Play dates with my faves

Since mom is only working part time this summer she and I have been playing a lot.  One of my favorite parts of summer is that I get to see my friends Jackson and MacKenzee along with the human Jill often.  Mom says soon I get to see them even more since we are moving near them!  Here are some pics of my play date with my two favorite german short hair pups.

So here Kenzee and I are playing tug-of-war.  We are all wet because we had also been swimming in our kiddie pool.

Once we get tired of playing with it, we EAT it!

Back to the blog!

Dead dog?

Nope, just exhausted!

I am so sorry I have been MIA for so long.  Anyways I think in order to post more often, I am going to take a new approach like my cousin Sherman.  More short stories and pictures.  So, if you want long stories you are going to have to call now!  So, my friend Blue and his mom and dad spent the weekend moving so Blue stayed the weekend with us.  My dad was gone, so it was me, mom and Blue.  We played, played and played finally, I crashed!  This is me sacked out on the couch.  I LOVE to sleep like this.  Fun times!  Miss you all.

The holiday season

A belated, but most loving and heart sent wish:

Merry Christmas and Happy New Year 

Love,

Sherman, Snak and Buster

And on with the post . . . .

Right before we left mom started making me my very own, homemade, peanut butter dog biscuits.  They are tasty!  We brought some along for Sherman and Snak and they loved them just like I do ( I knew they would).  She brought the bone cookie cutters and recipe along to Mimi's, so when we were there she taught Mimi how to make them so they can always have their own biscuits even after the ones my mom made them were gone.  I supervise when she makes the biscuits, you never know with my mom baking.

Since I last posted, we have gone and come back from Virginia.  I had so much fun!  I even liked riding in the car.  When I was at Mimi and Granddaddy's house everyone loved on me, played with me and spoiled me to pieces.  Here are some pictures of me with my new found extended family.  

Granddaddy is so much fun.  He loved to play with me.  Here he and I are playing tug-of-war one morning.  We played for almost an hour and as you can see from this picture, I am clearly winning.  I can't wait to see him again!  You have to bring your A game Granddaddy if you plan on trying to beat me at tug-of-war; let's have a rematch soon and see if you can beat me!

My aunt Lori is awesome!  She always wanted to take me outside when I rang the bell to potty and she loved to love on me just like the picture.  I hope she comes to visit me sometime at my house and I can show her what I do at home. 

Uncle Greg was a lot of fun too.  Here is a picture of him holding me back from getting into all the presents.  He liked me and played with me too, I am glad Aunt Lori brought him along.

The twins, Ashtyn and Dani were so much fun.  This is one of the few pictures of the girls and I, but boy did I love playing with them and just being near them.  Here I was working on the rope I got for Christmas from Mimi and Granddaddy and I just wanted to be with them.  Ashtyn and Dani  liked to help get energy out of me by walking me in circles around and around and around the couch.  I'm talking like 40 times!  Finally, I had enough and would sit, then they would walk the other direction around the couch and I would hop back up.  They also would make me do things like sit, down, and a dog parade for those yummy dog bones, it was fun!  I like those girls!  I hope they can come visit me at my house sometime so we can play in my backyard, walk around the lake, and walk circles around my coffee table.  I just love to be with them, they are my kind of people.

My cousin Sherman is one crazy puppy.   At first I don't think he was to sure of me, but I started playing with him from laying on the ground and being his height and I think he liked that.  He is a Rhodesian Ridgeback.  They say he is going to end up being about the same size as me.  FINALLY, the games will be fair an I won't have to lay down for him to play. We had a blast!  Everyday was puppy play time.  I loved waking up and playing with my cousin.  Sherman is a cool kid,  he is a young buck and has a great life to live and learn about the joys of being a spoiled, rotten dog like me!  I can't wait until he comes out to my house and I can show him my terf and how I live.

Here is how we play:

We share toys.

We get sent to our corners for getting to rough.  

We play tug-of-war (my favorite game).

And finally, we rest.

I miss you a lot cuz, come visit soon and stay as long as you want!

I also got to spend some great time with my Mimi and Aunt Gina, Aunt Bea and Aunt Chelsea but we don't have any pictures of us playing.  They are great girls too!  I just love my extended family!

I hope you all had as wonderful of a holiday as I did.  To all my great extended family please come visit me out here in Oklahoma, I love visitors and I can show you my house and what I do here!  

P.S. I miss you all TONS already.

Road Trip Time is Almost Here!

Mom made me wear this and take Christmas pictures.  I wasn't too thrilled about it, but I did it.  I hope you enjoy my holiday pictures. 

