Munchkin Memoirs

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2011-10-05T08:24:00.000-04:00

NEW ADDITION!

Doggone Dog Swap....Very Late!

2011-08-01T09:37:00.000-04:00

We are so furry late posting this. Chico & Shiver, we are furry sorry! The hoomans have been busy and haven't had any time to help us blog. Our Mom's flashy box business keeps her furry busy these days.

We did convince her that she needed to take quick snapshots of the loot we received from the dog swap when it came in. They have been sitting on her puter every since. We put our feets down today and insisted it was time she posted them so efuryone can see!

Wow! Look at all of our goodies! Skineezzz have always been a big favorite in our house and these were no exception. THANK YOU SPRINKLES, CHICO, & SHIVER! WE LOVE OUR SWAP GIFTS!

First Beach Trip of 2011!

2011-03-25T20:22:00.000-04:00

Hi furiends! We haven't been posting much because the hoomans have been busy. But, Mom promised we could post when we have some super cool pictures of us or some nice stories to tell. So, we decided to hold her to that and let us tell you about our first visit to the beach this year.

This past Saturday the weather was nice and warm! Mom said it was 84 degrees but we just know it was Chihuahua-worthy weather. Mom decided it was so nice we needed to go to the beach. So, we got all lotioned up with sunscreen, loaded up our water, and headed for the ocean.

We went to our normal spot and holy moly there were lots of hoomans there! We saw a few doggies too but mostly hoomans. Here is my handsome self hanging out beside Mom on our beach blanket.

We saw dolphins in the water again but we usually see them anyway. This was the best picture Mom got with the flashy box.

A close-up.

Sis wanted to cuddle with Mom and Dad, especially when I was cuddling with them, but that's not anything now.

The Munchkin Daddy! And you can the Munchkin Mommy in his glasses.

My handsome self again.

Sister!

Some nice lady that I didn't know sat down behind us. I didn't see her when she got there but she looked really nice so I wanted to say hello. I kept talking to Mom trying to tell her I wanted to go meet the nice lady but you know hoomans. She walked me to a pool on the beach and tried to get me to go in with her, Dad, and Sis, but I wanted to go see the lady. Finally Mom understood and let me go say hey. And I was right. The lady was super nice and gave me lots of scritches. And there was another lady sitting close by that I made sure Mom knew I needed to go kiss too. She was a nice lady too.

We stayed for a few hours and then the hoomans got hungry. When we were packing up our stuff to leave, the ladies beside us were talking about a small dog. They said "look at that dog! He looks like he's only about 2 pounds." We turned around to look and do you know who we saw? Here's a clue...

Rigby!

Yep, our 2.5lb furiend Rigby. He was with his Mom and Dad. They came over to our spot and we got to play with Rigby for a little while. We also got some lovin' from his Mom and Dad. We shared some of our nifty sunscreen with him too since he doesn't have much hair. Isn't he adorable?

After they left, we packed up and went home. The hoomans needed showers so they could leave us home alone to go watch a stupid movie. :Sigh:
We've missed y'all!
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Happy Birthday!

2011-02-09T08:19:00.000-05:00

Visitor

2010-09-28T16:01:00.000-04:00

Thanks for all of the barkday wishes furiends! It was a nice birthday at home this year. :)

We had a visitor at our house this weekend. Our Uncle Rascal came to stay while our Mimi was in Tennesee. We are certain that he enjoys playing with us and cuddling with OUR Mom and Dad, but he also forgets his potty training...and therefore we forget ours...or well one of us does *bark*Bentley*bark*, when he is at our house. Probably because he misses his Mommy. We sure miss ours when we are away from her.

On Thursday at dinnertime.

Claiming our bed and watching Dad prepare our dinner.

Drop some Dad, puhlease!!!!!

Raspberry wouldn't be still long enough for Mom to get a picture of his face so Dad had to hold him.

On Sunday at bedtime...Rascal's last night at our house.

Hurry up and come to bed Mom! I gotta get my spot before Rascal takes it!

Come on Sis...get in bed so I can cuddle with your neck.

It's always fun to have visitors, especially when they like to play like Rascal does. We took him to our favoritest place in the whole world. He wouldn't take the treats our favorite ladies offered him but that ok because there was more for us!

Birthday Pawty!

2010-09-09T10:37:00.001-04:00

Since it's been a furry long time since ya'll have heard from us, we wanted to share a little bit about the birthday pawty we just had. We got to spend lots of snuggle time with the Mommy and Daddy, got to eat a nummy special birthday dinner, got some new prezzies, and went on a trip to Hairy Winston for some nummy birthday bakery treats!

Our favorite part about Bentley's birthday was getting to see Ms. Jennie and getting to spend lots of snuggling time with the Mommy and Daddy.

We both got new matching harnesses and leashes. We love them. They came from our favorite online store, Park Avenue Dogs. They make the best harnesses and leashes! Mom liked these nautical harnesses best because they will work for all seasons. :)

Here I am modeling my snazzy new harness.

Here's another angle for you.

And now for a shot of my hansome mug!

Sis showing off her new matching harness complete with big red bow.

And these are the nummy treats we got from Hairy Winston. They are furry yummy but they are way BIG for our little tummies so we've been snacking on them each day. We still haven't finished them off!

It was a furry nice birthday. The only thing that would have made it better is if all of you, our bloggy furiends, were there to celebrate with us! But we know you were all there in spirit.

Mommy says that when the season starts to wind down, we may be able to make a comeback to the bloggy world. That would be nice because we miss all of our furiends. :) We hope to see you again soon.

Happy Birthday Bentley!

2010-08-31T12:32:00.002-04:00

Three years ago today, my sweet Munchkin boy was born. It was only 12 weeks later that he came into my life and filled it with so much joy. He helped heal a heart that was broken and made me smile when all I could do was cry. I can't even begin to explain how this little bundle of fur has impacted my life for the better.

My sweet Bentley, you bring so much joy into our lives. The Munchkin Daddy, Lexi, and I love you dearly. I couldn't ask for a better Munchkin. You have been such a blessing in our lives and we can't wait to spend many many many more years with you. I love you my Nugget!

As most of you know, normally, we plan a party for the Munchkins' birthdays but this year it just isn't possible. The Munchkin Daddy had a very bad allergic reaction a couple of weeks ago and we are still dealing with that and the repercussions from that. So, we are just having a small celebration tonight, just the four of us, with a special birthday dinner for the Munchkins. And of course we'll make a stop in to Hairy Winston to give the Munchkins a special birthday treat.

I did get Bentley a nice new harness (and of course I didn't leave Lexi out) for his birthday. I'll try to get my stuff together so the Munchkins can share their new harnesses with you later this week.

Our Hearts are Hurting

2010-08-18T13:28:00.003-04:00

Our "sister" Angel crossed the Rainbow Bridge last night. We are all furry sad.

RIP Sweet Angel. You will be missed.

Vital Review

2010-08-05T14:30:00.001-04:00

We have been away from blogland for quite a while. That's because we have been out enjoying our summer, oh, and because Mom is a slacker. We hope to make a return to the blog world soon and increase the frequency of our posts and commenting. Now on to the reason for this post...

Recently, we had the opportunity to try out a yummilicious new doggie food. The kind people at Freshpet sent us their new fresh doggie food for us to try and review. First we'll tell you a little about the food, although most of you have probably heard about it from some of our furiends that also gave it a try.

This comes directly from the Vital website. The Vital food is inspired by nature. It is meat-based, grain-free, and antioxident rich. They provide four different recipes that are sure to please even the pickiest of pooches.

There is the Salmon & Ocean Whitefish recipe. This food is "for dogs requiring a unique source of protein. Salmon is an excellent source of naturally occurring Omega 3 oils which are beneficial to the immune system, encourage healthy skin and coat, and improve joint mobility and reduce inflammation in all age groups."

The Turkey recipe is "for dogs that do well on poultry or when limiting the number of ingredients is important to the dog’s diet."

The Bison & Beef recipe is "for dogs that perform well on lean red meat. Bison also contains a high concentration of iron."

The Chicken, Beef, Salmon & Egg recipe is "for dogs that require a wide spectrum of amino acids from a multiple protein variety. A variety of proteins from multiple sources helps prevent protein sensitivities in some dogs."

We have to say that ALL of these recipes were furry yummy! When we saw the cutting board come out (cuz the hoomans have to cut it into chunks for our little mouths), we would go all cracker dog and run to the kitchen doorway. We, of course, have to rely solely on taste to review this food and leave all the ingredient contemplation to the hoomans, but we give this food five out of five paws!

Okay, now Mom says she needs to say a few things. Take it away Mom.

Thanks Munchkins. Hi furiends! Munchkin Mommy here. I just wanted to add a few things to the Munchkins' review of Vital. We were sent a package containing a roll of each of their 4 recipes along with two bags of their yummy treats. When the package first arrived, we were at the end of a kibble switch (more on that later...hopefully). The kibble switch had been going well up until the very last days. The kibble contained 5 or 6 different types of fish and I think it was just too rich for the Munchkins' little tummies. So, since we had the Vital I decided it was as good a time as any to try it out. We started out with the Turkey recipe because it would be easiest on their tummies. When I tell you they tried to devour it in 2 seconds I am not exaggerating. The Munchkins' loved it and their tummy issues created by the kibble switch went away.

Each new flavor we introduced, they loved. I was most anxious to see how they liked the fish and it went over very well. I did notice that they both got slightly constipated after the first sleeve of food, but I am 99% certain that had to do with their issues with the kibble before and would have resolved itself given more time on the Vital.

As most of you know, I spend a good bit of time educating myself about dog food and new foods that come out. I only want the very best for my Munchkins. I have been very impressed with everything I have read, heard, and experienced with the Vital food. The ingredients are top notch and I really like that the food is fresh. If I had the time, I would love to cook meals for my little Munchkins, but that just isn't a possibility for us. Vital is the next best thing.

The only negative thing I can say about Vital is the fact that nowhere close to me carries it yet. The closest place is in downtown Charleston and although it is only physically 10 miles away, the traffic that is ever-present downtown makes it more like 30 minutes away plus the time it takes to find parking. I will definitely be making an effort to continue with the Vital. Now I just have to find the time to make a trip downtown to stock up on it. I hope to supply the Munchkins' with a kibble breakfast and a Vital dinner. I just hope that some of the dog boutiques and stores closer to us will start carrying it so it is more easily available to us.

I encourage all you doggie Moms and Dads to visit the Freshpet website, the Freshpet blog, and the Vital website to learn more about this food.

**Disclaimer: Freshpet provided a sample of their Vital foods for the Munchkins to try and to review. We have not received any compensation for this review.

Wordless Wednesday

2010-06-30T09:00:00.004-04:00

(Note from Lexus: A lot of you were wondering why I looked so sad in last week's Wordless Wednesday photo. No worries furiends! Auntie Nadine hit the nail on the head. I was contemplating what mischief I could get into next! BOL!)

Wordless Wednesday

2010-06-23T13:57:00.000-04:00

We're Still Here!

2010-06-11T11:21:00.002-04:00

We are sorry we have been so absent lately. Mom has been working on a big project at work so she hasn't had time to help us blog or read blogs. And she is studying for the MCATs so that is taking up a lot of time as well.

But we are still here! We're just invisible at the moment. Mom posted some pictures over at her blog if you want to check them out. She took them Memorial Day of the human munchkins playing at the pool. Not many pictures of us made it in there but that's okay since she has gazillions of pictures of us on her commputer already!

We hope to be back and in business soon! We love and miss all of our furiends and friends. :)

Wordless Wednesday

2010-05-26T15:35:00.000-04:00

Tuesday at the Videos

2010-05-25T13:38:00.002-04:00

We decided to pawticipate in our cousins', Chewy & Lilibell, Tuesday at the Videos. This week we would like to share a video of us playing.

Note from Mom: You will see in the video, Lexi trying to get Bentley to come out from under the covers and play with her. She also does something similar when she wants some attention (usually in the form of kisses) from Bentley. We'll share that video at a later date. As you will see at the end of the video, this is purely for fun. This is their way of playing together and they both seem to rather enjoy it. I hope you enjoy the video as much as the Munchkin Daddy and I enjoy the goings-on while they are happening!

Vet Visit & Beach Trip

2010-05-19T14:55:00.001-04:00

We had a furry nice weekend, what about ya'll? Friday evening we went on a car ride with Mom and Dad. Mom had to go to the library to return some books Dad had to go to Lowes to pick up some stuff for our garden (more on that later). We got to go into Lowes with Mom and Dad. Mom mostly looked at flowers and stuff while Dad did his shopping. The nice lady at the checkout wanted to give us some treats but she was out.

