Merry Christmas!

I hope everyone had a very merry Christmas and/or a Happy Hanukkah! Did Santa Paws Come to your house this year?  He came to my house!

 He brought me this big cozy bed. 

and he bought me this new fancy collar.

He also brought me a new rope bone!

The end of Christmas means that the New Year is just around the corner! Our New Year's resolution is to be better bloggers!  We have missed all of you guys while we've been gone and we hope to catch up soon!!

Love, Love, Love,

Arlo

Puggerfest 2011

Hi Friends! Here a couple of weeks ago, my cousin Luke and I took off for Oklahoma City to go to a place called Puggerfest.

There were a lot of pugs and their people there.

Here I am!  I'm taking a break from all the sniffing.

Here's My cousin, Luke!  He likes to pose for the camera.

There were so many pugs there and a lot of them were dressed up. We thought the tye-dyed pug here was pretty cool. 

Me and Luke cleaned up with some serious swag.  I hope we get to go next year!

Love, Arlo.

Deep thoughts...from Arlo's mom

Arlo's mom here.  Arlo is sleeping so I thought I'd take over the blog today and say that we were very blessed to be able to meet Hank and Sarah the other day! You guys are amazing! Meeting a fellow blogger in real life was something I've never done before, but it was exciting and fun, and it wouldn't have been possible without the help of a couple of smush faced dogs.  It made me think about how much I love this blog community! I am friends with people who live in different countries, different states, different cities, believe in different religions, and have different political affiliations; but the one thing that we all have in common is our love of our dogs. Love gives us common ground and brings us all together. Dr. Pia Salk (Martha Stewart's Veterinarian) says,  "To value another life regardless of difference (e.g. species) is at the very root of peace."  I love my dog, and I love you all and I hope that you have a great weekend! Love, Penni (and Arlo)

The tears are like raindrops.

My mom's eyes have been leaking a lot lately.  I asked her why and she said that she misses our friends.  Stubby and Emmitt, Josie, Molly and Lilo have all gone across the Rainbow Bridge.  We will miss them all very much, but we have to keep hope that we will see them again someday and take comfort in the fact that they were welcomed across by the ones that have gone on before and that now they are young puppies again, running around, chasing each other without a care in the world. You were our friends and you will be missed.  Love, Arlo and Arlo's Mama.

Did you have a great weekend?

We did! We mostly just stayed home and relaxed, but our local dogpark just opened up after being closed for over a year, so we went there on Friday. 

"What?  We're going to the Dogpark!?!"

"Are we there yet?"

"I see it! I see it!"

Saturday and Sunday and even on Monday, we just slept in and hung out and had lots fun.  I mostly played with my rope toy until this evil slipper tried to steal it. 

Luckily it didn't, but in case it did, I have like 3 back-up rope toys stashed away somewhere.

Well, hope everyone out there in bloggy land had a great weekend, too! Love, Arlo.

New Post!!! We're Back!!!

Hi Everypuggy!! I missed you all so so so much!  I've been thinking about all of you while I've been away.  Not much happened while we were away, but just recently TWO very big things happened!  One: I turned TWO years old (very appropriate don't you think?) and Two:  My mom graduated from college! Yay!

Here I am in my birthday hat! I'm ready for my birthday dinner!

My mom got me a hot dog for dinner!

Then, I got my presents!  I got a wonky bone and a rope toy!

Nom nom nom.

It was a great birthday, bit the best present of all was

Yay!! Congrats mom! Now you can play with me instead of reading those silly book things.

Well, we are so glad to be back and we are looking forward to cathing up with all of you!! Love, Arlo.