Happy New Year!

All of these were taken around New Years Day. We perfected the art of being lazy, but with that comes a little boredom. I hope the girls don't hate me too much for playing dress up with them.

Happy New Year!!!

Christmas Card Rejects

These girls can be very stubborn.

Waiting on Daddy

Dad's Birthday Cookout

Derek is a great supervisor.

Ellie can be a good supervisor too.

These girls are always looking for an "Oops" moment.

Group photos are common with this bunch.  I think this turned out to be the most interesting one to date.  Everyone is doing something different.

Easter Sunday Dog Wrangling

Happy Mardi Gras!

Baby Its Cold Outside!

Its not supposed to be freezing cold in southern Louisiana!!!  

The low tonight is 28 and tomorrow its 21!!!

The Doodler enjoyed relaxing by the fire.  Ellie, on the other hand was a little nervous, and it shows in these next photos.

Snow Day!

Ellie wasn't too sure about the snow, which I'm sorry isn't visible in the photo.

Thank goodness school didn't get canceled, otherwise we would have lost a day from our Mardi Gras break.

Everybody Thought They Were Ours!

I got a phone call on Sunday afternoon about these two boxers, one brindle and one fawn, roaming around in the neighborhood behind ours.  I quickly checked to see if my girls were inside, which they were, and told the girl on the phone that they weren't my dogs.  

A few hours later our door bell rang.  It was a man from down the street with two boxers in tow.  Both were male and obviously less than a year old.  He thought they were ours as well.  By this time it was starting to get dark, so Derek and I decided to take them in for the night and try to find the owners in the morning.  

We brought them to the back yard and then let our girls out.  All four of the dogs were playing together.  Ellie did have to put them in their place a few times.  She is the boss you know.  Of course I had to give them names... Rocky and Bruno.

After I got home from school the next day, I phoned the vet here in town and got the number for the owners.  These two little boys were back with their family by 5p.m.  Their real names were Walker and Saint.

Christmas Card Photo Shoot

Not wanting to have the same photo as last year, I opted not to tie ribbons around the girls' necks.  It would have been the same exact ribbon as last year, and it would have been very difficult to do without Derek's help.  Most of the photos ended up looking like regular back yard photos, and I was a little disappointed.

This first photo was a strong contender, but was lacking in personality, unlike last year's winning photo.
The second photo was one of the rejects.  There was a ton of chop-licking because I was bribing them to sit and stay with chicken jerky.  In most of these the girls looked like zombie-robot dogs, very intense and focused but again, lacking personality.
The winner will be posted closer to Christmas.  

Till then, happy decorating!  As you can see, I've already started.  Don't tell anyone.

Helping Mamma

Earlier today I was working on writing a test on fossils and early Earth history.  These two just had to help me.

Pop Quiz:  During which era were dinosaurs the dominant life form?

a.  Cenozoic

b.  Mesozoic

c.  Paleozoic

Second Best

It has been a little too chilly to have our morning coffee outside this week, so the big bed is the second best place for coffee.  It might soon become the girls' first choice though.  Look how comfortable and cozy these little boogers are.  I haven't wanted to get up and go to work because they have been so snuggly.

Pretty Girls

Fun in the Back Yard

Dog wrangler extraordinaire!

We Love the Swing!

Under the Covers

Daisy has been very snuggly lately.  She is always wanting to be under something, which is weird because it hasn't been even remotely cold here.  

Silly Girl

Last night after everyone had settled down, I noticed that Daisy had somehow fallen asleep underneath a back cushion of the couch.  I crept upstairs to get my camera, but by the time I came back down, she had woken up.  These girls do very funny things every now and then.  

Evacuating!!!

We decided to leave Louisiana around 5:30 on Saturday afternoon. All of our junk left just enough room in the back of the Jeep for the little girls. They looked out the back window most of the time at the other evacuees. Traffic on I-59 was very heavy, but moving well at 60-70mph. Once we made it to Hattiesburg, the traffic was almost nonexistent. Hopefully I won't be posting any Gustav damage photos from my house.

Enjoying the Back Yard

I wonder if there are olympic dog games.  These two would take the gold in synchronized movement.  There are a few other things that I won't mention that they do in unison.

More Peanut Butter Feet

I should have posted these a long time ago.  

These girls LOVE peanut butter feet, especially when there are twice as many feet to lick.

I think mom really enjoyed it.