Lowes it right near Hairy Winston and we needed some bully sticks so Mom said we might as well pop in. They had just gotten a new shipment of bully sticks and boy were we glad! They are bigger and better. We got to love on the ladies before we had to go back home.

Saturday we had to get up and go to the V-E-T. It was time for Lexi's wellness visit. (By the way, Mom forgot to post about Lexi's Gotcha Day which was April 29th. The hoomans have been busy at work and neglecting us! The nerve!) Everything went good at the V-E-T. The doc said Lexi looks great and remarked on her teeth. He said she should be a teeth model! BOL! What silliness is that? They did have to stick her to get some blood but they said she was a trooper. Boy were we both so happy to leave that place!

Lexi in the car on the way to the V-E-T.

We then headed to the beach. We found a nice open spot where there weren't too many peoples (Mommy doesn't like crowded beaches furry much), and we set up our blanket and umbrella. Mommy took us down to the water but we don't like that foamy stuff chasing after us.

We saw this guy in the ditch by our house when we were on the way to the beach. Isn't he cool? Mom wouldn't let us talk to him though.

These guys were all over the place. There were lots of birdies and some kind called seagulls that kept diving into the water and then bobbing around.

The view from our blanket.

Down the beach. Do you see all those peoples???!!!!

We watched these two guys surf. Mom says we don't have furry good surfing waves...unless there's a hurricane coming. These guys were haven't much luck.

Lexi loves laying in the sun.

We both do!

Mommy and Daddy were taking us down to the tidal pool.
Lexi loves laying in the sand!

But we also like to lay on the blanket beside Mommy.

Chillin' on Mommy's back. I thought she would look great with a Bentley-shaped tan line. Don't you?

We had a nice day at the beach with the hoomans. It was nice and sunny and there was a steady breeze to ruffle our short Chihuahua coats. When we got back home, we took a nap while Mom and Dad went to eat lunch. We spent the rest of the day hanging out with them.

Sunday the hoomans went to the beach but didn't take us. Daddy wanted to go fishing, which meant he wouldn't be able to help watch us. And since they were going to a different beach than the one we normally go to, Dad thought it would be better if we stayed home. We caught up on sleep while the hoomans were gone. We would have liked to go though. Mom said we can maybe go next time to that beach. She has to check the rules about doggies first.

When they got back, we hung out with them the rest of the day. We LOVE cuddling with the hoomans! Mom promised we could go back to the beach again this weekend. We had a nice relaxing weekend. We hope you all did too! We are looking forward to spending lots of time with Mommy and Daddy this coming weekend.

Beach Bound

2010-05-14T15:53:00.003-04:00

We are beach bound again this weekend. We can't wait! We're sorry we've been so quiet this week but not much going on at the Munchkin household besides the hoomans working and us sleeping. It's been a furry boring week for us so you can imagine how much we're looking forward to going to the beach this weekend. We just wish you all could join us!

Lexi has a V-E-T appointment on Saturday morning. Don't worry, it's just a wellness visit. No shots this time, just some blood-drawing. We don't like that furry much but we like shots even less! We'll let you know how she makes out!

Hopefully we'll have some stuff to blog about next week. It the hoomans wouldn't stay so busy during the week we might have more the blog about more often! BOL!

Have a great weekend furiends!

Wordless Wednesday

2010-05-12T11:32:00.001-04:00

Doggone Dog Swap @ Wyldechylde

2010-05-07T17:00:00.000-04:00

We wanted to remind you all again about the Doggone Dog Swap that Sprinkles is hosting at her blog.

The deadline has been pushed back until May 12th so there is still time to sign up! Go visit her blog and read up on all the details. If you and your hoomans have the green papers then sign up!

If you want to help spread the word, you can post about the swap and use the button above. Just copy the stuff in the text box and paste that into your blog post. If you want to put a button on your sidebar, look to your right. Do you see that smaller button over there? Copy the stuff in the textbox underneath that button and paste it into a new HTML (under Layout) in your sidebar. It's furry simple!

First Beach Trip of the Season

2010-05-06T18:26:00.002-04:00

Sunday was our first trip to the beach of the season. We normally get to the beach much earlier than this but Mom and Dad have been so busy that we haven't made it there yet. Mom likes to go when it is early in the season and in the 70s but we just didn't make it this year. It was furry hot on Sunday, even for us and you know how much we like sunshine and heat!

It was cloudy first thing which made it furry nice but then the sun came out and we started panting. Thank dogness Dad had set up the umbrella for some shade.

There were lots of peoples with doggies on the beach. We didn't like it so much when they sat close to us or came over. We had to protect Mommy, who wasn't feeling 100%. Mom says we aren't normally that fussy but we don't know what she's talking about. We were just talking and letting 'em know what's what. Geez.

Mom took this shortly after we got there. You can tell it was still pretty early and a bit cloudy.

Handsome boy!

Beautiful girl!

We love laying in the sand. Lexi really likes rolling in it and sprawling out flat on it!

See!

That girls loves her some sand. Remember when she loved it so much she ate it? Mom wouldn't let her even try this time.

More sand-bathing.

Watching some peoples.

Some friends kept peeking out of their holes at us.

Another view after the sun came out. We love laying in the sunshine!
These doggies were sitting near us. Their hoomans let them off their leashes even though they weren't supposed to!

It's hot out here!

Watching the waves.

Snuggling on Mama's towel & cover-up.

Before we decided to leave, Dad walked us out to the water. We don't really like the water chasing us furry much but we wouldn't mind it so much if it would stay still!

Please excuse our Daddy's glaring lack of a suntan. He gets red furry easy and get the ouchies so he puts on lots of white stuff and stays out of the sun.

Time to go back to Mama. Coming Mom!

After a few hours of sunning on the beach we left to go home. Mom didn't feel furry good that morning and was hoping the sun would make her feel better but it didn't. We tried to nap on our 2 minute drive home but it just wasn't long enough. We were bushed! But, we did snuggle with Mom when we got back. It was bath day so we had to get a bath and then we snuggled with Mom in the living room and tried to make her feel better. But no worries, she is all better now.

We had lots of fun spending time with Mom and Dad at the beach. Oh and guess who we saw there! Ms. Donna from Hairy Winston! She came up right before we left. As soon as we heard her call our names we went running for her. We luff her furry much! We hope we get to see her at the beach again!

P.S. Don't forget about the Dog Swap going on over at Wyldechylde! Go by and pay Sprinkles a visit to learn all about it. The deadline to sign up is May 12th so HURRY!

Dog Swap @ Wyldechylde

2010-05-05T15:00:00.002-04:00

Sorry to interrupt this Wordless Wednesday but we wanted to let you all know about the Dog Swap going on over at Wyldechylde. It is hosted by our dear friend and devoted commenter, Sprinkles. Some of you may already know her. She is Mommy to two of our Chihuahua cousins, Shiver and Chico.

If you don't already know Sprinkles, please stop by and pay her a visit. And if you are interested in participating in her Dog Swap, then check it out here.

Wordless Wednesday

2010-05-05T09:12:00.001-04:00

(More beach photos to come.)

Charleston Dog Show 2010

2010-05-04T16:20:00.000-04:00

On Saturday, we took Mom and Dad to the Charleston Dog Show in downtown Charleston. Some of you may remember from when we posted about going last year. Mom actually remembered to bring her flashy box this year.

We got there a little later than we had planned but Mom said she didn't want to be out there all day, especially since there were supposed to be scattered thunderstorms. Luckily, we didn't get wet and there way no thunder while we were there. It was very sunny and HOT.

We headed for the Hairy Winston tent first so that we could see Ms. Jennie. She gave us nummy treats, as always. Mom says she spoils us but we don't mind one bit! Then Mom wanted to walk around and see what else was going on. There were lots of peoples and lots of doggies everywhere! It was a little bit of a sensory overload for us. We just looked and sniffed and tried to sort it all out.

After making our rounds, we ran into our dear furiend Rigby! You remember Rigby, right? He's our teensy weensy little cousin that we met through Club Chihuahua and Hairy Winston.

Here is Rigby. Notice his handsome PADH!

Here we are together. Do you see the size difference? This is 2.5 lbs versus 5 lbs of Chihuahua!

Chihuahuas sharing the love.

The little guy gets so excited when he sees his furiends.

One of the contestants in the Toy Breed show.

And another.

It was hot, we were thirsty, so Dad got out our little water contraption. Rigby was thirsty too. He drank for like 5 whole minutes!

Isn't he adorable? He was a big attraction at the show.

A Papillion getting judged.

A Pomeranian waiting to be judged.

We can tell exactly what she thinks about THAT.

Look at that floof!

Hey, there is a larger cousin of our Uncle Rascal.

Cute puppy but he had a little trouble walking. He was all over the place.

Sitting pretty.

Woah! Look at this girl. She is HUGE! She makes like 1,000 of us! She is very lovely though.

This was another teensy Chihuahua cousin of ours. We didn't catch her name but she was nearly as small as Rigby!

Miss Drama Queen was very well-behaved. Only a couple of grumbles because some kid with no parents tried to hit her in the head with a balloon.

Rigby with his Mama.

Would you look at that handsome boy sporting his PADH?

This lab puppy was hiding behind his Mama's legs and peeping at us.

The Toy Breed contestants.

Mom fell in love with this guy. We tried to ask him what his name is but he didn't answer. We thought maybe he knew the OP Pack.

Two cutie patootie poodles. Do you think they know Mollie and Bobo?

This cutie patootie is a Chiweenie cousin of ours. We forgot her name but she was furry nice.

This strapping lad is Bentley. He was a furry friendly cousin.

This is the difference between 10 lbs of Chihuahua and 2.5 lbs of Chihuahua!

The best way to travel!

We had a lot of fun at the show but we were furry tired and ready to go back home after a couple of hours walking around and seeing our furiends. We spent some time lovin' on Ms. Jennie and Ms. Donna at the Hairy Winston booth but then it was time fur us to go home. It was a long walk back to the car but Mom and Dad carried us so it wasn't too bad.

We climbed right into our carseat and went to sleep. The ride home wasn't nearly long enough for a nap but Mom let us nap when we got home. Then it was off to Hairy Winston (the store this time, not the booth) to get some sunscreen for our beach trip the next day. More on that to come.

Mom saw this flower on the way back to the car and just HAD to get a picture of it. We figured it is a nice ending to our post. :)

Dog Show Weekend

2010-04-30T15:47:00.002-04:00

We are going to the Charleston Dog Show tomorrow. We went last year and it was hot but fun. It is an outside event with lots of people, dogs, and treats! BOL! Mom is bringing her flashy box so hopefully we'll have some pictures to share on Monday.

We hope ya'll have a furry good weekend! We will "see" ya'll on Monday.

Wordless Wednesday

2010-04-28T11:03:00.002-04:00

Still Around

2010-04-27T14:16:00.002-04:00

We just wanted to write a quick post to let you all know that we are around. Our secretary (aka Mom) has been furry busy this week and hasn't been able to help us blog. Not that we have much to blog about anyway. Things have been pretty quiet around our house. Mom and Dad left us on Saturday to go to one of the little hooman cousin's birthday party. It was at a bowling place so we couldn't go. We asked Mom why couldn't we go if they make bowls like our dog bowls, but then she explained what it really is. Sounds like a lot of NO fun to us.

So we wanted to let you know that we're still here, just being uncharacteristically silent. BOL! We are still trying to catch up on all your posts we got behind on during the wedding weekend. We may have to convince Mom to hit that "Mark All As Read" button and just let us start fresh. She is furry OCD and has a furry hard time doing something like that.

We hope to make it around to your blogs soon!

Wedding Weekend

2010-04-22T11:52:00.000-04:00

Boy do we have a lot of pictures for you today! It was an okay weekend for us because Mom and Dad were mostly working and not spending time with us. But don't worry, we fixed them!

Our wedding weekend started out on Friday morning. Mom and Dad were running around trying to get the last minute stuff packed and loaded into the car. Of course we were the last to get in the car. We snuggled down in our carseat for the ride. We think Mom was trying to freeze us to death though because she had the air blowing right on us and didn't give us a blanket! Can you believe that? But we let her know really quick that we were cold and needed a blanket to snuggle with. We're pretty sure she felt bad about it though.

Mom and Dad had to stop and eat lunch and of course they didn't give us any! But Mom did give us some of our Zukes Salmon treats which are really yummy. She and Dad must have felt bad eating all that nummy smelling food right in front of us. We turned on the sad eyes but it didn't work, but it did get us some treats, just no hooman food.

It took forever to get to the place. But when we did, oh boy was there a lot of stuff to leave peemails on and a lot of green green grass to run around on! There were trees efurrywhere. Mom and Dad took us around on our leashes so we could potty and smell efurrything. Then, of course, Mom got out her flashy box and started shooting it at us.

