First swimming lesson

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Cheeky chasing down Tioga through the water.

This weekend Marc had to go out of town for a training thing, so Jenny was playing single Mom. After a week full of work travel (she was working in Northern Wyoming and Western Colorado for the majority of the week) Cheeky needed some serious exercise. And even better — the weather forecast was scheduled to be GORGEOUS!

Jenny called up Hilary — you’ll remember that we recently had a girls trip to Garden City — to see if Tioga might want to join in for some fun at Cherry Creek State Park.

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Splashing around with the big dogs!

Tioga and Hilary were in! So we met up in Aurora and carpooled in to the park. Side note — if you can carpool here, please do! The parking lot is tiny and there is often a one in, one out wait!

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Cheeky working on a bumper retrieve.

Tioga and Cheeky had a BLAST. We brought some bumpers to start working on water retrieves which was some homework from our last NAVHDA training day. They both did a great job retrieving! We stuck to shallow water for this outing, but we definitely think Cheeky will likely be a little fish like her Mommy Halo!

After a good 1.5 hours at the park, we loaded up and took them with us to enjoy a little patio lunch on this perfect Colorado day. With hugs goodbye, we headed home, and the day can definitely be marked down as a success, because Cheeky slept the WHOLE rest of the day!

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Wiped out Cheeky!