Focht Family Blog

Nathan’s older sister Vicki graduated this year with a Masters. Nathan’s parents were throwing her a party the same weekend that Samantha and her cousin Alex were camping for Girl Scouts. So we checked into the KOA where the Girl Scouts were camping and got Samantha settled and we drove to Vicki’s graduation party with the boys. Here is a picture of Vicki with her cake…

Here are some pictures of Timmy and Josh playing on the playground before the party….

Tonight I was catching up on pictures and needed to do some updates. On Memorial Day Timmy marched in a parade in Greenville, PA. It is one of the towns close to our summer campground. Here are a few pictures of Timmy from the parade.

Nathan and I decided we couldn’t NOT have a mastiff. I had always told him that if we were not showing anymore I wanted a brindle because I love their coloring. So… we found a family that had two 6 month old brindles left from their litter near Milwaukee, WI. We started driving on Tuesday afternoon. We left Pennsylvania around 2:00. We made it to a Walmart a few miles from the breeder’s house by 12:30 that night.

While we were driving we called the breeder to see if we could see his dogs before he went to work so at 6:30 in the morning we were looking at the brindle pups. We liked the apricot brindle’s colors better but she was very shy and we didn’t feel like that would work with our lifestyle. So… we left with the fawn brindle. They had figured they were keeping her and had named her Just Keep Swimming (Dory from Nemo). We our keeping her name since she is already 6 months old. We are ready for Disney now that we have Tinkerbell and Dory!! :)

Here is Timmy greeting the new dog:

We took a picture of Dory’s feet next to Tinkerbell’s feet while we were driving….

Unfortunately Dori has pooped in the RV 3 times now, so she was put in the extra crate as punishment. It reminded Nathan of the giraffes in the circus train from Dumbo…

This morning Timmy went with Nathan to walk the dogs. I looked out and Timmy was walking Dory so I had to get a picture…

I finally put the pictures of the deck on the computer. Here is our finished deck:

As soon as the conference was over it was time to pull up stakes again. Monday we drove to Atlanta and spent a couple of nights so we could visit with my brother and sister-in-law. Wednesday morning we started the long drive towards Pennsylvania. We made it as far as West Virginia on Wednesday night. Thursday we finished the drive and made it to the campground by early afternoon. I wish I had been a passenger instead of a driver because some of the scenery was beautiful!

We relaxed for the weekend and on Monday we were busy building decks. It took us until Thursday to finish but it was worth it because we are all enjoying sitting out on the deck enjoying the weather. Even Tinkerbell enjoys laying out with us while we are out there. Here are pictures I took of both of the decks on Tuesday. I will try to take some pictures of our finished deck tomorrow.

Here is mom’s deck in use…

Here is mom’s deck without the people…

Here is our deck on Tuesday…

And here is the easy up behind mom’s site that houses the golf cart and her picnic table…

This weekend has been a lot of fun for all of us enjoying the campground and all of its activities. We are once again getting the Mastiff itch so we have been looking around for a pup to join the family. I always told Nathan that once we were done showing I wanted a brindle so we are looking for a brindle. We have found a 6 month old apricot brindle in WI. We just put in a puppy application for her and if we are approved we will leave on Tuesday and drive to get her. Then we have to be in NY next weekend for a Girl Scout camping trip for Samantha with our niece Alex.

The puppy we are looking at is an apricot brindle from Peerless Mastiffs.