My Baby Girl is 3 years old today..

Emmy "Monkey"

Our Guide Dog Emmy is 3 years old today..We miss her SO much, but are very happy she is guiding an amazing man in Missouri!

Since we can't hop on a plane and go see her I thought I would post some photos of our monkey girl...

Such a pretty girl..

We Love you Emmy!!

New Puppy....

QUEBEC

We are officially CRAZY!!:) We now have 4 dogs under age 2 and a 10 year old! On Tuesday we welcomed starter puppy "Quebec"!

SHE is a 8.5 week old Female yellow lab from Bosworth/Della! She is our first puppy in 5 years to not be related to Simon! We are thinking we will have her for 2-3 months..

So far she is very sweet, cuddly, and slightly soft..She really likes people and gets along well with our zoo. Did I mention that she is GORGEOUS!?!?!

Quebec & Claudi

Claudine LOVES Snow!!

Claudi

Who knew!? Our CC little princess who has to be pushed out the door when it's raining and lifts up her paws like it might kill her to walk in a puddle...LOVES the snow!!

Claudi and her BFF, pet dog Sidney, got up early with me every day for the past week to go outside and see what the night had brought us! As of today-we have a total of 10 inches of snow plus some ice and still snowing!

Sidney

That's all for today..Natara is *trying* her best to be a good girl while we are all STUCK in the house!! 3 people and 6 dogs for a week is getting old! I will leave you with Claudi's pretty snow face...

What Natara has been up to...

NATARA

Natara has been a busy girl lately! She is almost 7 months old now! Bethany and Natara have been going a ton of places and little miss Natara has become a great little dog...in public!!

She is still testing her raisers patience with her crazy zipping through the house and endless amounts of harassing the pet dogs, but she is doing so well in her "job"!!

Today, Natara got to experience her first SNOW DAY!! She looked soo pretty playing in the white fluffy stuff with her sisters..

Tomorrow she is supposed to go to her 1st Christmas party with her brother Niguel, but...the snow may keep us locked in the house!! With 7 dogs--Natara is in heaven! :)

Claudi's sister Cessna is in phase 8 and her brother Chaz just returned for training so we are looking forward to watching them progress! Although, we are happy to have our Claudi and not be worrying about watching her on the phase reports..:)

Photos..

A few weeks ago we puppysat another Simon puppy, Meredith...

Claudi (Simon/Alanis), Natara (Simon/Holly), and Meredith (Simon/Cagney)
Tara, Meredith and Claudi after a game of Tug!

Tara Sleeps!!

We love our Simon puppies....when they are all grown up!

Natara

I know, I don't update this very often..I've been waiting to say something really interesting or exciting!:) But, now that a few of you have pointed out my lack of news I decided to write a bit..Natara is finally--I repeat--finally growing on me a bit:) She is learning to stand/lie in one spot for longer than one minute at a time and is TRYING at times to listen..We call it the "Simon stubborness"..all the girls have had it, they have just all had it to varying degrees and well, she has taken it to a new height! She has her mommy's adorable face and really does well on outings so she has potential..She is just a high energy pup with a strong will! Her health issues seem to be getting better so we hope that we will be able to concentrate on her behavior now and turn her in to the "perfect" girl her sisters all are:):)

Claudine was at the emergency vet yesterday with an allergic reaction to lord only knows what-she is our "special" girl that is forsure..Her entire face likes to swell up like a little chipmunk now and then only responding to steroid injections...Yes, she was meant to be our Career Change :)

Bethany called to check on our guide, EMMY yesterday--they just had their first year check up and are doing great! Apparently my girl is TEN POUNDS overweight but otherwise fine! I can't believe he let my baby girl get fat, but I am happy to say that he loves and adores her almost as much as me..

Baby Emmy

We got Simon's breeder photos the other day and Bethany has been trying to get Claudi to pose like her daddy...I'll leave you with that!:)

Daddy SimonDaughter Claudi

Is she all grown up yet??

Natara is almost 4 months old now and most days we wish she would hurry up and "grow up"!! She is an extremely energetic puppy!! Yesterday we caught her actually sleeping on her tie down more than one time and we think she might be sick--no joke!

She is so cute and so sweet, she just never seems to be able to relax! She is in constant motion--how great for someone who loves to be on the go all the time!!

She weighs 29 pounds and is doing really well on outings, just keeping us all on our toes in the house.

On another note...Claudi got her Canine Good Citizen last week and is proving to be the greatest CC ever :) We couldn't love her any more and she makes us laugh every day..She is the quirkiest dog and we are waiting to see if her sister, Chenille, makes it as a breeder.

(Claudi and pet dog Sidney are BFF's)