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#LiveBoldly Day 26: The Dog Park with a Toddler + 2 Labs

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#LiveBoldly Day 26: The Dog Park with a Toddler + 2 Labs || HeathersDish.comThis morning I stepped waaaaaaaaaaaaay outside of my comfort zone you guys. I feel like this is a bold move, even if it seems silly to everyone else, but here’s what you have to understand: I haven’t taken our dogs to a dog park in over a year.

 

That’s right. The crazy rambunctious, loud, HUGE, overprotective pups that we are blessed to call ours – well, suffice to say it was time to get them outside for an extended period of time.

 

Now before you think that I haven’t let them play outside in over a year, you also should know that we have a massive backyard that they love playing in. But those of you dog owners out there can testify that nothing wears a dog out quite like the dog park, amen?

 

Nate was working this morning and it was a beautiful, cool, sunny morning so I figured it was high time to get going. After Wes and I ate breakfast we put on our warm clothes and packed the two of us and 150+ pounds of dog into the car. The best thing was that Wes was cracking up the whole way there – he thought riding in the backseat with the dogs was the best thing ever!

 

We got to the park and I literally sat in the running car and prayed that we would have fun and that it wouldn’t be nearly as stressful as I was imagining it could be. I love our dogs so much that it feels like my heart will explode sometimes, but they can be a lot of work without a toddler; when you throw a little man in the mix it can certainly be quite the undertaking. And the last time I took them to a dog park was when we lived in Colorado and Wes was 6 months old. It was much easier to strap him in the Ergo and go!

 

OK. So the fact that I’m alive to tell the tale is probably a good sign, right? The great thing was that practically every other dog there was a lab and the owners were so sweet. The dogs are literally snoring next to me right now (as is Wes in his room), and my little guy laughed literally the entire time. He LOVED the park! And those prayers I was throwing up right before we got out of the car? Totally answered. God is faithful, even in the silly things.

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  1. Tasha - The Clean Eating Mama says

    October 27, 2013 at 9:44 pm

    Heather!!! I am SO SORRY I have not been on your blog in a while now! I seemed to completely lose my entire blog list and I am slowly regathering links!

    But from the looks of it Wes has gotten so big now! <3

    Now I am off to go reading through the last year of your posts 😉

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  2. Kristi says

    October 26, 2013 at 3:35 pm

    I love when I step out of my comfort zone, and do something that I may have been thinking about with worry. Once you make it to that place, wherever it may be… a large city, a dog park, some place you have never been, and realize that you can make it and have fun, it feels like a whole weight has been lifted off of you and that worry that you were holding on to is finally gone.

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