Lovely Lucy

Lucy is one of the lucky winners of Secondhand Hounds' calendar contest, and she had her photo shoot a few weeks ago.  The photographer posted the edited images and we couldn't be more pleased with how they turned out!  I just wanted to share a couple of them with you:  (p.s. All photos in this post are copyrighted to Sarahbeth Photography)

Stray Dog Arts

About a month ago, I was getting coffee at the Linden Hills Dunn Bros. and noticed the local artwork they had on their walls. They were oil portraits of dogs and people with their dogs, and they looked gorgeous. I took note of the artist, and told myself to remember to look up Stray Dog Arts when I got back home.

Of course, I forgot.

Fast forward to a couple of weeks later, I was wandering the Uptown Art Fair with my sister in law, and found that Stray Dog Arts had a booth set up!  I looked over her work and was amazed again.  While I would LOVE to have a portrait of Lucy done by her, it's a little out of my price range at the moment (custom pieces start at $1,600).  I decided to check out her etsy site anyways, and ended up falling in love with a little 4"x4" wood block print which was well in my price range (only $25).  It came in the mail today, and I wanted to share how darling it is!

Can you figure out why I love it so much??

Lucy and her print!  See the resemblance?

Lucy's Latest!

This is a cross-post from my other blog, but I wanted to share Lucy's new trick with you all!

Love

7 months old!

1st puppy sleepover!

My parents are out of town for the weekend, and since both of my sisters who currently live at home are pretty busy with work, Luke and I offered to have Griz stay with us! While a 10 or 11 week old puppy is a LOT more work than Lucy is right now, I can definitely see us getting a second pup when the time is right.

Lucy LOVES Griz, and Griz seems to love her too. They follow each other everywhere!

Anyway, here are a few pictures of Griz during her stay:

Lucy = 6 months old!

I can't believe our little girl (take "little" lightly... she weighs a whopping 52 lbs. as of today) is already halfway to being a year old (we'll never be able to forget her birthday either, because she was born on New Years Eve 2010).  To celebrate it, while we were up at Luke's family cabin in Crosslake, we stopped at our favorite ice cream shop and got Lucy her own ice cream treat!  She waited so patiently while I snapped a few pics of her with her birthday surprise ("Wait" is a command that she's really good at responding to, especially when it comes to food).

Vanilla ice cream with a Milk Bone!

Licking her lips, getting ready to dive in...

Mmmmmmm!

Happiest dog.ever.

Lucy has taken a liking for the cabin.  She especially loves the fact that she's off leash for most of the time there, and that she gets to spend time annoying her cousin Bella.  This past weekend was a huge improvement from Memorial Day weekend, where we couldn't take our eyes off of her for even a second before starting to run off.  Turns out, Lucy loves the water after all!  While she doesn't quite care for swimming, she loves to run in to where the water is deep enough to hit her chest, but not deep enough that she has to swim (though we know she can swim, since Luke and I took her out into the deeper part so that she had to swim back to shore).  Playing ball in the shallows and just wading in became her favorite part of going up to the cabin!

Loving the beach with Bella!

Lucy loves Papa :)

Family photo!  Unfortunately, most of them turn out like this...

Waiting so well for her food!

We were sad to have to leave the cabin and head back to reality, but we're anxiously looking forward to the next trip up to Crosslake, and then excited to be able to take Lucy up to my family's cabin in Grand Marais in the fall.

My favorite picture of the weekend!

Picture Overload!

Weighing in at over 46 pounds at 5 months old only puts Lucy about a month behind on the average Great Dane growth charts.  We are starting to think that she's mixed with a lab more and more everyday because of how she's starting to take shape on her way out of puppyhood.  She's eating 3 1/2 cups of food per day and now sleeping with us every night.  Her new favorite thing is to stretch out as long as she can get and sleep right in between Luke and me.  She's been extra sleepy lately and our trainer is sure it's because she's going through another growth spurt.  At our last puppy class, we worked on "Lucy, come" and she seems to be getting it as we work on it with her at home.  While it can be a challenge to make sure that I have the clicker and treats on me while around the house, she's definitely learning the command because she can be anywhere in the yard, and I can say "Lucy, come" and she'll come running from whatever she's got her nose in! 

Last week, Lucy met Grizzly (the latest member of the Kleinberg family), and you can see pictures from it here!

And, because I know the real reason everyone stops by here is to see the pictures/videos of Lucy... enjoy!

Playdate with Bella and Mack the Great Dane/Mastiff!

Army crawling again

Helping Papa open a package

Making ugly barking faces

Posing pretty!

Rainy days make Lucy sad...

Cuddles with mama!

Getting tall!

First boat ride

Papa wouldn't let me drive the boat :(

My nose is beautiful.

Sleepy

It took awhile to get used to the dock.

Papa's ignoring me and playing with his fancy new phone instead...

I love my papa.

Getting into trouble with Bella

Meeting Auntie Griz for the first time!

No more pictures, please!