Happy Birthday to Clyde!

We put his PugPossesed tie on for this special occasion. =)

Clyde turned one year old on either Thursday May 26th, or Friday May 27th! I feel horrible, but all 6 of the puppies were born before and after midnight and I've got it written down somewhere, but I just haven't found it. (I'm pretty sure I know where the paper is, but there is SO much in that room, I'm scared to look!) I spent Friday mostly happy for Clyde, but there were thoughts in the back of my mind of the 3 puppies we lost that day a year earlier. (You can read the story here, but it's sad, so I don't recommend it.) But, anyway, we thought we would have a birthday party for Clyde, so we scheduled it for Saturday afternoon and it was a blast!

We invited his sisters, Olive and Elsie (who is now Izzy) and his dad, Royce. Elsie's family couldn't make it, which was sad, since we haven't seen her since August, but I totally understand people are busy. We also invited some friends and their dogs, Simon and Yang who own Toro and FeiFei, a Boston Terrier and Pug, and my friend, Maribel, her daughter, Stephanny and their poodle, Canela.

 Olive! She's a silly wild girl!

 Maggie, the mommy!

 Toro, our Boston Terrier friend! He is so well behaved!

 FeiFei and her daddy, Simon.

 Canela!

Royce, the daddy!

Olive and her family arrived first and Clyde had to lay down some ground rules. We thought it might be a disaster because he was growling at her and would get upset if anyone paid attention to Olive! I think he remembered it was his sister and something snapped in his head, but after a few minutes, they started playing and it seemed like they were having a lot of fun, phew! 

 People brought gifts! We didn't even think people would bring gifts!

After everyone arrived, we brought out the cake! I had made a cake the dogs can eat, it has flour, peanut butter, carrots, honey and vanilla in it, and then the frosting was cream cheese, cinnamon and agave nectar. (it was supposed to be honey, but we ran out...lol) The dogs loved it! (Sorry about the horrible frosting job on the cake, I forgot to let the cream cheese soften and ran out of time...LOL)

 (Oh, I forgot to mention that I chopped 13 1/2 inches off my hair and donated it to Locks of Love the week after the wedding!)

Then we opened presents, Clyde didn't quite get the hang of unwrapping presents. Maybe we'll work on it... We got Olive a Busy Bone since it was her birthday, too. =)

 Clyde kind of checking out his present....

 Olive loved her busy bone!

Towards the end of the party, Clyde came and sat next to me. he was sooo tired. LOL

I don't think I've ever seen him nap for so long. =)

We had so much fun with our party! We are hoping to do it again sometime later this summer when we can actually have a BBQ outside when it's warmer. (Yeah, it's still averaging in the 60s here...(It was about 53 degrees for our party) we will get hot...sometime... I don't know what Mother Nature is doing, but I guess I'll take it, because when it's 100 degrees later this summer, I'll be wanting it back. LOL ) Sorry this post is so picture heavy, I'm just kind of like that. I need to post about out mini-moon to the mountains of Idaho (not that we roughed it, though...lol) hopefully I can do that tomorrow night. My sister is getting married this Friday on June 3rd, so we are heading to Utah on Thursday for that! (Yes, two weddings in 6 weeks... my poor mother... hehe!) 

I'm so glad we had Clyde. We had such a hard time trying to figure out if we were going to keep him or one of his sisters, but there is just something special about this little guy. We had always planned to keep a girl puppy, but he latched on to my heart and didn't let go, so we had to keep him. I love him so much! =) =)

Here are some pictures of him growing up.

 This is him at 25 days old. His eyes were open and he was figuring out how to walk.

He would always crawl into my lap and play with his sisters from there. =)

 How could you say no to this face?!

 Here he is with his mommy looking especially cute.

 See? Always in my lap. He is still like that. He constantly needs my attention. lol

 My baby boy. =)

(Sorry, I added more pictures...hehe!)

Lewis and Sally

We have ducks that come visit us in our front yard! I just thought the female looked like a Sally (Kelly agrees) and I named the male Lewis because I work for Homewood Suites and the mascot is Lewis the duck. (Named after Meriwether Lewis, for some reason)


They just started showing up in our front yard, so of course we started to feed them, and even filled a kiddie pool with water for them!

They checked out the pool...

