Holiday Prep - Stage 3 Giving and Receiving

Hi everypuggy. This is the 3rd instalment of my holiday prep. This post is about giving and receiving. To start with I have finally got my holiday gifts packaged now all that needs to be done is take them to the post office. Here is a picture of me with my packages.

The next topic is "Receiving".

I was nominated another award, this time from Rosie Marie

She gave me this award. She also mentioned that I knows what it is like to live with cats. Yes I do, Rosie, I am so glads you too understand how it is to share the house with felines and be the only puggers!

Thanks for my award Rosie.

The other "Receiving" arrived on Tuesday.

I gots very excited about this next thing as I have been waiting and checking with the postman every days for 2 weeks.

This arrived at my house.

 

Mum announced my package had finally arrived from my pug luvs, Tuni .

Mum brought it into the living room and let me open it.

Tuni, here is the video Mum tooks of me trying to open the package.

I was so happy to get this gift all the way from America. I participated in Tuni and Sequoia's paw it forward.

Looks at the things I got!

There was a card, a little blue ball, a blue chewie bone, my own little holiday stocking, and MY VERY OWN SNUGGIE IN BLUES!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Here I am in my new snuggie. Thank you so much for my snuggie. Now Mum doesn't have to go to America to get me one. Look how nicely it fits. Tuni's Mum sure knows how to fit a pug for clothes.

I have been wearing it everynight. I luvs it. Thank you girls.

I thinks Kizzy is a little jealous of my presents. Sorry Kizzy, the snuggie is to big for you and it is blues, my colour not yours!

I also went crazy for the blue chewie bone. Mum says I haven't stopped chewing it since I gots it.

She tooks a video of me chewing it.

Here is another picture of me in my snuggie.

Here is a close up of my new stocking

After all the excitement of the gifts, I forgot to mention that the weather has turned very nice now. The rains have stopped and the sun is shining. It is a little chilly in the morning but I am glads for the sun. Here is a picture Mum tooks of the sunrise on Thursday morning during our walkies.

The full moon was still visible in the morning sky as we walked across the field. Can you see the moons at the top of the picture below? There was lots of frost on the ground and my toes got chilly.

Tomorrow we are posting my holiday gifts. Good night everyone!

I will be nice and cozy in my snuggie as I dream of my Tuni!

Holiday Prep - Step 2 - The outdoor lights

So the holidays are drawing closer and the first step this year was to do my shoppings, which is done but..... still have to post them. Mum bought the wrong size packaging envelopes so she's gotta go out and get bigger ones! Anyways, I really wanted to put ups our tree but Mum said outdoor lights first. Here are pictures of us putting up our outdoor lights. Kizzy and TIka like to help out for this event (more than mes) as they find it fun to chase the string of lights across the floors.

First off..... Mum woke us up in the morning and announced today was outdoor light day!

Mum says I am the hardest, out of us 3, to get out of the bed in the morning.

Kizzy waking up

Tika being woken up

Official" light tester" and "bulb checker", Kizzy and Tika

Ah the laundry basket makes a great office for the manager of the light testing

The office is shared with the manager of the bulb checker

Mum erects the ladder, the fact that it was raining didn't deter her from putting up the lights

The things on the front porch had to be moved around to accommodate the holiday decorations. Mum moved my cement stepping stone from the doorway to the area near the entrance of our "wally gates". I was ok with this as Mum explained it will be the first thing people see when they come to the door. (2003! I wuz just a pups then, only 1 1/2 yrs old)

Our signature "2 Cats and a Dog" lawn stakes were moved closer into the porch to stay drier during winter.

The porch entrance way (were my stepping stone used to be). Mum also had to take down the summer hammock swing chair she gots in Mexico.

Kizzy comes to inspect the arrangement of decorations and gives it a 2 paws up

Here is a picture at nights. There is my stepping stone in front of the gates and to the right.

Wow, our little tree (left) is very brights.

A picture of the front door at nights.

And the last picture is the house from the streets. Mum tooks a blurry picture so it isn't very good.

Later in the afternoon my pal Dickens came for a bit of a visit. We wents for walkies in the graveyard near our house. It was kind of warms out and NOT raining! I hads a busy weekend!

My holiday Shopping

On Saturday was our monthly pug meet up. We were going to go then not going and when the rain paused for a bit we changed our mind one last time and went. There was lots of puggies there even though it was super wets. Here are some pictures. We weren't there long as we missed most of the meet up cause we kept changing our minds!

After we were finished Mum and I did my Holiday Shoppings. She took me to 2 different stores and I picked out what I needed. Here are some pictures of me inspecting my goods once we gots home.

