{01oct2010: flashback Friday}

Can you believe it's already October?!  This year is flying by!
Darwin is hosting her first slumber party this weekend.  Her bff Friday is staying with us a couple of days.  
Friday was not a fan of tiny puppy Darwin.  We tried to hold an introductory meeting when Darwin was a month old to no avail.

Now that Darwin's older (and bigger) Friday doesn't reel away from her, but still is unsure of Darwin's crazy puppy antics.  It's understandable because really, could you see Hilary Clinton and Paris Hilton partying together?

{28sept2010: winner}

I forgot to pick a name this weekend for the book contest!  We did it last night while trying to entertain Darwin.   
We played the cupcake pan and ball game, and with the treats in each hole we also put a paper with a name for whoever left a comment on the entry post.  It took a few tries, only because I kept turning off the recorder as soon as she picked a ball without recording who she picked!  Doh!
And the winner is.....

Tucker!
Tucker, congratulations!  Email us (darwinthedane (at) gmail (dot) com) your mailing address and we'll get the book out to you!

{24sept2010: flashback Friday}

First off, thank you to everyone for their well wishes on our blogiversary.  Don't forget if you want to enter to win a copy of The Last Chance Dog to leave a comment on that post as we'll be drawing names, maybe this weekend!

While looking back at old pictures I came across some funny ones from a year ago.

Why is it that Dane's feel the need to get their booty to the highest point possible? 

{23sept2010: camping and anniversary}

More camping pictures!  If you missed the first half of camping, check it out here.
On Thursday our other friends came out and joined us with their 8month old baby girl for her first camping trip.
Darwin had to check her out.


They also brought their dogs Torch and Oso.
Torch

The baby was an amazing camper.  She enjoyed the dogs, the fire, the people, the tents.  But I don't know if she enjoyed the outdoors as much as Darwin did who sucked it all up as much as she could.



Darwin enjoyed camping so much that on Friday when it was time to pack up and go (we had to get home before Saturday morning college football kickoff) she did not want to leave.  As everyone packed up the cars and was ready to go, we found Darwin laying in the dirt at the campsite holding her ground.  We got her up and let her take one last drink from the lake before corralling her into the car.

As much energy as she had trying to stay at the campsite, she was also that tired and kept falling asleep in the car.

The drive down the mountain we had an even better view of Mount Rainer.


On our way home we stopped to get breakfast at a great little place in Black Diamond and I also got Darwin her first ice cream cone to make up for pulling her away from camping.



And that was our last camping trip of the year.  Hopefully we'll get more in next year.

On a completely unrelated note, one year ago today we started this blog for Darwin, all thanks to our first blog buddy, Moose!

To celebrate I thought we should pass on a book we won from Stella, which if you remember is written by the holistic vet we are now taking Darwin to.

It's an interesting read about holistic medicine/treatment for animals, especially if you don't know much about it.  

If you want to be in the drawing for the book let us know in a comment and we'll pick a name this weekend!

{22sep2010: Wordless Wednesday}

Fun music video edition

{21sept2010: Twinkie's tongue contest}

Our first tiny blog friend,Twinkie is holding a Show Us Your Tongue Contest for National Dog Week.  
We can only submit one tongue picture, so I thought I'd go with Darwin's peek-a-boo tongue.

See the gap between her teeth:

It amazes everyone who notices it and I think it leaves her at a disadvantage for tug, because her gums don't grip a toy as well as teeth would.  It's probably why she lost that game of tug.

{20sept2010: camping trip}

The other week we took a couple days off before Labor Day weekend to get one last camping trip in (college football season was starting and Jason has to be home on Saturdays for football).  This time we went with our friends and Darwin's bff, Juneau, and they took us to a great spot a couple hours south east of Seattle.  

This was a view of Mount Rainer on our drive to the spot.  
We left Seattle around 530 and didn't get to the camping spot til close to 730-800.  Being that it's the end of summer the sun goes down around that time, so as soon as we got there we quickly set up tents in the dark.  It was raining earlier in the week and it was sort of a last minute planned trip, and no one brought dry wood, so we all scattered about looking for reasonably dry pieces so we could start a fire.  We had a little luck, but most of it was damp so we had a small smokey fire, and it was FREEZING that night.  By the time we got to camp, my car said it was 48F outside, meaning that it was probably below 40F throughout the night.  I had been feeling sick earlier in the week and Darwin was tired too, so we both headed to bed earlier, trying to keep warm (without much luck).  It was a rough night, let me tell you.
But in the morning we all got up to a beautiful warm sunny day.




We spent the morning sitting out in the sun, reading, walking the lake and doing some fishing in the lake.
{Dar taking a walk with Aileen and Joo}

And for the first time (maybe ever), Darwin actually laid down on the ground and relaxed! She's becoming an outdoorsy city dog!

More pictures to come!

{15sept2010: wordless Wednesday}

celery treat edition:

and don't worry she didn't get all of those... just 2 or 3.