it's almost Thanksgiving

and we can't wait. we know this means that we will get lost of special treats over the next few days especially since we will be having dinner with uncle crumley tonight and tomorrow. he said he's making us a special cheese and onion bake. also, late breaking news is that Aunt Jen and Uncle Ditz will be here til Sunday - woohoo. lots of extra pettins for us!!

happy birthday grandma

SAD

my new friends have left to go home. i miss you!

Way to go Phillies!

We'ze excited, because the Phillies are finally done for the year! We'ze don't like them, so we were rootin for the Giants to beat them. Now however we thinks we'ze goin to root for the Rangers along with Pappa during the world serious..... let's go Rangers!

We was tricked... and it's not even Halloween yet!!!

So last week we was just goin along, playin' in the leaves, enjoyin' the cooler days, when Momma and Poppa disappeared for a few hours. Okay, no big deal. WELL, when they came home they had visitors with them!!! So we'ze got SUPER excited, someone new to pet us, someone new to sneak us food, someone new to try to climb in bed with... Life is Good! WELL, things were good for a day. And then it happened - they all packed up and left us! Usually I know when Momma or Poppa is getting ready to abandon me - I see the suitcases and I'm a smart pup. But this time I was caught off guard because the visitors brought suitcases with them! Tricked! So now we'ze stuck in jail again... Monty really showed Aunt Corey how we feel about this by gettin sick all over the place, but she still hasn't let us go home! The only good part was that theys had some people over on Friday for dinner who really liked to rub my belly - maybe they'll come back soon??? In the mean time, at least Maddy still loves us and Aunt Corey takes us for walks, but Momma and Poppa had better hurry home soon or theres gonna be trouble!

happy birthday maddy!

happy birthday aunt corey

happy birthday lauren

and she off again

Momma leave tonight for Dublin and then is in Amsterdam next week. Party time w/ Poppa starts as he soon as he gets back from dropping her off! The icy cream truck been here since the weekend but today it was like he knew Momma was leaving. We just got us a nice big cone! Yummy. Love you Momma - we'll miss you.

rumor has it

Poppa will be home today. We'ze love this new door cause we'ze get to look outside all day.

Monte has been on the look out since morning!

wonderin'

... when Poppa will be home.

We're settling back into normal life (for now). Momma is back and picked us up from Grandma and Grandpa's on Saturday. It's nice being home again. Last night, we went over to Aunt Corey's for dinner. At the end of dinner we took a walk that I'ze was sure was going to last forever. But it had a happy ending. ICE CREAM! We even got to go up to the window at the store and order our very own cones!! Thanks Aunt Corey!

What is going on?

So mamma left for Europe again last week, and it was P-A-R-T-Y time with Pappa home alone.... we'ze loved it... but THEN! On Thursday night, he'z asked us if we'ze wanted to go for a ride.... and as everyone knows, we LOVE going for rides in the car.... although we thought it a bit odd he was packing our bowls, and tons of treats, and some toys... we'ze shudda known.... well... we'ze drove for about an hour, and then we'ze was at GRAMMA and GRANDPA's house! Yeah! we'ze love visitin, and we'ze hadn't seen them in a while..... And then it happened.... Pappa snuck out on us! He'ze didn't even stay for the delicious dinner grandma made.... (he did give us treats, we'ze should have picked up on that!)... so Grandpa told us we'ze here for the week on vacation.... which is cool... we'ze luvin it.... we're going to the reservoir with cousin Gordan for nice walks... and you know we'ze love our walks... Monte promptly found the garbage can when grandma and grandpa went to sleep, so needless to say he'ze gotten a little sicky like he's prone to do sometimes.... but we're enjoyin our time here, it's a very nice change!

Slip N Slide

We had fun with the Crumley's yesterday. Even Poppa, Momma and Uncle Crum joined in the fun.

Momma leaves today for two weeks. We're sad!!

Big sleepover

tonight. Lauren, Maddy and our friend Cole will be here. Cole arrived early this morning and we all went for a stroll in the park together. Lauren and Maddy will be here later. I can't wait. That means lots of food droppings!

the icy cream

truck was here. We were very excited when we heard his music because he hasn't come around in weeks! Momma told him we were missing out icy cream so hopefully he will be back tomorrow.

Oh no

spoke to soon. momma will be away for two weeks starting next Sunday.

