davey had some big imagining game going on which involved superheroes.

He did take a small break.  For just a moment.

beautiful day!

I’m learning about leprechauns and all things St. Patrick’s Day.  Uncle Kev sent some great books to Davey, and I’ve learned all kinds of lore.  At preschool, they looked for leprechauns and even set “traps” for them!  I don’t know where I’ve been all of these years as far as St. Patrick’s Day goes!  The extent of my knowledge was wear green so you don’t get pinched.  Pitiful!

I need to make some plans for a little St. Patrick’s Day party tomorrow.  I’ll need to check out pinterest for some last minute ideas.  Davey always loves a party!

It’s already been a couple weeks ago that we went to San Francisco to meet our new niece Lila.  We had a great trip.  She is the cutest baby girl, and Davey loved hanging out with her.

We met our great old friend Michele and her family too.  (She’s not old – but she’s a longtime friend!)

Davey saw the ocean for the first time, and he loved it.

I love this picture.

So now we’ve been back home for a couple of weeks and we are making our way to the end of the semester.

I’ve been knitting some.  Not as much as I’d like.  I just finished a sweet little sweater.  I’ll put up pictures soon.  I need to block it.  I made it with Blue Sky worsted organic cotton.  Sometimes cotton is hard on the hands.  Not this cotton.  It was great to knit up.

That’s about it on a Saturday afternoon!

It’s snowy this morning in Colorado!  It’s coming down right now, and the wind is really picking up too.

Koko and Buster were out briefly.

I like to try to get pictures of Buster in motion.

Buster comes in from running around in the snow, and you can hardly even tell that he’s been out.

Koko, with her fluffy fur, spends five seconds outside and looks like this:

She doesn’t look too thrilled does she?

I like this picture of sweet Koko – standing in the snow – wind sweeping her fur back.  She’s a good old girl (who just turned 17!).

Meanwhile Davey was on the couch carefully looking at his latest Fisher Price catalog (makers of all things “village” (his imaginext collection)). <– that sentence is starting to look mathematical.

And finally, I’m just fascinated by these ears!

It’s been a pretty dry winter.  We’ve had snow a couple of times, but it’s always fallen at night.  I’ve been hoping to watch the snow fall during the day.  That happened today when it started snowing late this afternoon.  The snow consisted of big beautiful flakes, and Davey and I could not wait to go for a walk in it.

Davey, Buster and I headed outside and luckily just as we were headed out to walk around, here came David – home from school!  Love the big flakes in this picture.

Buster was very happy to be in the snow too.  He was sticking his nose into it, rolling around – showing his Siberian Husky lineage I think.

And I love this picture which shows off his hilarious tall floppy ears lineage.

I wanted to try to take a picture of the landscape, but it was snowing so hard that my camera was getting wet.  So the result is a nice blur in the picture.  I kind of like the way it looks though.

Davey may have been running from coyotes in this picture (or more accurately – the suggestion of them). Well, there have been a lot of coyotes lately in the field there on the right, and I didn’t want him to get too far from David.  So I was reminding him of their possible presence.  (I wish you could hear them howling at night.  I’ve never heard anything quite like it even back in Oklahoma.)

And finally I got David, Davey and Buster to stand still for just a moment.