 

Drank from it....

Then got in for a swim! I mean, their feet touch the ground, but they still like to be in the water, right? =)

We had to put a rock there as a step so they could get in, but I think they like it! We don't know a whole lot about ducks, but from what we've read, bread is like junk food for them, so we feed them thawed peas and corn, but they still prefer the bread. If they are there when we get home or go outside, they quack at us to feed them! It's really funny! Honestly, I hope they aren't too dependent on us as humans, though and can find their own food. I think they are okay, though, because we actually haven't really seen them in a few days (not like we have in the past month, but we've seen them a couple times), and from what I've read, that probably means their baby ducklings hatched somewhere (I guess they can leave their eggs for a little while... at least that's what I think I've gathered from what I've read, I hope to learn more!) I hope they bring their babies for a swim sometime!

Please let me know if you know any more than I do, we really want to take care of them (Not like pets or to make them dependent on us) and we want to educate ourselves on them so that next year we can be prepared. =)

Hard Work

Chewing on four toys and licking three spots on a couch can make this little guy really tuckered out. Just sayin'.

We did it!

We got married!

April 16th was a great day! I'm glad it's over, though, goodness - Planning a wedding a stressful thing! It was great to have family come from all over to see my marry my best friend. I've seen a few of the professional photographers' pictures, her blog is here, and you can check the rest out if you want. I will start with the couple pictures we got with Maggie and Clyde with the amazing dress and tie that Debbie made over at Pug Possessed (here's her Etsy shop, too). I'm thinking I'm going to do a Rock The Dress session and so I'll get more pictures then. I absolutely LOVE what she made!!!



 Little things were going wrong left and right, but overall it was a great day. Other than running late, the worst thing was the candles for the unity ceremony were forgotten, so we took it out of the ceremony, but no big deal, you just have to go with the flow. The rose petal toss after the ceremony went great and all the little girls kept picking the rose petals up off the ground and throwing them on me while I was talking with people. LOL I don't have any pro-pics from the ceremony yet, but here's some from my family.

MARRIED!

Here's my sister Natalie on the left, her almost 3 yr old son, Joey as my ring bearer and on my right is my oldest sister, Alicia and her 7 year old daughter, Emma, who was my flower girl. Sorry the picture if kind of dark..

I only smeared a little bit of frosting on his face... I didn't smash it on him. =)

Here's a few of my favorites from the photographer so far.

Now, onto living happily ever after! Yahoo!!!

Clyde One-Up's his Mom

So do you remember this post? With this picture?

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Well, Clyde is taking it one step further.

Yep - That's right. He jumps up on the shelf. Kelly and I didn't know he did this until Kelly's brother, Dan mentioned something. I guess when Dan gets home from work at night, he opens the pantry and Clyde just jumps right on up there. LOL!! He started doing that for us not long after Dan mentioned something. There's a reason we only keep canned food (and rice...) on that shelf,  It's just high enough for Puggies!

Only 4 weeks and 2 days left until the wedding! We are past the counting in months stage now! Yahoo!!! I can't wait until I can show you the dress and tie Debbie at PugPossessed (and here's her Etsy shop) made for Maggie and Clyde! (sorry, I'm kind of hush-hush about details...I don't know why, but I am...lol) Here's our monogram, though. =)

April 16th - Here we come!!!

Love!

So Kelly hadn't officially proposed since we decided to get married in October. He was going to at Christmas, but I had to work Christmas Eve and Christmas, so it wasn't easy. He decided he was going to do it on Valentine's Day, so it was kind of weird knowing it was going to happen, but since we are obviously getting married in two months, I wanted it to happen. hehe!

Kelly made breakfast that morning, and when I came downstairs, I found all this! He never gets me flowers, so it was very special! (I dont hold that against him, though. lol) I love it all! =)

Yeah, it got a little  messy...lol

I thought it would be cool to have him propose at the chapel we're getting married at, so I drove us there. lol We got some sparkling cider and glasses and sat on a blanket and I read him a love note I wrote him. (which he loved, phew!) Then he said a bunch of sweet things and got on his knee and asked me to marry him. I loved it! I figured we better take the just got engaged picture, which is at the top. haha Then I wanted to take a picture of us with the chapel in the backround, and this is the best we got.

