Hoping You Had A Merry Christmas & Wishing A Happy New Year!

This is Hootie doing a good "sit" for Daddy.

Here I am getting my instructions for catching the ball from Daddy.

Now, this is not an attractive shot of either Hootie or myself.  Sheesh Mommy!!

This is me reluctantly posing for next years Christmas picture.

Hootie is a bit blurrred in this one, but Mommy liked how he looks so pensive. 

We've had a ton of snow up here in farrr N.Idaho this December.  That's fine by us, 'cuz it means we get to play in the snow and go snowshoeing with the folks.  Hootie changes his Christmas sweaters every few days because he has a bunch of them.  I, on the other hand, try to stay OUT of those stupid things.  Mommy makes me wear them on occasion, but I act like I'm being tortured, so she sets me free soon there after. he he.  We had our joint Christmas photo taken for next year, if you can believe that.  This year we finked out and didn't have one...the weird one below is the closest we came...so I guess we'll make up for it next year. 

Well, better go now.  Sure hope any of our buddies seeing this have a wonderful holiday season and a great 2013!

Smooches from pooches,
Baby Rocket Dog & Hootie

A Walk Near Squaw Peak

Mom and Dad with the two of us. Whose bum is that behind us?? We'll never tell. Bol!!
That handsome fellow holding our leads is Dad! Mom took that picture looking for shadows.

We went for an awesome walk near our condo a couple days ago. The folks and our hooman sissy and her husband all walked up the little peak right where we live. That Christmas tree made out of lights is put on the hill every year by the Point Hilton, who is our next door neighbor. At night it looks like a real tree. There were lots of cacti and other thorny plants too. We didn't see any rattle snakes or critters, though we know that there are javalina, quail, roadrunners and bobcats on that hill. It was lots of fun going with the whole family. Then when we got home, we all took a nice, lonnnnnng rest!
Smooches from pooches,
BabyRocketDog and Hootie

Walking With The Folks In Dover Bay, Idaho

We had a great time celebrating the folk's Anniversary and Mommy's birthday on November 2nd. We all went for a nice, long walk at Dover Bay and got to smell all sorts of wonderful odors! Hoping all our buddies are having a good week too!

Smooches from pooches,

Baby Rocket Dog & Hootie

We Got To Attend A Bluegrass Festival!!

Here we are with Mommy. Can you read the sticker on our ice chest??
Oooooo cheese...we each got a taste. Thanks Mom!

This is just one of many groups that provided wonderful music all day long.


Dad acted as our "wrangler" at times. Isn't he cute?

There were all kinds of water crafts cruising the river, as well as swimmers.

Look at this cute kiddo...she's looking at her pa like there's a steak in his pocket!!

Wonder what these two are looking at.....

Wrapping up with these pics of us with our daddy. See the shirt he has on? Good advise!

Last Saturday we went with Mommy & Dad to the 3rd annual Kootenai River Bluegrass Festival. The weird thing is, all the grass we saw was green! There was lots of terrific music all day long, and a bunch of dogs too. We had a great time and enjoyed the beautiful weather and scenery. (Wish our mom had taken more photos of the dogs though.) Hope you got outside this weekend too.

Smooches from pooches,

Baby Rocket Dog and Hootie

PS-Please send your PawPower to our friend Mango and also Scruffy, Lacie and Stanley's daddy, John. Both had a rough weekend. Get Well Soon Mango and John!!

A Prescott Arizona Snow Day

Hello friends! Today the folks took Hootie and me up to *Prescott to play in the snow. We went to meet up with the Dales & Friends group that I belong to but Mommy was driving and somehow missed the turn off. Well, we went about 10 miles further than we needed to go, but ended up at a much higher elevation where there was a ton of snow. In fact, we went as far as our 4wheel drive Subaru would take us. We just stopped the car on the road (there was no one else for miles around) and got out and walked around. The snow was deep, but had a crust over the top so we were like wonder dogs---walking on top of the snow! Occasionally Mommy or Daddy would break through then be up to their knees in snow. Funny! So, the photos on this post are from our misguided adventure before we found our Dales & Friends group.

These first photos are Dad telling me to #1 - SIT, then #2 - SHAKE, but he forgot to tell me which paw he wanted me to shake with!! So he asked me again and I switched paws (I am ambidextrous) and that is photo #3. I entered that in the Mango Minster sanctioned Training Competition. (Click here to get to Niamh's blog to learn more.) I actually do a mean "bang bang" but Mommy has never taken a photo of me doing it. Maybe next year. Speaking of Mango Minster, don't forget to vote. The Cat-Dog category has already been voted on, but there are several others still to come. Today is the hound competition. You can get there by clicking on the Mango Minster Logo on our sidebar. Hootie and I are entered in the Terriers competition if you would like to vote for (ME) either one of us (ME).

It turned out that Dales & Friends were at a place much easier to access but we did get with them and played for about an hour. We'll post some meetup pictures later on.

Hope your weekend has been as fun as ours.

Smooches,

Baby Rocket Dog

*Prescott, Arizona is about 100 miles north of Phoenix and as you can see, has a much different climate than Phx.

The Folks on Lake Coeur D'Alene

This is what the folks did on Tuesday when they went to Coeur D'Alene. They went on a cruise without us. Well, at least they brought home some goodies when they returned.

We've had to really rush around to get ready for Petey and Rosie's wedding. Lucky for us we have good buddies with a Learjet to wisk us off at a moments notice! Hope we get there on time.

Smooches from pooches,

Baby Rocket Dog & Hootie