winter gloom

As soon as Christmas is over and a new year begins, I'm officially over winter weather. I love to celebrate Christmas with a nice warm fire, and I'm a huge fan of winter clothes, boots, and accessories, but I can only take so much gloom. When it's foggy and cold all day, I long to soak up some sun. So, last weekend I decided to find some. Thank you, Santa Barbara, for your warm, perfectly sunny weather. 

Beautiful day at the beach

 Nanaimo, in mid-shake

The chuck-it. For those of you with fetch-obsessed dogs, invest in one of these. They keep your hands slime-free, and require much less effort to launch a tennis ball.  I'm pretty sure if we were in a burning building and Nanaimo had to choose to save me or the chuck-it, he would save the chuck-it.

Remington's terrified of my new camera. Every time I try to capture his great big, goofy smile, he get's nervous and changes into his serious face. We're going to have to work together to get over this fear...