First birthday

Grammy and Grampy threw me a birthday party for my birthday last Saturday. Here I am blowing out my candle on my cupcake.

One whole year!

Today is my birthday! I am a year old. Man oh man, how time flies! Here is what I looked like about a year ago. I was just a wee-little pup and now I am a big dog.

My new digs

I am staying with my grammy and grampy in Illinois for a month or so while Daddy is in Greece. I have a cat here named Toby and my cousin Bailey.  We all go exploring together.

I like to jump back and forth over the creek. I have fallen in a few times and had to be given a bath to get the dirty water off, but it is fun and well worth it.

I'm still alive!

Dear friends and family,

I appologize for not updating my blog more often. Please continue reading for justification as to why I have disappointed you. I have been very very busy around the house. I have been helping Daddy with all sorts of things, a little pre-spring cleaning if you will . I like helping Daddy and he tells me I am such a good little helper. We polished all of his shoes and some of Mommy's too.

I am so proud of all of my final products.

We also shaved some fuzz off of Daddy's sweaters. I am not so sure about the clothes shaver though. It is like a miniature vacuum.

Our biggest project was hanging a bunch of picture frames on the wall. Lots of them are empty for now and being reserved for yours truly as I grow older and wiser. I tried to help Daddy with the anchors but accidentally chewed some of them up.

As you can imagine, I am pooped after all of the hard work we've been doing.

In other news, I have been diagnosed with a hernia. Mommy thinks that it is a sports hernia because I am so athletic. It does not bother me too much now, but dingos and empty plastic containers are welcomed and encouraged.

Come home, Mommy

I miss my mommy. She left me this week and I don't understand why. We had such a good time the past few weeks. We would eat and watch Oprah and take naps in the sunshine. I am posting this picture of us to remind her how cute I am so that maybe she will come back home.

Happy 2009

Happy new year friends and family! My year has started off great. Mommy has been home with me almost every day so I get to stay out of my bed and play as much as I want. It is really wearing me out though and I have been sleeping well through the night. I wanted to put up some more Christmas pictures of me from my trip to Grammy and Grampy Kerksick's. I had my first bath.

Then I barked at the train going around the tree. Every now and then it would let out a wail because it was so scared of me.

I got to wear my nice santa outfit on Christmas morning. Cousin Bailey did too; we are so cute.

Bonus Video

Here's a video of me doing my tricks, for those of you that didn't get to witness my skills. I am working on them and improving every day. Sometimes I just like to do everything I know in a row to make sure I cover the command and get my treat. Mommy just got a new video camera so we will continue to post new tricks as I learn them.