Liebster Award

My friends Tucker and Stewie sent us an award on their blog Pupparoos! http://pupparoos.blogspot.com

We were so surprised to find out we were named for the Liebster Blog Award. So, Mommy spent all morning helping us compose this blog post on her slower than slow computer. We had to pick 5 blogs to receive the award in return. Mommy did her best helping us research the 5 blogs to pick. Mommy wasn't sure if doggies that had blog's for a couple of years now, counted as "up-and-coming blogs". Then she couldn't figure out how many followers some blogs had. So, hopefully they don't disqualify us or something for not following directions, we did our best.

We didn't want to offend anyone by not picking them. We don't have too many followers, so we didn't know if we should accept the award or not since we value everyone's comments on our blog. It makes us so happy reading all the comments on our blog, so, by just chosing 5 was very hard for us.

In the end, Mommy said, we will explain to everyone, we wished we could nominate everyone, butt the directions said only 5 blogs with less than 200 Followers. We hope no one has any hard feelings about not being nominated. (And who knows, by the time we finish posting this blog post -- the people we nominated probably already got this award anyway.)


Drum roll......hear is how the Liebster Award works:

Liebster means “dearest” in German, and the award is intended to help up-and-coming blogs get the attention they deserve. As with any award, there is a bit of ceremony involved. In order to accept the award, we must do the following:

1. Copy and paste the award on our blog.

2. Link back to the blogger who gave us the award

3. Pick our five favorite blogs with less than 200 followers, and leave a comment on their blog to let them know they have received the award.

4. Hope that the five blogs chosen will keep spreading the love and pass it on to five more blogs

Here's who we nominate to receive the Liebster Blog Award too...

1. Oreo and Chewy the Shelties

We really love reading Sara’s Blog and hearing all about what’s going on with Oreo and Chewy and seeing all of Misty’s memories on Misty Monday blog posts. Sara’s first dog, Munchkin, looked a lot like me (Lassie) and scrolling back thru her older blog posts – it’s amazing to see the resemblance between us – sometimes it’s like I think to myself – was that me standing next to Misty – no, I guess it was Munchkin!. All of Sara’s Shelties are so talented. The trick that Oreo can do that Mommy is most impressed with is turning the light on and off by stepping on the switch on the floor by the bottom of the lamp. Mommy is so impressed with all of the things Sara is able to teach her dogs especially agility. Sara makes everything look so easy and she stays calm, cool and professional. Mommy kinda gets a little stressy when she tries to get us dogs to do something new, especially when we don’t listen to her, and Mommy always takes a step back and says to herself – how would Sara handle this – well, she would smile, show them love and affection, and reward them for improving the trick!. Mommy really values Sara’s comments and is learning a lot from reading Sara’s blog. Oreo is older than me (Lassie) and Chewy is older than Benji – it is very useful reading about what’s going on with them and watching their videos – they are our role models!

http://saralovesdogs.blogspot.com

2. Bailey and Katy the Shelties

Bailey and Katy are from a Sheltie Rescue. Oh, how Mommy is so impressed that Bailey and Katy are from a shelter, and all the time and effort it must have taken for their Mommy and Daddy to spend adopting them. If Mommy remembers correctly, she thinks their Mommy and Daddy had to drive quite some distance to go adopt them – that is what you call going above and beyond the call of duty to adopt a dog! But not just any dog – a Sheltie! It is so interesting reading about how well Katy is adapting to things. Katy wasn’t a puppy when she was adopted, so her history is uncertain. It is always great hearing the progress Katy makes handling new and different situations than what she must have been accustomed to before she met her furever family now! Mommy gets so happy reading Bailey and Princess Katy’s blog posts and hearing what they are up to. Mommy was ready to start up a petition in support of Bailey and Katy when their Thanksgiving toy “Tyler the Turkey” was going to be banished to the attic with all the other Thanksgiving toys. Butt, in the end, Bailey and Katy got to play with a whole bunch of new Christmas toys – so it all worked out well, for now I suppose. What happens to the Christmas toys once it gets to be New Year’s Day? Guess we got to keep watching and reading their blog to find out what happens next! This is better than watching Mommy’s soap opera on TV!

http://sheltietimes.blogspot.com

3. Ricky the Sheltie

Ricky is so smart! Mommy often wonders to herself – how in the world did his Mommy train him to do that! Like hiding on the bookshelf - Priceless! And Ricky’s agility – his Mommy just has to stand at the finish line and say “Go” – and zoom, there goes Ricky knowing exactly what to do jumping over all the obstacles. Wow!!! Words just can’t describe it! Mommy is so amazed everytime she watches Ricky’s videos. We really love reading Ricky’s comments on our blog too! Oh how my Mommy wished she could take beautiful pictures of us like Ricky’s Mom takes of him.

http://rickyitsadogslife.blogspot.com

4. Finn the Golden Retriever

We really enjoy reading Finn’s blog. We recently found out she was named after the book Huckleberry Finn. How cool is that to be named after a book! Finn is a Golden Retriever. Mommy holds the breed Golden Retrievers close to her heart, her brother used to have one and Mommy used to babysit Day-Z the Golden Retriever all the time. Mommy had a really great bond with Day-Z. Day-Z went over Rainbow Bridge a couple of years ago and Mommy still misses her. It’s hard for Mommy to talk about Day-Z, she still has a hole in her heart from Day-Z’s passing. Mommy got me (Lassie) right after she had to part with Day-Z. That helped Mommy’s heart heal a little. Getting Benji helped heal her heart even more. However, Finn’s Blog is helping Mommy’s heart heal too. Seeing Finn’s blog and watching and reading about all her adventures and seeing how much fun and all the love she is getting from her family is so nice to see. It brings back a lot of the warm fuzzy feelings Mommy had with her brother’s dog Day-Z. Golden Retrievers are a really great breed of dog, butt, Mommy definitely says SHELTIES are #1 in her book!

