Here are a few picture perfect poses of my sweet Serafina in Gaston's. As you've heard me say before, Gaston's is her favorite place on earth. She just loves it there. You're such a part of nature, it's beautiful, serene, there are wild animals abound that she loves chasing, and there are just so many things that excite a dog's senses. Sera's biggest adventures this trip centered around chasing a semi-wild (yes, I call it semi-wild it's fed/kept by the resort but let free to fly around) peacock! He would sun himself in all sorts of places and if Sera saw him she was off after him. She's fast, but he can fly and invariably he'd wind up hanging out in a tree for awhile until we left. Good fun for all, since no one was hurt (Sera wouldn't have hurt him though, just probably licked him)! Anyway, I love to take beautiful photo shoots of my pups in Gaston's, it's just so picturesque. So enjoy!
For the Labor Day long weekend, we took a quick but relaxing trip to Gaston's with Brian's parents and Grandpa Bud. It is one of the most serene places I've ever been. From the beautiful river only feet from our cabin's door to the huge window seats that you can lay in to read a book, it is a getaway that makes you feel like you're in the movie A River Runs Through It. Really. Perfect serenity (minus Brad Pitt).
Today Larkin officially became a Hippo! She finally got to move up to the Hippo class at the Goddard School and be with her best friends Ella and Carter. She was so excited and had a great first day. It is wild and crazy in the Hippo room with all the 2-year-olds running and jumping around. It's like a carnival in there every day! Larkin hasn't had any trouble with the transition and she's having a blast. Here are pics from this morning, doing our tradition... first day pics on the front stoop. Hip Hip Hooray for the Hippos!
We had a blast taking Larkin to her first baseball game! We had good seats - just a bit past first base - and the weather was hot but beautiful. We had so much fun! Larkin made friends with the folks around us and she loved watching the fireworks, airplanes that flew overhead, and the occasional foul ball that came our way. What she loved the most though was the popcorn! We didn't even know that she knew the word "popcorn" and she's never had it before, but when we passed the popcorn stand, she said "popcorn" and she really meant it! She was so happy to get some and ate kernel after kernel until we cut her off. We then topped off the evening with a fun ball game treat - ice cream sundae!
We recently found a wonderful new park put in along a lake near our house. We are loving taking family walks there. After we take our walk, we always stop at the playground so Larkin can play "firetruck" with the toy steering wheel, go down the slide, or be queen of the mountain! Larkin certainly doesn't have a fear of heights. And, in fact, there was a total Titanic "bow-of-the-boat" moment too!
In our house, the words "bounce house" have to be spelled around Larkin because she will ask for a bounce house non-stop once she's heard it mentioned. What a treat for her when we went to Gage's 3rd birthday party and she got to bounce every spare second she got! Here she is, bouncing away. Check out the pigtails going flying up into the air!
I'm not sure this is how the memory card manufacturer intended on the cards being used, but to each her own! And when the cards aren't stuck in her fingers and toes, Larkin is really good at finding matches (at least with the cards face up).
