Two Posts in One Day?!?

Max is an extremely smart dog...which means that he gets himself into trouble sometimes. He has been yelling at me all day today. I have been trying to keep my house a little bit cleaner. Usually, there is a dog toy explosion in my living room. I tried putting the lid on their toy box, but Max has learned how to take the lid off. I told you he was smart. So, yesterday I put 3 of my heavy text books on the lid...since then he has been yelling at me to take them off. WUAHAHAHA!!!

Beginning of Summer Adventures

The puppies had a really eventful day yesterday. We went for a walk in the afternoon. We sniffed out and claimed every tree, leaf, patch of grass, and miscellaneous piece of trash that we passed. By the end of it, you would have thought that I made them run a marathon on the equator by how they were acting. It was warm yesterday, but not unbearable. Both dogs tongues were DRAGGING on the ground by the time we got home. They both ran inside and starting drinking. I think they are so cute when they drink out of the water bowl at the same time :) Sammy took a while to cool down and cleaned my floor with his tongue while he layed there. Both dogs were so tired that they didn't even fight me as I picked the million little burrs out of their feet and legs.

Then, it was haircut time. These little guys LOVE car rides, so that alone was exciting. Then we get to PetSmart. Always a little bit of sensory overload. The ladies at the grooming salon were SO excited about Max the PBGV. They said they almost never got PBGVs, but Max was the 2nd one of the day. They LOVED him. The girl who groomed him said that she was really excited when she looked at her list for the day and saw "PBGV". He was as happy and loving as always and they all kept saying how sweet he was. Sammy was a little bit less excited than Max was...OK, maybe he was the opposite of excited. When the woman put the little leash around his neck to bring him back, he sat down an planted his legs on the ground. She had to drag him across the floor. At least they cleaned their floor in the process with Sammy the Mop. HA! They were both really excited to see me again at the end of it all.

Max looks really good. You can see his big brown eyes now. He's really short, but strutting around like he's the cutest thing ever. What else did you expect?!?

Sammy is REALLY short. Shorter than he's ever been. Me and Scott almost didn't recognize him when we picked him up. He looks really white and has a brown racing strip down his back. His little face looks so cute, and his ears look HUGE! He pretty much looks naked, except his tail...which is bushy like a skunk tail. HA! He's really really soft. Overall, he looks really cute too...just very different.

Needless to say - they both slept REALLY well last night. They were EXHAUSTED!!

Digging to China...or something like that

Sammy has developed a fun new habit as well. He has decided to embrace his inner dog and start digging in the backyard. Sammy has only done this two other times. First, when the little neighbor girl had to leave and he was faced with the idea of not having a little slave to pet him all day...which she does. Sammy and Max LOVE this little girl and she will sit for as long as she possibly can with her arms through the fence petting and loving them. So...Sammy frantically started to dig under the fence to go after the little girl. I'm standing at the top of the stairs watching all of this...so he didn't make it very far in his digging expedition. The second time Sammy had a digging party, I was not fortunate enough to catch him....and I only saw him once he was finished and came back up to the door. I was home for Christmas and all the snow had started to melt...leaving a dirty, muddy, slushy MESS in the backyard. Sammy, again, decided to embrace his inner prairie dog and get into the dirt. The result was a DISASTER Seriously, I've never seen a dirtier dog. That picture could win a contest somewhere. Needless to say...he was immediately carried through the house (so he couldn't track his new muddy self all through the house) and thrown into the bath tub. We are still not sure what happened and how he got so dirty. After that, it snowed again...freezing and covering all chances for digging. Now again, he has remembered the art of digging. We have a gate in the backyard to block of an area because it gets REALLY muddy. For some reason, grass just won't grow back there. This also blocks off the gate to the house behind us...with big, mean, barking pitbull dogs who are never on leashes. Max tried to go make friends with them one day...I'll tell that one a different day :) Anyways, Sammy has found a corner of the gate that has sparked his interest. I was sitting on the back steps playing my guitar a few days ago and Sammy sat (in my plain view) and started digging. He did it 3 separate times in the next 10 minutes. And now, everytime I let them out, he goes back and starts digging. I'll open the door to look out, and Sammy sits down right near his newly discovered digging spot, with an innocent look on his face, and looks back at me. ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!? But he manages to sling enough dirt around to come back in the house with dirty feet and little dirty eyebrows. HA! He really looks like an old man now with little dark eyebrows. But, I need to figure out a way to stop his new hobby before my entire house is covered in little muddy sammy prints...any suggestions?

What if they mated?

Conan O'Brien used to have this segment called "What if they mated?" He would take pictures of two celebrities and morph their faces together. Well, my sister found this website that lets you do that to your own pictures. So, of course Nikki and I spent this afternoon at work playing with this website! In case you need a laugh, I'll show you some of the puppy ones. First...

