Happy 4th of July

Keith and I decided that we were going to go up to his parents house for the 4th. We took our dogs Brody and Jada with us and with his parents three dogs we had a total of 5 dogs at his parents house. A little crazy but they loved it. Keith's dad Smoked ribs for dinner they were delicious. Then we went and watched the fire work show in the Columbia Gorge it was amazing. We decided that we were going to stay the night at Keith's parents house since it was going to be a late night and we did not want to make the hour journey home. Anyways the stairs that lead up to the guest bedrooms at his parents house are basically logs that are cut in half. The back of the stair are open in the back to the ground below. Ok I know I talk about Jada a lot on my blog. It is not that I don't love Brody but Jada is just the funniest dog. Anyways she was terrified of the stairs (Bare in mind that we have stairs in our house that she goes up and down 20 times a day). We tried to coax her up the stairs for about 45 minutes. We tried everything. We tried to bribe her with food. Which is usually a good bargaining tool for her as you can tell from her girth she does not suffer in the food department. Anyways nothing would work and Keith and I were really tired and wanted to go to bed. So after 45 minutes of failure Keith finally had to carry her up the stairs. Below is a picture I had to take because it was so funny looking to see Keith carrying this 90 pound dog up the stairs. Notice Connor (Keiths parents dog) in the picture trying to show Jada how it is done. If that was not enough, the next morning we could not get her to go down the stairs and Keith had to pick her up and carry her down stairs. It was quite a site to see.