she thinks she's a cat

I will admit that my blog is pretty much overran with pictures of Jack Bauer. He's my baby. But I thought I'd share the spotlight with some of our other furry kids-- Ellie & Marty McFly!
Even though Ellie has a huge comfy dog bed, she loves to sleep in poor Marty's bed! I swear Ellie thinks she's a cat-- which works out well for Marty since he's convinced he's a dog. I mean, he comes when he's called, loves to play fetch and tries to drink out of the toilet. Our kids are weird!

more of the same

 It's pretty difficult to blog when there is nothing going on... just lots of snow, movie watching, cooking, playing board games etc. Nothing particularly exciting but it's really been a fantastic week. Mike was able to work from home all week, which was such a blessing. The roads have been a total nightmare and I like knowing he's safe here at home... plus I'm selfish, and I'll take all the time with him that I can get! The dogs have been playing outside constantly-- I really have to force Jack Bauer to come in and warm up.

Hope everyone is having a wonderful Sunday! We're supposed to get some more snow tonight and then another huge storm Tuesday/Wednesday.

Oh Snow You Didn't

It's a snow day here--- we've got some cuh-razy weather right now--blizzard-like conditions?! That just doesn't happen in NWA. The furbabies don't know what to think! These were taken about an hour ago-- it's really coming down now:

(I stole the title from someone's hilarious twitter hashtag.)

Christmas Cats!

just goofing around this afternoon. ;-)

Wednesday Randomness

just some random pictures from today:

I've been buying fresh flowers every week and recently I've been getting tulips. Love them.

And we've recently discovered the best part about having a fenced in backyard-- Jack Bauer is always sooo worn out in the evenings! He passes out around 8pm and sleeps all night. I love having a tired pup at night-- much less chaos around our house!

and once he realizes you're taking pictures:

haha! look at that nose!

keeping it real.

Because not every picture I take of Jack Bauer is cute:

He was running and in the middle of a big head shake. Yikes. Not cute.

And since I can't embarrass him without posting something adorable:

Luckily Mike was at work so JB could lounge on the ottoman. 

That's a big no-no when dad is at home!

I want to bring them all home!

My friends know that I am super passionate about animal rescue. I volunteer with a local animal rescue group-- you can find their link on my sidebar. These are some of the sweet babies that are up for adoption at our local shelters. If Mike didn't have a say I'd probably adopt them all!!

Andrea:

Jasmine:

Ellie:

Naina:

Rascal:

Shadow:

too cute for words!! The last two are senior dogs. So many times these guys are overlooked because of their age. Older dogs can be great- Mike and I both decided that our next rescue will be an adult dog. We had our fill of raising a puppy with Jack Bauer!

Snow Day!

It's been snowing for hours and I love it!! Mike is working from home and the only car I've seen all day was the postman. The dogs are hilarious out there- Ellie loves it and Jack Bauer is just confused. Here's hoping we can get out and make a snowman soon!

He's smiling, right??

just another Jack Bauer photo shoot... but this time I'm convinced he's smiling!!

because these are so fugly they're precious

I photograph Jack Bauer more often than most of my friends photograph their human children. He's just too damn cute and ridiculous. Love him!!

check out that Elvis lip!! 

R.I.P. Gibson

Last March I had an amazing weekend in Dallas with some of my best girlfriends. By complete chance, Gibson- the World's Tallest Dog was also in Dallas that weekend and happened to be staying in our hotel.

We're all big pet lovers and were so excited to take our picture with the bug guy:



(please excuse our no makeup and grungy clothes- it was early in the morning and we were on our way to the airport to pick up another friend.)

Anyway, I happened to see an article tonight about the world's largest dog... and it wasn't about Gibson. :( Turns out Gibson passed away over the summer of bone cancer. My friends and I were so upset to hear the news. He was such a gentle and sweet dog and I hate that his life was ended too soon.

They've set up an animal charity in his name: http://www.remembergibson.com/shop/
Hearing this news definitely made me hug my furbabies a little bit longer tonight.