I Turned One Today!

Yes, 365 days ago I entered the world, much to everyone's surprise (and I nearly didn't make it).

We had a low-key celebration, which was just fine by me since I don't like having a fuss made over me.

Check out my party hat, courtesy Girl Twin and her friend Alex

These were my pressies

Yuuuuu-mmeeeeeeeeeeee!

This was my special cake from a doggy bakery (chosen by Girl Twin, of course)

My family & friends sang Happy Birthday (boy, were they off-key!!)

I got that cake out of Girl Twin's hand lickety-split, since I didn't want to have to share (they should've gotten me a bigger cake!)...

...and proceeded to inhale it (including the crumbs).  You only turn 1 once, right?!

Waiting for Santy Paws

No, that's not doggy dandruff.  That fluffy white stuff started to fall from the sky again on Saturday.

And kept falling...and falling...and falling...

 

I was sure that meant that Santy Paws was on his way, with lots of bones and stuffies and balls for all the good doggies of the world.

There!  Up in the sky!  I see Rudolph's red nose!

No no no!!!  They're flying right over my house!  I've been a good doggy this year, Santy, I promise!  Come baaaaaaaaaaaaack!!

Lemme out!  I gotta get Santy to turn around!!!

Oops!  My bad...it was just a plane.

Thankful for You!

My human has been busy-busy-busy getting ready for something called "Thanksgiving". I know it involves turkey (and hopefully lots of scraps for moi!) and being grateful. So I would like to let you know that I am thankful for all my doggy-bloggy furiends! I've met so many nice pups since I started blogging in April and have really enjoyed getting to know each and every one of you.

So now you know why I haven't been posting in a while...I'm starting to figure out that before a major holiday or event like the kids' birthdays, my human gets all frenzied and has no time to log me onto the 'pee-yoo-ter. Just 'cuz she's hosting 16 people for a meal on Thursday (with 6 of 'em staying for the long weekend)...what's the big deal? Pick up the phone, order some pizza and you're done! But she won't listen to me...harumph.

Luckily, today she realized how much she's been neglecting me and took me on a fantastic walk in the woods, OFF LEASH!!! I was so excited to be free, free at last! It's a park she discovered when Girl Twin had a soccer game there, where dogs are allowed off leash on the wooded trails. I was very well behaved and didn't run off. If I got too far ahead of my slowpoke human, I'd turn around and wait for her to catch up. She was very pleased about that since she didn't know how I'd do the first time out. A couple times, we encountered some other dogs on the trail and she was glad I remembered my recall lessons.  I do much better with just one other dog; if two or more come up to me at once, I get a bit nervous.

A tree with trail markers.  I wanted to jump into the stream but my human nixed that idea!

A beautiful stone wall

Some gorgeous berries

Surveying the domain

When it gets warm again, my human said I could swim here!

All tuckered out from all that running around.

Happy Howl-oh-ween!

So, you know how I've been dreading Girl Twin's Howl-oh-ween "surprise" for the past couple weeks?  Well, it wasn't as bad as I'd feared!  Nuhnuh-nuhnuh-nuhnuh-nuhnuh-nuhnuh-nuhnuh-nuhnuh-nuh, BATDOG!  She and my human made this for me; what do you think?

Girl Twin was Batgirl and I was her trusty sidekick, the Dog Wonder!

Here I am with her and all her trick-or-treating friends.

Those girls were too fast for my human and Little Boy, though, so we went off on our own (Boy Twin went with his friends).  BTW, thanks for all the get-well wishes for Little Boy...he is doing much better after my TLC.  Here, I ran into my friend Truman the Firefighter.

Not many other doggies out-and-about.  Lots of people took my picture and said they wished their dog was as well-behaved as me, so they could take them trick-or-treating...that made my human furry proud!  She was a little leery of how I'd react to all the commotion & costumes.  Nothing to fear...I loved being out for an evening stroll.

So now I'm gonna go check out all my blogging buddies to see if anyone else got dressed up!

Remember to stay away from the chocolate!

Proud To Be An American

...by way of Canada, that is! Being a melting pot nation is one of the many things that make this country great.


Did you know that only a handful of dog breeds can claim to be all-American, among them:















the Boston Terrier


















the Alaskan Malamute

and the Chesapeake Bay Retriever?

My human's parents are visiting us for the holiday weekend and her mom made me some new bandanas.

Here is my patriotic one in honor of today.

Today, we're having lots of friends over for a cookout around the pool. Swimming and eating, possibly my two most favorite things in the world! Hope your holiday plans include something fun, too!

Happy Independence Day, everyone!