Christmas is almost here and the means, a ROAD TRIP for my family!  My mom, dad and I are headed to Virginia to see my Mimi and Grandaddy.  We are leaving on Saturday like early birds trying to catch the worm and get a big day driving in.  I am super excited to have finally have my mom and dad all to myself for the ride out there, they have been so busy with work lately.  They keep telling me that I have a cool new cousin, Sherman, and tons of new aunts to meet as well.  I love meeting new people, dogs, places and things.  Oh, it all sounds like it is going to be SO fun!

I am totally loving my mom lately (as you can see in the above picture) because she has started making me my own dog treats.  They are so yummy and they have my favorite ingredient peanut butter!  My mom isn't the neatest baker and she often gives me bits and pieces here and there, so I like to always be nearby when she bakes my treats.

Well, I am tired and am ready to sack out on the couch and try to rest up because I hear traveling long distances is tiresome!  I can't wait, I think it sounds like a blast.  Check for updates as we travel and spend the holidays at Mimi and Granddaddy's in Virginia.  

Hugs, licks, and paws,

Busty

Weekend!

The weekend is my favorite part of the week.  My mom and dad are home with me all day and we just lounge around and do a little bit of housework, watch football and relax.  Here are some pictures of what I do.

I sit and get warm by the fireplace if I get cold.

I snuggle with my momma on the couch.

I chew on my bone next to my daddy.

I hope you are having a relaxing weekend like I am.  Stay warm and Happy Holidays!

Love, 

Buster 

Getting Back to Normal

Well, mom and dad finally came back home and we are getting things back to normal.  They picked me up and took me back home to my cats.  My mom was hopping around when she came to get me.  She told me that she was walking on a boardwalk at the beach a piece of wood sticking out got stuck inside her foot and almost went all the way through it.  Here is a picture.  Looks kinda yucky huh?  

And now a picture of the culprit once it was pulled out.  Yuck!  It is as fat as a pencil.  Imagine, getting a pencil jabbed in your foot that far.  Mom says it hurts and I believe her!

We quickly got back to normal life except my walks being drastically cutback since mom is walking around with two metal things.  Although she is doing more funny walking now a days than using the other things she is still really slow at getting around.  So her walking is getting a little more back to normal every day.

So, today mom and dad worked all day.  Dad came and visited at me lunch, then mom showed up too!  There was something about dad leaving his keys in the house and locking the door, I think it was an accident.  But, it was nice to see them both.  This evening we have been putting up the Christmas tree.  Here I am supervising dad as he assembles the trees.  Hmmm, I wonder who puts together the trees outside?

Then, I did over hear dad say something about me starting to be a little too much help, but I don't think there is such a thing.  At any rate since I was being such a good supervisor that I got a reward my big red Kong with peanut butter it is my FAVORITE toy.  So, here I am chewing on my Kong YUMMY!  

I hope you are all getting your homes a little festive and cozy like ours.  It is fun for us to enjoy for the month even though for the holidays we will be taking a road trip to Mimi and Granddaddy's.  I'm getting excited for lots of QT with mom and dad and I hear I have a new cousin Sherman to meet, my Aunts Lori, Gina and her girls.  I love new friends and old ones alike!  Exciting!  I'll keep you posted!  

Until next time, stay warm and keep loving your quadrapeds!

Playing, Turkey and More Playing

So, on Tuesday after school my Auntie Jill came to play with me and talk to my mom and then she let me see her car and we went for a ride.  Guess where we ended up?  Her house to play with my girlfriend and her sister!  We always have so much fun.  When I got there Tuesday it was so much fun and so much chaos that Jill and Whit couldn't get any good pictures.  

On Wednesday morning we started earlier.  Here I am playing with MacKenzee on Wednesday.  She and I always have so much fun!   Whoever said frisbees were only for throwing.  We like to play tug-of-war with it.

On Thursday, Whit made this big turkey thing.  Jill was telling us dogs that it was for Thanksgiving.  I was thankful it was Thanksgiving and that Jill and Whit are nice enough to feed me some of their turkey.  YUM!  So when he finally took that bird out of being in the oven all day, Jackson and I supervise the cutting as you can see.

On Friday we were back to playing sunup to sundown unlike the many humans that I hear were shopping from sunup to sundown.   Here I am tuckered out and sleeping in a bed entirely to small for me, but I like the coziness of it.  See how good I am at guarding bones while I sleep?  MacKenzee taught me how to hold two things at the same time.  It's fun, the more bones and toys the merrier!

Well, I hear mom and dad will be back to get me Sunday night so I better get back to playing nonstop since it will be back to my only child ways (well I guess it depends if you count the cats) when they come get me and we go home.  I think I like being able to be an only child and spoiled rotten at home but play to my hearts content with my friends on weekends and holidays.  Life is good!

I hope you all got to eat turkey, remembered the many things we all have to be thankful for, and had a Happy Thanksgiving, like me.