It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas!

Jessie and I snoopervised Momma yesterday as she put up Christmas decorations. It was EXHAUSTING, furiends, I won't lie.

But in the end, we wound up with a beeYOUtiful tree!

Our stockings were hung by the chimney with care...

From the left, that's Momma's, mine, Jessie's brand-new one, and Pigeon's 

Pigeon loves Christmas decorations!

Jessie and I even posed for our furst Christmas tree shot. Don't you love Jessie's pretty Christmas dress? She's very proud of it. :)

It's the most wonderful time of the year!

Sunday Selfie

I hope everyone had a happy Thanksgiving! I did lots and lots and LOTS of snuggling with my momma. Today we're decorating for Christmas! Well, Momma's decorating, and Jessie and I are giving artistic guidance. BOL!

Wordless Wednesday: Thankful fur siblings

Nursing is hard work!

Boy, furiends, I'm exhausted! I'm glad Momma went back to work today, because it's hard work nursing her.

I had to work real hard to keep her leg still and warm. See how ruff it is?? And Jessie did a grreat job at keeping Momma's spirits up. She's a natural at this!

 It definitely got exhausting after a while. Jessie rebelled a little.

But I'll stay at my post no matter WHAT! That's just the kind of guy I am.

Momma says the muscle is just overworked, not torn or anything nasty, so she just has to treat it nice for a little while and it'll be all better. She wanted me to thank everyone for all the nice words yesterday. She says the medal was still worth it!

Congrats Momma!! And our sleepover!

So I told you on Friday that My Boy and Auntie Jess were going to stay with us this weekend because Momma was going out of town? I wasn't sure what she was doing because she SAID she was running another marathon, but that's just kerazy talk. Guess what??

Yup, she DID really run another marathon. OMD! She's totally kerazy. Especially because she hurt her leg (she said her hamstring had bothered her before, but she thought it was under control) and she still walked more than 11 miles just to finish!! Jessie and I are SO proud of her.

While she was gone, Jessie and I hung out with My Boy and Auntie Jess. It was really ruff, let me tell you.

 "Go Momma."
"Dis is our cheering faces."

Sleepover time!

OMD, I'm so super excited. I get to host a sleepover tonight! My Boy is coming just to see ME and is going to stay the night! (Auntie Jess is going to tag along and play with Jessie, I guess. But My Boy is coming for ME!)

Me and My Boy on his last visit

They almost never stay the night, so I'm running around like kerazy, trying to get everything ready for them. I think they might need some extra toys in their room, just in case they feel like playing in the middle of the night. And I'm giving the guest bed EXTRA attention so the covers all very artistically arranged.

Auntie Jess and Jessie

They're coming over so Jessie and I have some peeps to hang with while Momma goes away for the night. She's going to some place called Oklyhomey. We're not sure why. She SAID she's going to be running a marathon on Sunday morning. But Momma already RAN one of those things back in January, and no one is kerazy enough to do that more than once, right? BOL!

Momma at her marathon. One's enough, right?

Well, whatever she's doing, I hope she has fun at it. My Boy and I (and Jess^2) are sure going to have fun at home!

Copycat!

Little sisters have to copy everything, don't they? I mean, I get it. I'm older and SO much wiser. It's flattering. But come on, Jessie, did you have to try to copy my best pose?

I guess it's like those celebrity magazines -- who wore it best? BOL!

Impromptu family bonding

Hi folks, Jessie here! Wow, last night was really cool! We got to do some impromptu family bonding. Momma woke up just before 4am because of some really pretty loud noises she called a tor-na-do siren. I figured we were getting up to go potty -- and I hadn't even had to ask! But then Momma hurried Casey and me into her closet. That's weird. She usually keeps the door shut.

 

Casey was pretty chill about it, but guess what I was interested in? Well, after Momma closed us in the closet, she ran out again and came back with...

Pigeon! Yup, we all four got to hang out together in the closet at 4 in the morning! What a fun idea Momma had!!

At furst Momma kept Pigeon off to one side so "you hellions can calm down." I'm not sure what she meant by that. But eventually I realized that it wasn't a good location to do zoomies or play crazy river otter like Cammie and Maggie do. After that, Momma let me over to say hi to my little sister.

She's only my little sister because she's tiny. She's actually a LOT older than me. BOL. Anyway, we got to hang out together for almost an hour before Momma finally said it was time to go back to sleep. What a fun time!! Momma has the BEST ideas.

PeeS: Momma checked all the fences and stuff when she let me out this morning and said everything was fine. Of course everything was fine. I don't know what she was worried about!

Paws Crossed for Paris

We are so sick to hear about what happened yesterday in Paris. We just don't know how to understand that kind of hate and violence. All I can do is cross my paws and hope for peace and healing for the people of France.

Mail call!

Yesterday evening was very exciting! Momma came home to find a package on the porch -- and it was addressed to US! We were very excited to see what was in it.

"Paws off, Casey! This is MY package! I can tell!" 

"Not so fast, kiddo. Take a sniff of this!" 

That's right, the letter inside said it was a package from our dear furiend Noodles the Pug! And even though Jessie tried to claim it, it was MY prize for MY story in Noodles's skeery story contest at Howloween. How pawesome! It was packed full of grreat stuff.

"Why do we hafta sit here?? There's goodies in that box!!"

"Watch and learn, sis. This is the pose." 

And sure enough, Momma gave us both some of the super nummy treats at the top of the box. But then...

"MINE!!!!"

Jessie laid IMMEDIATE claim to the water bottle toy in the box. She ran out of the room so fast, she was nothing but a blur. She wanted to make sure I didn't try to play with it. Whatever. That gave me the REST of the box. BOL. Later that night, Momma had to institute a "no gnawing on water bottle toys after bedtime" rule, because Jessie didn't want to stop playing with it.

Thanks, Noodles! What a grreat prize!!

They see me rollin'...

Heya folks, Jessie here!! OMD, don't you just LOVE that feeling you get on a walk when you just have to FLOP over and roll in the grass?! It's the best EVER.

Momma laughs at me and calls me a goofball. But I say there's NOTHING better!! Roll on, everybody!

Jessie!

Honoring those who've served

To all those who've answered our nation's call

Those with two legs and four

Today we honor you for your service and your sacrifice.

THANK YOU, VETERANS!!

We're back!

Sorry for disappearing on you all for a few days. I dictated a lovely post about how I was taking Jessie for a trip to visit Grandma and Grandpa and wouldn't be able to blog for a few days. Then Momma furgot to POST it! SHEESH. Good help is SO hard to find. Anyway, we had fun. I napped a lot with Grandma like usual. It's pawesome. Jessie, of course, is TOTALLY Grandpa's girl.

She also had a lot of fun playing with our aunt Gracie, Grandma and Grandpa's little Maltese/Poodle mix.

 Where was Momma during all of this? Well, she SAID she was off WORKING, but then I spotted THIS picture on her phone!!

I was mad at furst, but then Momma said that is Miss Lilly, one of the owners of Castle Canine Creations. They're the folks who made my kilt and Cinderella's bellydancer outfit! Momma went all the way to the renny-sauce faire down near Houston, where she was working, and talked to Miss Lilly about getting a special outfit made fur Jessie. I guess that's OKAY. It's not like she was CHEATING on us, she was talking business!

I hope all of you had a totally pawesome few days! Momma and I are going to try to catch up on all your bloggies, but if there's something we really need to know, you might need to drop us a comment just to make SURE we see it!

Wordless Wednesday: Nice alone, but better together!

PeeS: A stowaway!