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Oct 23

Victory: A Birthday Celebration — 6 years!

On October 12 it marked four years since we adopted our dear little Victory! We decided to make October 12 Victory’s birthday — the day we went to Michigan and adopted our sweet fur girl.

We recently celebrated Victory’s birthday marking her four years with us since her adoption! This year, for Victory’s birthday, we did a gold, white/ivory, with a splash of champagne in honor of Victory’s beautiful fur coat! (As shown below, last year, we did a light pink and gold themed birthday; two years ago we did a pink themed birthday; and three years ago, we did rainbow themed birthday for Victory!) We purchased some fun gold and white/ivory themed decorations, balloons, confetti, party hat, and new ivory sweater for Victory in honor of her birthday! Victory also enjoyed prime rib and smoked turkey in lieu of birthday cake, which she gobbled down in no time flat! Victory looked absolutely adorable on her birthday, as always, shown below! (She is always so cooperative with my ideas, and Doug blew up every single balloon and helped to keep Victory’s attention during the photos!) She had a fun birthday and she enjoyed being over fed along with a trip to the Eastern Shore for crabs! We are the lucky ones to share our lives with this wonderful, loyal, and loving being.

For Victory’s birthday, we gave her a new: ivory sweater; a custom, handmade ceramic dog water bowl; an Orvis embroidered name blanket; a Jax and Bones rope toy; and a Ware of the Dog toy! Victory also received, for her birthday, a water rover and a gift card from her Grandma and Grandpa Carver! We all had a great day together!

(All birthday decorations are via Oh Happy Day and Sweet Lulu.)

A look back at Victory’s birthday time over the years…

If you are considering getting a dog, I hope that you consider adopting a rescue dog. There are so many dogs in need of a good, loving home. As shown below, Victory, a rescue, has changed so much physically and emotionally over the years since we adopted her, pictured on the left (image from Victory’s foster mom via the Michigan Sheltie Rescue). You really can save a dog’s life, while simultaneously enriching your own life/lives.

Dec 6

Victory: Photography Project — 93

Beginning in January 2014, I started a weekly photography project with my muse, Victory! I will continue to share this project on the blog this year! My goal is to document all of Victory’s changes, while preserving fleeting moments and memories, while capturing moments of our everyday.

We went to Newark, Delaware this weekend and took our fur girl, Victory with us! It was nice to get away. Before leaving, we finished most of our Pawliday cards, while getting our small Christmas tree and Holiday decorations up around the house, including our outdoor lights, wreath, poinsettias, and indoor window candles! It feels cozy in our house, especially with all of our candles. We are looking forward to making Christmas cookies and watching some festive movies. While we are not ready for Christmas, and we are taking a low-key approach this year, Victory is ready! She looks festive in her red cable Christmas sweater, shown below! She is also going to visit Santa again this month! While we cannot believe another year is coming to a close shortly, we are excited to see what the New Year will bring!

Happy Tuesday!

Nov 15

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Victory: Photography Project — 92

Beginning in January 2014, I started a weekly photography project with my muse, Victory! I will continue to share this project on the blog this year! My goal is to document all of Victory’s changes, while preserving fleeting moments and memories, while capturing moments of our everyday.

This past weekend, for the long weekend, we took our fur girl, Victory, to Dewey Beach! The weather was nice and Victory loved the beach. There were not too many other people or dogs on the beach, so it was perfect, in Victory’s eyes! Each time we went to the beach, we walked several miles, and Victory was never ready to leave the beach — she dug her back legs into the sand and she would not budge and she turned around to head in the opposite direction we were heading! This was the first time Victory dipped her little paws into the Atlantic Ocean! The sunsets were very beautiful. We had a fun time together and Dewey Beach is very dog friendly, thankfully! It is always nice to visit the ocean! A few images from our trip are shown below.

Happy Tuesday!

Oct 31

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Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween! I cannot believe how quickly the time is flying by that it is already time for Halloween! Victory was a lioness last year; a butterfly two years ago; a ladybug for her first Halloween; and, this year, she is a fifties girl, shown below! You can see over the past three years how much Victory has changed! Victory will help us hand out candy tonight in her costume, along with her pumpkin masterpiece carved by Doug, also shown below. Doug spent many hours carefully and diligently working on his Halloween ghost-themed pumpkin! Additionally, here are links to pumpkins carved by Doug last year; two years ago; three years ago; and four years ago — all dog-themed pumpkins!

We hope that you all have a wonderful Halloween!

Oct 19

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Victory: Photography Project — 91

Beginning in January 2014, I started a weekly photography project with my muse, Victory! I will continue to share this project on the blog this year! My goal is to document all of Victory’s changes, while preserving fleeting moments and memories, while capturing moments of our everyday.

Last weekend, near Victory’s birthday, we took Victory to the pumpkin patch, an annual tradition, to pick out our pumpkins, which Doug will carve! We all had a great time! We still could only find one pumpkin patch located in Delaware, after looking in Maryland, Pennsylvania, and Delaware, that would permit a furry family member to come along! We had fun, Victory had fun, and the weather was just gorgeous! After the pumpkin patch, we went to our favorite restaurant in Delaware, where furry family members are permitted on the patio — there were nine other furry family members on the patio, along with Victory, that evening! A few images from our annual trip to the pumpkin patch are shown below. You can also view images from our trip to the pumpkin patch last year, here.