It was a little while before Grandma K and Aunt K got there with all the flowers. But Aunt K ran out of gas as soon as she pulled up to the place and Mom and Dad had to go and get her some gas. Dad set up our exercise pen on the porch and Grandma K and Aunt K watched us while they were gone. They had to get Aunt K some gas, go to that WalMart place to get some stuff for Grandma K, and go by the hotel. Mom said that the hotel didn't want to let us stay there. The nerve! We almost didn't have a place to stay after that but Dad's Aunt B found a hotel that likes pets for us to stay in. Thank doG.

Mom and Dad were gone furever and we were so happy to see them when they got back. Lots of other people were starting to show up to practice for the wedding so we had to leave. They were going to lock us out after that anyway so we had to go to Grandma K's hotel to do the flowers. We were supposed to go to Dad's Aunt B's antique store warehouse but Grandma couldn't get her on the phone. So we had to sit outside on the picnic tables to do flowers. It was dark by then so Mom said we could stay in our comfy carseat and keep warm while they were doing flowers. Mom didn't do flowers for long though. She got furry sick and had to lay in the car with us. We didn't mind it, especially when Dad said we had to take her to the hotel. That meant bedtime and we LOVE bedtime!

We stayed up with Mom for a long time. We didn't want to let her out of our sight since she was sick. But she finally settled down to go to sleep so that we could too. She was feeling better that next morning.

We had to go back to the place again which meant back in our pen while the hoomans worked. But don't worry, Mom and Dad kept loving on us, checking on us, and letting us out. There were lots of people around that day. A lot of them would talk to us but not pet us and we didn't like that at all. We had to tell them to pet us too. We also don't like for people to ignore us and not speak and pet us so we had to tell those people too. Mom said we were talking an awful lot more than normal but we just wanted some attention! BOL.

The hoomans spent a long time doing the flowers. The wind was blowing furry hard but when it wasn't it was really hot. Where we were on the porch was a furry nice temperature though. Unfortunately that was where all the food would be for the wedding, the dancing, etc. Mom decided that it would be best for us to stay at the hotel during the wedding. She thought we would be more comfortable there and she was certain we would be safe. We weren't furry happy about it but we did it anyway. We didn't really have a choice in the matter.

Mom and Dad took furever getting back from the wedding. Mom said it was furry pretty and that she was glad she made us stay at the hotel. There was too much noise with the music and all. We were glad when they got back and they gave us lots of snuggles. It was bedtime then and we were all pooped!

Sunday morning it was time to pack up and go home. We got to see Dad's Aunt B's antique store. Mom got a purty antique frame. Then she, Grandma K, and Aunt K went to that TJ Maxx store. We stayed with Dad in the car and listened to the radio. Mom came out with a few things but nothing good. Nothing for us, you know. We were glad when we finally got home! We then let Mom and Dad know how unhappy we were with being ignored some that weekend. BOL!

Mom said you all might want to see some pictures from the wedding and the flowers that they did. If you do, then stay right here and just scroll down a bit. If not, thanks for reading this far! We hope you all had great weekends. We did get WAY behind on blogging and reading this weekend but we are trying to catch up. We may have to use that Mark All As Read button though. We don't like to, but sometimes its necessary. Okay, on to the pictures.

This is our Aunt K. She was a bridesmaid.

That's all folks. We hope you enjoyed the pictures!

Wordless Wednesday

2010-04-21T10:59:00.002-04:00

Going On A Trip

2010-04-15T10:38:00.000-04:00

Mom and Dad are taking us on a little trip. We are leaving tomorrow morning. Mom said it is a 2-hour drive. We will be seeing stuff we have never seen before. We have never been to this place we are going. Mom keeps saying something about a wedding but we don't really know what that is. She keeps talking about flowers and arrangements and stuff. The good news is that we will be with Mom and Dadd ALL the time. We won't ever have to be alone. Grandma K has it set up for us.

Oh wait, Mom says they are doing flowers for Dad's cousin's wedding. Dad's aunt has a store in that place and we are going to be there with Mom, Dad, Aunt K, and Grandma K to help with the flowers. Mom says we have to stay in our exercise pen though because she doesn't want us to eat any of the flowers or greenery since it can give us a tummy ache. We aren't going to like that furry much but at least Mom will be close by.

So we won't be here tomorrow to blog. We will be furry busy assisting the hoomans. But we will be back on Monday. We told Mom she has to use the flashy box this weekend so we can share some pictures with you.

See you Monday! Have a great weekend furiends.

Pet Fest 2010

2010-04-12T15:00:00.000-04:00

This weekend we took Mom and Dad to PetFest! If any of you remember, we went last year too. We had a lot of fun being carried around in our carriers, seeing lots of friendly hoomans, and watching all the different dogs interact. Mom did some shopping around and got lots of free samples for us. We always like free treats! BOL! We had a lot of fun this year too.

There were a lot more hoomans there with their doggies this year. We even saw one young hooman with a Chinchilla on a leash! BOL! Funniest thing EVER. There were lots of different doggies and TONS of our cousins. A lot more than attended last year. It was like a Chihuahua family reunion. BOL. Mom was a little disappointed because there weren't as many vendors there, but our most favoritest, Hairy Winston, was there with a huge tent! Of course we stopped by to say hello a couple of different times. There were lots of hoomans and their doggies under the Hairy Winston tent. It was certainly furry popular.

Mom actually let us walk around some this year. Last year she didn't because honestly she didn't trust the other doggies' owners, but she felt confident enough to let us walk some this year. Plus, she was trying to hold on to one of us (Dad had the other), Lexi's carrier, AND her big ole camera. She was having lots of trouble taking pictures juggling so much stuff so letting us walk made more sense. She said she was furry proud of us because we were very well-behaved. There was so much to sniff and smell that it was slow going at first.

We stayed for a couple of hours waiting on the line for the Lowcountry Dog Magazine cover model photo shoot to dwindle down so we could have our photo taken. Once it was short enough, we got in line and waited to have our picture taken. Mom was a little upset with the people though because they had a red cooler with a slippery top for us to stand on. It was not very comfortable or safe for us doggies. Mom was quite perturbed about it but didn't really say anything. She wanted to drape a towel across it for us and all the poor doggies behind us, but she didn't have one with her. That combined with the fact that she wasn't furry impressed with the picture-taking skills of the photographers from last year, she isn't very hopeful about how these photos will turn out. Besides, we think she takes wonderful photos of us herself!

After getting our pictures taken, we were all ready to go home. Mom was tired of holding her camera around her neck, and trying to keep track of Lexi's bag, and hold our leashes. We were both pooped because of all the stimulation with the doggies being there. It was nice to finally get back home and nap!

Look at this gorgeous girl. Mom loves her coloring.

This guy was HUGE! Wonder if he knows Mango?
This was a long lost cousin of ours. She was a little bitty long coat Chihuahua puppy. Isn't she adorable?

And another of our cousins. She was right cute herself!

I see spots! Oh wait, it's just a Dalmatian.

BOL! What a lovely little flower.

Mom and Dad went nutso over this girl. Maybe she knows Khyra.

We think this guy is a toy poodle. He was furry curly and cute.

More of our cousins. They were so cute in their matching shirts.

This was a teensy little cousin of ours. He looked to be about Rigby's size.

Another huge guy! We should have asked him if he knows the Relentlessly Huge.

This handsome fella is an Italian Greyhound. His hoomans were furry nice.

This is Zoey. She "works" at Hairy Winston. She is the Charleston County Parks Dog Parks Mascot. She is a furry nice girl.

Meeting another cousin of ours.

Yes, that is me, Bentley, in the red.

A puggle! Mom thought this guy was just so cute. We think we're cuter, but that's just us! BOL.

This little one must be a "cousin" of our cousin Jewels'. This girl was a lot nicer and calmer though.

Making a new pug friend.

This treat was at the Hairy Winston tent. Yum!

Dexter? Is that you?

We made furiends with this little Silky Terrier too.

This guy was loving the pools!

And this guy had some fun in the sand.

Mom wasn't able to take as many pictures as she would have liked but we think she got enough. She did forget to take pictures of us together though. But, you guys get to see pictures of us every day, so we figured you wouldn't be too disappointed. BOL.

A Note from Mom: As most of you already know, Lexi tends to be a bit of a drama queen when we are out in public and there are other dogs around. She isn't very fond of strange dogs approaching her and is quite vocal about it. I was a little worried at how she would do at Pet Fest this year but decided to take her anyway. It's good exposure for her and I hope it helps to desensitize her to the presence of other dogs. She totally and completely surprised me. She didn't make a peep the entire time we were there. We carried her and Bentley for the first few minutes we were there and then decided to see how they did on their leashes. Lexi was absolutely perfect. She was a little timid, but she walked alongside me so well and didn't fuss at any of the dogs nearby. Bentley is my little social butterfly and always does well in social settings so I wasn't really worried about him. He met dogs on the leash and was very friendly. At one point a very large yellow lab rushed up to him and startled him, but he was very good about it. Needless to say, I came away being a very proud Mommy. I didn't want to stay too long and completely over-stimulate both of them so we left when they showed the first signs of being tired. It ended up being a very nice experience and I can't wait until next year!

Easter Weekend

2010-04-08T13:26:00.000-04:00

For those of you who asked, yes, those were our Easter outfits in yesterday's pictures. We weren't too fond of the hats but we decided to let Mom get her pictures. We made her take them off right after she was finished though! BOL!

We had a furry nice Easter. Did all of you? We spent Easter in Mom & Dad's hometown. We stayed with Mimi and Uncle H. Mimi wasn't feeling very well so we were sure to give her lots of loving to make her feel better. Our step-granddad was up and moving around and we were furry happy to see it. He has had a rough time health-wise lately.

On Saturday, we got to see Beemer and Jewels. We weren't too happy seeing Jewels but we were furry happy to see Beemer again. Dad says that Beemer might be a daddy again!

Dad had a project to do with his family at the river so we left him there and went to Mimi's house. Mom had a headache so while she rested, we took turns laying with her and laying with Mimi to make Mimi's sickies go away. We think we did a pretty good job!

Sunday wasn't like our normal Easter Sunday. We normally have several different places to go, but not this year. Dad's grandma was in the hospital so the hoomans didn't get together at her house for Easter dinner like normal. And our Nanny wasn't home, she was at her beach house, so we didn't have Easter dinner with her either. We stayed with Mimi while Mom and Dad went to eat with our grandma and then we spent time with Mom, Dad, and Uncle H.

It was a nice weekend but we were furry glad to come home that afternoon. Mom forgot to take pictures so the only pictures we have are the ones from yesterday's post!

(Note from Mom: Lexi was an especially good nurse to my Mom last weekend. My Mom was pretty stuffy and just all around didn't feel very well so she spent most of her weekend on the couch resting. When we got there on Saturday, Lexi climbed on the couch with my Mom and wrapped herself around my Mom's neck. She laid with her, gave her periodic kisses, and just tried to love her back to health. I asked my Mom if she realized how big of a deal it was that Lexi was giving her kisses. Lexi is pretty selective with her kisses and usually reserves them for me and the Munchkin Daddy. It is very rare that she will kiss someone else, even those she knows and loves well. But she could tell that my Mom wasn't feeling well and was giving her kisses trying to make her better. It was such a sweet and endearing moment. It touched my heart more than I can tell you and it showed Lexi's true nature. She really is a sweetheart even if she is a fiesty little drama queen in public when she meets other dogs. Bentley did his share of nursing too. He and Lexi were seeming to rotate between me and my Mom. Silly munchkins!)

Wordless Wednesday

2010-04-07T08:35:00.000-04:00

Another Honorable Mention

2010-04-02T11:27:00.000-04:00

Mommy submitted some photos of us to the Pampered Puppy photo contest again this month. She forgot to last month, but we reminded her this month. We like seeing ourselves on the internets...well, you know, OTHER than on our own blog or Mom's blog.

This photo is on page 16 of the Honorable Mentions.

We also saw our cousin Scout over there too! She shares a blog with her Mommy and sister Peanut. Scout is featured on pages 10 and 11. She is #6 on page 10 and #1 on page 11! Way to go Scout. Gorgeous photos taken by her Mommy. Please go visit Scout and Peanut if you don't already know them! They are two gorgeous cousins of ours with a super nice Mommy!

We are sorry we haven't blogged at all this week. The Mommy has been too busy to help us post. She has been super busy at work and super exhausted when she gets home. But she said she and Daddy are going to start making this thing called the Green Monster to help give them more energy. We're not too sure about it since it is called a Monster. We might have to protect the Mommy and Daddy from it!

