Santy Paws came...... and other nice peeps were generous too!!

Hiya all,

My Mum's family always celebrates  Christmas on Christmas Eve. It's a huge day because my Grandpaw has his Birthday on Christmas Eve too. This year he turned 588 doggies years old..... that's 84 years old to peeps. It's a big day because family and friends drop in to visit from about 10:30am, and mum has to be a great hostess and therefore we did not get any pictures of during the peeps visiting time. We did however - score few snacks from the foodables extravaganza! (*winks*)

I am wishing Grandpaw a Happy Birthday and watched him eat one of the Almond Crescent cookies mum made him.

Let me help you get that icing sugar off your shirt Grandpaw!! I can be very helpful you know!

Zoe and me in Grandpaws' lounge room -  Grandpaw is sitting in the background. As you can see - we had to wear our Christmas collars again.

And here is Scarlet, with the Christmas tree and gifts in the background.

Mum wanted a shot of all three of us in front of the tree and gifts. 

In the evening - after dinner and sweets, we got to open our gifts. I am very good at this you know!

Wow-wee - Santa got me a squeaky ball, a stuffy snake, a squeaky little octopus and a Christmas Penguin!! THANKS Santa Paws!

This is the "overall" shot to show how spoiled I am. Gifts of toys and foodables from Santa, my pawrents, uncie, Scarlet and Zoe, Auntie Lynny, Auntie C, Auntie S and Auntie J and my uncles of course.

OOOoooo I wanna get stuck in and play!

Uncie got me some mini Kong Balls - ooooo how I loves them!!

This is one of two Christmas Doggie Bon-Bons!!

Do I detect Doggie Gourmet cookies and stuffs????

OMD - They are good too!

I sincerely hope that all of you out there had an enjoyable Christmas - no matter how large or small the celebration!

I, for one, am a little pooped and am going to enjoy some quality  snooze time now. I'll be dreaming about the leftovers in the fridge I bet!!

Oh and a BIG THANKYOU to everyone and every pup and kitty who sent me a Christmas Card including the e-cards. Yes - I got WAY more than my peeps!! I've loved every single one of them, and mum had to make me a special place to display them all. I'll post a photo soon!

Bye for now!!

The "pre" Christmas Pawty!

Hiya all,

As I mentioned in my last post, mum and dad dad have a little pre-Christmas pawty for some close friends every year. I thought I would share some highlights.

The pawty starts outside on the patio, lucky dad dad and I re-paved it a couple months ago. Here I can cruise from one peep to the next, getting pats and checking if they might need to share any snacks in their hands.

I get two fur-guests too. This is Venus on her mum's lap.

And that is Astro warming up Auntie C's lap. Mum says sorry the little bowls are looking sad and empty..... they started off bulging and pretty, and you can only see 3 of the 100 dishes that had nibble foodables on them.

Mum and Astro and Venus's mum wanted one picture with all three of us fur-kids in it .... so after lots of BLOOPERS - here is the best they could do ..... he he!

Mum dressed the dinner table really pretty for the peeps.

And made a yummers sweets which the greedy peeps would not share I could not sample. Apparently they are meringue stacks with cream and balsamic strawberries.

But I can show you the fur-kids' got some confit duck..... this is our portion of the foodables. (YAY!!)

And we woofed that duck down my furiends...... it was good!!!!!!

After dinner we got gifts to open. So I got stuck into the tasks.

One of my pawcels contained a new Christmas outfit made for me by Auntie C. She is so clever!!

My BonBons have yummers sticks in the middle. I sampled one and it was excellent!

I got other stuffs too - you will see more on the next post.

I bought Astro a stuffy froggie, here he is guarding it with his right paw. He is sitting with Uncie G, who is continuing to get very well after his big surgeries.

I gave Venus another froggie with crinkle wings. I am demonstrating to her how great it is.

Clever Auntie C made me this cape too. I like this one because it holds a special message:

So LET THE TREATS FLOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Christmas: Pawt THREE! (final)

Now for the most imPAWtant part...... my gifts and presents. I know you guys have been dyin' to see how I scored with Santy Paws.

Feast your eyes on the following:

The pawcel you saw me unwrapping contained a "hide-a-squirrel" toy (Grandpaw could NOT believe his eyes when I opened my pawcel and started plucking squirrels out!!). In my stocking was a squeaky rope stuffie, a dawg yummers pudding (ate it), two sorts of flavoured bubbles (which I don't know how to play with) and a christmas woofery cookie.