Doug is carving our pumpkins again this year for Halloween so stay tuned! Enjoy the photos below!

Happy Wednesday!

Oct 12

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Victory: A Birthday Celebration — 5 years!

Today marks three years since we adopted our dear little Victory! We decided to make October 12 Victory’s birthday — the day we went to Michigan and adopted our sweet fur girl. (We also took the same approach with Biscuit’s birthday.) Victory was likely one to two years old when we adopted her, per the Michigan Sheltie Rescue.

This year, for Victory’s birthday, we did a light pink and gold themed birthday! (Last year, we did a pink themed birthday and the year before, we did rainbow themed birthday for Victory!) We purchased some fun light pink and gold themed decorations, balloons, party hat, and new light pink sweater for Victory in honor of her birthday! Victory also enjoyed some steak in lieu of birthday cake, which she gobbled down in no time flat! Victory looked absolutely adorable on her birthday, as always, and she even smiled this year, shown below! (She is always so cooperative with my ideas, and Doug blew up every single balloon!) She had a fun birthday, a fun long weekend, and she enjoyed being over fed along with a trip to the Eastern Shore for crabs! We are the lucky ones to share our lives with this wonderful, loyal, and loving being.

For Victory’s birthday, we gave her a new pink sweater and a new Orvis personalized canvas toy tote — for her ever growing collection of toys! Victory also got a gift card from her Grandma and Grandpa in Michigan, which she will use to get some yummy treats! We all had a great day together! October is our favorite month, and Victory is looking forward to the pumpkin patch, carving a pumpkin, and sharing her Halloween costume! (Hint — she is not going to be an animal this year!)

(All birthday decorations are from Oh Happy Day!)

Jul 5

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Victory: Photography Project — 90

Beginning in January 2014, I started a weekly photography project with my muse, Victory! I will continue to share this project on the blog this year! My goal is to document all of Victory’s changes, while preserving fleeting moments and memories, while capturing moments of our everyday.

Happy Tuesday! I saw a post on Instagram that said, “this feels like the Monday-est Tuesday ever!” We hope that you had a lovely long weekend! Doug and I, along with Victory, went to Delaware and Pennsylvania, the Brandywine Valley, for the long weekend! The weather and temperatures were great! We enjoyed a low-key, relaxed weekend together.

We went to the Iron Hill Brewery a few times for dinner, and Victory enjoyed going to dinner with us! (We wish there was an Iron Hill closer to us, as it is one of our favorite restaurants!) While away, Doug and I got hooked on Marcella, a really good murder mystery series!

We took Victory to a vineyard with us, shown below, where she was a hit! We also took Victory to the Plymouth Meeting Orvis store, shown below, where we previously took her brother Biscuit! Needless to say, Victory is recovering from her long weekend away, as she did not get her daily, standard 16 hours of sleep! We had a great time together, and it was really nice to get away for a few days! We hope that you had a great 4th of July weekend!

Happy Tuesday!

Jun 20

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Victory: Photography Project — 89

Beginning in January 2014, I started a weekly photography project with my muse, Victory! I will continue to share this project on the blog this year! My goal is to document all of Victory’s changes, while preserving fleeting moments and memories, while capturing moments of our everyday.

Happy Summer! We hope that you had a lovely weekend! It was beautiful, gorgeous weather here! Doug enjoyed a really nice Father’s Day — his third Father’s Day with our fur girl, Victory! For Father’s Day, we went to Andy Nelson’s for dinner, a favorite of Doug’s, followed by Rita’s for ice cream, which Victory also loved! We had a great weekend together!

Little Victory has good taste and she gave her Daddy some nice Father’s Day gifts, pictured below: a custom Lionel train car featuring Doug and Victory; Duke Cannon shave cream and soap; a new bourbon; a custom photo mug featuring Doug and Victory (a yearly tradition); and a custom key chain featuring Doug and Victory. Doug was very surprised and pleased! A few photographs from our weekend are shown below!

Happy Monday!

May 16

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Victory: Photography Project — 88

Beginning in January 2014, I started a weekly photography project with my muse, Victory! I will continue to share this project on the blog this year! My goal is to document all of Victory’s changes, while preserving fleeting moments and memories, while capturing moments of our everyday.

This past weekend, we took Victory to Pups in the Park! Fortunately, the rain stopped, and the sun came out prior to the game starting! Despite it being a little chilly outside, we had a great time together again this year, like we did last year! Victory had a fun time, although we did not see any sheltie friends this year, like we did last year.

Happy Monday!

May 9

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Victory: Photography Project — 87

Beginning in January 2014, I started a weekly photography project with my muse, Victory! I will continue to share this project on the blog this year! My goal is to document all of Victory’s changes, while preserving fleeting moments and memories, while capturing moments of our everyday.

We hope that you had a nice weekend/Mother’s Day! We had a nice weekend, and enjoyed nicer weather, a nice change from the rain! We finished up all of our gardening and planting as well as finishing setting up our decks, which we enjoy using. In honor of Mother’s Day, Doug made us homemade buttermilk pancakes with fresh strawberries and homemade whip cream, which we ate with Victory on our deck! It was very tasty, and Victory loved them, too! Victory and Doug also gave me a new jacket, which I love! Below are some images of our finished deck along with our fur girl, Victory, who really enjoys lounging and napping on her deck in her outdoor bed, similar to this!

Happy Monday!