We had a houseguest on Tuesday night. Uncle H and Mimi were in town for a dentist appointment or something. So Mommy met up with them before bringing them to our house. We were so furry excited to see Uncle H! We have missed him so much. We haven't seen him since New Years! And do you know what's even better than seeing Uncle H and Mimi? Uncle H sleeping over! We had so much fun climbing on him and giving him kisses, and cuddling with him under blankets. We were sad to see him leave the next morning but Mom promised we would get to see him this weekend.

And that brings us to this weekend. We are leaving tomorrow to go to Mom & Dad's hometown. That means we get to see Mimi and Uncle H again, and Uncle D! We also get to see Dad's family. We are furry excited about seeing Beemer. We have missed him a lot. Mom has our Easter outfits all ready and says we will be the best dressed dogs around town on Easter Sunday. We have a sneaking suspicion that hats are involved though and we're not too thrilled about those silly contraptions.

We promise to share pictures when we get back! We hope you all have a fantabulous weekend and Easter! Be sure not to eat any chocolates furiends, not even if a little kids drops some. We have a scary story about that coming up soon!

Chihuahua kisses to you all!

Wordless Wednesday

2010-03-24T09:03:00.002-04:00

Updated @ 4:38pm: Several of you were asking where we got the "Google Me" shirts from. Mom got them at PetSmart. Dad insisted we get them because he thinks its so cool that you ACTUALLY CAN Google us and find us! BOL!
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Hairy Winston Fashion Show 2010

2010-03-23T13:47:00.000-04:00

Those of you who have been with us since the beginning might remember when we participated in the Hairy Winston Fashion Show last year. We had tons of fun and met our furiend Rigby for the first time in real life. Well, this year we watched the fashion show with Dad while Mommy took pictures.

The show was part of the annual Art Festival and was to benefit the Grateful Golden Retriever Rescue of the Low Country and the Charleston Animal Society. All of the doggies in the fashion show were up for adoption!

All decked out for the fashion show.

We saw this fluffy little girl at Hairy Winston before the show.

These two were waiting out in front of Hairy Winston for the fashion show to begin.

A beautiful golden!

Waiting with Dad for the show to start!

The first models in the show! Notice the lovely handmade collars and leashes.

Next up, two more adorable pups!

A Golden/Chow mix. Isn't she lovely with the bows in her hair and the flower around her neck?

This little girl is one of our long lost cousins! Mom thought she was a sweetie.

Going swimming!

This little Dachsund puppy stole our Mom's heart. He probably would have come home with us if we had the room! He probably would have made a good brother.

Clemson

vs. Carolina

The doggies didn't like the slippery stage very much.

And the last model for the day!

We had a nice time watching all the pretty doggies. We hope they all got good homes after the show. That was pretty much it for our Saturday. We went on a walkie before the show and met a bunch of little kids in our neighborhood. We gave them lots of kisses! They were furry cute for hoomans. We took it easy with Mom and Dad on Saturday night. Sunday was rainy but we did get some riding in the car in. Mom is trying to find us yellow Easter outfits and is having a hard time. She took us around to a bunch of places but nowhere had anything close. But we'll keep looking. If you know of somewhere that has a pretty little yellow dress and a handsome shirt or vest that at least sort of matches, will you let us know in the comments? Thanks!

Oh, and we did get something on our shopping trip but you have to wait until tomorrow to see!

Snow Day Video

2010-03-22T10:57:00.000-04:00

You might remember that we blogged about the snow day we had on February 12th and 13th. And if you remember that then you remember that snow is a VERY rare thing here. So of course that was our very first experience with snow. Mom said she had to get videos of us in the snow just in case it doesn't snow again in our lifetimes. We have been promising these videos to you since then and today we are going to deliver one. This video is the very first one Mom shot of us. It was on the night of the 12th just after it first started snowing. There isn't much snow on the ground yet.

We weren't sure what to think of it really. But by the next morning we both made up our minds. We'll share those videos with you later. There is no sound, just picture so don't worry about turning the sound up or down.

In other news, it was furry warm and sunny here on Saturday. Mom said it was definitely Chihuahua weather with a high of 76. We certainly enjoyed it! More about that tomorrow! :)

We hope you all had a furry nice weekend!

Where's Waldo Bentley?

2010-03-18T11:48:00.003-04:00

Where's ~~Waldo~~ Bentley?

Not So Wordless Wednesday

2010-03-17T09:25:00.001-04:00

We have been very silent over the last few weeks so we decided not to participate in Wordless Wednesday so that we can catch ya'll up! Our Dad is doing a lot better. He has a rough time with his tummy for a while but he and Mom are getting it under control. Mom had to put him on a special diet. BOL! Not to lose weight or anything but to keep his tummy from hurting.

Our step-granddad has been in and out of the hospital. A lot has been going on with his health. We hope that he gets better soon because he has been practically living in the hospital.

Mom is doing good. She's been pretty busy lately at work and at home but her health seems to be holding pretty well. Aside from those nasty head owies she gets she is doing great.

We are both doing good. Bentley had a little bit of an upset tummy this week (doing a lot of licking and swallowing, licking and swallowing) probably from eating so darn fast. He inhales food like a vacuum cleaner! Mommy made it all better though and now he is A-okay. He also had a little bruise (or possibly a carpet burn) on his (hairless) chest that we're not sure where it came from, but it is all gone now too.

We have been trying to enjoy this nice warm weather we are having. It's almost Chihuahua weather! Yay! We have been basking in the sunshine coming through the windows and taking Mom and Dad for walks around the neighborhood. Of course we have been visiting Hairy Winston too!

Back around Lexi's birthday we popped in to Hairy Winston. We needed more bully sticks. We started out with the 6" bully sticks but were chewing through them pretty quickly. Mom said that we were wasting too much of it because she had to take it from us when it got to a certain length so we wouldn't swallow it and choke on it. So then she went to the 12" bully sticks. We had to maneuver a little in the beginning to learn how to hold and chew it, but we quickly got the hang of it. Then those bully sticks lasted us two weeks (we only get them when the hoomans are eating) but lately they have been only lasting a week or less. So Daddy decided it might not hurt to try the Mango-sized (3 ft) bully sticks. Mom hoped we would each chew an end so they didn't have to cut it, but of course we were having NONE of that. We tried, of course, but it just didn't work for us. So Dad cut it in half and we each enjoy our own 18" bully stick. Of course we never finish our bully sticks at the same time so one of us always gets to chew the new big (uncut) bully stick for a day or two. Lexi usually takes on that job.

We thought Mango would get a kick out of this so we wanted to post some pictures.

We have been making our way through all of your blog posts that we were behind on. We are nearly caught up! Yay! So we look forward to coming around and commenting very soon. We have missed ya'll!

We know we have some awards that we are WAY overdue on posting so we are going to try and get those posted soon. We think Mom may have lost some of the earlier ones so if we miss anyone, we apologize now, but we told her she had to go back and try to find them so our furiends wouldn't be upset with us. Hopefully she'll be finished with that soon and can help us get all of them posted. Thanks to everyone who gave us awards! :)

Oh and Happy St. Patrick's Day!

Wordless Wednesday

2010-03-03T08:40:00.003-05:00

We Got White Stuff!!!!

2010-02-25T11:50:00.001-05:00

Well, we finally convinced Mom to finish going through all the pictures and helping us post them! It took a while but now we can share with you our snow day.

On Friday (12th) around 8:00pm, it started snowing at our house! Mom said the weatherman was calling for snow all day but she didn't really believe him. He has called for snow before and been wrong. But when she and Dad looked outside and saw that it was snowing she went nuts. She looked like us when someone says the word "snack"! She grabbed the flashy box and started taking lots of pictures of the white stuff falling out of the sky.

This is the grill just after it started falling.

The snow on the ground in the front yard.

Dad went out and made a big ice ball and brought it in. We love ice so we wanted to eat it! We thought it was nummy.

A little while later, once there was more white stuff on the ground (8:45pm Mom says), the hoomans put out harnesses on us and took us out in the front yard.

Check out Lexi's feet. She wasn't very fond of that white stuff.
She was telling Mama to save her!

I thought the fluffy white stuff on the ground was so cool! And there were kids across the street playing in it and I wanted to join them. :)

The front yard.

The back yard.

We stayed up later than normal so Mom and Dad could watch the snow falling. Mom and Dad left us to go outside and play for a little while. Neither of us were happy about being left but at least we could see them through the window. We were furry tired since we are used to going to be early so we convinced them it was bedtime.

The hoomans woke us up furry early the next morning. We weren't too happy about it but at least we got some breakfast out of it. This is what it looked like when we woke up.

This is our backyard that morning.

And look at all that white stuff on our grill!

Of course Mommy got out the flashy box and took lots of pictures and made Dad and us take lots of pictures.

Our little footsie prints.

I wasn't afraid of that white stuff at all. It was cold on my tootsies but it was furry yummy too!

Sis didn't like it at all. Notice her front footsie. She couldn't keep her paws out of it enough!

Mom convinced her (i.e. picked her up and plopped her in the snow) to come out and give it a try.

She still wasn't furry happy about it.

Mom and Dad made this snowman. Can anyone guess what they used for the nose and mouth?

Mom's snow angel.
After a little playtime in the snow Mom said we needed a break. Here is my handsome self on our break.

And here is my lovely sister. She doesn't do cold very well!

Getting warm and snuggly on Mom's coat.

This is Mom's fancy schmancy picture of the snow-covered fence.

Another view of our backyard covered in snow.

Sis was begging Mom not to torture her in the snow anymore. BOL!

After a change into some warm, dry clothes, it was back out to play in the sun and snow!

I tried to help Sis get moving along but she wasn't having it.

That is until I took off toward the house. She couldn't wait to follow!

Check out this paw action!

Her feelings summed up in one expression about this whole experience.

This is where she stayed for most of our time in the snow. She did not like her feet getting cold and wet!

Telling Mom just how she felt about the whole thing.

I didn't want her to be alone so I joined her for a moment.

But then it was back into the white stuff!

Check out my not-so-floppy ears.

And now back to the earresistible floppiness.

Standing up at attention again!

Notice the paw. She was NOT happy about the snow!

But boy I was! It was so yummy!

Mom finally got her to come out in the snow but she went straight for the nummy flowers instead.

Mom wanted to get a picture with each of us to remember this day, my very first snow!

It was Sis' very first snow too!

After all that playtime in the snow, we were tired and wanting to get warm. So Mom decided to have a photoshoot inside. Here is one of the best pictures of me. :) Aren't I handsome?

And one of Sis who couldn't snuggle up in the warm blankets enough!

Our very first snow day was a lot of fun for me and not so much for Sis. She says if she nevers sees snow again she will be too happy. I, on the otherhand, really enjoyed myself. And so did Mom and Dad. They were acting like us when we go all cracker dog over a toy or treat! BOL!

Sadly the snow was mostly gone by that afternoon. Our yard still had the most left out of the whole neighborhood (we get a lot of shade) so we got to enjoy it the next day a little too. Our snowman, or pieces of him, lasted for a few days. This week we have been having warmer temps (mid-high 60s which is almost Chihuahua weather!) but today is pretty cold again. I think I speak for us both when I say we are ready for spring and the 70+ degree weather!

We have lots more pictures to share from last week too so we hope to get those up soon! We hope you enjoyed sharing in our snow day!

Note from Mom: The Munchkins reacted to the snow just as I expected based on their personalities. Bentley, despite the cold, seemed to thrive in the snow. He wasn't shy about running around, jumping, playing in it, and eating it! He even made yellow snow and I was so proud! Ha ha. As it goes with Chihuahuas, neither of them liked the cold very much, but Bentley was very good at tolerating it long enough to get some playtime in. We kept taking warm-up breaks to help give them a break and to get warmed up. We have to be careful with them in extreme temps. Lexi wanted absolutely nothing to do with the snow at all. She doesn't like the rain so I knew she wouldn't like the snow. She is very prissy and doesn't like for her feet to be wet, let alone cold. It was all she could do to keep her paws as far out of the snow as possible! She looked like a little contortionist out there. The only time she "forgot" about the snow was when she spotted the flowers that she likes to eat (don't worry they aren't poisonous and we don't really let her eat them anyway). She wasn't very happy with us but she got over it and was incredibly happy when it was time to go inside! We did take some video that I hope to share with you soon!

Sorry for our Absence!

2010-02-23T16:13:00.003-05:00

Furiends, we are furry sorry for our absence in the blogging world as of late. It's just so hard to find good help these days! Mom has been so busy with other stuff that she hasn't be able to help us blog or read blogs. We are furry behind and we apologize. We feel like we haven't visited any of you in ages. But we a trying furry hard to get caught up.