Sammy and Max

Next, was me and max

Followed by me and Sammy

And lastly, Sammy and Scott. Pay special attention to the tooth!! Doesn't it look like a werewolf?!?

Night Time Adventures

Maxy long dog is....well, LONG. He likes to sleep longways across pillows. He sleeps on the backs of couch cushions. He LOVES to sleep across the top of the pillows in the bed. So, I made him his own special Max bed to sleep in. I shoved a body pillow between the mattress and the wall of my bed. He lays there because it is long like he is. Usually he sleeps on the body pillow, next to me, with his head on my pillow. He startles me in the the middle of the night because he likes to lay nose to nose. The past few nights, he has picked up a new habit. He lays on his pillow, next to me, and instead of putting his head on my pillow...he puts his head on me. Underneath my neck. And then starts SNORING! Now Max has a really long nose...which allows him to snore especially loud.

Sammy lays on the other side of me. Every night, Sammy jumps up on to the bottom left corner of the bed. When I lay down and get settled in...I have to pull the blankets back and call Sammy up from the bottom of the bed. He comes up and snuggles down next to me. He likes to be the Goop. (For those of you who don't know what Goop is...it is a term that my sister and I made up for the person that in inside the 'spoon'. Some people call it the little spoon...we call it Goop!) Well, if I forget to call Sammy up to snuggle with me, he gets SOOOOO offended. And, we all know what Sammy is like when he's offended. He's growly and pushy and gets his tooth out.

I got up this morning to turn my alarm off and looked back at the bed. There was like 8 inches between the dogs. 8 INCHES! I was sleeping in that little tiny space smooshed between both dogs all night long and the whole rest of the bed was free. HAHA! Now, I hear that this gets much worse when you have kids. But seriously, I trip on them when I go from room to room because they are closer to me than my shadow is. Max literally waits underneath the table in the bathroom while I'm in the shower. He can't stand to be away from me for even that long. Oh goodness. At least they love me right?

WDW: Easter Edition

Yesterday, the boys received their Easter toys. Max LOVES toys! Sammy only likes toys when Max has one. Max likes toys with long appendages that he can grab and shake the toy or throw it across the room. He got an Easter duck. He was perfectly happy with the duck...shaking and throwing until......Sammy got a little bunny. Then....the war started. First they were fighting over the bunny. Pulling, growling, wrestling (WDW as we call it...world dog wrestling). This went on for a while when suddenly....they didn't care about toys anymore. WDW continued with both toys (duck and bunny) thrown to the side. Max, suddenly realizing that there were toys on the floor...grabbed the duck and ran. Oh no....Sammy was not going to let Max have both toys. So, Sammy the Enforcer started pulling Max around by the duck...You heard me, SAMMY WAS DRAGGING MAX AROUND! Max is bigger than Sammy, so this was funny! In the end...Sammy won the duck! Max, being the happy-go-lucky dog that he is, grabbed the bunny, flipped upside-down, and started chewing on it. When they got tired...they went back to guarding the house from their window seat.

Sock Monkeys in the Mail

Recently I received my 'Easter Box' in the mail. I'm not home so I can't get an Easter basket, so my mom mailed it. There were lots of fun things inside. But, there were two extra gifts for the puppies that frightened me. A few weeks ago, my parents got bored. So, they went to the Sock Monkey Festival. Seriously, Sock Monkeys scare me. I can't imagine voluntarily surrounding myself with sock monkey and sock monkey lovers. Can you imagine the scary adults who go to things like the 'Sock Monkey Festival'? Yikes! Anyways...my parents bought presents for their grandpuppies. So, I opened this box and laying on top are two little Sock Monkeys for Sammy and Max. I cut the tags off and gave each of the boys one. Sammy grabbed his and instantly ran away. Max on the other hand, grabbed his and THREW it across the room...chased it...Threw it again...chased it again...threw it again...you get the pattern? Apparently, these little sock monkeys are the perfect size for little vermin and Max felt he was protecting me/hunting it! Sammy laid down on the couch and Max took BOTH sock monkeys. He has the strange habit of laying on his back and using his paws like hands to chew on things. Since then, Max brings the sock monkey with him into every room of the house. I think he feels like Godzilla b/c the little monkey is so small. He feels the the big powerful one! So, thanks Grandma and Grandpa for the creepy little sock monkeys...they now accompany me everwhere I go b/c Max can't leave the room without it.

Just starting

Hi! I've decided to give Nikki another blog to stalk when she's bored at work :) I have these 2 crazy dogs...Sammy and Max. They are like the Odd Couple. I have realized that they are hilarious and their antics need to be chronicled somewhere. So, I figured I'd give you a chance to share in our crazy life.