Rumple is in the House
Rumple's First Day in SLC (November 14th, 2008) |
Rumple ~ 6months (May 2009) |
Rumple ~ 1 year (Dec 2009) |
Rumple ~ 2 years (August 2010) |
Rumple's First Birthday (Sep 19th, 2009) |
Rumple turns TWO (Sep 19th, 2010) |
| Rumple Aging Series #1 |
| Rumple Aging Series #2 |
| Feb 21st | evening walk near our house | Rumple having a fun playtime near our place | photos |
| jan 23rd | Rump's first ski tour | Mag, Alex and I took Rump, and their newly adopted retriever Millie for their first ski tour. They both did GREAT. | |
| Jan 1st | Rump in the park | cool snow on the trees, and more Rumple playing in the snow | photos |
| Dec 31st | more playing in the snow | super fun playing in the snow | photos |
| Dec 31st | winter wonderland | awesome snow at our house | photos |
| Dec 30th | new softshell jacket | I"m not a huge fans of dogs wearing clothes. But Rumple seems to get cold when out playing in the snow. He got a new fancy softshell jacket from Ruffwear and it really seems to help. | photos |
| Dec 27th | morning hike | an early morning hike with Rumple up Olympus | photos |
| Dec 24th | Christmas Eve | Christmas Eve at the Powick's | photos |
| Nov 29th | deep snow | Rumple loves playing in deep snow. | photos |
| Oct 25th | Early snow | a bit of early season snow for the Rump to play in | photos |
| October 19th | Rumple crashed out | He often sleeps like this. It makes me laugh every time | photo |
| Oct 8-13 | Rump vacation | While Ellen and I were in Yosemite for Santa's wedding, our friends Mag and Alex looked after Mr. Rumple. I think he gets better take care of tere than with us. | photos |
| Sep 24-26h | Rump vacation | Ellen and I headed East for a 4 day weekend - so our friends Mag and Alex looked after Rump. He went on his first mountain bike ride and apparently did GREAT. We're super lucky to have great friends to take care of Rumple when we're gone. | photos |
| Sep 19th | Rump turns TWO | I was in California on the actual day, so we didn't have a big weekend getaway this year, but we still celebrated. | photos |
| Sep 5-7th | Rump at Tensleep | We headed to Tensleep, Wyoming on our roadtrip. Rumple had a blast hanging with friends, swiming, and sleeping. | photos |
| sep 4-5th | Rump at Wild Iris | Rumple was very excited to hang out with his BFF Jasper at Wild Iris for a day and a half. | photos |
| Aug 28th | more diving by the Rump | and more diving shot of Rumple wearing his life jacket. | photos |
| Aug 27th | Rump diving | We were headed to a friends in Park City so I decided to shoot some photos of Rumple playing at a good dog swimming pond up there. I had him wear his life jacket to get some shots for RuffWear. | photos |
| Aug 15-16th | Rumple at Maple | more chillin' at Maple Canyon.. | photos |
| Aug 7-8th | Rumple at Maple | Rump knows the program at Maple. Getting comfortable, and hanging with Jonny Utah. | photos |
| Aug 6th | Rumple & Henry | Rumple finally gets to meet Henry. They hit it off, of course. | photos |
| april 20-aug 9th | a bunch of shots from my iphone | I'm always snapping shots of junior with my phone - here are a bunch over the last little while... | photos |
| July 2-4th | Rump at Ellen's B-day weekend | a ton of modeling shots of Rumple out in the West Desert. | photos |
| June 24th | Rump swimming | a 2 minute video of Rump swimming | video |
| May 29 - June 8th | Rumple's Vacation | Ellen and I head to Italy for a week - Rumple, luckily hangs with Jasper for the week and has a blast | photos |
| May 15-16th | Rumple at the city of Rocks | Rumple has fun at the city, hanging... and chillin' out with Maya. | photos |
| May 8-9th | Rumple at Poptire Cave | Rumple has a great time hiking and hanging at the Poptire cave. | photos |
| May 6th | the Rumple Dance - continued | ||
| May 5th | Rumple swimming | a bad quality video of Rumple swimming - not sure why this one sucks... | video |
| April 9th | Rumple likes sticks | Every time I take Rump for a hike he decides he needs to bring a stick DOWN from the hike | video |
| April 3rd | the Swell | Rumple has a fun time in the desert | |
| march 27th | Rumple at the Ibex | Rump has a blast in the west desert | photos |
| Jan 24th | Rumple Fetches | a short video of Rumple playing in the snow | video |