http://finnhoward.blogspot.com

5. Lilli

Lilli lives in Finland. She doesn’t have any pets, but don’t hold that against her! We really love reading Lilli’s blog. She posts everything in two language’s Finnish and English, we are really impressed that she takes the time and effort to translate everything on her blog. Right now for Christmas she is posting everyday, it’s like a countdown to Christmas during Advent. She is posting Christmas Songs and it makes us very happy to hear all the Festive Songs she is posting on her blog. The Christmas Songs are in Finnish, and eventhough we don’t know the Finnish language, we can recognize the melody of a lot of the songs because they sound a lot like the American version’s of the songs. We recognized the song – “I saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus”, eventhough it was in Finnish. We recognized other songs as well. We find it to be like a game – hearing the song – then trying to guess if it sounds like an American version of the song – then writing Lilli a comment asking her about the name of the song. Do you know that Lilli wished my Grandma a Happy Birthday all the way from Finland! When Mommy told Grandma – Grandma said that was so nice of her to wish me a Happy Birthday – and wow, all the way from Finland. Grandma says that Mommy sure has a lot of good friends on the blog! Grandma is happy that Mommy is able to have such good friends in the pen-pals she found thru Lassiter Chase the Sheltie’s blog.

http://lilithevoly.blogspot.com/

Thank you again for our award Tucker & Stewie at Pupparoos!

Lassiter Chase the Sheltie and my brother Benjamin

Birthday Weekend

1. It's Grandma's Birthday today Dec 11th. And my birthday (Lassie) is tomorrow Dec 12th. Let the celebrations begin! (Actually, we don't drink beer -- butt if we did -- that would explain why "Big Ben" is overweight by 2 pounds -- blame it on a "beer belly."


2. Mommy is painting a Benji sign for outside. She painted one for me last year and is working on one for Benji -- she made him look older -- butt, that's ok. I don't know if she will ever be finished painting it in time for Christmas! (By the way, if you are wondering about the antlers and scarf on Benji -- you have to wait until our Christmas picture in a future blog post.)


3. I saw Mommy bring home a bag from the grocery store. This is all I got to see -- but she quickly pulled it away as I started to sniff the bag. She says it's my birthday present! Can you believe she is making me wait until my birthday to open it. I wonder what it is? It kinda looks like a foot or antenna -- definitely some kind of stuffie. Don't you think?

Got to go,

Lassiter Chase and Benjamin the Shelties

Benji Got Bling...

1. Mommy and her oldest niece finally got Benji some bling. They have been wanting to make Benji's name tag for a while, butt, finally got to the store to make it. His name tag is blue, they wanted a green name tag to match his new green collar -- butt, they didn't want to put it off any longer -- so he got blue. Benji also got his last round of puppy shots and his rabies shot -- so he got a green name tag for his rabies shot.



This is the machine that engraved Benji's new blue name tag.




2. Here is a picture of us, Benji is showing off his new bling and I am trying to sleep in Benji's little bed. It was very cozy.




3. A couple days after Thanksgiving, we helped Mommy put up her $16.99 Christmas Tree with her oldest nephew. Everyone always makes jokes about Mommy's tree. They say it's $16.99 and it looks it too! Mommy likes her tree and won't get a new one. See, before Mommy's brother got married and moved out, he always kept getting real Christmas trees for the house. Sometimes he even got the trees with the roots still attached. So, Mommy was always stuck with getting down on her hands and knees and and trying to water the real trees. She always had to clean up all the dry pine needles that fell on the floor. And then one year, Mommy was stuck trying to decorate the Christmas tree all by herself that had the root ball attached to it, and it was so heavy. She decorated the tree lopsided because she couldn't turn it around because it was so heavy. Everyone was like -- why is your tree crooked -- Mommy said, because she couldn't even move the tree to try to straighten it out.

So, when Mommy's brother got married and moved out, Mommy took Grandma to the store and they got the $16.99 tree back in 2003. Mommy wanted a tree that she didn't have to get on a chair to decorate the top -- and she wanted one that was in a lite box, so she could carry it herself.

So, that's the story behind the $16.99 tree. We are still decorating the tree, so we will send a picture when it is all finished.







4. We heard on the news that Mommy's favorite Phillies Baseball player Chase Utley had a baby boy a few days ago. My middle name is "Chase", because I am named after him. Well, on Thanksgiving Mommy saw Mommy's niece's little Chase Utley jersey from when she was a kid and put it on Benji to wear. So, these pictures are from Thanksgiving of me and little Benjamin in my bed. Guess what Chase Utley's son's name is.... BENJAMIN. Wow! I wonder if Chase Utley will nickname his son "BENJI"? Congratulations to Chase Utley's new addition.

5. No pictures -- but wanted to let you all know Benji has been constantly doing his pee and poo in the yard -- we still have a pee pad in the house (just in case) -- butt we don't think Benji needs it anymore!

6. Unfortunately, Benji's poop sample still showed some bugs -- so he has to take another round of medicine. My poop sample was ok. The vet said -- that bug is stubborn, so she told us ahead of time -- don't be surprised if the poop sample showed the bug is still there -- they will just have to give more rounds of medicine till they get rid of it. So, it's more liverwurst time -- Mommy puts the medicine in liverwurst. Benji is addicted to liverwurst. I love liverwurst too -- it's the best! (The vet said Benji is a little overweight by 2 pounds. Mommy said, it's from all the liverwurst from giving Benji all those medicines when we first got him.)

Got to go,

Lassiter Chase and my little brother Benjamin too!