Wishing Everyone a Truly Blessed, Family Filled Christmas!

Hope everyone has a holiday filled with family, fun, and lots of laughter! Thank you for your support & encouragement throughout this year and for your friendship! God bless!~Lara

Our Jedha Bug-Bear is Gonna Be Ok :)

Thank you to everyone for their kind words and prayers for our Jedha! We are hoping to be able to schedule his surgery sometime in January at the latest. A special thank you to those who have booked in portraits as this will truly help in covering the cost of having this growth removed. It's not that large, but to be safe they have to take wide margins and go underneath as well to be sure they get all the cancer cells. Praying he will have no other lumps & bumps develop! We love our Jedha Bug Bear to pieces and want him around for as long as possible! God bless! :)

Our Jedha has Cancer...

Our Jedha went to the Cancer Specialist today and has a cancerous growth that will need to be removed...to read more click here.
*When in doubt, get it checked out!

Deer Encounters with Jedha Bug Bear...

Deer is something new to this Aussie pup. He was introduced to his beloved squirrels last year, and a baby skunk last summer (he didn't like that one so much, nor the subsequent bath which followed), but this fall he has come to know deer, and a love/hate relationship has begun. I only wish I had a better camera as this little doe came so close to Jedha, and had he not started growling I think she would've come straight up to him! She would move a little closer, stomp her hoof to see if Jedha was scared (which he probably was), and then move a little closer. But alas, Jedha spoiled the fun with his grizzly bear growl and off she went, back into the woods!

Aussie Beach Boys...Summer Memories with Taffy & Jedha Continued

You can take the Aussie dogs out of Australia, but you can't take away their love of the beach! This past summer Taffy & Jedha discovered the beautiful beaches of Michigan....true in September it was a bit chilly on the shores of Lake Michigan but it didn't stop the boys from catching some waves, sun, & sand!

 

They didn't venture out too far cuz Mom said there were no lifeguards...

 

We had plenty of fun playing in the surf, 

chasing the ball, and each other!

Jedha Bug Bear really loved Michigan's 

sandy beaches, can you tell?

It was a bit on the windy side as is evident from Jedha's ears...thankfully he didn't lift off the shoreline!

 

I think this shot says it all...what a grreat day at the beach!

Summer Memories...Our Trip Up North!

Sorry for neglecting Jedha & Taffy's blog, I get so busy with painting, blogging, tweeting, facebooking, etc. etc. that other things tend to take a back seat. Anyway, we took oodles of photos on our end of summer trip back in September to Cheboygan, Michigan so I will probably spread them out in a few posts....here we go!

This was where we stayed (on the left), nothing fancy, but the right cottagy feel in the woods that we were after so it worked...

 

The boys had NO idea the place had a beach...here they are 

checkin out the new digs, completely unaware 

of what lie only feet ahead of them, ah yes...

Of course Taffy is the 1st to spot the lake! CHARGE!!!

 

I like to call this shot, 'On Golden Lake'...

And of course with playing in the water all day 

it was soon time to take a Bug-Bear nap....

So, there you have it, the first installment of Jedha & Taffy's adventures Up North...to be continued! :)

Give a Dog a Bath...

Jedha literally a few hours after a much needed bath...

...questioning 'why all the concern'?

After all, it's only a little bit of dirt right?...

Which reminds me...back in Sydney Jedha Bug-Bear was a bit of a 'digger'...we had thought Jedha was just soaking up the sun all the while in the backyard, chasing an occasional cockatiel, but truth be told he had been spending his afternoons under the house digging a cubby hole that could fit a small vehicle! Not sure where he thought he was going, but thankfully the hole was discovered before he made it to China!

My Mom keeps nudging me that we need to have kids, and again I say
'why have kids when I already have 2 fur-children'? :o)