Wishing you a Happy New Year

Hi Blog Friends! Here is a picture of us from today just relaxing! Mommy and her older niece were busy making things out of Duct Tape, so we stayed out of their way. Oh, and guess what --Benji lost a tooth today. (We aren't sure if that is good or bad -- he is almost 5 months old.) Grandma said we couldn't put his tooth under the dog bed for the doggy tooth fairy- boo!


1. Here is a picture of Mommy's first ever Duct Tape Wallet. She put our paw prints on the front. We were her inspiration when she made it.



This is what the inside of it looks like with the pockets. Too bad we don't have any paw print duct tape, or Mommy would have used that. We don't even know if they make paw print duct tape. Oh well.


2. Mommy's sister made cookies for Santa Paws for Christmas Eve. Mommy made her make a couple with paw prints on them. So, Mommy's sister made plain cookies and peanut butter ones. They look great don't they. We wrote a letter to Santa Paws (it's the letter on the right) besides dog toys and treats, I (Lassie) decided to ask Santa for a Girl Sheltie. Well, it can't hurt a guy for trying now does it! Anyway, Santa paws crossed off my request for a girl Sheltie and said no girlfriends for us. Oh well. Santa paws brought us brown footballs, a new wubba, tennis balls and a chew toy.


3. Mommy's brother got a new dog for his family. So, we now have a new cousin. He isn't a Sheltie butt don't hold that against him! No one is sure what kind of dog he is, he is from a shelter. We made a short video of his visit on Christmas eve. It was so nice of him to come visit us!



http://youtu.be/Cjfk_KcLjFY


4. Mommy has a lot on her head -- well that's what she says -- but we don't see anything balanced on her head. Turns out our roof is leaking and needs to get replaced. And Grandma needs heart surgery because one of her heart valves is closing. So, 2012 is going to be busy! In case we don't get a chance to visit your blogs for a little while, don't hold that against us. Mommy says reading blogs helps her take her mind off things -- she is so grateful that she has such nice blog friends like you!

Have a Happy New Year everyone! Don't party too hard!

Lassiter Chase and Benjamin the Shelties

Merry Christmas from Lassie and Benji

We know we will be super busy with Christmas, so we are wishing everyone a Happy Holiday a few days early!

Below is a video in the making of our Christmas Card. Benji had two hats - a hat and antlers. The hat was giving us major wardrobe malfunctions with the string on the hat -- so Mommy got the antlers for him instead.

By the way, this isn't related to Christmas, butt wanted everyone to know, Mommy has been letting Benji sleep in her room for about a week now. That's where I sleep too. Benji and I sleep on the floor in dog beds and Mommy gets her human bed. So, instead of locking up Benji in the crate at night -- he has been sleeping on the floor with me like a big boy. The only problem is -- he is sleeping in my dog bed, and I get stuck sleeping in his little dog bed. Oh, well. At least Benji is sleeping during the night and not biting the wooden computer chair anymore like he did the first night in her room.




http://youtu.be/RKEAhB9_HQE

Lassiter Chase the Sheltie and my brother Benjamin

Santa Paws & Benji's new Christmas Sign

1) I promised to show you the video of us seeing Santa Paws on December 17th-- so here it is.

It is SUPER LOUD. So, you better have your humans turn down the volume on their computers. Santa came by on a Fire Truck. I don't know who was more excited to see Santa me or Mommy. Benji didn't know what was going on.

http://youtu.be/WdlW4xKAcJ8




2. Mommy finally finished painting the Benji Sign on December 18th. It matches the sign she painted for me last year. Too bad the clear coat was still drying, so we couldn't put it out in time for Santa Paws -- but at least its up now.

http://youtu.be/WI4hFF_jOQ4




The Pictures...


Benji's new sign.


The sign Mommy painted for me last year. It's getting a little faded on the left. Probably from the snow -- last year the snow was higher than my hat on the sign. I still can't believe Mommy painted that hat on my head! (Oh, can you tell Mommy used 2 different shades of blue to paint my sign because she ran out of the one color.)


Here are our signs together. One of the spot lights shines our signs up at night. (The Looney Toon sled was from a pattern that was painted years ago -- Tweety Bird is missing a foot, Mommy kinda broke it off by accident one year, when she was trying to put it up.)


Here's our house. The house doesn't have a fence in the front of the house, just the back. So, us dogs don't get to go out front much. But when we do get to go out front -- I water each bush 2 or 3 times each! I know how to get out of my harness, so Mommy doesn't let us go out front much. When Santa came by on the Firetruck, she put a big cardboard box on the porch to try to use as a gate.

Mommy says she just doesn't understand it, the harness goes on super tight. She even had the pet store and the vet adjust the harness two different times -- and I still can get out of it when I back up the right way. Mommy says -- it's like you see in the movies from when the women had to wear those corsets with the draw strings to try to get their dress to fit -- that's like how she puts on my harness, saying -- breath in Lassie, now hold it, so I can get this harness snapped.

And everytime, I can get out of the harness! Drives Mommy nuts everytime!

Lassiter Chase and Benjamin the Shelties

P.S. Next post will be our Christmas Card Picture!