my benjamin is turning two!

hey hey dog friends!

my benjamin is getting so big... he had a birthday party yesterday and there were so many little peepol running around my house and my living room wuz filled with beach balls and balloons and i wuz so good and i didn't yell at anybody at all!

my benjamin is so good at opening presents. i think he is an expert at it now.


there wuz yummy cake that of course i didn't get any for ivy, even though i wuz so good.

i think my benjamin and his friends had a good time and that is all that matters, even if i didn't get anything. *sniff*

maybe i will haf better luck on turkey day! i saw a giant turkey in the cold box! i know it is coming soon!

watchin movies wif my peepol

hey hey dog friends... finally there is a picture wif me in it! i think it has been more than a full moon ago that i actually had a pickture taken of me. this one is from last nite wen me and my lindsay and my benjamin were snuggled on the couch to watch movies:

it wuz so nice and warm and snuggly! and my benjamin wuz so into the movie that he didn't jump on me or pull my hair or anything! yeah!

pumpkins and skeletons and no ivy!

hey hey dog friends. i am such a dog blogging bum. i hardly ever post anything these days because i hardly ever get my picture taken. my dog camera has been totally taken over by pictures of my benjamin being cute. poor ivy.

turbo asked about pam and ken... i didn't grow any this year but my peepol bought some from a fundraiser to support the youth group. my lindsay made one into elmo!




my benjamin was a candy-eating skeleton for halloween. i wuz hoping that some of that candy wud fall out from between those empty bones, but no luck. at least i didnt haf to wear a costume this year! hurray!

a present from my benjamin!

hey hey dog friends! today my lindsay and ben went to petsmart (without me, of course). my ben was rummaging around in the discount toy bin and found a toy he couldn't put down. when my lindsay told him it was for dogs, he said "Iyee! Iyee!" so they bought it for me and brot it home.

here is me with my new toy!

i luv it so much, i haf been taking it wif me everywhere i go today.

thank you ben for thinking of your Iyee!

cutest grin contest

hey hey dog friends!

i helpeded my peepol so much this weekend. we put in a new bafroom sink and new door lockers and painted the front of the house and made blueberry pie and cookies.

this afternoon i told my benjamin that we shud haf a contest to see who has the bestest grin. here are the entries. see wut you think (and remember, dogs stick together, rite??)

happy anniversary!

hey hey dog friends! ivy here with another dog blog entry... my randy and lindsay had their 8th (in human years) wedding anniversary (that's nearly a half century in dog years!) so they decided to take us all out for an adventure.

my benjamin is still practicing his driving skills (especially backing up) so he didn't get to captain the car this time. maybe next time they will let him drive and he will take us all to a giant dog park.


this time we just went up a big mountain with lots of chipmunks and stayed at a cabin with a hot tub. i am reelly glad they didn't want me to get in the hot tub... wut a scary bath that would be!



we walked around a neat town called front royal. i don't know why they called it that. i didn't see any left, right or rear royal, and i don't know how you can have just a front without all the rest of it. anyway, i liked front royal rite away wen i saw this "wanted" poster up in a shop window:


knowing the streets would be safe from evil skwerrels made me breathe easier. i got to go window shopping with my benjamin and had a great time.


then we went to a winery called fox meadow. i sat on a bench under a tree and kept a sharp lookout for foxes while my lindsay tasted the wine.


don't worry - i know that grapes are bad for dogs so i didn't eat any.


then my benjamin went to visit dinosaur land. i never knew that sharks and octopuses counted as dinosaurs. my randy tried to convince them to let me in, but the dinosaur land peepol said they didn't serve my kind there. oh well.

it is probly just as well i didn't go in... my benjamin got eaten by a shark!


and then he rode on a giant cobra!


i swear that boy's middle name must be danger!

after all that death-defying dino-rangling, we were both tuckered out.

happy anniversary, randy and lindsay! i hope you enjoyed it as much as ben and i did!

woof!

we LOVE banana pudding pie!