Thursday, November 1, 2007
We went for our usual after work walk last night, but to Henry’s dismay we headed out the door in costume. The boys and Luna were all dressed up and as we made our way through the neighborhood we stopped at a few of the houses in the neighborhood for some trick or treating. When Henry realized what we were doing, he no longer seemed to care about his costume and he was a very happy boy.
They got a ton of treats, ranging from carrots to frosted mini wheats to Beggin’ Strips. They loved it!
After the walk, it was time to man the door and hand out candy to the neighborhood kids. The pugs like seeing all the kids dressed up, although they were a little bit barky as they were unsure as to why we had so many visitors last night.
All in all, it was a really good night. I hope everyone had a great Halloween!
Wednesday, October 31, 2007
It is the last day of October
And we’re causing a stir
Time to get all dressed up
Glad we rested up
We’ll walk ‘round the hood
Cause we’re all looking good
Nice and sporty we’re dressed
They’re all so impressed
Two handsome football players
Answering Super Bowl prayers
With the girl leading a cheer
Have no more fear
There is nothing scary
Just some pugs that are hairy
At OBP it can be seen
This year’s costumes for Halloween
Enjoy and have a safe night! For fun, we have also uploaded pictures from past Halloweens to Flickr.
Monday, October 15, 2007
This weekend we finally got around to getting out the Halloween decorations and building our annual scarecrow. Last year, we built an Oriole fan that Henry took quite a liking to. This year we built a Redskin fan, shortly after we watched their pathetic loss to the Packers on Sunday. I think the only thing missing is a little tear in his eye.
We also had a little bit of fun and dressed up our Buddha statue. Buddha stands guard at our front door and his official job is to welcome guests. We dress him up every Halloween. Last year he was a pirate, but I think this year’s costume is much better.
Wednesday, September 5, 2007
Labor Day Weekend has come to a close and while life has gotten back to normal, we are still smiling from all the fun we had this weekend. I wouldn’t say that the weekend was relaxing, but it was chock full of fun and we were on the go from one fun thing to the next all weekend long.
Things got off to a great start Thursday night because we had pizza for dinner. Pizza is one of my favorite foods and the pugs don’t mind it either. They love to get their little bits of pizza crust.
Friday we did some shopping and in the afternoon we had some downtime with the pugs. We played chase in the yard and the pugs had fun ripping apart a few of their stuffed animals. I wish I had pictures, but I was in on the fun and unfortunately didn’t get a chance to snap too many pictures.
On Sunday, we had a family cookout and the pugs had a lot of fun. Henry loves cookouts and get togethers because when there is a large group of people in the house there is always someone with a free hand to pet him. So he just goes from person to person getting pet. He is a real outgoing guy.
Benjamin loves cookouts because of the food. There are all kind of snacks and the house is filled with people that have not gotten used to Baby Benny’s charming good looks. So, he finds it pretty easy to get some treats throughout the day.
Luna loves cookouts because she always get to put on one of her best dresses and prance around. She just loves how everyone stops to tell her how gorgeous she looks.
Plus, I cooked up an extra burger for the pugs to split. They were quite happy with that special treat!
On Monday, we went to the beach, sans pugs because it was too hot. We stayed for about two hours and then we came home to swim in the pool. Henry was in rare form and was having a blast swimming and fetching things in the pool.
We had some family over swimming with us and Henry was really showing off. He was jumping into the pool off the first step and splashing around.
Benjamin was also fired up and he kept waiting for Henry to bring his toys out of the pool so that he could steal them and run around the yard with them. Anything to get them farther away the pool.
After all that swimming, we had another family get together to play some games. This time all the pugs were tired out and they were very happy that there were plenty of laps to go around.
I am happy to say that I actually took a break from work this weekend. I did a couple small things in between outings, but compared to what I normally do this can be considered a work free weekend for me. Granted, I am paying the price for it now, but it will all get done, eventually 
Friday, August 31, 2007
I am really looking forward to the long Labor Day Weekend. So much so, that I took today off so that I could have another day of some downtime. We have a few plans for the weekend, but we still have some time left to to relax and enjoy ourselves. Now hopefully we will take advantage of it. We usually quickly fill our free time with errands and tasks that we have been putting off. But this time, I think R&R is going to be my number one priority.
I hope everyone has a safe and fun filled weekend. Hopefully, on Monday, I will return refreshed and with lots of stories of the fun things we did with the pugs this long weekend. Take care everyone!
Monday, August 27, 2007
For Halloween in 2005, Benjamin & Henry wanted to show off their superhero side and they dressed up as Batman & Robin. The boys were quite dashing in their costumes and they got lots of treats from the neighbors that Halloween night.
Recently, I was contacted by Dutch Pug Dog Club Commedia magazine. They are a Dutch magazine that is dedicated to the pug. They have a section in the magazine dedicated to funny pug pictures and they wanted to know if they could use Benjamin & Henry’s Batman & Robin photograph. I happily obliged and about a month later they send me a PDF of the page with Benjamin & Henry. The text is obviously not in English, so they translated it for me. The headline reads: Found on the Internet and the caption says: They put us in a funny suit and they think we are going to rescue the world. I don’t think so! That pretty much sounds like Benny & Henry.
Wednesday, July 4, 2007
Happy 4th of July! I hope all the US readers have a wonderful and safe holiday. Our original plans were to take the pugs to the beach today, but so far this morning it has been pouring down rain. There may be a bit of a break in the rain later this evening, but I still don’t think it will be beach weather.
So on to plan B. We are just going to have a relaxing day around the house until we go to a cookout later this evening.
One more thing, in honor of Independence Day, H. Doodle is having a sale on the Freedom Harness. For this week only it is on sale for $17.76!
