Remington

 warning: crazy dog lady post.

One shot Remington aka Remi turned 1 years old on September 2, 2014. Even before Remi came around Russ quickly learned that while we don't have human children that our dogs are considered my babies. Even with that knowledge I don't think he was prepared for what I had up my sleeve for Remi's b-day....

 I researched how to make a "dog safe" birthday cake so I didn't kill my puppy on her birthday, and found a 1 shaped cake pan to bake it in. Let's be honest-I got a little carried away and the cake turned out huge! the dogs were eating cake for days! I bought her a couple new toys for some presents, and then we had a little family get together that night as we watched them eat cake, and fight over the new toys.

In my opinion it was a pretty great birthday party, and I'm pretty Russ was enjoying himself and despite his behavior prior to the event, I don't think he rolled his eyes all night :)

A year ago I fell in love with little Remi, and begged Russ to let us keep her. I had no idea what kind of rodeo we were in for when he said yes, but man am I sure glad he let me keep her! She's a cute little turd, but man she can be a turd! Here's a few facts about Remi and my dog mom version of her one year statistics:
1) She loves to be dirty and/or she's always finding the mud, water, or just plain dirt and loves making a mess of it, herself, the other dogs, and any person or thing around.

2. She's the most playful dog I've ever seen! Rem thinks everything is a game and can't just play fetch because she feels it should be a game of chase, fetch, and tug-a-war all turned into one. One of her favorite "toys" are the dogs food dishes and she would play and chase them around all day long if I'd let her.

3. She's a tease-goes along with as mentioned above. Whether a toy is involved or not she's constantly harassing the other two dogs, and even has a scarred up face to prove it!  Lady is a little more tolerant and ever since Remi was little they can be found wrestling 90% of the time.

4.She is loyal. While she may be crazy and rambunctious-she loves you and is loyal to being your best buddy. Even out in the mountains when there's so much more going on and the other 2 dogs are out and running amuk- Remi remains by your side. She also loves to be close-sometimes too close...

5. She loves to chew on things and always has to have something in her mouth-however she has never chewed on furniture or ruined any shoes, etc... When she was a pup her favorite thing to do was run in the house and go right to our closet to find my slippers. She would then proceed to run around with them in her mouth as if they were her favorite thing and she knew she wasn't supposed to have them.

6. Her ears! Strangely enough Remi's ears have always been a favorite characteristic of hers. While other lab dogs ears go back- Rem's goes forward. I was afraid she'd grow out of it but I'm so glad she still rocks her goofy look.

pardon Russ's haggard look-he had just gotten home from a rough hunt-This pic just shows a real common look of the ol' Remster with those ears going forward.

7. Remi loves kiddos and is really good with them. Much to my surprise Remi is very patient and tolerant of kids. She loves kids so much that at first we had to really teach/restrain her from plowing kids right over because she'd get so excited to see them and would want to lick their faces off. Her and Lexi had the most "problems", Lex always wanted to play and Remi wanted her and her binky.

 8. She is a tug-a-war champ. period.

Happy Birthday Remi girl, we sure love you! Thanks for bringing so much joy through so much chaos, and completing our little doggy family :)

Also have to wish our other 10 pups a Happy Birthday-while it was a wild rodeo at our house for 6+ weeks we sure fell in love with those little guys and hope that their new families are treating them well. HAPPY BIRTHDAY HUDSON PUPS!