| Jan 22nd | Rumple is on TV | Rumple was a star demonstrating a new full strength harness for dogs at the Outdoor Retailer show | video |
| Dec 25th | Chirstmas | Rumple's Christmas | photos |
| Dec 13th | Fetch in the snow | a huge dump of snow... and Rumple loving to play Fetch | photos |
| Dec 5-6th | VRG | a few shots of Rumple chillin' and playing at the VRG | photos |
| Nov 26th | Thanksgiving at the VRG | 4 days at the VRG, and young Rumple meeting younger Gracie. Thanksgiving comparison photos (Thanksgiving Comparison Webpage) |
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| Nov 5th | off to China - Rump and cats | Ellen and I were heading to China for 2 weeks so Travis and Natalie (and B-rad and Katie) were kind enough to take care of Rumple while we were gone. About 5 minutes after we dropped Rumple off at Travis', he sent us this photo. Unbelievable. Apparently Rumple and the cats played the entire time. | photo |
| Oct 31st | Welcome Springs | a few photos of a typical weekend for Rumple | photos |
| Oct 27th | Rump's sore eye | we were out playing fetch and I accidentally clobbered poor Rumple, HARD, right in the eye. I thought I'd blinded my poor pup. We took him to the eye vet the next day, and after a week of all kinds of drugs he's back to his normal self.. note: it looked much worse in normal life than I could get it to look in photos | |
| Oct 23 | fetching | Rumple is getting pretty good at fetching, and pretty fast too | video |
| Oct 15th | After work walk | a beautiful fall day walk behind our house | photos |
| Sep | Rumple at Work | Photos of a typical work day in the life of Rumple | photos |
| Sep 19th | Rumple turns ONE | It's hard to believe young Rumple is already ONE. We went to the City of Rocks, and had a wonderful birthday (for Rumple) and Anniversary (for Ellen and I). Rumple played and got some fun presents. Rump's dorky birthday photos |
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| Sep 7th | Rumple's First Bath | We gave the Rump a bath in the creek at Rifle. He wasn't psyched | photos |
| Sep 2nd | More Rumple Swimming | More jumping, diving and swimming for young Rumple | |
| Aug 11th | Rumple's new trick | The Rump was getting pretty comfi, so I thought we'd step it up a notch. Check out video #1 for his good swimming technicque, and video 4 for his new trick. | photo1, photo2, video1, video2, video3, video4, video5, photo3 |
| Aug 10th | more swimming | Rump loves wearing his new life jacket | video1 |
| Aug 6th | Rumple gets a life jacket | my friends at RUFFWEAR sent Rump a lifejacket to help with his swimming. He loved it. | photo, video 1, video2, video3, video4 |
| July 31st | some diving | Rumple gets more comfortable in the water | photo, video1, video2, video 3 |
| July 26th | more swimming | he's fast on land (video) - and he's getting a bit better with his swimming (maybe??) | |
| Junly 21st | Rumple in harness | Friends of mine at Ruffwear were working on a new full-strength harness for dogs. They unveiled it at this year's OR show and asked Rumple to demo it. He's a star and even made it on the cover of the Outdoor Retailer Daily News Magazine. | |
| June 26th | another attempt at swimming | not really any better | |
| June 24th | Rumple "swimming" | Well, at least he didn't drown. Hopefully he'll figure it out. |
photos of a wet rump |
| June 24th | Rumple - video | my first video shot with my new iPhone | video |
| June 13th | Rumple Dance - never changes | check it - some things never change | video |
| June 13th | Rumple Dance | Rumple is still doing his Rumple dance EVERY morning for breakfast | video |
| June 3rd | getting Fixed | it had to happen. Rumple got fixed. He was groggy that afternoon, but back to his normal self the next day | photos |
| May 25-30th | RIFLE | we headed to Rifle for Memorial Day, and the weekend after as well | photos |
| May 13th | Mill Creek | some lunchtime swimming and playing at Millcreek | photos |
| May 11th | Rumple relaxin | I walked in and see Rumple laying like this. He ALWAYS lays like this. It's hilarious. | photos |
| May 8 - 10th | City of Rocks | a huge BD posse heads to the City of Rocks. Of course Rumple comes along. | photos |
