Snowflake and My First Real Photo Shoot

Snowflake and I have taken plenty of pictures together but we've always done studio pictures and this year i really wanted to go on a for real photo shoot. So entered a friend of mine and a fellow photographer. Here are a few of my favorite shots from the shoot. Don't you think she did a good job :) Now i have to figure out which one to put in my christmas cards this year ... which one do you suggest?

Photos from Becky Huff Photography

This is the story of one bad dog and mud

We have been having so much rain this week that today was absolutely beautiful so to kill a little time i took Snowflake out on a walk. On our last walk the park flooded so most of the trail was washed out. So when i went today i was not certain if the water dried up since it really did not stop raining. We were in luck ... no water on trail instead we got mud in some places. At one point on our walk Snowflake was behind me and i started pulling on her leash to catch up but i felt like i was dragging her so i turned around and what was she doing??? ROLLING IN THE MUD!!!! What in the world? i told her to stop but i am pretty sure people who were walking around me thought i was crazy because i started scolding her like a little child. Good thing though i caught her when she was just starting to roll in the mud so there was not a lot of mud on her but enough. Little does she know ... dirty dog = bath ... and she does not like baths =)

This is a story of great music and the park.

So on Friday i won some tickets to go to the symphony at the Rivercenter. I have never been to the symphony or to the rivercenter so i was soo excited to go. I asked my supervisor to go and it was awesome! The music was so beautiful and the soloist was breathtaking. Our tickets had us sitting in the balcony second to last row which means we had to walk some stairs. My legs are still so weak and it was so hard to walk up super steep steps so i was holding on the rail and using my upper body to literally pull myself up the steps. Once the symphony started we were able to move a few rows ahead of us since there was really no one there =(

Today Snowflake was a wild and crazy dog and since it was absolutely gorgeous outside so i was like "Let's go on a walk!" to work off her energy. Off we went to a local park and since it rained so much this week that the creek pretty much washed out most of the trail. We just walked around and Snowflake was in heaven. Now as i am writing this blog she is passed out and she really didn't get in trouble. Hmm ... i guess this walking thing really does work with the behavioral issues.

This is a story about try to put a room together.

And this is why i can't get anythig crafts done. Hopefully it won't look like this by the end of this weekend. I really need to get it set up! It is currently my storage unit and i finally had it when i went to look for something for a project and i couldn't find it.

And here is Snowflake patiently waiting for her picture. She knew that i had to take her pic before she would move and she sat there til i did.

This is a story about a bad dog in timeout.

Snowflake does not like to be her back.

She acts up. She goes on her back for time out!

This is a story about white stuff we rarely see.

So at about 11 this morning i get a text from my brother that said: holy &!*#Y it's snowing. Now the talk of the weekend was "it's supposed to snow on sunday" and my response was " i won't believe til i see it" I have lived in Georgia for about 20 years and can count on one hand how many times it has snowed. Just about every year we will get a weather forecast that will state it will snow and we have had many disappointments.

So i get out of bed and try to focus on the world around me and just about scared poor snowflake when i yelled Snowflake it's snowing! LET'S GO OUTSIDE!!! I got myself together and thought about what in the world am i going to wear. I have no gloves, no hat, no coat thick enough and barely any sweaters. So i put on what i thought would work and went outside to play with the little white stuff on the ground. Snowflake was not sure what to make of this. She was sniffing the snow and growling at it at the same time. Soon she realized it was not harmful and just had a ball running in the snow and trying to eat the snow as it fell down. I tried to get video of that but of course she did it when the camera was off. Typical.

So now as i type this blog the snow is starting to melt and there is a snowflake or two slowly making it's way down. And when i think back to this day i will forever remember the day my baby made her first yellow snow.

This is a story about a bad destruction.

Poor bear ... he didn't even have a chance.

This is the story of my bad dog, Snowflake Louise Longtin.

Meet Snowflake

My West Highland White Terrier

She is about 1.25 years old and i have had her for a little over a year. Some of you have had the pleasure to meet her (at least she thinks it is a pleasure) or were able to hear her many adventures in making mom's life a living nightmare.

She is the typical puppy or i hope the typical puppy and has had her share of enjoying my make-up, my shoes, my dining room table, my craft stuff, other people's make-up, my carpet, my buttons on my clothes, random paper, half a pack of sugar free gum, my cell phone charger, almost my laptop cord and her fav, underwear (ew).

Her favorite past time is barking at the vacuum cleaner, people outside, at me for not doing what she wants or anything that is not supposed to be there like towels on the counters, boxes on the bed, or a mop/broom in the corner.

But in the end i love her to pieces and whenever she does wrong she can turn up the cute factor to the max and pretty much make me forget what she has done to get her in so much trouble. She is a pro when it comes to that. So check back often. I am pretty sure she will be the main topic in many more entries. Woof!