More messes

What a goofball!

For the show your stuff portion of the show and the costume class, both dogs each got a stuffed dog bone.  So we ended up with 4 of them.  I put 3 of the up and left one out.  Of course I was not surprised that it didn't last long!

Now that the mess is made, she is wore out and ready for bed ;)

The dog show :)

I'm so proud of all 4 girls.  They all did amazing!  The girls look forward to this show every year.  I wasn't sure how it was going to work this year.  Marissa always shows Chloe and Madalyn usually shows Case.  Madalyn decided that she was going to take Molly this year.  Of course with her only being 7 months I knew she was going to need help, but I really didn't know what to expect out of Molly.  She is pretty well socialized, but can easily be freaked out by a new place and new people.  She is a huge chicken!  So we went an hour early and hoped for the best.  It must have worked because she did awesome!  The judge told the class that if she returned to show next year, everyone better watch out for her because she will have a lot more training under her belt and she couldn't believe how good she was for 7 months this year!  I have more pictures coming from the fair website, once they get posted, but for now here is what I have!

"Purebred class under 20lbs"

Old pros ;)

"Puppy class under a year"

Such a pretty girl!

She kept trying to sneak away here...there was another dog named Molly waiting for her class and our Molly took to her and her family!

"Obedience class" 

"Show your stuff"

"Costume Class"

The winner!  A male great dane as a fish with his owner the fisherman :)

Little Red Riding Hood and The Big Bad Wolf dressed as "Grandma" ;)

Dorothy and Toto!  ;)

LOL

Zoe and her best buddy these days :)

The final loot :)  Marissa placed 1st in every class Chloe was entered that had a 1st place slot, except the costume class.  The "Show Your Stuff" class everyone placed and got a toy as a prize.  Molly took 1st in her puppy class and unfortunately was in the same class as Chloe in all the others.  Chloe just has more experience than she does!  She took second in the costume class behind the other dane though!

Because the vet clinic sponsored the show, we got 4 gift certificates to the clinic for future use.  I'm hoping we can save them for Molly's spay surgery!

Camping

 I know one of our biggest fears when we bought our camper was that we were not going to get enough use out of it to make it worth the money.  However, I'm so happy that we have gotten to use it a ton!   And I have to admit I'm slightly addicted and at this point in time, I'm pretty sure I would be ok with living permanently in it!  ;)  We got back from Buffalo on Sunday morning SUPER early in the morning and made the decision to turn around and head right back out again with Doug since he was going to be working near Green Lakes State Park for a few days.  It was a beautiful place to camp!  We really enjoyed ourselves and I loved that we could spend more time with him even though he was "out of town".

 We even convinced Doug's parents to come along!  That made it even more fun!

 Marissa got some snuggles in with her little buddy :)

While we were gone, our area was hit by a tornado.  Our home was fine and we didn't even lose power but the surrounding areas got hit and suffered quite a bit of damage.  While we were camping, we all got tornado warnings on our phones telling us to seek immediate shelter.  It didn't really look nasty, and we didn't know what direction to head anyhow so we stayed put.  It rained really hard, and blew a little bit but nothing major.  The rain only lasted 20 minutes max.  We only lost one really dead branch off a tree onto Mom and Dad's camper.  No damage done though.  Wednesday after we got packed up to head out, we made a left out of the driveway and I bet about a mile down the road there were trees on houses, yards destroyed, just a mess!  Later we found out that a tornado had hit there as well.  God was and is soooo good to us!  I'm so thankful that He had His watchful eye on us.  I know for a fact that the campers would not have faired well in that kind of a storm and so did He!  We are so blessed!