Newest Member of the Kirby Family!

Hi!

We'd like to introduce you to the newest member of the Kirby Family, drum roll please...............Meet Watson!

(^ Picture from the Shelter Website)
Watson is a Blue Heeler, or Australian Sheppard Dog, mixed with Border Collie. He is about 7-8 months old. We found him at the local Souris Valley Animal Shelter, so not much is known about him.

 Here he is in the car sniffing out Sherlock's seat, shhh don't tell him, he won't like that.









Down here we have him excited about what is going on outside of the car! Hopefully we don't have a car chaser on our hands.

 He was so excited in the car had to make a couple stops, needed to get an extra tether (since we don't have a fence yet) and another leash! He was happy the whole time!








Sherlock's excited face when I told him we get to keep him. (Its a bit of a creepy face too :S)









Here they are playing for the first time! They get along so well already! Only one little spat so far, but it ended quickly. Watson still doesn't really know his name but we will work on that!

He is very loving and just wants to cuddle all the time! We'd like to thank Jeanine and Dylan for being our references (as you two know what it was like with Sherlock and Moriarty best!) We are supper excited to show him off to all of our friends and family when we get home! Next stop is to get signed up for Obedience classes! Super excited! We'll keep you updated about his progress (Sherlock too as he will be going to class as well). Our goal is to get into agility and maybe advanced obedience. We might even do a couple of competitions. We'll see. Anyway, welcome Watson! We are so happy to have you here! Already being spoiled.

-Julia Taylor Sherlock Moriarty and Watson

First Post! Family Update! All sorts of exciting news and updates! 7/5/13

Hi! 

Updated for the family, going back to the beginning of the year! (and a little of last year)

Starting with Pictures! be sure to put your email in the box where it says to type your email to get email notifications! 

Moriarty (or Professor Moriarty according to Taylor)

 We've got Sherlock

Taylor

Julia

And a possible new addition Watson!

We currently don't have Watson, we've put an application in to adopt him at the local animal shelter. We are feeling pretty good about the adoption process, and will keep everyone updated on how its going with him. If all goes well we will be able to bring Sherlock and Watson home with us for our vacation later this summer!

Vacation News!

As of right now we are looking to come back to California the end of August for a two week visit. Leaving beginning of September. We will be bringing Sherlock (Watson still up in the air) so be prepared to see him!

Recent News!

-Some of you may know this already, but Taylor had to go to ALS (Airman leadership School) and not only did he pass he won the Levito Award! Which means he was the best of the best of his graduating class! So proud of him! He sews on Staff Sargent Select in August sometime.

(SRA Kuzi, SRA Kirby, Lt. Col. Little)

-Julia has recently started a new job at the Fairfield Inn as a front desk agent, so far so good! The credit union was great but going no where for her.

-We've finally got Julia's car working properly, the folks at the dealership where just as baffled as we were about it. Turns out the PMP (whatever that is) was bad and needed to be replaced. Luckily a lot of other things that needed to be fixed got fixed too! (just minor things like air filter and a new new battery)

-Our '67 Volkswagon bug is almost functional!

(Here she is in all her glory!)

With a newly partially rebuilt engine she is ready to try to trek across to California this summer during the vacation. Taylor and our good friend Dylan have been hard a work on her getting it back to her former glory! Next we need new seats. Fun fact stock bug seats are made of horse hair! So Julia's allergies don't like the bug so much. For those of you who went to Colorado with Julia when she was little, we remember what happened to her eyes after riding Whiskey! After a few cosmetic fixes, like a new back left wheel guard (since base housing backed into it) she will be good to go! Super excited about all the updates for this one, maybe one day we can enter into a classic car competition! 

-Some of you might have seen Moriarty after he had escaped a while back (Feburary-ish) He was quiet beat up, well turns out he isn't the smartest one in the bunch, he was so excited chasing the Dak Rats (A mix of black and ground squirrel found only in Minot ND! Lucky us) down their holes he scrapped him self up a bit. Had a bit of a scare, the vet thought that he had mange (which would have turned him bald!) luckily it wasn't!

-Sherlock was neutered earlier this year as well. Here he is being a good sport and being our satellite dish!

He is doing fine now, no more accidents around the house, (Thank God!!!) he has taken to randomly pinning the cat to the ground now though, but we are working on it. Puppy class was a huge success for him, graduated and we got the AKC Good Citizen award! Came with a certificate and medal! So proud of him.

-As mentioned earlier we are looking to get another puppy! Its come to our attention Sherlock needed a friend/brother. He has mild separation anxiety and well we thought for his sanity and ours as well! We love Sherlock dearly but we like to relax too! Anyway, we should know soon about him and if we will be getting him so keep your eyes peeled for and updated on that. We've gone to play with him a few times and he is just so excited to see us every time, and he is quite the cuddle bug too!

(Sorry we only have the one photo)

And that concludes the blog for today! Keep tuned in and we'll keep you up to date on the Kirby Family! More pictures to come!

-Julia Taylor Sherlock and Moriarty (for now anyway! :) )