This is the chapel (I didn't take the picture though...) So Perfect!

After we left the chapel, we went and walked through Julia David Park. There were a bunch of geese there, so we chased them, of course. =)

Then we went home and took the dogs to take a picture. (since Brodie is with his new family, and everyone is great, by the way! we needed a new blog header) So here's one of the ones that we didn't use.

After that, we went and saw Gulliver's Travels at the dollar theatre and that night we went to Pojo's (A Sunday tradition, and also where we are having our after party for our wedding! hehe!) and then to Olive Garden. It was a great day!!! I love this guy!!!!

Hopefully I'll get back to blogging more after the wedding. I just want it here and gone! =)

Brrr at the Pug meet!

 

On New Years Day, we went to a very cold Pug meet.  We're hard-core and usually don't miss any. We bundled ourselves and Maggie and Clyde up and headed to the park. There wasn't really anything unusual about this Pug meet except the temperature, but I got some pictures, so I'm posting them. :)

Can you see Maggie in the pink with Kelly at the snack table in the background? Yep - she's Pug - she knows where the food is, human or dog! LOL

 Maggie's also good at stealing seats...

I sat on the ground and my possessive little Clyde sat on my lap to make sure no one else took it. (and it was a warm lap...)

Even though it was so cold, there was still some brand new puppies there! They were 2 weeks old, and everyone made sure to keep them nice and warm. Who doesn't love a brand new puppy?

Of course, we love our old puppy, too. Here he is getting held my his Uncle Dan. :)

 

 Afterward, we went home and snuggled up near the heater. :)

I'm trying to get caught up on posting! I'll get there! :)

A Very Puggy New Year

 Okay, so I noticed I had this post halfway finished from a couple weeks ago. I've been too busy with wedding planning to post! It's taken over my life! I'll try to be better and post more. :)

This is the 2nd time in 7 years I have been able to stay home for New Years Eve. I've had to work 4 out of 7 years (overnight shifts), and one year I was on a plane at midnight. So needless to say, I was staying home on my couch this year. :) Since we stayed home, I still thought I'd dress up, so I did.

I put on my grandmother's rhinestone necklace (that I might wear for the wedding), rhinestone and pearl earrings (part of a set that I also might wear for the wedding, I'm still trying to decide.) and a rhinestone headband that I ordered from China from $3 to see if I liked it for the wedding. I didn't, but I know a certain flower girl that will. :) I put on a skirt and my heels ( with a chewed on toe... :( Kind of like Kiki... Wait, no - she didn't do it...  ) and sat on the couch and watched TV.

We got out the laser for Maggie and Clyde and it was so fun to play with.

They saw the laser...

They almost got the laser....

They chased it up the stairs...

 And down the stairs.

After all that fun, we decided it was time for a snack, so I broke out the chips and dip, but it wasn't very easy to eat (like most things that are eaten on the couch when you have Pugs...)

Clyde thinks it looks yummy!

When it was almost midnight, we broke out the heavy stuff - sparkling cider! We counted down and drank up! 

Afterwards, we went outside and saw someone in the neighborhood was shooting fireworks!

 

I hope everyone had a safe a great new year!

Clyde has a habit...

 

No, he didn't have an accident - he loves to lick the couch! Usually it's just one spot, but the other night I was sitting on the opposite side of the couch and looked over and he had "cleaned" four spots! Love that little guy.

First Things First...

 One of my favorites pictures of Brodie :)

I just need to let everyone know that we found Brodie a new home. His new family are friends of ours and they have 3 little boys (ages 12, 8 and 3) that absolutely love him. They took him home a couple weeks ago and everything seems to be going great. It's just a trial, though, and if they decide he's not right for their family, we will take him back in a heartbeat. We have been going through a lot in the last few months that I don't want to talk about here, and he wasn't getting the attention he needed. He is a very high energy dog who needs to be played with a lot more than we could. We could play with him for a long time, and he would still not think it was enough. Please don't think we are bad people, we were just trying to find him a home that would make him happier, and I think that this new family with three boys will be perfect.

Update - He is doing great! Brodie has really relaxed and is loving his new family! They give him baths all the time, and take him for rides, where he doesn't cry at all (he used to cry a lot in the car with us), and they love him so much. I think this was the right decision for him and us. :)