Snow!!!!

On Thursday night I went to let Baxter outside and to our surprise it was snowing like crazy!! It didn't snow for long but it was cold enough that it lasted until the sun came out on Friday morning. Baxter was in his glory, jumping and running like crazy. He kept begging me to come out and play with him but with the beginning of a flu bug coming I opted to throw some snowballs for him from the doorway.

We can't wait for the next snowfall (hopefully it will be one to stay) it is the best entertainment we have found yet! Luckily we have a dog that loves the snow as much as we do.

Costumes

Everyone keeps asking me if I am going to dress Baxter up for Halloween, I want to but as you can see from the video below he doesn't. I think we will just call him Tyson for the day, he does love to bite.

Angry

Today I was looking over the Toronto Star website and clicked on the article with the cute dog picture and strange headline Man's best friend, mankind's worst enemy? . It is about Robert and Brenda Vale; New Zealand based researchers who wrote a book called Time to Eat the Dog: The Real Guide to Sustainable Living. So they don’t suggest eating your dog, (even though one commenter took it there) they compare dogs to SUV’s. Really?!?! Now we should all stop having dogs just like we should sell our SUV and get a small car to drive on the highway in the Canadian winter? I’m sorry but this is one thing that I’m not willing to give up, I love my dogs and they bring a lot of joy to my life. I fell that Mike and I are environmentally conscience people (well minus the SUV) but honestly having a dog isn’t something we are going to change. Maybe they shouldn’t tell people to look at what they are buying their dog because last time I checked dogs didn’t buy their own food and toys. I had to comment on the story because really who is going to be blamed next? And why are their so many dog haters? Because when you went to the park there were some droppings? Well that’s not the dogs fault, its bad owners.

There’s my rant for the day.

Here's some pictures of my puppies to lighten the mood.

Friends

Last Saturday I cleaned out my old closet at my parents house, what a job! After my mom and I were done we had six bags of stuff to go to Goodwill and three that were garbage, in my defence it wasn't all my stuff (almost though). I swear some fifteen year old is going to be so happy! While we were cleaning I was also trying to keep Baxter entertained, I kept giving him stuffed animals to toss around and he wasn't too interested until he saw snake/ lizard thing I won at Wonderland years and years ago. He is in love, he even snuggled with him on the drive home.

*I included a picture of our cat, Phoenix, whenever Baxter is outside this is what she is doing.

Update- Baxter and his new stuffed friend had a bit of a wrestling match last night and now I have some sewing to do, obviously Baxter won.

Very Thankful

This Thanksgiving Baxter has a lot to be thankful for.

• First off our deck is finished so once again Baxter can walk out from the kitchen into the backyard on his own!
• We are letting Baxter in the dining room again (when we fist got him, if he was going to have an accident this is where he would go because it's carpet and hidden). His new favourite thing to do is watch everyone outside.
• On Saturday we had our Underwood Thanksgiving and Baxter's best bud McGruff came over, there are some battle wounds but they had a blast.
• On Sunday we went to my parent's house for Thanksgiving and of course Baxter had tons to do but two things really stood out, he was exhausted from the day before and took a nap every hour and he was awesome with little Anna. They were planning all the trouble they could get into and Baxter was busy making sure she didn't go to close to the stairs.

Saturday morning watching the lawn dry.

Inside to warm up for a bit watching for other dogs.

and finally Monday, time for lots of R&R.

Mr and Mrs Underwood

Since Linda is getting married on Saturday she has asked her blog followers to post some of their wedding pictures. I know that I opted for the pet blog rather than the fashion blog but I thought I would post some anyway. Our wedding was at my parents house on May 31, 2008.

Enjoy and good luck Linda.

About to make an entrance

Waiting out the rain (it was a long wait)

Our wedding party (look it's not raining!!)

Happy to relax for a few minutes

Linda and Chelsea




Our beautiful tent, good choice mom!!

Married and very happy!!

Here Comes the Rain

So now that part of my daily routine is walking Baxter I have to think of the proper footwear (not just for fashion but to be practical). On Monday it had rained buckets right before we went out and since Baxter is not afraid of water he kept jumping in puddles and getting me wet, I can only imagine if was raining for our whole walk. So I've been thinking that it is time to buckle down and get some rubber boots. The problem is since rubber boots became fashionable I have been a little bitter because I am sick of seeing girls wearing rubber boots with skirts on a hot sunny day. Its not that I think it looks bad but I grew up in the country and rubber boots were not for dressing up an outfit, trust me all the farmers in town who couldn't rinse off their boots before going to Zehrs to pick up bread?? too much. So of course I don't just want any rubber boots, I want Hunter rubber boots. They are the rubber boots of rubber boots, they are both practical and fashionable and they come in a lot of different colours. The only problem is they are very much out of my price range, so much so that when my mom showed my brother them he said something a long the lines of "who in the &%# would pay that much for rubber boots". Oh well I guess I will have to have to work with what I've got because as Mike would say "you have tons of shoes" (or maybe there will be a sale).

Baxter attacking his shadow on Thursday.