Smith Family: Walking the Dogs

Sunday, November 22, 2009

Walking the Dogs

I haven't been very camera-happy lately. There just isn't much to capture this time of year. The leaves have fallen and brown has become the predominant color.

Very boring.

Winter is taking it's sweet time, and with temperatures hovering in the 40's and 50's there's not much hope for snow. When the white stuff does fall I'm sure my inspiration will return, but as of yet my camera has been somewhat dormant.

Not completely though.

We have this new puppy (Sierra's persistence has dubbed him "Cody", much to Dad's chagrin), and we've enjoyed taking him out to see his new world. With his floppy ears, clumsy paws and wagging puppy body he follows us across all sorts of trails, streams, and rocky shores. At first he was hesitant to even dip his paws in the water but he's coming along...

And of course, Cody has a very good teacher...

I took the kids down to Brighton Beach one day with the dogs. Kina loves rocks for some reason, a little too much...

We were having a great time until Taron discovered some slippery rocks. I took some video right before he had his big splash...

And here is the "after" shot, he was not a very happy camper...

Then yesterday we headed to the Lakewalk with the dogs. The terrain there was a bit easier to travel...
Sierra brought a friend, they had been in a parade the night before but were still up to walking another few miles. This time they didn't have to dance the whole way though...

Taron brought his bike and he thought it was the coolest thing ever to ride down the grassy hill, but the push back up wasn't so fun...

And, what good is a day in the park if you don't climb any trees...

At the beach, Taron collected driftwood...

And played on the life-size Lincoln Logs...

We watched a ship come in as we headed back...

And after a day like this, the best thing about taking the dogs out for exercise is......

4 comments:

Debbie Hadley said...: Are you really hopeing for snow already....really? I still can't believe you got another dog! It looks like you are enjoying him though. I LOVE that last picture, so precious.; November 22, 2009 at 7:14 PM
Sarah said...: Such cute pictures. I just love how it's so woodsie there, it feels kind of enchanting to me. I can't wait to come visit. And that little dog Cody is just adorable. makes me want one.. (someday, someday) Need a big yard first.; November 22, 2009 at 11:55 PM
Dan, Pam and Family said...: awesome pictures, it looks so pretty and peaceful.
Cody is darling
Just the few small snow falls we have had this year have been enough snow for me for a while.
Loves,
Pam; November 23, 2009 at 3:23 PM
Fairy Godmother said...: I'm surprised your dog has any teeth left after catching that rock! Dogs are so funny. You live in a beautiful place, even if you think it is brown. Just gorgeous and outdoorsy!; November 24, 2009 at 2:39 PM

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The Mind of a Child...

When Solei was a toddler, she found some bark that was lying at the base of a tree and said in disgust, “Ooooooh! Tree poo-poo!”

When the girls were little, we were taking a walk with the dog who was bombarding Sierra with her friendly but slobbery kisses. Frustrated, our sweet little Sierra yelled out “NO KINA, I'M NOT YOUR ICE CREAM CONE!”

Telling Ella how to crawl, Caden explained “But I’m four, so I crawl standing up.”

I was sitting with Caden one day and I told him that the couch used to be a cow (it is leather), and I said (half jokingly) “did you know that cows turn into couches?” To which he replied, “No they don’t, they turn into pies!”

Watching the Tabernacle choir sing during conference, Solei (who was 8 yrs old at the time) said that they should sing “Do as I’m Doing” (with all the motions, I’m sure).

We put in an underground fence for the dog and Caden (age 5) saw us burying the wire. We then put up little white flags to mark where it was. A few days later he went outside and turned on the hose. When I saw him, I asked him to turn off the water. He looked at me questioningly and asked, “Until when? Until the fence grows?” He thought it needed watering!

Taron (2) looked at the varicose veins on grandmas legs and said, “owy... lightning!”

When Caden was 5, he would ask if he could go play with his friend in the morning, and I would sometimes reply, "No, it's too early". Well one day he finally asked me "can we not play on 'too early's? Can we play on 'one early'?"

Sierra told me one night that when she was little, she used to think the word “couch” came from the word “cow”, and that our couch had a cow inside (partially true since it is leather). She would try to sit down carefully so it would not run away. She thought the wood parts inside were it’s bones and the black pegs on the bottom were the feet.

Sometimes Taron (age 2) would find dog poop and say “Eew! Dog poop!” and then proceed to stomp on it as if it were a bug.

Caden (age 5) and I were talking about the sounds letters make and he asked if I knew what the sleepy letter was. I replied that I didn’t and he said, “It’s the Z... when you go to sleep then the Z’s come out of your head. And there’s a big round white thing too but it’s invisible. Maybe he had been reading too many comic books...

Sierra (age 8) made a Halloween card for her friend and wrote ENSTINE (meaning Einstein) on it, I thought it was an odd thing to put on a Halloween card so I asked if she knew who Einstein was and she said "Isn't he the guy who made Frankenstein?"

Caden (age 5) asked if it was a ghost who said the sacrament prayer because he couldn’t see anyone at the podium but he could hear the voice.

When Taron was 2 he would always respond to an “I love you” with “Much”.

Taron (3) woke up one morning, started to play and when I asked him if he wanted a pancake, he said, “Oh yeah, I was supposed to be hungry!”

Dad was singing “Jesus wants me for a sunbeam” and Taron said “Jesus likes sunbeans, they’re delicious!”

I was teaching Taron (5) how to read, and came upon the word "loose". I told him, "the two O's say "oo" and the E is silent. Slowly and deliberately, he sounded it out........"Loooosssilent".

Caden had been learning to tell time in school and was asking me about the big hand vs. the little hand on the clock. Apparently Taron was listening somewhat because he held up his right hand and asked "is this the big hand?"

Ella (4) came up to me with some of my reading glasses and said "Mom, when I put glasses on, I still don't know how to read!"

At a restaurant, Ella was impatiently waiting for her food and, looking for the waitress, she asked "when is the human coming back?"

One morning I said, "Ella, come look! There's a wild turkey in the backyard!"
Ella (excitedly): "Can we kill it?!?"
What kind of daughter am I raising???

Ella mistook another guy for Chris and was about to follow him to his car, but soon realized her mistake and said, "I was about to follow the 'not dad'".

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