Birthday, continued...

Claire and some of the Bright Stars 🌟

Today we hear from Dallas and get to see how grown up those K-Kids are now!!!

John shares:

“A very happy birthday to all! Dallas continues to be our rock in our whirlwind life of raising teens and preteens. 

She has grown to accept all the kids friends who visit often and loves the attention they all bring her. 

We are very thankful for our extended family nearby who volunteer to take care of Dallas when we travel to many out of town baseball tournaments. 

Dallas at the Farm!

She especially loves to play with all of the other dogs at the nearby "grandparents farm"!”

Thank you to Dallas’s wonderful family and HAPPY BIRTHDAY DALLAS!!! 🎂

Bright Star Suki Has a Birthday

This small girl with the purple collar arrived with a big and important job to do.

One love can never, ever replace another.

What a dog can do is give us reasons to get up, to keep moving, to keep living.

It takes someone very special to enter the dark spaces and be that soft, gentle, persistent light that lets us know we are not alone and reminds us that life still contains joy.

Linda shares Bright Star Suki with us:

“2025 was a good year for Suki.

She is always watching over us.

She loves to play in the snow – rolling like a seal during our walks.

She reminds us of “Super Dog”

Suki is irrepressibly happy.

She had lots of friends to keep her company in Alaska this year.

Editor Note: ❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️❤️

 Suki couldn’t get past this little guy to do her business!!

She gets into some good trouble now and again.

As always, she spent time with Sue, Dave and Gherkin. They are good to her and she loves them for it! She returns home happy and exhausted!

She treats her toys with the same love she treats all humans. She’s had this toy for +4 years. Note, she is telling us it’s time for bed.

At the end of 2025, it was the 5th anniversary of our son’s death. It’s been a rough time, but our therapy dog works hard every single day to help us deal with it. We were lucky enough to have 5 of our son’s college friends join us to celebrate his life. Suki is always a part of the family.

Another Editor’s Note: 💔❤️😭

As always, we thank Mary-Ann for Suki!!”

Please rest your hearts and minds on Suki’s family and their son, Jeff.

Thank you, Linda and Gary, for letting Suki be a small bright star in the darkness.

Happy Birthday, Suki — you are a Super Hero 🩷

Bright Star Birthday continued

When there are TEN, the birthday updates are spread across the week 🎂 While we wait for Fauci, Suki, McCovey, and Dallas — here is Capella. Wasn’t she SO CUTE as a baby?!

And here she is at five — what a good sport!

Capella continues to be easy, sweet, smart, and all kinds of other wonderful things. Since she is on the blog a lot, there isn’t too much more to say except that I have the father of her second and last litter finalized (and I am SUPER excited), she is almost back in coat (having a litter makes them go REALLY bald), and Capella is almost ready for her obedience debut 🎉

HAPPY BIRTHDAY CAPELLA 🎂