Last Long Walk...

... for a while. It's not as sad as it sounds. My brother Oakley and I love long walks. We actually get way too excited. We tend to get tired pretty fast. Mom says we need to learn how to pace ourselves. But Mom mentioned something about the clocks changing in the house. Changing to what I thought? ::shrugs:: It's starting to get dark early and the weather is getting colder. Living in the Monterey Bay, the weather is always pretty nice, but living this close to the ocean, it can get cold fast. So we took advantage of one of the last warm days we are probably going to have this season and went for a long walk.

Quick stop to enjoy the view.

Break Time. We needed to breathe. Bol.

OK time to head back.

Whoa that's a long way.

How did Mom and Oak get over there?

Almost there. Water. Water. I want water.


Aaaaaaahhhhhh.


After our walked we enjoyed some new bones that Mom got us.

And then it was nap time. Oakley was so tired, I think he crashed out before he made it off the couch. Bol.

Hope everyone had a wonderful weekend.
Enjoy those last warm weather days wherever you are.

Lots of Licks,
Swisher

Sleepover with Aunt V

Hey Furiends...

It's Oakley here. This weekend, my brother and I got to have sleepover with our Aunt V. Well actually, I should say, Aunt V had a sleepover with us. Mom had to go out of town over night and Aunt V dog-sat us. It was the first night we had been away from Mom, so we were excited and happy that she stayed with us. The weather was rainy on Sunday so we spent most of our time inside relaxing.

But today I got to go on a special trip with Aunt V to her house and visit her Grandma. We call her Gordy. Gordy loves me. She says I'm her favorite dog in the whole world.

Gordy and Aunt V's house is big. Well compared to the department, er I mean apartment, where my brother and I live, there was tons of room to wander around and explore. Too bad the paparazzi was following me or I could have gotten into some good mischief. I came across this HUGE white polar bear. I think it was lost. But I scared him off. I told him these were MY parts. (Okay Aunt V said it was a stray cat. Whatever.) I continued my hunt...

Is this a x-mas tree? Oh. I thought cactus only grew in deserts.

Hmm what's that over there?

Whoa! Who's that handsome devil?

After I thoroughly checked out everything, I was pretty tired. Aunt V brought me inside and I enjoyed one of my favorite things. A sun nap.

Ahh. When the sun hits your fur it's the best.

It was starting to get late ...

...and we had to go home to check on Swisher and wait for Mom to come home. We' were super excited that Mom was coming home, so we waited for her by the window that way we could see when she got here.

Thankfully Mom arrived home shortly after and safely. AAAAAAAND she brought PIZZA!!! OMD we love Mom! Missed you Mom!

Hope everyblogger had a wonderful weekend.

Lots of Licks,
Oakley

Lick Or Treat!

Hey Everydoggy and Everybloggy!

We wanted to share what we got to do on Howl-oween with all our friends since we've been reading all your fun Lick-o-treating times.

Well normally I wouldn't be too excited to put my costume back on, but Mom and Aunt V said we were heading someplace special to show off our festive threads. Mom took us to our local mall. It might not sound so exciting, but they were hosting a special Dogs Only Costume Contest!

We first arrived at 1 o'clock and we had to register and sign up.
We got to show off our costume and do a little walk back and forth.

PetCo had a booth set up with all sorts of fun items and great goodies. The had treats, toys, balls, stuffies, food, and games.

It was a warm day in the Monterey Bay area. We wanted to take a dip in this water fountain. Bol.

We met a lot of new friends and saw a lot of cool costumes.

A PUG-kin.

A turtle.

A caveman on a pterodactyl.

A French maid.

This little girl was a Princess. I think I was her prince because I sure was giving her a lot of friendly kisses. Bol.

This friend was HUGE! His name is Captain. He's suppose to be Bullseye from Toy Story II and his human was dressed up as Woody. Me, Oakley, being the friendly dog that I am, love to play with big dogs. Swisher on the other paw, thought Captain was going to eat him, so he quickly ran off. Bol.

(notice Captain's tail is bigger than Swisher's body. Bol.)


One of our favorite costumes was none other than our local superhero... Spiderman!

His costume was PAWesome! We are currently discussing next year's costumes with Mom. I think we want to be Spiderman and Batman. What do you guys think?

The contest results weren't going to be for a couple of hours so went to have a lunch break. During which, Mom ran into one of her old friends from college and we got to meet her dog too. She's a SHARK! If you guys remember, we love Sharks. In all forms; in the ocean, at the aquarium, and of course, the San Jose Sharks! So we loved her costume! Land Shark! Bol.

So... unfortunately we didn't win the dog costume contest. But here's who did...

3rd place goes to Summer, The Ballerina Butterfly.

2nd place goes to Sasha, The Punk Rock dog.

...And the 1st place winners are... Jack and Jill the Pirate Dogs!

We are such good sports we went to go congratulate them on the PAWesome home made costumes!

Later we went home to get ready for the Lick-o-treaters. Oh what Mom? Ohhhh, trick-o-treaters! Whichever.

Mom had put together a few candy bags to give away. But sadly, no kids showed. ::shrugs:: So we gave away some to neighbors. But since we were super good today at the mall, we got to play with our toys from the PetCo booth, AND as an extra special Howl-oween treat we got...

