These sweet girls are are absolutely precious! Sadie and her big puppy eyes and the contagious toller smile. The peaceful baby faces of the sleepy little ones. I'm so excited to get first pictures and videos up. Hopefully by this weekend! :)

Early Monday morning, Miss Sadie Jade welcomed the most precious set of sisters we've every seen! All four girls arrived within an hour, happy, healthy, and ready for life on the outside! 

Sadie has always been a natural mother. It's amazing how she knows to scoot them around towards the warmest part of the bed, swap positions so everyone can eat, make sure they all stay in the puppy pile, warm and clean! She really is something special! 

We are so excited to watch these girls grow!

It's starting to look and feel like fall! Our family is looking forward to cooler weather, pumpkin patches, movie nights, football, early evening walks, and.... PUPPIES!

Miss Sadie Jade is due any day now. It's been an easy pregnancy. She's stayed active, still sporting the notorious toller smile, and the last ultrasound looked great! We've got the puppy room and whelping box ready to go... we're just waiting on mother nature to decide the time is right! 

As much as we all love a good summer adventure, lazy summer naps and days spent lounging around inside are also pretty fantastic! I love this picture of our Lola girl taking it easy on this rainy summer morning.

It's hard to believe Miss Livie Lou will be 10 years old in just a few months! Our family was reminiscing on her puppyhood this morning, and I thought we'd share the memories that stood out to us the most! 

• Her plane home was super delayed! Our entire family, that consisted of three young kids, waited at the airport for 3 hours anxiously awaiting for her arrival. We took a short trip to IHOP somewhere in that 3 hours. We didn't get home until after midnight.
• When she finally made it home, she was SO excited to be there and out of her crate, that no one slept a wink that night.
• She was so sweet and gentle with all the babies in the family... she knew exactly who she could play rough and wild with, and who to save her quiet gentle moments for. 
• She came home hungry and has never found a food she didn't like! 
• She has never shown any favoritism. She seems to love us all the same!
• She taught herself how to play fetch with herself! We still find this super funny.
• She was a skilled counter surfer.
• She never realized she outgrew our laps and to this day, will try to sit on us. Ha! Ha! 
• The sound of the leash being pulled out of the drawer has always been and probably always will be her favorite sound.

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There is nothing easy about owning a puppy, but raising a good dog and having that companionship throughout their entire life... it just doesn't get much better than that!

Looking forward to the next 10 with our sweet girl! 

It's been a fantastic summer!

​We've filled our time with all of our favorite things... lots of cold treats, cuddles, naps, car rides, small adventures, water play, fresh air and sunshine! 

Bear is the last pup in the house! He was a little confused at first, but very quickly warmed up to the idea of not sharing the bed and getting all the human attention to himself. 

This will be our last weekly birthday post. By this time next week, the puppy pen will be empty. It's been a crazy, fun few months. We've made friends from California all the way to New York and Rhode Island and many places in between. 

Thank you for trusting us to help grow your family!

We had a wild day in Oklahoma yesterday. 27 confirmed tornados, multiple touching down within 10 miles of our home. We were lucky to be missed! If the photos look a little dark, it's because it was a pretty dark day here!

However, we made the best of it when we could. The puppies were all unphased by the storms. We went out to play in the rain a few times, attempted to play fetch (There is room for improvement there! Ha! Ha!) and we have continued to work on the leash for a few minutes a day. 

We say goodbye to three puppies this week and the forth pup shortly after! We are excited for everyone to meet their new babies. 

We have one sweet boy still waiting for his forever family to find him! Our family has started calling him Lucas, or Lukey! There is a lot of personality crammed into this little boy. He loves people, playing, games of chase, and exploring. He's crate trained, moving in the right direction with house training, and has started leash training!

We're down to five puppies in the house, with departure dates sprinkled throughout the next two weeks! Everyone who has gone home seems to be settling in beautifully!
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The lone Toller is enjoying hanging out with her Portie cousins!

Crating at night is a breeze! The puppies settle right into bed without a fuss and have very few accidents.

Leash training was pretty comical today, but we'll keep working on it! Ha! Ha!

House training is getting easier with less pups and we're making it out side way more than we are having accidents inside. This is a HUGE accomplishment with so many pups.

​Now that everyone has had 2-3 booster shots, we have started letting friends and family come hang out with them to help socialize! These pups ALL love people! They get so excited to play with new friends and have yet to meet someone they'd consider a stranger!

Over the last few weeks, we have received a lot of questions about these cream cuties! So, I thought I would make a blog post about them! In the United States, Portuguese Water Dogs are typically seen with brown, black or white coats. However, there is another color variation most commonly seen in Europe... Cream! Stella and Teddy both came to us directly from Portugal, so it is not surprising and also incredibly exciting that we are able to bring this rare color variation to the United States!