2009 X Games

this weekend chaos hit mako's house for some serious doggie time. Chaos was cleared at the vet on friday morning to start using his leg more. He is cast free and we are just waiting for the cast sores to clear up. While at Mako's he forgot that he was a gimp and really started using his leg more. Upon his arrival home he tried to go back to gimping and we called him out on it.

while chaos was enjoying doggie time we hit the road with jess and jared for the 2009 winter x games. I like that we are the official seth wescott cheering committee and we take our role seriously even standing in the rain and cold to show our support. SBX is a tough event... not only do the racers have to hit big features and maintain speed but they have to avoid other snowboarders. Seth ruled his first heat but his goofy stance was knocked down when he knocked butts with a regular boarder. This was the first time in 12 years that seth didn't make the finals. We were proud regardless especially since seth is rocking the world cup circuit this season.
We made a big weekend out of the event and stayed in Glenwood Springs, home of the famous hot springs, and enjoyed tubby time, a good brewery, late night in aspen and more. We even made it back on time sunday to celebrate big dave's birthday at fat alley.

winter days... on the disabled list

Chaos has been loving his new toys! I am also happy to report that the turtle has lasted over a week. I knew the Planet Dog collection would since they are the most durable, fun toys ever. The turtle is from the egg babies collection and has small eggs that go inside and Chaos is suppose to pull out. The eggs all squeak and chaos has always loved pulling the squeakers out of toys so I thought he may like this. He is only allowed to play with it while we are home and has done really well with it.

We went for a moonlight snowshow with Steve and Jess for the full moon. We had Budo and Mako with the group... chaos stayed behind with Jared since he is not able to walk 500 yards let alone a few miles. He is healing... we graduated to the front half of the cast but it got wet and began to rub. I called Dr Taylor and she told us to take it off but then he had to take it easy. No more friends for him until things are more stable. Budo is gentle but also loves to wrestle... then he'll kiss Chaos until we make him stop. Chaos isn't using his foot much but that should improve soon. He has a few sore spots and his foot is getting used to not being constricted.

I worked 7 days straight over vacation week with some long days. At the end of the week we found a great diversion on the way to pick up Chinese take out... we brought Mu-nee kitty along for the 15 minute ride to town. Silly but her spaziness was full of entertainment! I think she was nervous on the way there since we told her we were going to trade her in for an entree.

We also hit the climbing wall with Jess and Jared. It was fun to be able to show Jess the ropes- literally. Jared had done it before but it was Jess's first time. She was able to make it pretty far up and also became a champion belayer. This is important since I do fall and she handled it like a pro... even while the wall guy was talking to her.

Go turtle!

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Toy day!

Chaos loves getting new toys and today we got a shipment in from sitstay.com full of planet dog toy goodness! This should help alleviate some of his woos of being an injured monster. 5 new toys including this crazy turtle that is a problem solver. 4 planet dog toys which are super durable and made in maine just like chaos! Back to the vet on Friday to see how durable chaos is for his play date this weekend.
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Chaos monsters cast

The cast is still on and we hit the vet bi-weekly to have it checked. Dr t cut it in half last time to check it then vet wrapped it back on. This time we requested blue and added silver stars for the new year. We went to makos house in town last night and chaos came too and showed his friends his latest flair. The dogs hung out and played while we hit Colorado avenue for the countdown. We made it home by 1am since I am entrenched at work this week and am on day 5 of a 7 day stretch. We had waited 20 minutes on the way to town in the gondola line and were lucky enough to beat the crowds on the way home and jumped on an empty pet cabin.
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