To match 2007

"Hi Shelby," I said as she sat anxiously watching me in her little basket, as I sat on the computer, logging into my online classroom. "I detest Algebra," I said, looking at the long quiz ahead of me. So I took the alternative.



I decided to put it off til later!



I jumped into the "My Pictures" part of my computer, zooming through all the pictures of my 3 girls. Baby pictures of all of them, show pictures, Shelby agility pictures, backpacking pictures, etc. They brought back memories. Pictures of Penny in the first snow of '07, playing in the summer, Shelby swimming in the pool, running in the yard in September. Yes, very many happy memories of a good year. Not only did I love taking pictures of my girls, but I loved looking back and remembering that time.



Then I realized, I hadn't taken pictures of them for a while. I mean, I had a few dark and lousy pictures I took of Kit; besides the pictures a friend took at the 1-12-08 show, I had no pictures of my crew since the fall of 2007! And worse - I had many Shelby and Penny pictures, but no pictures of all 3 of my girls at once.



So today I set out, to make another memory. I'll want to look back and say, "That was a good year." Or look back when they're seniors and say "They were so young." Look back years after their death and say "They were beautiful dogs."

Maybe by then I would forget how hard it actually was to get the three of them to stand still long enough to take a photo... together...

So I decided. Finish schoolwork, then later I would take my girls out, set them on the pool deck (it takes the best face pictures, because you can kneel below them) and take a picture with all three of them in it!

Then later I reclusivley came out of my room to find a different sight outside from what it was later. We had at LEAST two inches of snow. "No!" I said. Well, there went my plans, I thought. "But no, I have to get a picture of them all 3 together. What if I don't get another chance? I am very busy...". So I was determined. We were going to get a picture outside in the snow, even if it killed me - them. Oh. I mean. ... Me.

In a T-Shirt, Miniskirt, Boots, a thin jacket, a camera, and a leash with 3 little Dachshunds at the end, I determinly headed out into the snow. At first, Shelby refused to go out the door, for the fact she hates snow, and Penny refused to go out the door because well, I had told her too. But Kit was excited and jumped out, jumping over Shelby's head, smashing it into the snow.

Making her even more mad.

We headed out into the snow. It was Kit's first snow, and she loved it. Penny's second snow and she throughly was enjoying herself as she did last year. It was Shelby's 3rd snow, however, and she hated it as much now as she did 2 years ago.

I snapped some lovely pictures as you will see at the top of this blog. One I just took of a small part of our yard in the winter time.

When we finished running in the snow, I got the three girls up on the patio table and tried to take a nice picture of the three of them altogether! Shelby was shaking so hard her feet were turning inwards, Penny would not look at me, and Kit ran in front of the other two as if to say "Pay attention to me!" I finally got a great picture of all three of them, then set them down on the ground and ran towards the door.

Shelby ran in first, shaking off snow. Then Kit, wagging her tail. No Penny. I looked back and saw her standing beneath the roof of the porch, looking at me as if to say NO WAY EVER. "Penny, come," I called. She refused, and in fact began walking in the opposite direction.

Eventually she came back but she wasn't happy about it.

So enjoy the pictures of my girls in the snow! Note: I know they look kind of scraggly, but they usually are very well groomed. They were just out in the snow, after all.