Bree has recently taken to chewing on electrical cords.  Fortunately the first three were unplugged.  She sleeps at the foot of our bed and I always have an electrical blanket.  The cord has been right next to her for months but she never bothered with it.  Well, she chewed through both of my electrical blanket cords ~ ugh.  So, I have made another trip to Pet Smart and bought some more toys.  She totally destroyed one of them in an hour.  The other is still going strong.  I am making a more concerted effort to run her and have gotten some food puzzles and strong tug of war ropes ~ the boys loves playing with her with these.

She just loves the snow.....  She jumps in it, burrows in it, lays down and cools off in it.  She is happiest when she can be in the snow.  Lately when I have taken her running with the car, she runs for several miles on the snow covered roads.  I will stop to let her in and she looks at me and keeps running.

If we ever have one of those 1-1.5 foot snows, I will have to capture it on video, cause you will just see her tail running through the snow.  Recently the boys were out playing in the snowy field.  She was running out back with them.  After about 30 minutes figured I should go check on her, assuming her paws might start getting cold.  When I got in, I found her underside was covered in frozen snow.  I felt so bad ~ just looking at this picture makes me hurt.

I first tried a hair dryer, but the noise scared her too bad.  She would not lay still and did not want water all over the house so I put her in the bathtub for an hour or so while the chunks melted.

We are gonna take her Tuesday for her first grooming.  She just has such a thick coat, it would take me forever to wrestle with her.

A few pics of the field fun.

Jacob has 2 friends that live close by and they are twins.  They are red heads with freckles and I just adore them.  They make me smile every time they knock at the door.  They are Brant and Wyatt and I can't tell them apart (although they do have different hair cuts but they still confuse me) so I just call them B-Dub.  There they are having fun with Jacob.

We are half way through the school year!  Can't believe spring is just around the corner.  The days are getting longer and that makes me happy!