At the beginning of this month, we celebrated Kiah's 1st birthday! It's hard to believe that we have had her for almost that long already. She has been a lot of work, but she has certainly gotten us off the couch during this long cold winter to enjoy some time outside together. So it was only appropriate to spend the day in her favorite place-outside.
Starting with a walk.
And some play time on the tundra with her favorite toy.
Showing off her tricks learned in the past year
Ending the day with a leisurely drive on the ice road. This is the Kuskokwim River in March. They plow the road all winter long, and it's a common way to travel between villages until it thaws and turns into boat traffic!
This was supposed to be a nice family picture, but clearly there is still some puppy in this girl. She likes to break these little "trees" in half just for the fun of it.
It was so good to spend the day outside to get some fresh air and sun! We haven't quite gotten the early spring everyone else has. When it was 80 degrees in the Chicago-area, it was -20 here. But now it's up to 20 or 30 degrees during the day, which feels like a regular heavy winter coat is totally unwarranted. I will never look at winter weather the same. Plus, it's stays light until well past 9:00 at night, almost 10:00 at this point. So we're on the up and out!