It All Began With A Beautiful, Blue-Eyed Sibe Smile on a Flashback Friday!


My journey to becoming the FiveSibesMom, unbeknownst to me at the time, all began 10 years ago with the addition of this beautiful, blue-eyed, eight-week-old Siberian Husky puppy who was to become our future FiveSibes alpha queen and surrogate momma to our three Pupsters...the one, the only, Harley Mari! Oh, and what a wonderful, blessed journey this is! As a photojournalist by trade, it has been such a pleasure to segue my writing and photography features and educational stories into writing and sharing my photographs to shine a light on the wonderful breed of Siberian Huskies and to share our FiveSibes lives with our readers. Today's flashback is not only filled with joyful memories, but a wonderful opportunity to happily reminisce and share the origins of our amazing, loving, and oh-so-lovable FiveSibes! The whole purpose of my starting this FiveSibes Flashback Friday Blog Hop was so we can all have the opportunity to stroll down Memory Lane and relive those younger days of our pups, whether from birth, puppyhood, or gotcha day! I can't think of a better way to kick off a weekend than with sweet smiles of memories past, present, and those yet to come! Happy Friday!

"Real love begins where nothing is expected in return." ~Anonymous

 
Flashback Fridays are brought to you by us - the FiveSibes - and our co-hosts, Love is being owned by a Husky, each Friday. We hope you'll find a photo or video from Memory Lane, post it, and link up to our blog hop each week! If you don't catch it on Friday, you can link up any time during the week! To catch our past Flashbacks, just enter "Flashback Friday" in the search box! We hope you'll come join us!



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  1. Kinley WestieJune 19, 2015 at 3:00 AM

    What a sweet photo!

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  2. The Daily Pip June 19, 2015 at 7:19 AM

    Harley Mari was beautiful and what a fine legacy she began!

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  3. ♥♥ The OP Pack ♥♥June 19, 2015 at 9:10 AM

    What a very sweet pic - and now a very sweet memory!!!

    Woos - Ciara and Lightning

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    1. FiveSibesMomJune 19, 2015 at 12:49 PM

      Thank you Ciara & Lightning! Wasn't it only yesterday you were all just pups?!

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  4. UnknownJune 19, 2015 at 10:29 AM

    What a great flashback pic!!!! Love it!!
    ღ husky hugz ღ frum our pack at Love is being owned by a husky!

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