CAN YOU SAY BUSY?

Hi everyone, sorry I have been missing for a few week, but we have been so busy here!  As you all know we have some guests move in for about 6 months and it is a big change for us emptynesters and a big change for the poor doggies!  There is no such thing as quiet time!

We have baby furniture again...we haven't had any in this house for years, since our youngest is going to be 20.

 

The doggies spend there time under or around the table 3 times a day since my grandson thinks its funny to drop food, so now the doggies are banned from the dining room until after meal time, otherwise I will have some pretty fat, unhealthy dogs in 6 months!  That's pretty much all for now, gotta run!  Theres always so much to do when you have kids and dogs in the same house.

 

Papa is such a good bedtime story teller





NOT SO EMPTYNEST ANYMORE

We had this great life after the 5 kids moved out.  After years of raising children, there was some ME time and I could come and go as I pleased.  I got a few doggies (OK, six ), the kids and grand kids would visit and go home...I just gotta say again it was great!  But to make along story short.....we have kids again.

 

My daughter, her husband and 2 children (and cat) needed a place to stay for 6 months while they wait on there new house and while it may take a little getting used too,( it could be a long 6 months, or a short 6 months) I'm sure we will have great memories, (once its over).

 

The dogs already got the baby figured out!  They know if they wait long enough she will drop something.  Id be scared if I seen 5 dogs surround my chair while I was eating!

Playtime for the doggies is all day now

 

And the pups have to share there chair and there daddy!

 

So yes, we will all be adjusting (and the poor cat will have to get used to dogs chasing her) and gramma will have to give up her FREE time for now, but for these cute faces I would give up anything!(except the hubby or the doggies, or the other kids)

 



 



A GIRLS BEST FRIEND

 

A LITTLE AUTUMN FUN

Can you believe that it is October and the thermometer said this...

 

Yes your seeing that correctly...it was a beautiful fall day!  How about a little fall fun!

How about a little stick chewing....or

 

digging threw the leaves that mom just raked and spreading them all over again...or

 

doggie football

or

 

birdwatching

or

a little refreshment for mom(hehe)

Moscato anyone?

Then the sky turned dark

and this happened.....

 

Yes, we had a cold front come threw, but we sure had a great autumn day!

 

 

 



WARM FUZZY FEELINGS

I have to say, we are some pretty lucky pups!  First we get the new bed  that was amazing to sleep on in the summer...so cool and refreshing...now we get this new fuzzy, warm cover for it so we can be warm and cozy for winter

 

Yup, that me on there!  Doesn't that even look warm?

 

Thanks parents!  Oh and one more thing....

 

SURPRISE!

Our favorite girl in the WHOLE WORLD came for a sleepover, she really likes our fuzzy cover too!  Now doesn't that make you feel warm and fuzzy all over?

 



SEPTEMBER CAMPING

Originally we were planning a weekend camping trip for my husband and I and the 6 dogs, but....when my daughter offered to dog sit for the weekend I of course jumped at it!  I was really glad, since it rained the first night from about 6 to midnight and it wouldn't of been good having 6 wet dogs in a tent with us....2 was enough.

 

 Yes my husband was trying to disguise himself as a dog here.  He picked up that great hat at the camp store.

Poor Rudy warming up under his blankey after the rain

 

Tucker likes to just lounge on the ground on his blanket, he was exhausted after going swimming

and sniffing in the woods with Rudy

 

The best part of camping is the perked coffee in the woods on a cool crisp morning...it doesn't get any better then that.

 



coffees perking

living the dream!

 

 

 



WORDLESS WEDNESDAY



TUCKER THE JUMPER

I THINK I SEEN HIM OVER HERE

WHERES THAT RASCALLY RABBIT

I THINK HE WENT THIS WAY

Our Brittany spaniel thinks hes a deer instead of a dog and can jump over any obstacle's in his way!

2012 FAST APPROACHING

The New Year is fast approaching, not that it matters to the doggies.  As long as they have their food, water and a little love, they don't care what year it is.

My husband and I don't go out for new years, since we have had 6 dogs we spend most of our spare time with them(kids and grand kids too)Our dogs are our family and they do protest, quite loudly I might add when we leave without them.  Sometimes we do need to do things on our own though, so they have to get over it!

I'm thinking I'm going to have a new years resolution of not spending so much time with the dogs in 2012....Right as if that's going to happen. They could never survive without following me around the house as I dust and vacuum, wash the floors, hopping on the furniture to ride as I try to move it,or laying on the bed as I try to make it.  Yeah, I guess you could say we are pretty attached to each other.

 2011 has been a great year for us and I hope my loyal canine friends stay healthy and happy in 2012!

Rudy says happy new year everybody! 

  

CAVALIER CHRISTMAS

     The doggies sure had a great time opening there gifts, so we thought we'd share the video!
                                        Merry Christmas and a Happy New Year everybody

ANOTHER GREAT DAY!

Couldn't have asked for a nicer day to finish up the fall yard work.  The temps hovered in the mid 70s and it was another short sleeved shirt day.  I had set a makeshift fence up by the pond to keep the dogs out of that area, so they could be in the yard with me.  I weeded and cut down old dried out summer plants but kept a few black eyed susans still standing in the garden, just for a little color.

The dogs had a blast!  They usually aren't allowed to go into my "Good Yard" as we call it, for fear of trampled plants or them eating something they are not suppose to.  I made an exception since the plants were mostly done for the year anyway and the dog toxic plants were already cut down.  They sampled herbs from the herb garden, sniffed and pee'd on everything and grazed on grass like they were a herd of cattle in a pasture. They rolled on the ground in sheer delight.

I was one hour into cutting down old vegetation and everything was good with the dogs up until then.  One by one they decided they had had enough sniff in the flower yard and would like to try a sniff of the pond area. That area was restricted to them since I still had beautiful fall flowers blooming there and also rhubarb plants which are toxic to dogs. I shooed the first one out only to turn around and have to say over and over "come", "good come", "and stay out of there now"!  At least my so called helpers were obedient ones.

I decided to coax the dogs back to their yard with the bribe of a treat and lock the gates behind them.  They'd follow me anywhere for a carrot.  I decided to carry on with my yard work on my own, while the tired dogs lounged in the nice warm sun.  It was great to have them spend the time with me but tomorrow when I do it again I will make sure there are no holes in the fence!