...a Frankenstein and "Howl at the moon" dog cookies! MMMMM.




We hope everyone had a great time during Howl-oween. We sure did.


Lots of licks,
Oakley and Swisher

"I'm So Excited...

...and I just can't hide it".... Yup. I can't stop wagging my tail and spinning in circles. You know what Mom told us? Grandma is coming to visit! That's right, and she's arriving today! I love me my Grandma. She gives me all the extra attention I want and best of all, she slips me all sorts of yummy goodies. Grandma lives far away. We usually only get to go to Grandma's house on special occasions or holidays and such. But today she's coming to visit ME! Ok ok ok, she's coming to visit ALL of us. Mom and Oakley too. But I know the real reason. She misses me. Who wouldn't miss me? I'm PAWesome.

The days leading up to today weren't so exciting though. Mom has been on a cleaning rampage. Just when I finished all that hard work to get my scent on everything, she goes and cleans it. So Thursday was pretty boring. The house was in disarray and all our toys were put aside. There was no room to chase my brother, or NOM on some bones or play tug of war with stuffies with Oakley. We were left to do only one thing...

...wait for Grandma!

Mom said she's wasn't coming yet. Not until Saturday. But I don't know what Saturday is, or when it is, so I just waited. I took a nap, woke up, and waited some more. She still wasn't here. Hmm? How long do I have to wait? I figured I would ask Oakley if he knew when Saturday was (since he was the one who went to school and all) and he didn't know what I was talking about. Thanks a lot Oak. Now we're both stuck here.

Mom and Aunt V were doing some interesting stuff besides cleaning. Aunt V said it's called 'decorating'. For a minute I thought I was getting two new brothers when I saw these things. Mom got two framed pictures from her boss of a Boston Terrier and a Pug puppy. "Looks like you", Mom said, but fawn colored. I thought it looked nothing like me, I am WAY more handsome.

The evening wasn't a total bust. Mom surprised us with some fun stuffies. Mom said they were way too cute she had to get them for us.

Cute? Ha! I'll show you cute. These things aren't gonna be that cute when me and my brother have our way with them. But I figure by the time we're through with these, Grandma will be here!

Lots of Licks,
Swisher

Howl-oween

Hey everyblogger... Oakley here. It's been a while since our last post and our deepest aPAWlogies. But not to worry, we have been reading up on all your fun and exciting adventures. And it's time to share some of ours. Sorry Mom, we love you, but you were a wee bit slacking on this here bloggy. Can't blame Mom though. We just have too many friends to keep up with all the time. So... my brother Swisher and I made a decision. We asked our Auntie V to intervene. We all discussed it, and Auntie V has agreed to become Co-Editor in Chief of our Blog.

So FF two months later from our last post... it's October now. You know what that means? Halloween! Or as we like to say, HOWL-oween. Check me out in my new festive Howl-oween collar! ::whistles:: Stud right? Yup I think so.

Howl-oween means candy, costumes and PUMPKINS! We're still not exactly sure why people get excited over pumpkins. They just sit there and smell funny. And sometimes they have mean faces on them, which can be a little scary sometimes. But Mom and Auntie V like 'em. They went out to a pumpkin patch (where dogs weren't allowed. How rude!) and brought some home to carve.

Can you tell what they are??

It's Mario and Luigi from Mario Bros!

We don't know much about pumpkin carving skills, but we think they came out pretty great! Auntie V had so much fun doing these pumpkins, she went out and got 2 more to go with them!

It's Yoshi and the 1-up mushroom.

As we said earlier, Howl-oween means costumes. Trust us when we say this, it's not our favorite part. Another reason we don't understand all the excitement. Costumes are uncomfortable. But Mom gets all giddy and grins from ear to ear when she sees us in our costumes. She and everyone else think we look 'soooo cute'. We always looks cute! Hmph! Anyway, we do it for her cuz she's the bestest Mom there is. She does have pretty good taste though. Mom was thinking she probably wasn't going to get us new costumes this year (which we were secretly crossing our paws for.. shhh, don't tell her.) because she couldn't find anything cute or reasonable priced ones. But she made a recent trip to PetSmart and found some for 50% off and could NOT pass them up.


Here I am in my costume. It might be a little hard to tell what I'm suppose to be, but I'm a Mummy. Auntie V says it's a perfect costume for me 'cause she says I'm a "Mummy's Boy". Get it? Like Momma's boy. Ya, I wasn't amused either. These things always make me feel weird, so I wasn't moving for the first 5 minutes I had it on.

My brother didn't seem to have a problem with it. The costume tag said it's a 'Demon'. But Mom didn't like that word and decided he looks more like a Dragon. I think he looks pretty cool actually. And Swisher is happy with his costume.

We're still not sure what our plans for Howl-oween are. I'm pretty sure we're going to be giving out candy with Mom. It's always a gamble on how many trick-o-treaters we will get. Hopefully no kids come and Swish and I can tear up all the candy. Bol.

Anyway, we want to wish everyone and everydoggy a safe and happy HOWL-oween!

Lots of Licks,
Oakley and Swisher

p.s. Thanks Auntie V for your help.