We have lots of pictures we need to share but Mom is taking a long time to go through them. We actually got snow here in South Carolina! Can you believe it? It snowed on the night of February 12th but you already know that if you follow Mom's blog. She tooks a million pictures so she is trying to go through them and figure out which ones to post. Hopefully she will help us get those up soon.

To hold you over, here is a picture of us with Mom on our snow day. We will wait until we post the pictures to tell you just what we think about that white stuff!

**Note to Coco: Cousin, we have not forgotten about you and we DO miss your pretty little face furry much. We are trying to make our way over to your blog so we can meet your new sister! We are furry excited! We love you Cuz!

Happy Birthday Mommy!

2010-02-19T09:18:00.004-05:00

Today is our Mommy's birthday. When she woke up this morning we gave her lots and lots of snuggles and kisses. We wanted to make sure that this birthday is a good one that she will remember!

She is spending the evening with us and Daddy. Daddy is cooking steak and lobster tail for her tonight but we can't have any. :( That's no fair. They are going out to dinner with a bunch of other hoomans tomorrow night which means we will be home alone. That's definitely not fun, but we might get to see Beemer! Our grandma might bring him to visit while Mommy & Daddy are at dinner. We hope so!

We can't wait for Mommy to get home from work today so that we can shower her with even more birthday love and kisses!

A Message for Chewy

2010-02-12T10:07:00.001-05:00

Happy Birthday To Me!

2010-02-10T15:16:00.001-05:00

Yesterday was my birfday! And boy was it a great birfday...well, once Mama got home anyway. After much begging and pleading on my part Mama said I could open my pressies first! Yay! Lookie here at what I got.

Do you that owl stuffie in the middle there? It's as big as me! BOL! Oh and I decided I would model the clothes for you, albeit grudgingly. I don't like things being put on me and being taken off multiple times. Put it on me and let it stay Mama! Sheesh.

Mama said she might have to fix this one. The skirt is too big for my teensy little waist so I had to wear it around my chest! BOL!

Born to be wild? Yes ma'am!

It looks like I might need a little wardrobe adjustment in this one!

I liked this one so much that I wanted to wear it the rest of the night for my party!

Of course Mama couldn't leave Bentley out.

Doesn't he look handsome? Now he can go hunting with Daddy!(Note from Mom: That will NEVER happen. Over my dead body!)

Mom made us put on these stupid birthday hats. Although I have to admit I look furry purty in pink & green!
Here's a close-up. I'm not the happiest camper but I was a good girl and dealt.

Bubba looking all country in his camouflage jacket and blue birfday hat!

This is what was on the menu. Boiled chicken, potatoes, green beans, and bananas!

Here are all of our plates. Daddy fixed our plates so they are on the plain white ones instead of the pretty ones Mom likes to let us use on our birfdays.

Oh and for all you bigger doggies (like Mango), this might not look like much food at all to you, but keep in mind we have teensy tiny little tummies. This fills us way up. So don't worry, the hoomans aren't starving us. After all, we only need 1/4 cup of food a day! Yes, you read that right.

Here we are waiting patiently for our foodables.

Num num num num num num.

Bentley was asking Rascal if he needed any help cleaning his plate! Mommy said NO.

And here I am trying to clean my plate so Mommy & Daddy don't have to do dishes!

Here is our birfday treat. We normally get pupcakes from HW but it is WAY too much for us to eat, according to Mommy, so she got us something smaller this time. It was furry nummy!

One more shot of me in my silly birfday hat for good measure.

And a sweet picture of my Bubba in his camouflage.

We had a furry good time celebrating my birfday. All the nummy food, the birfday cookie, and the chewing on bully sticks made for a great day. I was sure to give Mama & Daddy lots of lovin' for giving me such a good birfday party. And my Bubba gave ME lots of lovin' cause it was my birfday. Ahhh...the life of a princess.

Last night was always our last night with Rascal. Our Mimi got someone to stay with our step-granddad so she could work and be at home with our Uncle H, so Mimi said to send Rascal home. Thank doG. He is just too hyper and tries to shove in on our Mommy & Daddy lovin' times. And he was doing unspeakable things to our stuffies! Mama said he is tutored and that he shouldn't be doing those things but he IS and to OUR stuffies. Mama promised to wash them all in hot water so they'll be good as new for us. Sheesh. Boys.

And I don't want to forget to thank you all fur the birfday wishes! I appreciate them all and wish all of my furiends could have been here to celebrate. But we know that you were all here in spirit and we definitely felt that last night.

Happy Birthday Lexus!

2010-02-09T08:50:00.003-05:00

Two years ago today you came into this world and made it a better place simply by being in it. You are the sweetest little baby girl I could have ever asked for, with just enough sass to be your Mama's baby. I don't know what we did before you came into our lives because it feels like you have always been here to cheer us up with kisses, cuddles, and love. You are definitely Mama's little baby and Daddy's little girl. We love you more than you'll ever know.

Happy Birthday my sweet angel. I hope we have many many more birthdays to celebrate with you.

We will be having a little birthday party at home tonight for Lexus. I will do my best to take lots of pictures for all of you. Thank you for visiting us today for Lexi's birthday. We wish you all could be here to celebrate with us! Stay tuned for the birthday party pictures!

We're Back!!!

2010-02-08T15:51:00.000-05:00

Yep, that's right. We're back in business! BOL. We hope we are back for a long while too. As you know things have been nutso at our house lately but seem to be finally returning back to normal.
Our Dad is feeling much better. He is almost back to his old self again. He is back at work which is good and bad because he isn't home to stay and play with us! But we are furry glad he is feeling better.

Our step-grandad's surgery on Thursday went well. We are hoping he will get to go home this week. Meanwhile we still have Rascal at our house and Mom isn't very happy with him. Well, to be honest neither are we. We like playing with him and all but he has been at our house for two weeks now and is wearing out his welcome as far as we are concerned. It is definitely time for him to go home with his Mommy. We are sure he misses her too.

We had a furry nice weekend. On Saturday we got to go to Hairy Winston. And guess who we saw there?! Rigby!!!! We were furry excited to see our furiend again. His Mom bought him a new hat that is super cute but he doesn't seem to like it furry much. We probably wouldn't either if Mom put that thing on our heads. Mom forgot her camera so no pictures. We told her she should have taken a picture with her fancy little phone but she totally spaced. Oh well. Maybe we can get a picture the next time we see him or get one from his Mommy.

We had a nice time playing with Rigby, hanging out with Sophie (Winston stayed at home), and giving lovin' to Miss Jennie and Miss Chris. Miss Chris had her JRT Lucy there. We like Lucy A LOT better than we like Jewels. Lucy is furry calm and furry nice. Jewels is just too all over the place and hyper for us most of the time.

The hoomans were hungry so we had to get our bully sticks and go home. Mom and Dad went by some chicken place for lunch but didn't give us any! The nerve! Now tell us how is THAT fair? The rest of the day on Saturday we just hung out with Mom and Dad. It was nice. Dad really needed the rest and don't tell Mom we said this, but we think she did too.

Here are a few pictures of us from Saturday night.

Mom didn't fix my eyes in this picture because she thought it was such a nice blue. My eyes always come out blue with the flashie on!

Mom said this is too funny not to post. I say what's wrong with it? I was telling Mom I was over all these darn pictures. BOL!

Sunday was cleaning day. Which means that the big ole machine that makes all that noise came out. He mostly hides away in the spare bedroom (we think because he is scared of Bentley's ferociousness) but he came out on Sunday and was chasing Mom all around the house! Mom doesn't like it when we fuss at the big machine so we try not to but we don't like it chasing Mom around. Bentley was very good and didn't fuss at it or try to scare it. Mom was very proud of him.

Part of cleaning day is clean sheet day! This is the best day of the week! There is nothing better than snuggling up with Mommy and Daddy on nice clean, crisp sheets! But before we got to enjoy the sheets, Rascal had an oopsie after Mom took the dirty sheets off the bed. Mom had just put the dirty sheets in the wash and was getting ready to put the extra set of clean sheets on the bed when she smelled something. (Mom has a super duper smeller. She knows the instant we have used our potty pads!) When she looked she and Dad saw Rascal finishing up his business on the bed. Of course Mom was upset because he has been peeing and pooping all over the house since he got there, but when she checked and realized the mattress pad actually IS waterproof and the peepee didn't get through to the new mattresses, she wasn't quite as perturbed as before. But we can tell that she is ready for things to go back to normal around our house.

We aren't sure when Rascal will get to go home but we do hope it is soon! We just can't continue sharing Mommy and Daddy with him! For a weekend or a week we don't mind it (although we are usually exhausted when he finally goes home), but two weeks is a little much, even for us.

After cleaning Mom and Dad had to run out and grab one last thing for our Superbowl party. When they got back it was time to start preparing everything. The hoomans got to eat grilled chicken wings with hot Hooter's Sauce, parmesan potato wedges, and guacomole with pita chips! Did we get any???? Of course not. The hoomans refuse to share their food with us. But we did get our own food and got to much on bully sticks for a while, so I guess it was okay. Oh and Mom was drinking this funny-looking thing.

Here are some pictures of us from when Mom was cleaning. She couldn't help put pick up the flashy beast and take pictures. Moms!

Mom did manage to take the flashy beast outside with us at one point during the day.

Then it was time for some snuggles in the blanket while Mom and Dad were fixing the foodables.

Watching them make the chicken wings. Yummy!

Looking at Mom after she called my name. I was waiting for Dad to drop something in the kitchen!

Trying to sweet-talk Dad into giving me some foodables from his plate.

Snuggling in Mom's blanket.

Rascal sitting with OUR Daddy. :(

All-in-all it was a furry good weekend. And yes, we DID enjoy our clean sheet night last night!

Tomorrow we will be having a celebration! Tomorrow is Lexus' 2nd birthday! Mom said we are going to have some yummy food and treats to celebrate. It will just be us and maybe Rascal. We may have another celebration with furiends this weekend but Mom and Dad are going to be furry busy this weekend so Mom said we'd have to see. In any case, as long as there is food involved we are happy!

Don't forget to stop by tomorrow and wish Lexus a HAPPY BIRTHDAY!

Honorable Mentions

2010-02-03T14:19:00.000-05:00

Yesterday we got some good news! It definitely brightened Mom's day and it helped brighten ours too! When Mom checked the Pampered Puppy website she saw that two of our photos got Honorable Mentions in the January Photo Contest! The first picture is on page 10 and the second picture is on page 12. I don't think you guys have seen the second picture yet because we were holding it back until the contest was over. (Mom wanted us to let you know that both photos are unedited. Mom is going to frame those photos since they are two of her favorites and will be doing some photo-editing to make them "pop". She promises to let us share the final results with our furiends.)

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We also wanted to let you all know that our Dad is starting to feel better. He went to the hooman vet today and everything checked out ok. They gave him some medicine and sent him back home. Mom says he's probably going back to work tomorrow. That's no fun for us but we know he needs to go back to work to help buy our foodables, toys, treats, clothes, etc. So we don't mind too terribly much. But boy has it been fun having Daddy home with us all day for 4 extra days the last two weeks!

Our step-grandad is going to have another surgery tomorrow. There is something wrong with his insides and Mom says they are twisted. They need to do the surgery to fix him and make him better. After that he will have to wait at least 5 days before he can go home. Furiends, we appreciate all the good thoughts you have been sending this way and would appreciate it if you would continue to send them while our step-grandad is having his surgery.

We hope that we will be back to blogging regularly soon, once all this craziness for us is over. We have fallen horribly behind and have been trying desperately to catch up. We apologize for not commenting on each and every blog but we ARE reading them. We are just so behind that we are just now reading posts from last week. :( Mom says life HAS to calm down soon!

More Updates

2010-02-02T10:31:00.000-05:00

Things have been crazy for us. A lot has been going on and Mom hasn't been able to help us blog. Mom has an update for you all here.

We are at home right now trying to help our Daddy get better.

Not Much of an Update

2010-01-29T11:49:00.001-05:00

Update @ 4:45pm: Mimi called Mom and told her that our Uncle H is sick. He has a virus and isn't feeling well at all. Mimi has to stay away from Uncle H (he is staying with his grandparents while Mimi is at the hospital) because she can't risk carrying the virus back to our stepgrandad. At this point it could cause him to cross over the Rainbow Bridge and we certainly don't want that. So please continue to keep our step-grandad, Dad, Mimi, Uncle H, and the rest of our family in your prayers. We are all having a rough week. Thank you!

