Mesa wants a bath, Baily keeps her attitude and BCs ears are too big for the camera

So the house we live in is old. Its actually an old boarding/writing building that was converted into 4 appts. While that means there is a ton of charm, it also means there are some interesting things like old door jams that don't let doors fully latch. Like a lot of dogs I know, Mesa enjoys trying to join people in the bathroom. When we close the door, she waits a moment and uses her head as a battering ram to see if the door is not fully latched. If shes lucky, the door swings open. As her luck would have it, it opened for her when the DH was in there earlier this week. Rather than sitting near the him, per her norm, she decided to climbed the step and hop into the bathtub (our bathtub is really deep) and sat there waiting for something to happen. I think she thought she was dirty or something...

Baily has decided to keep up her attitude when people take pictures of her, she was practicing out on our balcony

and the DH tried to capture BC but we just couldn't get his ears to stay in frame

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Everyone pick on Mesa!

Big Carl is a Creepster

Obviously I have been in LA too long :) But in all seriousness I don't know how better to describe it. Big Carl has decided that he wants to cuddle with Baily. Baily does not want to cuddle with Big Carl. So BC has gotten smart. He waits until Baily has settled in to a point where she won't be likely to move and then he gets up, runs over and hops on top of her. Even if it seems he is asleep, once Baily moves in to settle somewhere his ears perk right up (they are hard to miss). Mesa just sits back and is happy he doesn't consider her a cuddle buddy. She is only for wrestling with :) Besides, she already has her eye on someone else (hint hint Otis)

We need to find BC someone new to cuddle with who would appreciate his affection. Any takers?

Check out this cool place we visited!

Lost Dog Cafe How cool is this? Not only is the food awesome, but the money goes to support their rescue organization :) Sounds like a future business idea for me (for those of you who follow me on Facebook, you know how much I cook when I am home)!

Photos from the St. Pats event

So that even we went to a couple weeks ago where we won all the awesome stuff? There was a photographer there who took family pics. Here are my favorites (most are out takes but Baily was having a bit of attitude!)

Wordless Wednesday

On the road again

We hit the road this week. Yup WE. The DH is on spring break and has friends and family in DC so he's coming with this week and staying the weekend. He returns on Sunday but I will be staying for work which means I will be gone for 11 days!

While we are away our awesome friends Alex and Joe will be watching the pups. Alex has also recently decided to start a new exercise plan. She is tricking herself into running by picking up Mesa and Baily as she heads out :) The girls are all for this new plan. A long walk and a run everyday? They are in heaven (and so are we, since tired dogs are good dogs).

About two months ago I went to an opening for a new dog shop with Big Carl and they just posted these pic. His ears look extra large!

We were tagged and a few beautiful awards

Charlie over at One Pibble's Wish tagged us in photo tag.
Here are the rules: Go to your first photo folder, find the 10th picture, post that photo and explain the story behind it. Then, tag five blogs to do the same.

Here is our photo:

I call this one scawwie Mesa. This is how she likes to lay on the sofa and watch people (when she isn't watching sports).


I am going to tag:


Fido & Wino
Ginger Jasper
Joe Stains

Look at what Tilly gave us:

I have to …

Put the Sunshine Award flower logo in my post. 

Send the award to 12  blogs that bring  sunshine into my life. 

Put links for the winners in my post. 

Leave a comment on their blog telling them they have got  a Sunshine Award from me.

Put these instructions on my blog so they will know what to do.

And Prinnie gave us this one:

The rules state that I have to say seven beautiful things about myself:

1. I think rescue dogs have the most amazing hearts

2. I have the ability to forgive and move on (Big Carl)

3. I will always have a special spot in my heart for Pit Bulls

4. I work hard so I can retire early and save more dogs

5. I have three beautiful rescued pups

6. I try to smile at everyone in greeting to make their day better

7. I work hard to not judge a book by its cover

I am supposed to give this to 7 fellow bloggers

And lastly (but not least) I got this one from Princess

I want to give all these awards to all my awesome blog friends! There are just to many and I can't decide who deserves them. Maybe I will pick them out of a hat!

Wordless Wednesday

you know that sofa cushion

the one that Big Carl vomited cat poop all over? Well we took it apart so we can clean it and next thing we know we see this:

and I see a little SHIT, I mean Big Carl, with fuzz handing out of his mouth. Sigh. RIP beloved sofa. It was an awesome sofa. HUGE, like MANGO sized! The DH is 6'4 and was determined to have a sofa that he could sit on and not have his feet touch the floor. Had to put it through a window since it doesn't fit up stairs. When guests come over they like to sleep on it once we put twin sized sheets down (they are a bit tight since it is so big).

Big Carl better be very glad I am on the other side of the country this week.

St. Pats fun

So before I left for my first week on site, the DH, Baily and I went to an event put on by the Four Legged Friends Foundation called O'Fluff's Luck Charms. The foundation raises money for low income families to help pay medical bills so pets are not taken to shelters and ultimately euthanized. We decided to take Baily because she is the best behaved of our three.

While there, they had fashion shows, raffles and blind auctions. Ian and I ended up with 5 gift bags (they were giving away the extra's), bought 10 raffle tickets and ended up winning a bag of dog food and the grand prize of a two night getaway to Palm Desert! We are very excited about that. We also won a silent auction and got 4 tickets to see the final home game of the LA Kings! Ian is a huge hockey fan having been born and raised in Alaska. All in all it was a great event and we actually walked away with more in prizes than we had spent in donations! We also shopped some of the vendors and got BC a new collar and some belly bands (super nice suede and sheepskin ones we got for a steal) since he still tries to mark everything.

Apparently Baily is not a big fan of me being gone all week. Big Carl decided to welcome me back by eating a whole bunch of cat poop and throwing it up all over the sofa... eeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeew.

We are still here I promise!

Still trying to get the hang of my new schedule! Its still week one. Here is a favorite Mesa pic of mine. Two of Mesa's favorite things. Our friend from Alaska, Oscar and her tennis ball. This pic is from last fall but Mesa is super stoke 'cause Oscar has been down to visit us for the past two weeks while he is taking a bike trip from Northern Washington to his birthplace Columbia! He and his sister have been resting up before starting the foreign leg of their trip.

Oh and check out the view from my hotel gym. It's Camden Yard! Where the Baltimore Orioles play!

Mesa and Big Carl enjoy the sunshine

Baily was nowhere to be found during the beautiful day we had yesterday