First family trail hike 4/2009

We got a new member to the Skeele `Ohana. Her name is Trixy and she is a year old retriever. She is such a great dog. She was given to us by some friends that we have made here in Kansas City. Our family just loves her and it's so great to see all the kids play with her and love her. She is so great with Kala'i and Kahi, the two younger boys. Keala and Kaeo love to take care of her. They are both great with Trixy. Whenever they read to her or sing to her, she falls asleep. They do that after they play with her, when it is time to settle down or they are coming in the house.



They both love to take her on walks and today we did a big family walk in a wooded area near our house. We walked down a trail to a creek and we took Trixy with us. We have only had her for 5 days and Kaeo and I were kind of nervous to take her off her leash. When we got to the trail, Matt took her leash off and she ran around, but she stayed near us and would come to us if we called her. Yeah, she likes us!





We got to take some new family photos with her today. We had lots of fun.

Walking the trails.

We finally made it to the creek after 45 min of walking through the residental area then down the trail. It was a very beautiful day here. It was 70+degrees and there was little wind, if any at all. Trixy was the only one lucky enough to get wet. We are not to sure about the murky water just yet. We like the salt water.

Kaeo and Trixy.

There is a funny story about Kala'i and Trixy. Matt, Keala, Kala'i and Kahi took Trixy for a walk yesterday and usually Kala'i doesn't hold her leash. Trixy is very strong and likes to explore everything, so she pulls hard and you have to remind her to heel and stay with you. Matt took them to a small field and asked Kala'i if he wanted to hold her leash and walk around with her. Kala'i agreed and took hold of the leash. Trixy started to pull Kala'i and Matt told him to keep up with her and hold her. Well Kala'i started to run to keep a lag in the leash. Trixy started to speed up and she brought tension back to the leash and the next thing everyone knew, Kala'i was parallel with the ground and then landed parallel on the groung and Trixy dragged him several feet before she stopped to look at what was going on. Kala'i didn't cry or anything and he wasn't hurt, but he just kept holding on to the leash.