Woo Hoo

He's Dead!!! Poppa is very excited today. Steinbrenner is dead and he can resume routing for the Yankees. Monte and I are very excited also but not because of Steinbrenner. We're excited because Momma and Poppa are both home for the next three weeks! Yippee

The dog days of summer

are upon us. Momma's been walking us in the morning so that we don't need to get too hot. We'ze like that but we is missing our usual evening walking buddies. And it doesn't seem like there's a lot of puppas out there in the morning. That's probably because not all puppas are as lucky as us to have a Momma that works from home. Poppa has been away for work last week and this week. We'ze can't wait to see him on Saturday. We hear he is bringing Momma some cupcakes. I hope he brings us some too. And then Momma goes away on Sunday. It's like a revolving door of parents around here. Momma will be back just in time for Spokie's birthday!!

happy father's day

sleepover

uncle darth; my namesake; is on his way down to spend the night. i'm sleeping with him!

happy birthday uncle pepi

I'ze saw my first firefly tonight when walking in the park with Momma. summer is officially here now!

Roadtrip

We all got in the car early yesterday morning and headed for OHIO. We arrived! It was a nice ride - not too long and we stopped to peepee a couple of times. (Poppa has a tiny bladder). Poppa took us for walk yesterday afternoon and managed to return with a mini me version of Monte (ok, the mini me was a chihuahua but it was the same color as Monte). This little kick dog must have gotten out of his house and decided to chase us cause he wanted to play with the big dogs. Momma walked around the neighborhood with him and luckily found his Momma. The pups name was Elmo. As for today, I think Uncle Ditz has a load of puppa friendly activities lined up. Can't wait! We sat outside on the front porch this morning. That was a ton of fun, We really liked being able to sit out there and watch people go by. We'ze need a front porch.

Surf's Up

Maybe Aunt Jen can teach me to surf like this! http://www.time.com/time/photogallery/0,29307,1991509,00.html?htp=c2

It's been a whirlwind last few weeks. In the span of three weeks Poppa was gone, then he returned for a day and then left with Momma. After a couple of days Momma returned without Poppa and left again 2 days later. Poppa came back 2 days after that (last Thursday) and Momma was back on Saturday. Now Poppa left again today. He will be back on Thursday and then we are all going on a family trip to visit Aunt Jen and Uncle Ditz. Can you keep this all straight? In the meantime I keep getting chauffeured back and forth to aunt Corey's house. Luckily Poppa came home on Thursday because Aunt Corey was running out of poop bags. On one of our walks with Momma when she was home last week spotted out first chipmunk, we tried to follow him into a tipped over empty garbage can but just to say hello but Momma pulled us away. Tonight three bunny friends were hanging out in the back yard. I went over to say hello and they ran away! I think they'ze though I was grumpy Monte who is always chasing them out of the yard. The silver lining to all this travel is that I'ze been sleeping in bed every night!

happy birthday myra

Happy Mother's Day to Momma, Aunt Corey, Grandma and all the other momma's!

I'ze know I'ze been horrible at updatin' my blog but I'ze been bust livin' life. On Friday night we'ze had a quiet night at home with Momma. Poppa went to Uncle Crumley's to watch the game and we stayed in with Momma and watched a chick flick. Saturday afternoon Aunt Corey and the fam came over for a bbq - it was a scorcher that day. My sister Sporkie even came outside to enjoy the weather. She's got a little pen than Momma puts her in cause Sporkie is a little runaway. Our neighbors came over too - there were four little blonde girls running around the yard. We'ze loved it cause it meant more pettins' for us and more possibilty to steal a kid's unattended food! (Kids aren't very good at paying attention to their food). Momma and Poppa were home with us most of the day on Sunday but Momma had Poppa doing all kinds of chores and we'ze were neglected ALL day!! But even though we was neglected, we'ze glad we'ze got to stay inside where the AC was running cause it was like a million degrees out. Sunday night the unimaginable happened - Poppa took out the suitcase. Poppa says he had to go to Florida for a few days - I'ze not buying that cause he said he's there next week again. So Poppa is off somewhere now and we'ze sleeping in bed all night cause we wouldn't want Momma to get lonely. We'ze just got back from the park and we met a new pup. Her name is Honey and she lives 4 houses down from us. We'ze seen her before but never met. She's very nice. We'ze hoping to see her around again soon. That's enough for now. Momma is preparing my dinner so I better go. I am very hungry - no icy cream for us today.

me and my sis

Together Again

Poppa came home on Friday night and picked us up at Aunt Corey's. We all hung out there for a while and had dinner. It was really nice to see him. Then yesterday afternoon Poppa left and said he'd be back with a surprise for us. He returned with Momma - yippee!!! We went straight to the park after she got home. We need to get her back in the habit of walking us. And we had a wonderful night also, we'ze all jumped in bed and fell asleep right away. Momma's body clock is off a bit so we took a nice nap today too. This afternoon Momma and Poppa took us to get our nails clipped. Momma clearly wasted no time in torturing us. But we followed up the nail trimming with another trip to the park. It'll be nice to have Momma at home again with us full time starting in tomorrow.

