Sweet ZuZu Magoo, our brown-eyed girl, happy 5th birthday! Don't ever change, and remember that we will always take care of you, always.

When the July sun is beating down and the girls need a good freshening up, sometimes we'll get the hose out and give them a good shampoo and rinsing. For the most part, they're pretty good about the whole process. . . .

. . . Six months later, up the tulips rise from the warming ground. They are so colorful, beautiful, a wonderful reminder of the promise of Spring. Now stay away deer, at least until they are almost finished with their glory.

When the snow is light and fluffy, ZuZu loves to play this game where she will do her Tigger dance for a bit and then quickly bury her head in the snow. Then she'll raise her head up real fast and the snow just flies everywhere. Makes us laugh everytime . . .

Ginger puts on the happiest face whether the snow is one inch deep or ten inches deep. And even when she gets those little snowballs between her toes (you can see them on her left foot), she prances on . . .

Sometimes the deeper the snow, the more they play even though it takes quite a bit more effort to move through the depth. Doesn't seem to bother them at all though, even when it's almost up to their bellies.