Silly Sally

It was love at first sight.

A face you simply cannot help but love, with a little soul behind that face that said "love me... I am yours". I'll admit, I was terrified of this kind of responsibility and knew it was a possibility that hubs and my folks were planning to give her to me (well all of us really, she is part of the family) for Christmas. This terrified of puppy parenthood feeling went away fairly fast when I realized she just simply made me a better person, I was happier than ever knowing her little wet nose and wistful deep dark eyes would always find me and remind me how awesome life can be when you just decide to play or go for a walk.

I first met her here when our friend Brian brought her around, he definitely thought we would make a good family for her, and I'm glad I listened.

Just seconds before this next one, she looked up into my eyes and said "are you my mommy?" Yes little one, yes I am.

Sure enough, Christmas Day came and she was ours.

She slept a lot in the beginning, slept and ate and pooped a lot. But then she was a baby ;)

  

Then she got her final shot and started to be able to do all kinds of fun stuff... like out and about for brunch.

And to puppy classes...

 

Learning to play nice.

And now she has a best friend... Cricket from downstairs ;)

They chase each other around all day when they can...

 

Nowadays she loves games... any games... all games. Fetch, tricks, using the backyard as an obstacle course... I know I'm biased... but she is the smartest dog I've ever known ;)

Play.

 

Sleep.

Love.

Sweet Mousse

It's a good life, but furry little friends to share it with, make it that much better. Since this is a new blog, I'll catch you you up on old photos of the little love bugs....

I'll start with Mousse...
 
Our precious little softy pie Mousse has been with us through so much. The best confidant, I can tell her anything, and she gets it ;) We have the best time just laying around on lazy Sundays but whenever the house is a buzz she'll make sure we know she wants to go outside and sun.... come back in for some pets... and then tell us when it time to go out again. She is very loyal though, she used to wander a bit (and worry the hell out of us) but nowadays it's just the porch and the backyard.

She has come to really love Sally too. It took a little while but now they have fun exploring together and chasing each other around. She only swats at her (claws in, even) when Sally tries to sniff her butt for too long. They even sleep next to each other once in a while. It does a mama proud ;) We have had lots of names for her over the years. She started out as princess snowball (thanks Lonnie :P) and that might have stuck if her stripes hadn't come in, she has her mama Gina Marie's RIP stripes, so her and there I played around when calling her Miiisss, turned to Moooose, and forever now we have called her moose. She told me though she didn't like the spelling though and preferred Mousse (like white chocolate mousse), because she is, after all, a girl. When Sally came, she got called Poor Mousse quite a lot. So without further delay, here is Poor-Miss-Princess-Snowball-Mousse in her many incarnations  

A model

A hunter

A great study partner

A good sport

A hider

A weird sleeper

 
An inquisitive sniffer

A big fan of boxes

And Christmas

Well maybe this last year when Sally came was a little hard for her. But I have no doubt they'll be chasing each other around the tree (hopefully not bring it crashing down though) this year.

One down, a lifetime to go.

Yesterday was our one year anniversary. Crazy! This year has gone by so fast, I can't believe it.... My parents did some fun stuff for us, like a a little mini cake because we basically destroyed that top tier you're supposed to eat. And for our "paper" anniversary got us little love cards for writing each other love letters... Awww... I meant to get my name changed as a paper present for this anniversary, but well... baby growing got in the way... A baby in the belly is a pretty good present though... no?

So, in honor of our anniversary we went back to the scene of the crime ;) The mission area was bumpin' with i madonnari madness and we went to enjoy it. This pic doesn't do it justice but it was a perfectly gorgeous day.

Last year a purple haze of a wedding this year Jimi keeps it real ;)

We just loved this one, it reminded us of our cat mousse and her morning ritual in the kitchen window.

5/30/10 - Happy Together.

5/30/09 - Beginning Forever.

And someday (in the not too distant future) I'll make a nice fat wedding and honeymoon post with all the other fun pics....