One more day

My puppy toes are crossed... Mamma is due home tomorrow... and we'ze haven't heard yet that she won't be here, so we'ze hoping it's a go! Plus, Pappa is coming home tonight, so it's shaping up to be a great weekend with the whole family home together again! Fly safe Mamma!

happy birthday grandpa

OK, maybe Mamma had a point

OK, so I'ze was surfin da intranet this mornin and came across this picture of the volcano in Iceland... and boy does it look mean! Maybe mamma wasn't fibbin to us just to get an extended European trip!

Be safe mamma...... we'ze miss you!

happy birthday jordan

What the????

Seriously, Mamma's gone for two weeks, and now we'ze bein told there's a volcano of ice eruptin somewhere that's stoppin her from coming home to us? Pappa has told us some doozies... but this one takes the cake. Come home soon Mamma... we'ze all miss u!

Sitting under our Cherry Blossom Tree

This is my favorite time of the year. Our cherry blossom is in full blccom and sitting under it is like sitting under the most beautiful canopy of little white flowers!

Happy Easter

at the beach

Momma and Aunt Corey decided today would be a beautiful day for the beach. It was 72 when we left home. It was 47 at the beach!!! It was so cold that after dipping our feet in for a little while we'ze were ready to go home fast. It was too cold even for us.

This clearly proves the age old debate that Momma and Poppa are always having. It is colder at the beach in the winter!!!

And they're out

We heard from Uncle Crum and Poppa today. They'ze out. And everyone is safe. Poppa said it was super tough. We can't wait to see them. We'ze went to Aunt Corey's today and dyed Easter Eggs with the girls, that was fun!

Oh no!

Poppa's been in a fight w/ a mountain lion. He's on his way home now. April Fools!

we'ze went to the partk today with Lauren and Maddy!

we just got a message from Poppa. Him and Uncle Crum's and Jen and Ditz are at the Grand Canyon. They're heading down now and we will hear from them on Saturday when they climb back out. good luck. bring me home a souvenir. A rat or a mountain lion would be good. No rattlesnakes please!

Earth Hour

We had a great time last night celebrating Earth Hour. The Crumley's came over and we celebrated together. We turned off all the lights and sat in the yard around a camp fire (oh and a patio heater - not sure how green that was). Aunt Corey made us smores. She wouldn't let us have the chocolate though only the graham cracker and marshmallow part. But we'ze take what we can get. Maybe we will make this a yearly tradition. I bet Uncle Crum's and Poppa would love that.

Earth Hour

Don't forget to participate tonight at 8:30. We'ze doing it too!

happy anniversary grandma and grandpa

today

Was another great day. Itz was the official start of spring Saturday.... PLUS, pappa came home Friday (after Momma decided to leave us for the weekend). So we hung with Pappa Friday night and all day Saturday.... We'ze did our standard walk through the park saturday... then Uncle Crum's came over Saturday night for a while.... Then today, we'ze was hanging out most of the day, until we'ze heard our FAVORITE thing - the Icey Cream man! Heeeeeeeeeeee's back! Following our Icey Cream (only a medium, why no large pappa???), and a short nap, Momma arrived home from her weekend in Richmond with 'the girls'. Then we'ze went to the park.... then, when we got back from the park, Mamma showed us the cookbook she got for us... it's got all puppa-friendly recipes in it! Yummy!.... To top off the day we went to Uncle Crum's for dinner.... we'ze had our first ever flounder! It was delicious...... And now I'ze snoozin away..... what a great weekend.

happy birthday uncle crumley

Happy St. Patrick's Day

All out friends were out this afternoon. We're guessing it's because of the gorgeous weather. It was 62 this afternoon when we went to the park and we'ze was loving it. I'ze decided this is my most favorite time of the year!

The Real Jersey Shore

Jersey is the best place in the universe! It was 56 degrees here today and Momma told Poppa we'ze was going to the beach even before he'd gotten out of bed this morning. WooHoo.. Summer is almost here. I didn't know where we'ze was going but as soon as we got on the bridge to Ocean City, I could smell the beach in the air. Monte and I got super excited and started running back and forth from one window to the other to breathe in the wonderful, salty air. Once we finally arrive and I'ze got out of the car, I dragged Momma onto the beach. She could hardly run as fast as me!