| April 17th | Rumple in Moab | down to Moab for Rick & Theresa's wedding. Rumple had a blast | photos |
| March 31st | at the office | a typical day for Rump chillin' at the office | photos |
| March 30th | snow | some late season snow at our house,. Rumple loved it | photos |
| March 19th | Rumple's 1/2 Birthday | Rumple turned 6 months old today. He got a fancy new collar (as he was growing out of his puppy collar already), had a fun day with lots of friends and treats at work, went for his first realy play time in a near by creek, and lots of extra playing all evening. It's hard to believe he's 6months old already |
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| March 7th | Rumple posing and fetching | Down to St. George for a friend's birthday. Lots of hanging out with Rumple | photos |
| feb 14th | Rumple posing | I was scewing around in the basement with a black sheet and some flashes | photos |
| Feb 3rd | lunchtime hike | a nice short hike up Mt. Olympus at lunch | photos |
| Feb 1st | at the VRG | Rumple did a GREAT job at his first official full time day at the crags | photos |
| jan 26th | Rumple at the office | Rumple now spends his weekdays chillin' with me at work | photos |
| jan 25th | eating and stopping | Rumple is amazing at waiting until I say it's ok for him to eat. He also picked up stopping eating the very first time I ever tried it. | video |
| jan 10th | VRG | Rumple having a blast in the sand | photos |
| Dec 31 - Jan 4th | more Southern Utah | down for 5 days of fun. Rumple had a blast playing in the sand | |
| Dec 27 - 28th | Southern Utah | We head to southern Utah for some warm rock climbing. Rumple has a blast | photos |
| Dec 25th | Christmas Day | The day started off with having to go outside in a Nasty Blizzard (photos) Then it was time to do Rumple's Food Dance at Breakfast Rumple showing off his unwrapping skills And finally time to open more presents - one great present from our Friends Guthrie & Megan (photos) and yet ANOTHER present from Guthrie & Megan |
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| Dec 24th | Christmas Eve | Rumple getting his first Christmas Present from Grannie & Grandpa Powick | |
| Dec 18th | playing in the snow | hangin' with Rumple in the office, and him having a blast in the deep snow | photos |
| Dec 16th | ~ 12 weeks | weighing in at 23 lbs | photos |
| Dec 9th | First Snow | Rumple experiences his first snow. | photos |
| Dec 8th | Rumple @ 11 weeks | weighing in at 20 lbs | photos |
| Dec 6th | Kolin & Rumple | a few shots of me and the little man | photos |
| Dec 3rd | Rumple and his new toy | our friends Joanne & Michael sent Rumple a fun soft squeaky toy. He LOVES it. | photos |
| Thanksgiving | Rumple's 1st Roadtrip | Ellen, I and Rumple head to southern Utah to hook up with our friends Earl & Glenna, and Howard, Kate & Tobin for some climbing, hangin with Rumple and eating turkey. | photos |
| Nov 27th | 1 day shy of 10 weeks | weighing in at 17.5 lbs. | photos |
| Nov 26th | Rumple and Friends | Rumple gets lots of visitors throughout the day at work. Today he played with and even took Sydney for a walk. He played with Shelby, and even got a special guest visit (with gifts) by Vanessa | |
| Nov 25th | Rumple posing | a few more of Rumple - this time out with the Ellis and Yukon memorials, and just playing in the backyard | photos |
| Nov 24th | more Rumple | he can't help but being cute | photos |
| Nov 22nd | chillin' in the house | he loves just chillin' out | photos |
| NOv 21st | 9 weeks | weighing in at 15lbs | |
| Nov 20th | cozy in the living room | he's so little he can curl up UNDER the ottoman of my chair in the living room | photos |
| Nov. 18th | Rumple & his Kong | he didn't know what to make of his Kong toy | |
| Nov 17th, 2008 | Rumple at Mill Creek | a quick trip to Mill Creek at lunch so he can get familiar with where he'll be hanging out at lunch for the next several years. | photos |
| Nov 16th, 2008 | more Rumple | yup, he's cute | photos |
| Nov 14h, 2008 | Rumple Arrives | Almost 3 years after losing Yukon, and 2 years after losing Ellis, Ellen and I made the decision to welcome another lab into our home. Rumple is a "fox-red" lab, and arrived today from Minessota at 8 weeks old and 13 lbs. |
RUMPCAM - view Rumple usually sleeping.