Maya's 1st Year - Cute Puppy Picture Alert

Since a number of people have requested to see more pictures of the dogs, I originally thought that I would do  "Maya through the years" and "Koda through the years" posts with a bunch of pictures to post while I was on vacation.  As I went back to puppyhood for Maya, I realized that there are so many cute pictures of her as a puppy, I'd better just do one year at a time for each of them.  Koda's first year pictures will show up in a couple of days.  Who knows when the subsequent years will be posted, but it will give you something to look forward to LOL.  So here's a little photo montage of Maya from the age of 10 weeks to 1 year.  She was born on 1/1/2002 and arrived in Phoenix on March 15, 2002.

The day she arrived in Phoenix having been flown here from Virginia.  First up is meeting Samson, our older Tibetan Mastiff at the time.  She weighed 26 pounds when she arrived at 10 weeks of age.  That's DH with the two of them.  Doesn't she look like a little bear cub?  Tibetan Mastiff puppies are so cute!

All tuckered out after the long flight:

First day outside and then with her first pigear that same day:

Maya was the most stubborn puppy.  We should have been warned when she gave us this look on her first full day with us:

My dad and his significant other were here visiting when Maya arrived.  Here's Dad with Maya that first weekend:

The start of the stick obsession - hanging with new big brother Samson a couple of weeks after we got her.  He didn't like her at first, but they became buddies before too long.

Following right along on the same day as the picture above:

Getting a little bigger:

The lanky teenager phase.  Note the lush tree in the upper left of the first photo.  That was the original apricot tree that Maya and Koda slowly killed.

Probably about 10 months old here:

Graduated to big sticks!

Happy 1st Birthday!

At full alert showing off her pretty tail:

I hope you enjoyed this photo summary of Maya's first year!