Sunday afternoon we went for a drive. Well, let me back up a little. Friday evening we babysat for my friend. We babysat this adorable puppy and I admitted on Instagram that it made me want another one.

I had no idea that it would also make my husband want another one. Between Friday evening and Sunday he had arranged for us to pick up the sister to my friend’s pup.

We now have four dogs and four kids.

Three female dogs, three female children, one male dog, and one male child. Hmmm. We didn’t plan it that way.

And this last puppy is in as sad a state as my last child was. We are struggling to find a name that we all like.

But we are enjoying her so much.

I never notice how dirty my windows are until they show up in a photograph.

Too bad it only bothers me when I look at this picture and not when I look at the actual window.

Ok I give. I give up, summer can end already. Oh how I hate saying that, but this heat is killing me. It’s true that I hate cold much, much worse, but this heat is more like an inferno than summer. In summer you can sit out in the evening and enjoy some time outside. Right now that isn’t even something you remotely want to do.

But we do it anyway. We sit out and watch our little puppies roll around in the grass and play. It’s the only time they can manage to move around themselves.

All day we try to keep them cool, moving them from the contained back yard, where they sleep at night, but get full sun by the afternoon, to the front yard, where there is shade. We sit outside sweating while Clark drives the 4-wheeler around on a snake hunt. He’s seen a copperhead too close for comfort. He’s seen it several times, but only when he leaves the hoe at the house.

The puppies are just adorable right now. So much more comfortable with us than our winter litter. These have been underfoot from day one when half of them were born on my loveseat. They run to meet us when we come outside.

Today Arkansas had some record breaking temperatures and it is predicted to be 100 and above for a few more days. How’s the weather where you are?