February 10, 2009

Shameless Self Promotion

Hi everyone!

I hope you have been visiting the Mango-Minster dog show. There are new group winners. You should check them out. Or I suppose you could just take my advice and


Vote for Charlie!!

BEST in Show!



This is so much fun, we have been enjoying the Mango Minster show and all the hard work done by Mango and Dexter's Mom. I can't believe all the hard work and posting of links and photos she has put in to this. Thank you so much!!

Ok, well you know what to do...vote for Charlie in the upcoming Best in Show contest!!

hugs,
puglette
:o)

February 9, 2009

Monday, Monday

Hi Everyone!

I hope you all had a wonderful weekend. :o)

Ours was a nice mix of a little busy and a lot of relaxing. I went to a baby shower on Saturday and then hubby and I went to daughter's house and had dinner.


The baby shower was a lot of fun. We are anticipating a new great-nephew in a month or so. It was fun getting together with the women of the family and their friends. We are going through a nice phase of adding new members to our family, either new babies or new relationships. Some times we get both! That's the way it was at the shower, our family got to meet more of the new mom's family. Hubby's sister is going to be a first time grandma, and I will tell you that I am glad it's not our turn yet. ;o)

Dinner with daughter and her fiance was a lot of fun as usual. It's really nice to just spend time with these two, we all chat and laugh. It's wonderful!

Oh! I almost forgot!...I got a new award!


Punchbugpug from Pug Possessed was so sweet to give us the Kreativ Blogger Award!
This is a nice award, I get to list six things that make me happy. :o)

My Family, they are pretty special.
My pets, dogs and cats. I really love my animals.
A really good book, I just adore reading.
Dessert, sigh.....
The smell of the warm redwood forests.
The ocean, rivers and streams, lakes...water, I love water.

Now I get to pass this on to six other bloggers that are Kreativ. I would like to pass this award to Madison's mom; Joan and Skippy; Jemima and her mom; Frank the one eyed pug and his mom; Dozer, Cooper and Dottie's mom and Mango RH's mom.

If you haven't checked out Mango-Minster yet, you really should! It puts Westminster to shame! Mango's mom has done an excellent job posting all the photos and commentary for this fun dog show. And...the Sporting Group winner has been announced.

Charlie wins!
Best of the Sporty group is the Sport Pug!
We are so proud of our little girl. :o)

Ok, that's all for now. I hope you all have a wonderful evening.
Talk to you soon!
hugs,
puglette
:o)

February 3, 2009

Pug Poem

Hi everyone,


Here is a cute pug poem I recently received from Charlie's breeder SuLen's Precious Pugs. You can see a couple of Charlie photos there too! There are a lot of cute pug photos on the breeder site, but it is very full and can be slow to load.




In just six days, in order to begin it,God made the world and everything in it.

And after he rested, he said with a start,"Whatever shall I do with these leftover parts?"

"When I decided to make creatures to travel two by two

And populate the world, I thought my work was through.


But my order got mixed up somehow I found out with a shock,


All my creatures are completed, but there's parts left in the box!


There's noses and toeses and things that look like roses


And eyes that melt your heart away-


You think anyone supposes


There's enough left in the box, that with lots of glue and stuff


Another creature can be made that would be good enough?


"So God summoned Gabriel, who said "Now don't you fret,


Let's stick the parts together and see what we get.


"The angels put their aprons on and spread the parts around,


And soon another creature appeared there on the ground.


Four tiny legs stuck on a sausage bod,


A piglet's tail on one end, the other just as odd.


Just a mass of wrinkles where a face should be


And the nose put on inside out-least it looked that way to me.


When God surveyed the results, he said "T'would do no harm


To give this funny little thing an extra dose of charm.


And since the pint sized hearts are gone a lion's heart will do


For this mini creature that thinks she's 6 foot 2.


"So now the story has been told and it gives my heart a tug


To learn just how she came to be, this thing we call a Pug.


-author unknown

February 1, 2009

Agility Saturday

Hi everyone!

We went to AKC agility trials on Saturday. We had a lot of fun! Charlie did not win any ribbons but she did have a fun day with mom, dad and grandma. And Ollie and Honey got to come along too!


Charlie and grandma waited in line for their turn.



Charlie waited with dad while grandma ran with Archie.



Charlie waited for treats...a lot of treats.




Charlie, Ollie and Honey all got new jackets! Honey wore hers in the car, she barks at the people and the other dogs. Honey's is red fleece with dog bones in white and she looks very stylish.





Pugs in Plaid!











We all met some new dogs, some very cute dogs!




Archie and Annie snoozed in their kennels.








Charlie and Ollie snoozed in the x-pen.









Most of the pictures look like this...all blurry because it was cold in there!



We were in a large horse barn, no heat except in the bathrooms. I hung out with Honey in the car an awful lot of the day. I am reading a pretty good book, The Lonely Werewolf Girl so I didn't mind...although Honey did bark at the four huge doberman's in the car next to us. She's so tough, all 12 inches and 20 pounds of her.


We are watching the Superbowl, sort of. Hubby is watching the game while playing another game on his computer. I am waiting for Bruce!!! Woohoo!! I love Bruce Springsteen. :o)


I hope you are all safe and warm, hug your family!

hugs,

puglette

:o)