Over the next day or two Mum will help me wraps them and put them in the post to send to my friends.

I had such a busy weekend that last night I snuggled up with Dad. (See Mum's snuggie blanket in the background. I just luvs it, I will get my own but not until January when Mum goes back to America.)

Kizzy and Tika have been complaining that they don't have much pictures on the blog. They say I am a bit hoggish and dominate it too much. So here they are too!

Kizzy sleeping on her cat tree. She luvs it up there. (note: that is my little doggie blanket she is sleeping on, I let her use it)

When I was lounging with Dad, Tika was hanging out with the Buddha. She was watching her sister playing with their toy last night (I let them keep some of their toys with mine in my new toy area). These pictures demonstrates that I do shares with them.... sometimes.

My new friend, Penny... Good news and some bad news

The not so good news is my blog pal is not feeling well. Penny (Beefy Pug) has been sick and her Mum is super worried about her. Please stop by her blog and leave a message and send prayers and well wishes her way.With all our luvs sent her way let's hope she gets better soon.

The good news is... I gots an award! This is my first. Thanks Penny for listing me for this award.

So I have listed below 5 things I really like:

1. Eating (No surprise here as I am a pug! Oh yeah, this includes goose poop and mud)

2. Play with my chuck-it  at the beach and dig holes in the sand

3. Hang out with Mum all the time

4.  Go for walkies with my pug pal Dickens

5. My pug luvs, Tuni (who I might add is very cutes and hots in her new dress)

Here is Mum's list:

1. Hanging out with Winston

2. Cuddling with our cats Tika and Kizzy

3. Travelling (specially Mexico)

4. Shopping

5. Blogging with other people owned by pugs

We noticed that lots of our friends have already been nominated for this award. So we won't list 10 peoples. But anyone who stops by our blog please accept this award from me!

Sigh! Another Rain and Wind Warning... When will it be Spring!

I have been doing lots of this lately. The rains has been falling so much. Last night Mum and I woke up in the middle of the night because of the strong winds. The roads are flooding, it is too windy and wet to play outside and I am fed ups with getting soaked on my walkies.

Environment Canada has issued a Wind and Rain Warning for tonight and tomorrow so because we are stuck inside during this crumby weathers I decided to post some pics of some of my things inside my homes.

Above is a pic of my new toy area! Mum and Dad have been doing some renos in the homes. In the living room they made this little alcove under the big TV for my toy box. Looks at all my toys!!! (see the two toys on the floor to the right, those aren't mines. They are my cat sisters', I was nice enough to allow them to keep some toys in MY new toy area). I have been playing with my toys lots cause of this rainy weather. I means, I gotta keep busy somehow! 

With all the renos going ons I keep finding my things relocated to different areas of the home. Mum says this is temporary....... so it doesn't gets in the way. Here is a pic of me with my bed. I like my bed to be in the hallway near the front doors, but today it is upstairs in the computer rooms. Hey! what happened to my favourite blanket! MUM!!!!!! (oh..... she just told me it is being washed, phew! I thought it gots lost in the shuffle).

This is one of my favourite areas in the house. My feeding tray in the kitchen. I gots my own name plaque (so that my cat sisters know it is MY food, not theirs!). What is so specials about my food area is the tray. See, Mum mades that for me. She thought I looked uncomfortable stretching out my front legs like a giraffe so I could eat from my bowl, that she made me a raised tray. She made it at her woodshop, it is mades of 2 different types of woods (Mum said something about scraps lying around from the table project). She custom made it to fits my feeding dishes. She did not make my name plaque.

This pic above is something my pug pal Dickens had on his harness and Mum thought it a good idea I gets one too. It is a  turbo turtle LED light from a store called Mountain Co-Op Equipment   (notes: I don't likes this store as it doesn't have "pet" in the name and I am not allowed inside). Dickens' Dad took Mum to this store and he showed Mum the light. She gots me blues as it is my favourite colour. She likes the light, especially in this dark rainy weather. We turn it on when I go out for walkies and Mum can see me in the dark but she says it is mostly for my safety so cars and bikes can see me.

Here is a pic of me watching Mum on the computer (OMD she is playing Christmas music right now!). I like lounging here as this blanket is so very cosy and warms. I just wish it was blues not pinks as I am a boy!

Here is me and Mum hanging out watching TV and staying dry inside.

Here is a video of me and my new chewy from Simply 4 paws an online pet store! I luvs my chewy (Mum says this keeps me busy while we are cooped up inside). There are strict rules for having chewy though, I can only have it while she monitors as I sometimes have a habit of swallowing too big of a piece! She said something about Pearl doing a similar thing in a video on her blog . Mum was videoing me while she was watching TVs.