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We want to thank all of our furiends for their kind words and offerings of prayers yesterday. We, along with Mom and the rest of our family, really appreciate it. Mom said that we don't really know much more about our step-grandad's condition. The hooman vet thinks that the medicine from the surgery (Mom says its called "anesthesia") has kept his insides asleep and they just need time to wake up. Mom isn't sure about this since the surgery was supposed to be an "outpatient procedure" and Mimi says she DOES NOT like that doctor. We are hoping Mom will get an update from Mimi today. If she does, we will update you. She will probably update her blog before ours so keep checking there if you don't follow her. Also, if you want to keep up with her on Twitter over the weekend for updates you can find her by searching for MunchkinMommy2. (You can also see her last three tweets on the left sidebar of her blog.)

We did get an update on our cousin Brooke. She has food poisoning! Oh my doG! We can't believe that someone would put poison in her food! That is just despicable! Oh wait, Mom says that's not right. Nobody put poison in her food but she said its too hard to explain to us. Whatever. We DO know that Brooke was allowed to go home yesterday and will be taking it easy this weekend. She is on some medicine for the E. coli (we guess that's the poison?) infection and should start feeling better after the weekend.

We are both doing good. No more sickies from Bentley. Yay! Mom is changing both of our food tonight. Bentley has been on boiled chicken and potatoes and Lexus has been on the EVO Red Meat formula but Mom says we have to change it. So it is back to the yummy fish! Yay! We love fish!

Daddy brought Rascal home with him last night. Since Mimi is at the hospital with our step-granddad there isn't anyone to keep Rascal so Daddy had to bring him to our house. Do you know that he peed on us last night?! The nerve! We had on our nice, warm, comfy pullovers and he got peepee all over them! They are a favoritest and Mom had to take them off (we were freezing!) and wash them. Not cool Raspberry!

Rascal has learned the sleeping arrangements at our house and is adhering to them pretty well. We were very good about teaching him where he could and couldn't sleep. He stayed in his sleeping place but he did wake Mom up a couple of times trying to get kisses.

Mom took out the flashy box last night and took some pictures of us with Rascal so here are a few for your viewing pleasure.

Aren't I handsome? (Notice the "ear"resistible expression!)

C'mon, Vogue!

What Mom? I didn't do nuthin'!

Can you guess what time it was in our house by the following pictures?!

Yummy yummy yummy! Gimme, gimme, gimme!

If you guessed dinnertime then you are RIGHT! We couldn't wait to get our paws on our yummy foodables!

We Need Your Prayers

2010-01-28T09:03:00.002-05:00

The Munchkin Mommy here. I am taking over the blog today because our family could really use your prayers and your woos. The Munchkins haven't shared this with you, but if you read my blog then you already know that my step-dad (the Munchkins' step-grandad) had to have surgery on Tuesday. The surgery was to repair multiple large hernias that resulted from multiple previous surgeries related to his diverticulitis. He was doing good and was allowed to go home yesterday, but last night had to be taken back to the hospital by ambulance. I won't divulge all the gory details, but I will tell you that his stomach and intestines aren't working. They are having to pump bile out of his system. They aren't certain what the cause of this is but they are investigating the possible causes today. That is all I know as of right now but I hope to have more news soon.

It has been a very stressful week for us with the Munchkin Daddy and Bentley both being sick. My cousin was also hospitalized earlier this week too, so with everything that is going on, we are all very stressed. Bentley still seems to be doing good but I continue to monitor him as closely as possible when I am home.

I will try to keep you all updated as best I can. If you all feel led, we would very much appreciate your prayers.

Almost Wordless Wednesday

2010-01-27T08:42:00.005-05:00

Note from Mom: Bentley seems to be feeling much better today. He did spit up a couple of times yesterday but I have a sneaking suspicion that it may have something to do with the richness of his food. He is now on a bland diet and I will keep him on it for a couple more days. After that I will be switching him back to the EVO Salmon & Herring formula because the Red Meat formula seems to be a little rich for his little tummy (we do a rotation diet and will be taking the Red Meat formula out of the rotation...if you don't know about this, ask your humans!). By yesterday evening when I got home he seemed to be feeling 90% better. He had a nice, restful night last night and seemed to be in good spirits this morning. I am certain that he will be back to 100% before the weekend.

Oh and for those of you that are wondering, the Munchkin Daddy is feeling much better as well. Lexus did a wonderful job being nurse to the Munchkin Daddy and Bentley while I was at work yesterday.

Poor Bentley

2010-01-26T08:33:00.003-05:00

Hi furiends. I wanted to pop in and let you all know that Bentley and Daddy are both sick. Daddy hasn't been feeling well since Friday. Something he ate made him pretty sick and it never really got better. And then Sunday night Bubba got sick too. He was coughing a lot like he was gonna throw up but nothing ever came up until early Monday morning when he woke Mama up. He was eating, drinking, pooping, and peeing normally so Mom decided to watch him for the rest of the night. Mommy had to take Daddy to the doctor first thing Monday morning. The doctor said Daddy has something I can't spell but Mommy says is it spelled: diverticulitis. Mommy says that means he has an owie in his tummy. When they got back from the doctor Bubba was still sick. He wasn't really acting sick but he kept trying to throw up. He threw up on Mom's computer! It was just liquid, no food, but Mom called the vet and then took us both in to see him. I wasn't happy about that because I don't like the vet AT ALL, but I don't think I would have liked staying home alone either.

The vet said Bentley most likely has an upper GI infection. Bubba had to get a shot at the vet and has to take two different medicines to make him better. He seemed to start getting much better yesterday evening. Mom was up with him and Dad most of the night though. Mom said Bentley had an upset tummy because he was licking and swallowing, licking and swallowing, over and over. Mom gave him some medicine for that.

Mom had to go back to work today but Dad is staying at home with us. I will try to keep you updated on how Bentley is doing. But don't worry furiends. Bentley is still acting like silly ole Bentley. I'm sure he will be all better in no time. I will be spending the rest of my day taking care of Daddy and Bubba.

Here is a picture of Daddy and Bubba cuddling a couple of weeks ago. Sorry, mom didn't take any pictures of the sick boys this weekend.

Happy Birthday Daddy!

2010-01-14T15:14:00.003-05:00

Yes, we are still alive. Sorry for the absence. Mommy hasn't been feeling 100%. Something about a fection and some ouchies or something like that. She has been going to work, but we have been doing some major snuggling when she is home.

We wanted to post today to let you all know that today is our Daddy's birthday! Mom said he is 27 years old. Wow, that's a lot of dog years! We are planning on giving him lots of kisses and snuggles tonight and maybe trying to steal some of his cake that Mom says she is going to bake. We'll let you know if we're successful or not.

Here is something we helped Mom make for Daddy. I think it was a good team effort, don't you?

There isn't really too much to report on the happenings here. It has been furry cold. Much colder than we are used to in SC. You know anything below 70 is cold to us Chihuahuas, but anything below 60 is cold to SC hoomans. Mommy is ready for it to warm back up because there is no snow. What good is the cold without snow? We don't know what snow is but Mom has sure been wishing for some. Other than the cold things have been pretty quiet for us. Nothing exciting going on.

If we don't get a post up tomorrow, we hope you all have a great weekend!

Christmas Loot: Part 2

2010-01-08T10:27:00.001-05:00

Blogger finally cooperated long enough for us to get all these pictures up for you guys to finish out our Christmas story! We left off after our exchange with Mom and Dad on the Wednesday morning before Christmas. Now onto the other festivities.

Oh Wednesday night, after Mom and Dad got home from work, we all loaded into the car and headed to Mom & Dad's hometown. Our first stop was Dad's parents' house. There were lots of people there when we got there! And Beemer and Jewels were there too. We were excited to see Beemer but not so much Jewels. We don't know about her. The hoomans all ate some yummy-smelling food but didn't give us any, then they all piled into the living room and started opening gifts and taking them from each other! It got crazy there for a little while. Mom said that's what supposed to happy and that it is called Chinese Christmas. There was a lot of commotion is all we know and we hung out with Mom and Dad so we didn't get stepped on by big hooman feet. Sorry, no pictures of Lexus because Mom had the camera and she was in Mom's lap.

Chillin' with Dad.

Jewels sleeping on her Daddy.

We were happy when it was time to go to Mimi's. It is much quieter there and we get loved on by Uncle H and Uncle D! We love them! We got to see Rascal too. He was a yappy and bouncing off the walls as ever.

The next day was Christmas Eve. Dad decided (since he works in the same town) to go in to work for a few hours. He left Mom and us at Mimi's. Mimi went into work for a little while too so we got to hang out with Uncle H, Rascal, and Mom. It was nice having Mom all to ourselves and not having to share with Daddy! When Daddy got home we got to spend some time with him too before they both had to leave. They had a Christmas dinner to go to and we weren't invited. We weren't very happy about it but we got to stay with Mimi and Uncle H. Mom and Dad weren't gone long and they brought Uncle D back with them. We were furry happy to see him! Mom said we had to go to bed early because she had to get up early to get all gussied up like girls do.

Christmas morning, Mom got up about her regular time for work days. She said she needed to get showered and dressed before Uncle H woke up because we had so many places to visit. Uncle H got up early too! We all had to go into the den to watch him and Uncle D open presents. Here is us after we first woke up with Daddy.

Uncle H and Uncle D got lots of presents! After they opened it was our turn. Mimi got us some bully sticks!!!! Does it get any better than that? I think not. She also got Sis a zebra print shirt with her first initial on it in pink. Girls!

Here me chewing on our bully sticks from Mimi!

Here is Rascal with the monkey Skinneezz we gave him. He was happy and squeaking away!

More bully stick chewing.

Mom and Dad got stuff from Mimi too but it was just stoopid hooman stuff. The only thing we were excited about was a nice warm coat Mama got. It's perfect to wrap us up in when we get cold!

We had to hurry and leave Mimi's after we opened our presents because we had to go see Dad's family. Mama got us all dressed in our Christmas outfits that our aunt Susan made (and Sis wore the necklace that aunt Nadine made) and we headed to Grandma's house. Mom and Dad got a bunch of stuff that we don't care about because it is hooman stuff. But Mom did get some socks and we LOVE Mom's socks! We gave Beemer and Jewels some purty blankets with their names embroidered on them. Mom said it would keep them warm. Hey, we are ALL for warm blankets! We are Chihuahuas after all.

Mom and Dad ate a little breakfast with them, and didn't give us any. Then it was time to go to Nanny S's house. We were there early though. Mom and Dad had to wait on the breakfast to get there. When it got there though they didn't let us have any, of course. So we had to snoop around for some yummy foodables.

Uh oh! BUSTED!

Getting lovin' from Uncle D.

Do you see me lovin' on P in the bottom right of this picture? The kids were waiting to open their presents and I was giving kisses!

Hey Mom, can I get up there with you and Sis?

Checking out our gifts from B. I smell bones and treats!!!

Hey Bubba, what you got there??

MB lovin' on handsome boy!

Lovin' on Daddy.

The hoomans were doing another Chinese Christmas thing and I had to investigate.

After Nanny S's, it was time to go to Nanny N's. We love Nanny N's house because she always gives us something yummy! Nanny N got us a Christmas present! She gave us some traveling bowls. Here they are.

Then Mom and Dad had to open their hooman gifts. We tried to wait patiently but crumbs on the floor were calling our names!

Then Nanny broke down and gave us something yummy. She's such a sucker for our sweet, sad faces!

After Nanny's house, we had to go back to Mimi's house because where Mom and Dad were going next we were allowed. They were going to Dad's grandma's house and she doesn't like animals no matter how big or small. So we hung out with Mimi and Uncle H while Mommy and Daddy were gone. They came back after a little while to feed us then headed off again to somewhere we couldn't go. But they didn't stay very long and came back to take a picture with us. Mom was exhausted and so were we!

It was a LONG day for us, but we had fun giving kisses and playing with all the kids. And of course we loved going to Nanny N's and getting something yummy. We had a furry nice Christmas. Our favorite gifts are our pawesome bed from Mom and Dad and the bully sticks from Mimi!

We hope you all had great Christmases. Oh and we forgot to tell you, we got ANOTHER new bed! Yep, we have a new big bed. Well...new mattresses (that's what Mom calls them). Mom and Dad had this new bed delivered on Tuesday and we LOVE it! Mom said it isn't finished yet because they are building the rest of it but it seems to work just fine for us! BOL!

Side note: Mom got a new bloggy look too! If you want to check it out, hop on over there and see her snazzy new look. You can also see some of the hooman pictures from our Christmas festivities there too.

Wordless Wednesday

2010-01-06T10:51:00.001-05:00

New Look

2010-01-04T14:21:00.002-05:00

We know we have been promising to post the second part to our Christmas Loot post for a week now and still haven't delivered. We are sorry! We will get the pictures up soon though.

Have you noticed the new look for our blog? What do you think?

Oh and HAPPY NEW YEAR!

