DOUBLE DOGGIE BIRTHDAY

We had double dog twin birthdays last week!  Sophia and sebastian turned 3 on the 5th of april and Dexter and Cooper turned 2 on the 7th.  They had ther cousin, tucker, the golden retreiver come over for a sleep over to celebrate!

Dexter and cooper waiting for tucker to come.

Tucker

Dexter and Sebastian saying hi to tucker

Tucker and our dad

We had such a good time with tucker, he got to stay for 3 days, but boy am I tired from all that playing!





WE GOT SNOW!

We did get some snow last night if that what you want to call it...just enough to cover the dirty looking ground and to make the dogs extremely excited about going out side!  The dogs seem to forget the task at hand (going Potty and eating breakfast) for eating the fresh snow instead.

yum!  fresh snow

sophia and seb fighting over the snow

Tucker doing snow removal

WHERE IS WINTER?

     I know the calendar said we are in winter right now, but it sure hasn't felt or looked alot like winter!  We did have a few inches of snow and the below zero cold snap last week, all pretty much in the same week.  It is now 38 degrees this morning and raining and yes, a wet mess from all the little dog feet.

Doggies playing in the muck which isn't very fun!

My pond was frozen, but...it rained

Mud puddles instead of snow banks

     Well I guess the doggies will just have to play with the new toys I found them until the weather gets better!

The pink ones my favorite!

Don't try and take my teddy!

I love my new toys!

     Then there's Rudy who likes to beat his brother tuckers pillow up......

Aah, I finally got my bed back!

     And how was your day?

SUNDAY SCROLLINGS

     Another Sunday, another football game!  Good food, good company( just us and the doggies ). People are crazy here when it comes to football, tailgating in the cold.. already at before dawn..in the frozen tundra of our beloved lambeau field.
    
     We love football as much as the next guy, especially when our team is 15-1 and were the superbowl champs last year....But our favorite seat for the game is on a couch covered with cavalier king charles spaniels.  Our doggies love football weekends.  They are used to the raised voices and every now and then let out a woof of there own, a crumb dropped gets tackled like a loose football on the field.

     The doggies all "dress" for the day too, with homemade Jerseys made for them by me.  Here is a video of the doggies enjoying the superbowl last year.

LIONS AND TIGERS AND BEARS, OH MY........

When my daughter decided to invite the whole family to celebrate her 22nd birthday with her with a trip to the zoo, I thought it was a great idea.  I had wanted to get to the zoo this year but there just wasn't enough time on the weekends to schedule it in.  Our in home business and our you tube videos, along with raising 6 dogs took most of our time, but family does come first.

The plan was for everyone to meet at 2:00 pm in the lobby where we paid to get in and the whole family was on there way, checking out the exhibits.  We had all the grand kids there (7) and it seemed like there was always one or two missing and we spent most of the time there trying to keep track of wayward children.  The excitement was just too much for them not to run off and see what else they could find. I held hands with what ever child needed to be slowed down a little only to have to run to keep up.  Kid legs can go pretty fast, gramma legs cant!

The hit of the whole trip was going up on the platform to feed the giraffes.  All the kids gathered around, with anticipation, to feed the leaves to the giraffes that the zoo had supplied(for a cost). It was a picture worthy moment.  We moved on to a few more exhibits to look at and papa and I decided it was time for us to go and get back home to the kids (dogs) waiting there for there supper.  We said our goodbyes, gave kisses and hugs and lined up for a group picture ( we too are picture worthy ) The zoo birthday celebration was worth its weight in gold and a wonderful idea of the birthday girl.  It was Priceless.........http://www.youtube.com/user/EmptyNesters365