Gone to the Dogs...

If there is one thing that will severely handicap my blogging, it's having a broken camera. About this time last year, I took my camera to a youth event and it took it's last breath. Since then I've purchased about (not kidding) 6 different cameras and taken them all back within a few days because they just weren't "the one". I'm picky about things like this.

Well, when our friends, Jason and Diana, came into town a few weeks ago, it was love at first "click". Jason had gotten her a Canon 50D for her mother's day gift and she told me she wished more than anything that she'd broken down and gotten one sooner. I started doing my research and then decided that I was just going to bite the bullet and get myself one. After all, my blogging habit has been suffering.  And because of that, so has our memories that we keep listed here. 

I never take the retail price on anything so when I went into the store I bought the camera from, I told the lady I had some money to spend somewhere - today - and that I wanted to see what the best offer her manager would give me. About that time, DW strolled the other direction. He doesn't mind that I'm a bargainer what-so-ever, he just doesn't want to be within 100 feet while I'm doing it. lol  Still, when I bought it for $300 cheaper than the listed price, he was a happy man. 

So, of course, the first thing I had to do after getting it was do a test drive on my new favorite toy!  We decided to load the dogs up and take them over to the lake to get a little energy out and give me a chance to see if I could get my million dollar shot.  I must say, not that interesting for everyone else...loads of fun for me.

The second it caught a cute picture of Samson, who is not photographically inclined...I was hooked.  Sam is the most precious dog and has the sweetest facial expression but the second a camera comes out, he gets the "dumb eyes".  Not anymore...

We got the dogs ready and put on their life jackets so they can follow along behind us when we're kayaking...

Samson loaded up

Sweet Samson

King Tuck

Tucker didn't want to jump in his jacket, so DW had to walk over and offer a little assistance...while he was doing it, Sam couldn't help but try to squeeze in a little quality time.  And my heart jumped a little as I looked through the camera lense and felt an immense sense of gratitude that this happy, simple life is mine. 

Love this scruffy face

Surprise!

About that time, DW was working on getting the kayaks loaded on the car and the dogs watched attentively, waiting for it to be time to go and get their swim on. 

Waiting patiently

As soon as we got there, Sam hit the water wide open.  Me, I just stared at how beautifully the camera was able to capture the water.  It literally looks like you could reach out and touch it, doesn't it?! And think about if I actually knew what I was doing! :-)

Wide open

DW & Kid

Checking it all out

Letting Kid & Krista try out the kayaks

And to my complete and utter dismay, there was a lady there with rescue puppies.  I wanted to take all of them home.  Wouldn't you?

Is there anything cuter?

Precious lil girl

I'm a sucker for puppy breath!

Finally, Tucker had had enough and was ready to go home.  He has a unique ability to communicate very clearly what he wants.  See:

Let's go...enough pictures already!

The END