Wordless Wednesday

2009-12-30T12:55:00.000-05:00

Christmas Loot: Part 1

2009-12-28T16:14:00.000-05:00

Whew...what a crazy holiday weekend we had! Christmas Day was CRAZY for us. We had about a million places to go! But, we got to open lots of pressies! Woo hoo! We figured we'd start off by showing you our Christmas at home. We had to exchange presents with Mom and Dad on Wednesday morning because that was our last day at home before traveling to see Mimi and the rest of our family. Mom and Dad made it a tradition that we open our Christmas presents on our last day at home together.

Want to see what we got?

A NEW BED!!!!

Okay, so yeah, we already knew we were getting a new bed but we were still furry excited!

And two beautiful new harnesses!
Checking out the beautiful new bed.

Hmm...it smells like Hairy Winston!

Posin' with the snazzy new harnesses.

What a handsome devil!

And such a gorgeous little lady!

Mom and Dad didn't get us any clothes, treats, or toys. Can you believe that??!! Mom says it's 'cause we don't need any clothes, treats, or toys since we have plenty, but we say we NEED toys and treats! We are furry grateful for our gorgeous new bed that is super warm, soft, and comfy, and our pretty and comfy new harnesses from Park Avenue Dogs but we deserve toys and treats too, don't you think? BOL!

What did Mom and Dad get? A bunch of stupid hooman stuff we could care less about. But Mom went bonkers over this:

And Dad went nutso over this:

This is what we think about that:

More Christmas Loot pictures to come!

Merry Christmas Ya'll

2009-12-25T00:01:00.001-05:00

Christmas 2008 Pictures

2009-12-23T10:40:00.004-05:00

Last year Mom made us get dressed up, trek out to the beach, and take some pictures in the cold. Since we didn't have a blog then, we never shared them with you guys. But, we thought you might appreciate them as some are pretty funny and of course we are both too stinkin' cute, as Mom says.

The last one is Mom's favorite. It was an "outtake" picture but it turned out so cute that Mom had to have it.

We had a photo shoot (just the two of us) this passed weekend but Mom says we can't share the pictures yet. Soon though. :) Maybe tomorrow since we won't be on at all on Christmas Day.

By the way, we DID get to open our presents this morning since it is our last day at home before we go out of town. We got a new bed and new harnesses with matching leashes! We will share the pictures after Christmas.

It's Christmas Week!!!

2009-12-22T14:19:00.000-05:00

Hey furiends,

We wanted to pop in and let you all know that you may not hear from us much this week. Mom has been pretty busy at work trying to get stuff shipped before the holidays and her evenings are full of packing for our trip to Mimi's for Christmas. You probably won't hear from us tomorrow since it will be Mom's last day at work before we head out of town. She has Christmas Eve off which is great for us!

Tomorrow morning we get to open our presents! It has been a tradition since Mom and Dad got married that we all open gifts at home on our morning home before traveling for the holidays. Since we are heading out of town tomorrow night, we get to open everything tomorrow morning! We'll be sure to get Mom to post pictures of that soon. Tomorrow night we have to load all the presents into the car, make sure all of our stuff is packed and load it in the car, and then drive to Mom & Dad's hometown. Our first stop is Dad's Mom's house. We have dinner and a Chinese Christmas exchange with Dad's Dad's side of the family. Then, it is off to Mimi's. Today is Mimi's birthday. Mom says that Mimi is 40 years old today. Shhh....don't tell her we told!!! Since we won't get to see Mimi today, we will give her the birthday gift that we all got her tomorrow night.

Then Christmas Eve day we hope to have Mommy (and Daddy too) all to ourselves! Since she doesn't have to work and we don't have to be anywhere until 5, we are hoping to spend most of the day with her. Mommy mentioned something about a haircut but we are going to convince her not to go and stay home with us! Christmas Eve night we are supposed to go to Mom's cousin's house for dinner with Mom's Papa D's side of the family. Mom normally takes us along so we are hoping we get to go this year even though it is at a different place than normal.

Christmas Day is going to be CRAZY! We have a million places to go and a billion people to see! We start off by helping our Uncle H and Uncle D open their presents from us and everyone and check out their Santa presents. We get to open our presents from Mimi too. Then we have to go to our other grandma's house to open presents from them and to give them our gifts we got them. Then it is off to Nanny S's, where all the little hoomans open their presents and the big hoomans do some sort of Christmas in China. (Note from Mom: That would be a Chinese Christmas exchange.) They all eat breakfast and then it is off to Nanny N's house to open presents and give them their presents. Then, we have to go back to Mimi's and hang out with Rascal while Mom and Dad go to Dad's grandma's house. We aren't allowed at her house. :( Mom and Dad eat, AGAIN, open presents, and then come home to us. Mom said this year they have one more place to go on Christmas night and we can't go there either! Step-grandpa's Mom and Dad won't let us go in their house either. But that's okay because their house is just down the road from Mimi's and Mom promised they won't be there long.

The rest of the weekend shouldn't be too eventful. Mom mentioned coming home on Saturday evening instead of Sunday so she can take advantage of some of the after-Christmas sales for more decorations for next year. We would like coming home early because there is just too much going on at Mimi's with Uncle D, Uncle H, and Rascal all there!

We do have some pictures we wanted to share with you but Mom hasn't had a chance to get them straight for us so we may not get to it until later, but we'll try!

Merry Christmas to you all! We hope Santa Paws is good to you!

Takin' It Easy

2009-12-14T13:19:00.005-05:00

Hi furiends,

Not much to report from this weekend. We just sort of took it easy with Mom and Dad. Since they had already finished their Christmas shopping they really didn't have anything to do. Well, I should say Mom finished her Christmas shopping but Dad didn't until Sunday. Mom took him to the jewelry store on Saturday and showed him some things that she likes. We stayed at home in our bed. It was rainy out and we're not too fond of the rain.

We did go to Hairy Winston on Saturday. We got to see Ms. Jennie, Ms. Donna, Ms. Chris, Winston, and Sophie. If we had gotten there just a few minutes earlier we would have gotten to see Rigby. That made us sad but then Ms. Jennie gave us treats and we forgot all about it. Mom wanted to get us some new shampoo and conditioner since the winter weather is drying out Lexi's skin. We normally use a Bio-Groom oatmeal shampoo but then we realized that the oatmeal dries out the skin! Ms. Jennie pointed out to Mom that you always do an oatmeal bath when you have chicken pox or poison ivy (Dad is very familiar with this) to dry out the sores. Mom had a duh moment. But it's okay because we still love her no matter what. Hairy Winston has a nice selection of shampoo and conditioners so Mom talked to Ms. Jennie about each one. They decided we should go with the Relaxing formula of Cloud Star Buddy Wash. It contains green tea and bergamot. Mom says it smells good. I guess we don't mind it so much.

While we were there, Mom saw a doggie bed that she just fell in love with. It is white and black damask print. It is nice and soft! Ms. Jennie let us try it out to see what size we needed and the fabric is velvety and nice. We tried the small and the medium. While the small was probably the perfect size for the both of us, Mom liked all the extra room in the medium. So, she picked up a new bed for us as a Christmas present! She let us check it out when we got home but said we can't actually use it until Christmas. That's why she didn't take any pictures yet either.

We had to leave Hairy Winston when we started acting up, as Mom calls it. A couple of furry big doggies came in since Lexi started fussing at them, I had to back her up and fuss at them too. Mom and Dad hid our heads from seeing them but we would catch a glimpse every now and then and wouldn't settle down. So Mom decided it was time to go. She didn't know what had gotten into us. We're not sure either. She was furry surprised at me because I'm always a good boy. But I guess not on Saturday!

Note from Mom: They weren't that bad. Lexi grumbled and barked a little at the two dogs that came in. She is intimidated by bigger dogs I think. Bentley did surprise us because although it isn't unusual for him to back Lexi up, it is unusual for him not to settle down and be his normal sweet self toward the dogs.

We spent Saturday night and most of Sunday snuggled with Mom and Dad watching Christmas movies. We did make a trip to the mall on Sunday afternoon to pick up a present for Mom's friend. We stayed in the car with Mom while Dad ran in for her and picked up the present they were holding for her. The rest of Sunday we spent cuddled with Mom on the couch. She got one of those nasty ole my grains and we had to make her feel better.

Sunday evening we got a bath! We knew it wasn't supposed to be bath day but it was. Normally we only get a bath once a month, but Mom said Sis' skin was dry and she wanted to use the new shampoo and conditioner to see if it would help. Plus, I got a little dirty outside in the backyard. It had been raining most of the day so my chest was a bit dirty. The new shampoo and condition smells really good. It eased Mom's my grains, which is a near miracle! After bath it was bedtime. We snuggled in close and were as snug as bugs in a rug!

Awards

2009-12-11T17:51:00.004-05:00

We apologize as we are furry late on posting these awards.

Our loveable Schnauzer furiends Nellie and Calvert, our adorable Poodle furiends Mollie Jo & Bobo, and those cutie patootie Piappies have shared the Best Blog Award with us. Furiends, we thank you for thinking of us for this award! It is pawesome.

Our little darling of a Dachshund furiend, Sadie, shared the Circle of Friends award with us. Thanks Sadie! We are furry honored to be your furiend!

Mollie Jo and Bobo also gave us this "You're A Blessing" award. Awww...thanks guys! We think your furiendship is a blessing too!

Since these awards have been around the blogoshphere a time or two, most, if not all, of our furiends already have it. However, if you are a follower or we follow you, please feel free to take these award if you do not have them. In fact, we WANT you to take them! We think all of your blogs are great and that you all are wonderful furiends.

If you gave us an award and we didn't post about it here, we are furry sorry. We still have A LOT of Google Reader clearing to do!

Update on our Grandma

2009-12-10T18:07:00.002-05:00

Our grandma has been released from the hospital! You can read more about it, if you'd like, at Mom's blog. We want to thank you for your prayers for our grandma. We hope that this is the end of her medical issues. Thanks for all of the wonderful support you have shown us and our family!

Christmas Outfits

2009-12-10T16:36:00.007-05:00

When we returned home from visiting Mimi and the rest of our family for Thanksgiving, there was a package that the mailman brought for us while we were gone! We love getting packages in the mail because they normally contain yummy goodies for us! Well, this package, Mom said, was from our Aunt Susan and cousins Max and Dottie. They are our Chihuahua cousins that we met at ClubChihuahua. Our Aunt Susan is an ace with a sewing machine! She makes furry nice, comfy, and cute clothes.

Inside the package was a Christmas dress, a Christmas vest, and a lovely, sparkly necklace. The necklace was from our Aunt Nadine and cousins Chewy and Lilibell. Aunt Nadine made a beautiful necklace to match Lexi's dress. Of course Mom couldn't wait to try the new Christmas outfits and necklace on us!

Here is what was in the box.

Don't our Auntie Susan and Auntie Nadine do great work? Our Auntie Susan has an Etsy site and our Auntie Nadine will be setting herself up online to sell her necklaces after the holidays! We will let you know where you can find her once we know!

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We still don't have an update on our grandma. Things are still kind of up in the air for her right now. She did have some tests done this morning and everything looked okay but the doctors have not been back in to see her yet today so we do not know how they want to proceed. We will update you when we have some new information. We would appreciate it if you would continue to keep her and our family in your prayers. Thank you.

Our Weekend with Rascal

2009-12-09T14:30:00.000-05:00

On Friday we told you guys that our uncle Rascal was going to be staying with us for the weekend. And we posted some pictures of us from Thursday night. So, now to continue the story of Rascal's weekend at our house.

Thursday night was pretty uneventful like we told you on Friday. Rascal was excited to see us and we were excited to see him too. He slept good, which is unusual when he comes to our house, but he did want to get up a lot earlier than us. Mom wasn't thrilled about that and was hoping it would get better. And, for the most part, it did.

Friday was pretty uneventful too. We got to play with Rascal all day while Mom and Dad were at work. We were glad when they got home though. Rascal tried to steal all of our Mommy's kisses first but Mommy kindly told him that because it is our house and we are her babies she has to love us first to keep the peace. And she was right. I do not like having my position in the pack challenged! And you all know that I AM one fiesty Southern Chihuahua. Then, Mommy said the magic words: Hairy Winston! She dressed us in our new Christmas outfits that our Auntie Susan sent us (you'll see these in another post) and we headed on our way.

Miss Jennie was there with Winston and Sophie. Winston and Sophie aren't used to seeing us with Rascal so Sophie barked a greeting to him. We saw one of the ladies who's MinPin/Chihuahua mix Cafe was in the Hairy Winston Fashion Show with us. Cafe and her sister Georgiana weren't there with their Mommy but we could smell them on her!

