Meet Zeus. The new addition to our family. He's a year and a half year old Chessie that is absolutely HUGE, easily twice Piper's size. And yes, I agreed to him. And now I have a 90 pound horse glued to my hip quite literally. He shadows me everywhere and Piper has yet to fully drop her prima donna act, so now we have some serious competition going on for attention.
Today I took Dash to a barbershop for his first professional haircut. Below is apicture of the results. He was so funny. We went in and say on the bench to wait and he kept saying "My turn for haircut. My turn!" He was so excited, and then the time came and he lost his nerve. He sat on my lap for the whole thing, perfectly still and avoiding all eye contact with the lady cutting his hair. As she got close to being done, I pointed out the huge mirror that he could see himself in, and then the charm came out again. He sat back up straight and smiled at himself in the mirrior and said, " I'm cute. Handsome." I don't think he'll ever be afflicted with false modesty.
Last weekend Brigg and I took our first overnight trip alone since we had Stratton 4 1/2 years ago. It was fantastic! We went to Anchorage, had dinner at the restaurant where we ate the night before our wedding, went to a temple sesion together...both of us in the same session! and went furniture shopping. Yes, it will have been over a year by the time it arrives, but we will be getting a couch for our living room. We never really missed it until this last month when we all took turns getting a serious bug. Something about a couch is a necessity for sick times. It was a wonderful 24 hour date. I can't even begin to say how glad I am to have family that was willing to help out so we could go. It will be a highlight for months. Now we are on into March, one of my favorite Fairbanks months! Ice sculptures, dog mushing and more! We will try and take more pictures than we have been recently.
