Black Butte

Last weekend the forest service was ready to evacuate Black Butte due to forest fires burning about a mile away from the homes. Lucky for us we were their the previous weekend & spent a leisurely weekend playing with the puppies and hanging out in the pool, without any fire threat!

Above is Wickett with his new summer haircut (a little late this year) and below is Harley. Harley is a Lhasa Apso also. He is the reason we have Wickett, actually. Brad fell in love with Harley, who belongs to our friends Travis & Rachel, and when Brad picked out a puppy for my birthday 4 years ago he wanted one just like Harley. So, that's how we ended up with Wickett. They are super good buddies now & love to wrestle around.
Harley sits like this when he is asking "please" for something, it's hilarious, all the way down on his bottom, I've never seen another dog do this before!


Travis' family has a house in Black Butte and they were nice enough to invite us along to their weekend getaway. They have the cutest new little baby, Jacob.


Travis, Rachel & Jacob enjoying the pool.

Kaden jumping in the pool to Brad.

He just loves to swim on his own!

After we got out the wind picked up, we bundled him up as best we could & I thought he looked just like Ariel the Mermaid in this shot!

We took some long walks around the golf courses.

Stopping to chase lots of bushy tailed squirrels along the way. Fourtunatly they were way to fast for Kaden or Wickett!

Playing on the playground...

What a cute kid, huh!?