Wishing all our friends out there a wonderfully SCARY and FUN Halloween! Oh...and most importantly then either of those things...a SAFE one!

A few days ago, before mom went and took me to the torture's  groomer's to have my hair stolen, we went for a nice walk around the lake across the street from Dad's house. It wasn't a super long walk, but it WAS a super nice day. Mom thought that I looked super handsome up against the bright green of these ferns! Not far into our walk, Mom spotted this little guy watching us curiously from tree. I told her he only LOOKED cute, and that he was probably really watching us to gather information. I tried to explain to her about all the crazy suspicious squirrel activity that's been happening throughout Blogville, but she said I was just being silly.  I hope you're right Mom, BUT don't come crying to me when the squirrels really DO pull off some sort of sneaky evil attack!  And DON'T say I didn't warn you! Next on our walk we took a side-trip to the little secondary pond. Mom really likes this area...there...

Mom and I went out for a bit today! Today Mom looked at me and said 'Wesley, let's go somewhere fun!' and then she put my new Ezy-dog chestplate harness on me and off we went! Hey mom, can I drive?! And where was the first stop we made....? Looks like a long walk, Mom...can't you park any closer?! It was at Petco! We spent a good time in Petco working on me NOT being so barky and jerk-like at people. Mom had a pocket full of cheese bits and other yummy things, so I did my best to be on MY best behavior. While we we in Petco mom got me a new slicker brush, some doggie shampoo-n-conditioner and a tasty pig ear! But we weren't done yet! Next, Mom took us over to Frozen Peaks for some frozen yogurt! I got left in the car for about five minutes (don't worry...it's very cool out today and Mom left all four windows down for me with some water out) while she ran in to get the goods!  She came back with a bowl of delicious! Vanilla frozen yogurt...

The Claw?! And what are you going to do with that? NOOO! Don't touch me!

On Thursday it was so nice out that Mom and Dad and I did out first little hiking trip together of the season! I lead the way, of course! Lots of good smells around. Check out me in action! It WAS pretty hot out, and my hair right now it's pretty dense and long-ish, so Mom made sure I had plenty of water stops. This is Mom's favorite picture of the day, Me and Dad, forging the way forward!

We got a bit more snow this morning, about two more inches. Nice, soft and fluffy! I do love me some good snow...it's lots of fun to run around in... ...and I do mean run, that stuff is COLD so you have to have you're good time in it FAST. Love making tracks in the snow!

Mom wanted to dry me off...I thought a game of tug sounded much more fun! Joining in today on Blogpaw's Wordless Wednesday blog hop!

Yeah, she does...at least at challenges and deadlines! Friday she was supposed to have a picture all set up and ready to go for The Lazy Pit Bull's 52 Snapshots of Life weekly challenge. Did she have one? No ! And after I was so very nice last week to tell her she could post those things up on Fridays! Now, that's not to say she didn't try to get a photo...but she just hasn't gotten one she likes that she feels goes well with the theme for week three, 'Joyful'. She says she hasn't given up yet, though...and she at least has until this coming Thursday to get it right. BOL ...I told her maybe you're just to picky...she asked me if I felt like eating that night. BOL Anyway...that's how Mom fails! Now only fun stuff, like Ruckus the Eskie 's Sepia Saturday Blog hop! My best friend at my dad's house is his standard poodle, Honey. My best friend here at home is my mom's sister's cat, Fiona. We just love to rough house and have a goo...

So it's looking more and more like I'm finally getting through to my mom and that a full blown return to Blogville is in progress! It involved a lot of being super good and even more use of THE LOOK then it really should have but in the end it looks like it's all going to be worth it! My advanced techniques on getting-my-way in action! I haven't really been around everyone's blogs to see what's been going on just yet - I'm sure I do have a lot of catching up to do! - but I hope that everyone has had a good holiday season and that the beginnings of 2015 have been good. So far for us it has been SUPER DUPER cold, and I've been spending a lot of time sweater'd up and under covers. Of course it doesn't help that the other day, under the influence of cold medicine and before this super-cold snap, mom decided it would be a good idea to steal some of my furs.  Some turned into a lot more then she really had meant to steal, and I've be...

So yesterday Momma made me post picture of our hike, but not one of them was of me! How rude is that...and it's even my blog! Well, today Momma promised we'd revisit that hike with all the pictures of ME! You remember the photo of one single Red-Wing Blackbird on branches? Well, who do you think spotted him first? Bah! Not Momma!   And then, while she was all busy concentrating on the silly bird, I decided to check out the water. Wes' Momma: What you can't see to well is that he's studded with little bits of duckweed from his dip! After taking forever to get pictures of the bird, we walked on...and then my nose found something interesting on the side of the pathway.... Momma thought my dirty little butt hanging out of the bushes like that was kinda funny...and then I started rolling. Which made her come over very quickly to see the dead turtle I had found. After that she didn't think it was too funny anymore and she made us hurry on. ...

Well, I TOLD you we had been doing a lot of hiking lately. Now Momma has an influx of pictures to share from not one, not two, but THREE separate hikes taken over the past week. Instead of loading tons and tons of pictures up, she threw them into three separate collages made on picmonkey.com.

So Momma, Poppa and I are all back from our wonderful little weekend. We came back earlier-then-wanting-to on Sunday and normal everyday life resumed just yesterday. Blah city. Doesn't mean I'm done sharing about it, though!  So Saturday we did one walk in the morning, then because I like  bark like a maniac  to make my presence known Momma and Poppa decided we'd try to walk again in the early evening. It was a really beautiful time to walk, and the beach was pretty much ours alone! Wes' Momma: That big building right in the middle of the collage is called The Grand, for obvious reasons. The thing is huge. If you look right to the left of it those are the building of the complex where we stay. :) After our (5mile!) beach walk, we came back to the room and Momma and Poppa proceeded to torture me! After the bath torture session Momma says she and Poppa watched a movie (The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug) but I just crashed out. I wanted to be ready...