Graduation

Maximus graduated from Puppy School last night.  We took a six week course at PetSmart.  Maximus loved it, and looked forward to seeing Scott our instructor each week!

Here are some pictures from last night:

Graduation Ceremony

Maximus accepting his diploma

Maximus and Oakley celebrating their graduation. 

Oakley is a golden retriever that is three weeks younger than Max.

We start intermediate classes next week with Scott.  There will be a lot of the same dogs in our next class which will make it fun. 

Amarillo by morning....

Last weekend Matt and I drove to Amarillo for my cousin's wedding.  My parents and brother also made the six hour drive up to the panhandle of Texas. Unfortunately we couldn't take Maximus, but luckily we had great friends with 2 dogs who offered to watch him over the weekend.  I highly doubt he noticed we weren't there. After dropping Max off we started our journey up 287.

The best thing about a Texas Road Trip is.....

Getting a Dairy Queen Blizzard!!!

Friday Night we went to the rehearsal dinner at the American Quarter House Museum.  It was a gorgeous venue, with an interact display that you could view during the reception.  Here is me and my hubby...

Saturday we decided to go down to the Palo Duro Canyon - the 2nd largest Canyon in the USA.

Little did we know - it is generally 10 degrees hotter in the canyon than in Amarillo.  Also, we were not prepared and did not bring one bottle of water with us.  Luckily we found a small "grocery" store in the state park so we could each have one bottle to take with us.

We decided to walk/run the Lighthouse trail, which is 6 miles round-trip.  At the trail head they have a thermometer in the sun and one in the shade.  There is NO shade on the trails.  Notice below the temperature in the sun....

Oh, just a mere 120 degrees!!!  Are you kidding me!  The sign on the left is a warning for the heat and  recommends that each person and pet has at least a gallon of water with them for this trail.  Yes, it says it was 120, however it is a very dry heat and wasn't too terrible.  The first time we ran I could tell it was harder to breathe with the heat, but we ran 1.5 miles out of the 4 that we hiked.  Not too bad for 120 degree weather.

Here are some pictures from the trail

In this next picture you can see that Matt and I are way down in the canyon below my brother.  While on the hike Chris got a burst of energy and decided to sprint up the side of one of the cliffs. 

The wedding was absolutely beautiful.  It was such a fun and special night.

Here I am with the hubby during the reception.

We had such a fun weekend, but we were ready to get home to see our puppy!

Having Fun

Last night we were having fun with Maximus and Matt decided to dress Maximus up.  It was so funny - Max started showing off.  The picture below cracked us up because Max was facing Matt and then all of a sudden for a brief moment posed perfectly for me.....

Max still thinks he is 14 pounds...not 45!  He is such a cuddle and loves to give us big hugs.  Pretty soon I won't be able to pick him up any more.

Oh - I forgot to mention that Max loves to give kisses....here is one caught in the action!

Day at the lake

For Memorial Day we thought it would be fun to grill out at the lake and hang out with some great friends.

Some how I only got two pictures....





The guys starting the fire. Matt grilled some good hot dogs and cheeseburgers.



Maximus enjoying the shade and some ice.

After eating we went to cool off in the water. Max swam in the lake for the first time, he did so great!

Max got to play with Little Liam who is crawling around and lifting up on everything. Liam laughs when Max gives him kisses - they are so fun to watch!


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