Benji's Half Year Birthday and the Superbowl ...

1) 1st let me start off by telling you that Grandma is home from the hospital. She is still having nurses and physical therapy visit the house, butt she is doing great!

Benji and I have to keep and eye on Grandma 24/7, so we are being her nurses too!

Mommy's sister texted her the above picture of us working hard taking care of Grandma on Thursday while Mommy was at work.

The phrase: "Working Hard - or - Hardly Working" comes to mind.

Mommy said immediately when she saw the picture she said, my boys are working so hard keeping absolutely still so mom can get some rest and relaxation. Good work boys!

Other people who see the picture think we are sleeping on the job -- WHAT!!!

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2. It was Mommy's Birthday on Friday, February 3rd! Happy Birthday Mommy! Her birthday is the day after GroundHog's Day. Not sure if everyone knows about GroundHog's Day or is that just an American thing. Anyway, the Groundhog predicted more winter -- which is ok with us -- cause it's been such a nice winter so far without much snow at all.

There is a movie called "Groundhog's Day" it came out in 1993 that starred Bill Murray. Anyway, Mommy has never seen the whole movie -- she watched part of it -- and the main character keeps reliving Groundhog's Day over and over again. Mommy said that would be horrible to keep reliving Groundhog's Day over and over again -- because her birthday is Feb 3rd , the day after Groundhog's Day -- and she would never get her birthday cake! Mommy isn't sure how the movie ends, but hopefully it finally gets to be Feb 3rd at the end of the movie.

In the photo above, Benji and I gave Mommy one of those fancy "Vera Bradley" bags for her birthday and we put bows on ourselves too. Mommy said Benji and I make great gifts, but she says, the best gift was having her mom back home from the hospital. (Mommy wishes she recorded the look on her sister's face when Mommy said, "Wow, that bag is big enough to fit all of Lassie and Benji's toys" -- Mommy sister's jaw dropped and said "You better not -- do you know how expensive that bag is!")

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3. Benji turned 6 months old on February 4th! Happy Half-Year Birthday Benji ! Mommy's oldest niece wrote on a balloon for Benji and Mommy made a Smurfette Balloon for Benji to celebrate! We have a quick video of me and Mommy singing to Benji on his half-year birthday.

http://youtu.be/HHzOdnx5R28

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4. It's Superbowl Sunday today! Here we are playing with our footballs.


Waiting on the sidelines.


Benji going for a touchdown trying to catch the Blue football in mid-air.


Benji trying to intercept Lassie's Brown Football.


Benji's cross-pawed football catch in mid-air.



Have a great weekend everyone!

Lassiter Chase and Benjamin the Shelties

The roof is pawsome! Grandma update!

Benji and I worked hard making sure our new roof was installed. This is our picture when it was all done!






Below is the video from me supervising the installation of the new roof. They installed it a couple of weeks ago -- butt it took Mommy forever to transfer the pictures to the computer. I was the Roofing Foreman. Mommy was at work most of the day when they installed most of the roof, butt Grandma was home with us dogs while the roofers were working on the house. When Mommy called to ask Grandma how us dogs were doing, Grandma said that I was good at barking orders and that we even took a nap at one point. (I said --- WHAT!!! I didn't take a nap -- that sounds so girly! We took UNION BREAKS, they aren't called naps!)

Oh, and speaking of Grandma, she had the surgery yesterday to replace the valve in her heart. She made it thru the surgery and is taking things slowly. She wanted Mommy to tell everyone thanks for praying for her. Mommy wanted to thank all the dogs/cats who were keeping their paws crossed too!

Benji and I tried to convince Mommy to sneak us into the hospital to see Grandma, butt, Benji's tail kept sticking out from under Mommy's niece's coat when we did the experiment in the house to pretend like Mommy's niece was going to sneak us in. So, we can't go to see Grandma in the hospital. (We figured if Benji's tail was sticking out from under the coat -- I definitely wouldn't fit under the coat either.)



Roof Video

http://youtu.be/YaWP1c3XNSI

Have a nice weekend everyone. I don't think we will be around this week to read blogs -- butt we will catch up when we can.

Lassiter Chase and Benjamin the Shelties

Can't lie to a Sheltie and get away with it!

Sorry, no pictures or video for this blog post today. Just wanted to tell you it snowed a little yesterday - about an inch! Benji and I have been having tons of fun in the snow. Since it's the weekend, we can get Mommy to let us out practically every 5 minutes. We don't want to come in from the snow -- so Mommy has been lying to us to get us in. (Mommy is not the lying type -- so we have been falling for her lies every time.)

Finally enough lies were enough -- she acted like we had visitors in the house saying, "Hi, how are you, it's so nice of you to come visit us..." We have been thinking people were actually in the house and came in running from the snow to go in the house. Once we were in, she closed the door behind us , and we realized no visitors were in the house.

So, I didn't like Mommy lying anymore to us pretending like we had company (especially to me, since I'm head of the house), so, once she did it the last time -- and she turned to close the door behind us -- I jumped up and smacked Mommy on the butt with my two front paws.

She was laughing hysterically about me smacking her in the butt!

I gave her this look too -- don't you think you can lie to a Sheltie and think you can get away with it!

Have a great day!
Lassiter Chase and Benjamin

PS The roof is done -- I have a video of me being the foreman, Mommy hopes to post it later in the week or next weekend. Also, Grandma's heart surgery is this week -- so things are a bit busy. Keep your paws crossed for Grandma! Thanks!