January Can't End Until - Love Min

 January cannot end until we celebrate my Birthday.

As I grow a year older, I am no longer afraid of that peske window in my kitchen! BOOM Happy Birthday to me.

It's also been made aware that because I am an older more mature dog I can no longer have Birthday parties with my friends, apparently that's only for babies. I reminisce:

and some more

You think I will still get presents?

MARCH!

Yup it's March, which is one of my favorite times of the year. Wanna know why?

College Basketball Starts to heat up! Case in point check out where Butler and Purdue are both ranked! This years tourny is sure to be a big one for our household:



March also means lots of green celebrating, especially when it comes to St. Patricks day, aren't we all a little Chi-Irish?




The weather starts to warm up which means more walks and runs outside with Minne moo!


And baseball spring training starts! It's time to get the boys of summer into shape!



Happy March everyone!

Hump Day

By the middle of the week, I think we all start to get a little Antsy. So this Hump Day, I'm giving my shout out to Rant from last Wednesday.

Remember when I introduced you to Minne's Birthday toy Rant the Ant? Well it didn't take long for Minne to do her own little rant before she completely pulled out the guts.

Last Wednesday while hubs was out of town I was getting ready for work. Normally, Minne is my guard dog. She follows me all around and even asks that I put make-up on her. She really does, it drives hubs nuts. So I was a little surprised while I was getting ready that there was no sign of Minne. I called her a few times and still nothing. At this point I got a little worried, I mean our dog seriously is always attached to hubs and I at the hip.

I come out of the bedroom and make my way to the living room and am immediately stopped in my tracks by this:

Can you find Rant here? Look closer.

Normally when Minne does something bad, she sits there, shaking with her ears back. There was no sign of that this particular morning. Instead, it was as if she was proudly saying, " Look what I did mom." I knew I had to capture a photo to send to the hubs and a week later I am just now getting around to posting the remains of Rant the Ant:



May you all have a better Wednesday than Rant.

Minne Turns 3

Today one of my pride and joys turns 3 (or what we would like to say is 21 in Doggie years). I haven’t had the chance to introduce you yet to my 17 lbs Boston Terrier so I thought today would be a prime opportunity.

I believe this was taken during our drive from Minneapolis to Indianapolis for the NFL opener in Indy a few years back.

I went my whole life wanting a dog, but I knew with my families fast paced life style and small home, having a dog didn’t seem to fit in. While being in college I started doing research on breeds and every dog who walked by I would have to introduce myself too. I did some nannying along with some dog sitting and overtime knew I wanted a dog. Especially a French Bulldog or a Boston Terrier. After college, I moved up to the twin city areas with my ex boyfriend and soon moved in with a few girls in a cute townhome style apartment in Minneapolis (don’t worry he's only my ex boyfriend because he's my husband).

While in Minneapolis I was browsing the local paper puppy for sale ads and guess what I found? A brand new litter of Boston Terriers that would be available in a few weeks. After getting roommate approval and talking to the ex boyfriend, I decided I would go look at the dog, but I promised I wouldn’t bring one home...I lied. Well not really. At the time, my intention really was just to see the puppy.

I thought I took this photo from the Indy Star years ago, but I could be wrong, if I am please let me know.

After playing with the litter for a few hours, we ended up driving home with an 8 week old female Boston Terrier. While thinking of the names, Minneapolis seamed perfect, yet a little long. Minneapolis was the place where I took my first job out of college and it was the place where my little girl is from. After a few days, we decided to call her Minne short for Minneapolis.

Minne's First Snow at about 10 weeks old, about 4.5 lbs

Since that day she has brought nothing but happiness to our hearts. Don’t get me wrong, the dog training was a pain in the but and there are times she still acts out but for the most part she is a great dog who gives us nothing but love. So for her Birthday last year we wanted to do something really special for her, so we threw her a doggy party.

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All her local friends came to sing to her! It was such a fun Party!



We wanted to do the same thing this year, but we downsized our apartment this past year and our apartment doesn’t allow “visiting” pets so a dog party is out. We opted for the next best thing, we made a visit to our favorite local pet store, Two Bostons and let Minne pick out some goodies for her big day. I think she'll be getting her Birthday donut tonight.



We will also be doing a trip to Elwood this weekend so Minne will spend her Birthday weekend with her new cousin Buddy (a 4+month old French Bulldog Boston Terrier mix). We are sure there will be plenty of new videos and photos to share soon.