I gots a hot-dawg stuffie and a bone stuffie. Some awesome foodables including chicken sticks, piggie ears and liver treats (my fav, thanks Santy Paws)

Don't forget that I got a new bed just before Christmas because mum rang Santy Paws and asked nicely!

 My uncie, Scarlet and Zoe got me TWO new id charms - they both have mum's mobile numbers on the back.

This one is real pretty and sparkly too - both got the spellings of my name RIGHT!!

Then my Auntie Lynny gave me this cool dawg stocking..... with a rope, squeaky toys and balls...... but my attention is being held by the Turkey bites!!!!

Then I got THIS!! Can't make out my action shot???? That's me playin' soccer!!

This is my first Big Ball ...... mum got it for me because I love playin' with balls. I try to bite it..... but can't get my tooth pegs into it. Mum says it is good that way because then my Big Ball won't go "pop bang" and then go in the bin. Crazy woman. I have A LOT of fun with this - Thanks very much ma!!!!

So I think I must have made it onto the "Nice List" but thank goodness Santy Paws was lookin' the other way when I could have been doin' some Naughty stuffs ;-)

I gotta go and play some soccer now....... See Ya!!!!

The REVEAL - Gift Exchange

Hi ya all,

You know about MY box that arrived the other day. Well...... mum couldn't leave me in my "suspenders" AND she let me open it. (*YAY*)  I know you.....my dear readers.....wanted that too!!

Right..... here we go.......tearin' begins

First parcel contained a rope toy with a tennis ball in the middle......EXCELLENT I like these!

Hang on ....... This knot needs to be chewed on a bit......

Next parcel....... A stuffie squeaky raindeer!!!!! GIMME THAT MUM!!!!! I don't care that you are tryin' to photograph it.....

 No I don't care that you HAVE to cut the tags off.........

I'll SMACK it outa your hands HUMAN....... didn't you see the name on the BOX ...... it's FOR ME!!!

Ahh.......sweet victory - don't try and get between ME and my new STUFFIE's !!!!

What was in your parcel mum?????? Oh - a little doggie????? Hmmmmmmmmm !

Don't think you are gonna play with my new stuffs from LUNA little doggie!!!!!! You can watch from over there.

Thanks LUNA for my gifts...... you did GREAT shopping for ME!!!

Hope you all got great stuffs from your gift exchanges.....from what I have seen so far on the bloggies.... it does look good out there!!

Family Day, Steps, Mail and my new Collar!

Hi Furiends, there's so much to tell you - that I'm gonna jump right in.

My peeps and I went to another "family do" hosted by dad dad's sister, auntie B - she's the one who lives next to the beach. Here we all are eatin' - the theme of the day!

I spent a lot of the day under the big tables lookin' sweetly at the peeps - seein' who could resist my "geez I'm hungry" look. Lucky for me mum packed my zip lock placcy bag of goodies.

Towards the end of the afternoon, when I had seen everyone else off, my peeps and I headed for the beach. See it's only a few steps to the beach from my auntie's place.

First we gotta go down all these steps - all "87 Hundred" of em' - I loved it but mum wasn't lookin' forward to comin' back up!

Ohhhh - I'm very good at these.

This is Seaford Beach. It was a lovely day to visit it.

The water was nice - I was busy lookin' at all the birds sittin' on the reef in the distance.

Had to be careful not to get my paws too wet!

I was meetin' the locals - using traditional methods!

Peeps were out paddlin' and surfin'.......

Ahhhh - you gotta love it.....

Back we go - see the doggies in the background?

I wanted to show these steps to my bloggin' bro George - but because they kinda disappear into the cliff - we can't get them all in one shot.

Homewards we go! Mum says she loved my little "fat bum" jump up on the steps - look who's talkin' ma!!!!

I had a great day!

Changing the subject - I've started gettin' these Christmas card thingys in the mailbox. First one was from  Minnie and Mack

Then another one came......

My dear mate Magic and her pack was next! What a blast! Thanks Jazzi for settin' up that list thingy!

I have got one "early" Xmas gift from my mum. My Scottie furiends will like my collar! I like it too.

Even the buckle has BLING!!

Till next time - mum says it's time to visit "Santy Paws" soon !!!