{07dec2011: belated wordless Wednesday}

Halloween edition:

I realized I didn't show off our Halloween costumes. Can you guess what Jason and I are? Darwin tried Jason's out for size too.

{31oct2011: Happy Halloween}

Since Halloween is on a Monday this year, I dressed Darwin up yesterday to go to the park. I really was hoping to find her a tutu at Goodwill, so when that didn't pan out I found a large dog princess costume and some wings instead (note to self, make Darwin's costume as large costumes aren't really large enough for her).

We headed to the park and as soon as we walked in she found a friend.

It actually came with a cone hat, but that fell off and into the mud as soon as she got out of the car. 

{oh man i hope none of my friends see me like this}

{ok hurry up and take the picture!}

{why am i the only one dressed up?!}

After posing for some pictures we took it all off so she could play. She had fun running with this mastiff puppy.

And then we ran into her friend Rooney and her new sister Hines!

Hines is 4.5months old and full European Dane which means she'll be a lot bigger than her older sister.

Darwin Rooney and Hines had a blast chasing each other.

It won't be long til Hines is towering over her sister and Darwin.

Hope you all have a safe and happy Halloween!

{01nov2010: Engergizer Bunny}

As many of you saw, I got Darwin a hula girl costume for Halloween.  I've realized though, she really should have been the Energizer Bunny.

Yesterday I dressed her up in her costume and we headed to the dog park.  

She got a ton of attention.  I was surprised there weren't more dogs dressed up, but there were only a handful, and Darwin's costume got the most attention.

As soon as we walked in we saw one of our Dane friends we haven't seen in a while, Beddis.  He now has a new 7month old Fawnequin sister, Rooney.


Her mom is a Merle and her dad is a Fawnequin, so you can see a bit of Merle in her face and a lot of Fawnequin on her body.

We met up with the rest of the Dane group and we also met a new girl, Wednesday.

Too bad Friday wasn't with us this time as I think those two would've hit it off!

We were there for about an hour and a half and Darwin was starting to get gimpy, so we were headed to the parking lot, when we ran into Boo Radley and Gino, and Gino's brother Seamus!  Sibling reunion!  We had just missed Kona, which would've been an even bigger reunion!

Darwin and Boo even ganged up and stole another dog's toy.

{woo hoo, my toy!}

{no it's my toy!}

{ummm hey guys, can i have my toy back?}

We gave the other dog back his ball and as we said our goodbyes and split off from the others, Darwin decided she wanted to stay with her brother and instead of following me to the parking lot, followed Boo.  With this second round of energy we ended up staying another hour (that's 2.5 hours at the park for Ms Gimpy Butt).

I finally convinced her it was time to leave, so we headed home where she got a bath.  It was a surprisingly nice day out so she got her raw bone out on the deck so she could clean her teeth and dry off.

After a round of bone gnawing, Darwin proceeded to destuff my cat toys (I was a crazy cat lady for Halloween and picked up a bunch of cats at Goodwill).

Of course she started with the eyeballs.

Finally at around 7 or 8 she decided she was ready to sleep.

Of course that only lasted a little while before she was back off the couch and destuffing the cats more and gnawing on her bones.  I'm not sure if it's just her being super high energy, or if she's restless cause her dad is out of town.  I'm guessing it's a little of both.