As much as we love to go to Hairy Winston just to see the nice ladies, to see Winston and Sophie, to get yummy treats, and just to hang out, we did have a purpose for being there. Mimi needed us to get some bully sticks for her, we needed some of our super long bully sticks, and Mommy had to show Miss Jennie Bentley's car safety harness. Last weekend when Mommy was putting Bentley's harness on him she noticed that one of the metal rings that holds it together was messed up. It wasn't a solid ring like the one on mine. It had a gap in it. So Mom showed it to Miss Jennie and she called the company. Mom said they are sending a replacement harness for Bentley. Thank doG it held up through the accident in October.

After some more treats and kisses for Miss Jennie, it was time to go back home. The rest of the night was very uneventful and we headed to bed early. Mom said they had a big day of shopping ahead of them. We knew that meant we would be staying home with Rascal. And we were right.

Saturday morning Mom and Dad woke up, got showered and dressed, and disappeared for hours. We DO NOT like it when they leave us alone on the weekend. We know they aren't supposed to leave on Saturday and Sunday and we let them know that we know how it's really supposed to be. But when they returned they promised they wouldn't have to do it again. Mom said they got all of their Christmas shopping done and wouldn't need to spend any more days shopping for Christmas presents. Yay!

Mom had to leave shortly after they got back from shopping though. She had some sort of party at a friend's house. But Dad stayed behind with us. Mom wanted to take me but wasn't sure if I would be a bad girl and try to get food off of everyone's plates. It's probably better that I stayed with Dad though because I can assure you I would have tried to steal me some yummies! While she was gone we helped Dad get all the Christmas stuff out and straighten up the house a little. We were all ready for bed when Mom got back.

Sunday after breakfast we helped Mom and Dad decorate the house. Here we are supervising the decorating process.

Mom had a hard time when she put up this ornament. This is our brother's ornament. He crossed over the Rainbow Bridge in November 2007. It still makes my Mom's heart hurt. Her eyes started leaking and we got up quick, fast, and in a hurry to kiss her tears away. We did a good job too because we made her laugh and smile.

Last Christmas, our step-Mimi had two ornaments made for us. She had my nickname printed on mine instead of my actual name but that's okay because I am used to hearing Lexi more often than Lexus. Mom only calls me Lexus when I'm in trouble.

After decorating (we'll share our decorations another day), it was time for a little outside fun.

I had to make sure there weren't any of those pesky squirrels in the neighbors yard. Or else I would have had to chase him down like I did last time.

Then we decided Mom needed help opening the door.

We spent some cuddle time with Mom and Dad before they slipped out for a few minutes to go pick up one last Christmas present. Then when they got home it was back outside for some more fun!

Bubba was looking for those pesky squirrels in the neighbor's yard too. I don't think he found any though because he didn't go chasing after them.

Mom wrapped Christmas presents while we watched until it was time to go meet Santa Claus. She got us all gussied up in one of our Christmas outfits, then off to the Towne Center we went.

Mom let Rascal wear Bentley's first Christmas sweater. Bentley was so tiny that first Christmas that the sweater barely fit him but it fits Rascal furry well.

This is me stylin' and profilin'!

You've already seen our photo with Santa so we won't post it again. We had a nice weekend with Mom and Dad and with Rascal too I guess. Rascal caught on to our sleeping schedule much better after that first night. He was a good boy Mama said, except for peeing and pooping wherever he wanted to. Mimi said he doesn't like change. I guess we can understand that because we always have to investigate when Mom or Dad moves things around. Mom says Rascal is a dog that needs a set schedule.

We had fun playing with Rascal but we were glad when he went home. He is exhausting!

So that was our weekend. We found out last night that our grandma (Dad's mom) is sick. Mom said not to divulge any specifics just yet until we are certain but we would like to ask you to keep her and our family in your prayers furiends.

We Met Santa Claus!

2009-12-08T11:51:00.000-05:00

Did you know that the man who delivers our presents on Christmas Eve night was right here in Charleston just last night? Yep, he was! Somehow Mom found out and took us to go meet him and have our picture taken with him! Rascal got to tag along too and Mommy had his picture taken with Santa too for Mimi.

There were a lot of other dogs there in line in front of us. Sis fussed at the big ole Bouvier that was in front of us a couple of times but Mama got her to quiet down. My sister is SUCH a drama queen. It was furry cold and despite having a sweater on, I was shivering. Dad was trying to help us keep warm but he was cold too. Mom seemed to be comfortable though. She had on this really thick, soft, fuzzy sweater. She had Sis and she didn't seem to be shivering as much as I was.

We waited in line for an hour to get our picture taken. I think if Mom had known the wait was that long we would have gone back home where it is warm. But, it was finally our turn and Mom handed us over to Santa. He was furry warm! All that nice, soft red velvet was super comfy. He snuggled us in each arm and we tried to smile for the camera but Mom kept saying "snack" and distracted us from smiling. But, I think we got a good picture, don't you?

It was so cool meeting Santa Claus. He was a very nice man and super warm!

Oh wait, what's that Mom? Oh, he wasn't the real Santa Claus? He was just one of Santa's helpers? Oh, well, it was furry cool meeting Santa's helper! He was nice and warm!

We are trying to get a post together about our weekend with Rascal as our houseguest. So look for that tonight or tomorrow...that is, if Mom doesn't get too busy. We also want to share our Christmas decorations. We helped Mom and Dad decorate this weekend too and everything is furry purty. There are lots of presents under the tree and now we just need to figure out which ones are ours! BOL!

We Have A Visitor

2009-12-04T08:33:00.004-05:00

Yep, you guessed it. Rascal has come to stay with us for the weekend. And just when we thought we'd get a break from him! BOL. Mimi had to go out of town and couldn't take Rascal along so we are babysitting for her. Dad picked him up on his way home from work and brought him to our house.

Last night wasn't so bad. He slept pretty good but we did have to let him know he couldn't sleep in our favorite spots next to Mommy and Daddy. But he was able to find a spot all his own so it worked out great. Mom did get a little annoyed with him this morning though because he woke up early and kept trying to get her up. By tomorrow we think he'll have the schedule figured out.
He will be staying with us through Monday morning and then Dad will take him back to Mimi's house. We think Mom is going to have her hands full with all three of us this weekend trying to finish her Christmas shopping AND decorate the house! BOL

And we will leave you with a few pictures of us playing with Rascal last night. As you can probably see, Mom is REALLY enjoying playing with her early Christmas present (the camera) and will probably take tons of pictures of us this weekend.

We hope you all have a wonderful weekend! We probably won't be blogging this weekend but we hope to get all caught up on reading your blogs so that we can start fresh with commenting on Monday! See you then!

Our Turkey Day Weekend

2009-12-02T15:21:00.000-05:00

We tried to post this yesterday but Blogger was being stupid. So it is going to be a Wednesday full of Words today!

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We had a furry busy long weekend! We got to spend lots of time with Mom and Dad, so that was great! Also Mom got a new flashy box so she took lots of pictures of us and of all the little and big hoomans we saw this weekend.

Wednesday night we headed to Mimi's house. We stopped by our other Grandma's house on the way so Dad could talk to Grandpa and so we could see Beemer! He was furry excited to see us. When we got to Mimi's house, Rascal, Uncle H, and Uncle D were excited to see us too. But Rascal wasn't feeling very well though. He had been having tummy issues. But don't worry, Mommy helped Mimi make his upset tummy better. It was late when we got to Mimi's so it was almost bedtime. Mom decided to play around with her new flashy box before going to bed so she took some pictures of us chewing on our bully sticks.

Thursday was a big day for us. We had a couple of places to go and lots of people to see. Mom spent most of the morning in the kitchen making some pumpkin thing and we were sure to stay around her feet just in case she dropped something! When the pumpkin thing was done it was time to get in the car and go to Nanny N's house.

In the carseat ready to go to Nanny's.

The view from Nanny's porch.

Another angle.

Mama, watch me go!

You rang?

This is Nanny's yard. Lots of stuff to pee on!

The newest addition to the family. Unfortunately, he didn't want to play with us.

Here we are helping Nanny and Aunt C in the kitchen.

Don't worry Nanny, we'll clean the floor for you!

Here we are with Mom and Dad right before it was time for us to go.

After we left Nanny's it was time to go see Dad's family. They have a big Turkey Day get-together outside with lots of yummy food. Of course Mom was a meanie and didn't let us have any but at least she let us go with them! We stayed with Mom and Dad until it started to get too cold then they made us all snuggly in our carseat with blankets while they ate. We made sure to give everyone kisses before that though. Mom and Dad ate pretty quickly since neither of them were very hungry and then it was back to Mimi's!

We were pooped after such a long day and after seeing and kisses so many peoples. We just wanted to curl up in our blankets and go to sleep!

After making a point of snuggling in our blankets in front of Mom, we finally convinced her it was bedtime. Thanks goodness.

Friday morning we spent some time with Mom before she left us with Mimi to go meet her friend for lunch. When she got back she got out our bag and we got furry excited! We knew we were going somewhere. She put our sweaters on us and took us outside for a quick potty before getting in the car.

We weren't sure where we were going but that was okay because we were with Mommy! About ten minutes after we started on our way, we stopped. We were at the farm to meet Daddy! Daddy started putting a bunch of stuff in the car then he got in and into the woods we went. We went deer-watching with Daddy. But, we didn't see any deer. Guess what we did see!

Need some help? How about this?

Yep, you guessed it! We saw an owl. A BIG owl. Thank goodness Mom had her new flashy box or else she never would have gotten a good enough picture. She said she has a super zooming lens, whatever that means. Shortly after we saw the owl though it was time to go back to Mimi's. We had a long day ahead of us the next day.

Saturday was the family reunion AND it was game day. So, of course, Mom got us all decked out in our team colors.

We headed to the farm where we were to see lots of Dad's family and watch the game. Here are the hoomans gathered around the tv.

This is the Gamecock our Grandma had made. Yep, that's a Tiger tail in his mouth. It was our state's biggest rivalry game, USC vs. Clemson (that's University of South Carolina for those of you who aren't familiar).

We (USC) won the game! Our Mom's Dad was furry upset about it too!

These are the two newest additions to the family. The furry one is Lulu, a Malti-Poo.

After the game, the little hoomans had a sack race, a three-legged race, a pie-eating contest, and turkey shoot. (Don't worry furiends, they weren't actually shooting turkeys. That's what we thought at first too but turns out they were just shooting at a paper target.)

Here is our Dad waiting for the turkey shoot to begin.

Here is Lulu playing at the farm.

Mom says she's cute. We're still deciding.

After all the little hoomans' activities, we took a picture with Mom and Dad.

Then it was time for the hooman's cornhole tournament. It was getting dark so Mom didn't get any pictures of that but we watched it for a long time since Dad was playing in it. It took 7 hours to complete it. We mostly sat by the fire with Mom snuggled in our blankets but after a while Mom decided to go inside and she took us with her. You see Mom got sick on Fridany afternoon and had the sniffles and a sore throat all weekend. She thinks my grandma (Dad's Mom) or Aunt K (Dad's sister) gave it to her. We stayed close and cuddled with her until the cornhole tournament was over. Dad and Uncle C won again this year! Go Daddy!

Mom was relieved when it was over so we could all go home and get in bed. We made sure to snuggle extra with her to make her feel better.

Sunday morning we hung around Mimi's and cuddled with Mom. She and Dad had to go to Dad's grandma's house for Sunday dinner so we stayed with Mimi and helped her decorate. Then, when Mom and Dad got back, it was time to come home. Boy were we glad to get home!

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We are sorry for being so absent lately furiends. The holidays are hectic for Mom and Dad and us too. But we want you all to know that we are trying furry hard to catch up on all your blogs. Our Google Reader is at 475 right now which is why we havne't been commenting or posting as much as normal. And Mom is too OCD to mark them all as read when they haven't been read. So we will continue to plow through in hopes of catching up.

Also, we got some sad news last night. Our Dad's cousin, who is also the owner of the business Dad works for, lost his dog yesterday morning. Jessie was a JRT who was super smart and furry sweet. He was a dog who listened furry well to his hooman and was well-loved by many, including our Dad. He was hit by a car yesterday morning. Mom says this just goes to show you that no matter how much you think you can trust your dog to stay in the yard, you never really know what will entice them out of it and into the road. We are all subject to our urges anyway. So, in the interest of keeping all of our furiends safe, please where your collars/harnesses and leashes when outside of your house or a fenced-in yard. We would hate to lose any one of you because you are all so furry dear to us.

We will see you again over the Rainbow Bridge one day Jessie dog. Please keep our brother Tiny, our sister Prissy, and our uncle Dan company for us.

Happy Turkey Day!

2009-11-26T10:35:00.000-05:00

Oh and HAPPY BIRTHDAY to our Grandpa too!