We've had Guinness for a whole year!

We figured out last week that we've officially had our crazy boy for a whole year!  It's hard to believe it's been a year. We didn't do anything at all to celebrate, except McGee and I high-fived each other for making it through the year (there were a few rough days!), and we gave Guinness a few extra treats.

He's full-grown now we think, and he's about 55 pounds. One of McGee's friends said that he looks like a small German Shepherd Dog with a curly tail... and I think that description is pretty perfect! He looks so much like a GSD, but he definitely isn't anywhere near as big as they usually are... and his tail looks nothing at all like a GSD. He definitely still has his crazy puppy-level amount of energy, and it is pretty impossible to give him enough playtime. We try really hard to exhaust him in the yard (Kevin ending up taking care of the most dangerous tree limbs in the yard so it's safe-ish again... We got tired of waiting for our landlord to fix the trees after 2 months of bugging him about it...), and Guinness loves to fetch tennis balls in the yard. Here are some very recent pictures of our big guy!

Isn't he handsome?

His nose looks enormous. And you can kinda see his Nylabone ring that he loves to chew on. 

He's super happy to have the yard back! Tennis balls everywhere.

This is him looking exhausted after TONS of running around the yard this weekend. 

Here was a small basketball we got for him this weekend... and wow did he love it. We thought it would be tough, and he couldn't get his mouth around it so we thought it would last forever... but he popped it within about an hour. We're going to try a full-size basketball, and fingers crossed that holds up a bit better!!