Return of Bat

Sporkie, Tan Tan and Pappa were right. It started Friday night, after me, Monte and Momma went to bed. Pappa came up and said that Tanny told him there was something in our air ducks (who knew we had ducks?). Pappa woke up Mamma, and let her listen in. He said it was a bird or a bat.... he checked the basement, but couldn't find any signs of anythin' unusual... so we'ze just went back to bed. Last night the fun really began. Belfry made a grand appearance in the house... and pappa turned into a girly man again. He couldn't catch Belfry, so he sent mamma to do the man's job.... mamma also tried to call a couple of other men in, but nobody was available to help - so she took matters into her own hands, chasing Belfry around the living room with a towel.... as the video clearly shows, mamma needs to work on her vertical leap - because she'd never be able to reach Belfry! Anyways.... mamma caught him eventually, and set him free outside.. reminding him that his house is up in the tree, not inside our house! We'ze not sure how he got in, but we'ze think's it's because our main bathroom is torn apart as mamma and pappa are remodeling it. Can't wait for that to be done, although we love the pettins Dale gives us every day when he comes over to work!

we are sitting in the sunroom with Momma in the dark with the outside lights on. I'ze really sick of the snow. It's giving me cabin fever but sitting in here, watching the snow fall outside is like being in a big snowglobe.

We had a visitor this morning. He was sitting in out front window looking in. I'ze think he wanted Momma to turn on the tv so he could watch the weather and find out how much more snow was coming our way.

Snow Day

snowed in

I can barely walk outside, the snow comes to my chest!

Buon Compleanno Rosa

It snowed

Here we are walking through the park and as usual Momma and Poppa are lagging behind!

mom's eventful first night back

Pow! Pow! Momma wakes up Poppa - did you hear that? Poppa was convinced it was gunfire (so was our neighbor) Momma reminded Poppa of where we live therefore gunfire wasn't likely. Then there was a big bang and light - the transformer in front of our house blew up. We were out of power for 2 hours. Luckily Poppa had his camping lamp and it was dark. We used all the commotion as an excuse to jump into bed. We were scared after all!

Tonight's the Night

Our Mamma has been away since Friday morning :( What is that? Mamma and Pappa need to know that we don't appreciate all their travels. At least Pappa stayed home with us. We'ze had a good weekend flyin solo with Pappa.... Aunt Corey took us for a walk on Friday - THANKS AUNT COREY! - and we hung out with Pappa most of the weekend, although he kept telling us "pups, I need to get this list of stuff that mamma left me done or she's gonna kick my butt". I told him to just tell her that I needed nonstop pettins since she left us, but he wasn't going for that. He claims to have gotten everything done, but that would be a first for him.... We did our daily walks to the park... we saw Chippy on Saturday, and our bestest friend Cooper yesterday.... and of course, we'ze sleepin in bed with Pappa.... although he complains wayyyy too much that we hog the bed... It'll be a long day today bc mommas flight doesn't land until tonight and pappa is picken her up, but we can't wait!

Coby was here for almost a week and went home yesterday. We had fun although him and Monte did have a little disagreement over who would get to eat off of Momma's plate. Not that Momma was offering but they were hoping. It was nice having him here but it's really nice having everything back to normal now and Momma all to ourselves.

it's been a long week

It's been extremely cold all week and we even got some snow yesterday. Momma's still been taking up to the park though - and hating every minute - hehehe. We visited Aunt Corey one day this week also -got quite the scare though because Momma left us there for a little while and when she returned we jumped all over her like she'd let us for hours. We like Aunt Corey and all but we know that when we are left there it means that Momma and Poppa will be away for a while. We were prepared for the worst. How could this be? I didn't see Momma with a suitcase. Alas, she returned a little while later and we were super excited. Another nice surprise was when Poppa came home last night from being away all week. Momma had told us he was coming home last night but we were skeptical because we kept hearing car doors, we'd get up and run to the front door and no one was there. Now we're having a lazy Saturday morning in bed. I got up to go peepee and am heading back to bed now!

Our birthday pics

IT'S MY BIRTHDAY!!!!!!

Our day started with a special breakfast. It was delicious and we've been relaxing with Momma and Poppa the rest of the morning. It's freezing out and we're going the park in a little bit. It's all flurrying! Momma says she's got surprises for us later. I can't wait.

Happy New Year

We'ze hangin' at home with Momma and Poppa and Coby will be coming over to stay with us in a little while.

Wishing everyone a wonderful 2010.