Fun Christmas Puggie Stuff!

My Aunt Stacy (again, not really my Aunt but Mom makes me call all of her best friends Aunt So&So...) sent us a present in the mail yesterday! LOOK at this ornament!

Clearly Mom is a terrible photographer & doesn't really know how to work her camera especially for close-up shots. But that puggie is trying to scratch his ear!

She got it at Hallmark. It's pretty cute, I must admit. I shall name him..."Vito."

And Grandma sent Mom these gift bags!

I mean, that pug is cute too, but clearly not as cute as Yours Truly. I mean, it might be as cute as Vinny but I think we all know that Vinny falls below me on the Cuteness Scale. Agreed? I thought so. Mom looked on the tag and apparently Grandma got these bags at a store called Alco where she lives - it's like a discount Dollar Store kind of place. (PS again displaying Mom's shoddy camera work - this Not-As-Cute-As-Me-But-Maybe-As-Cute-As-Vinny pug's Santa hat trim is all glittery!)

Do you guys have fun Christmas puggie stuff?

Later, friends!

Happy Pugsgiving!

I think someone is glad to be home.

And Pippa's brothers don't seem to mind that she is back either.

Happy Thanksgiving all!!

Pictures with Santa!

Saturday was a big day. First we had to go to the groomer and get our nails done and our butts squeezed. Oh, both of those are my FAVORITE. Mom finally got to witness us getting our nails done and boy did we both throw a fit! Mom kept laughing. Vinny & I were NOT laughing. Miss Amy at the groomer said that ALL pugs act the same way - like they are about to be thrown in to a pit of fire. I say it's totally justified.

THEN we went to a pet store. I love going to pet stores! Vinny though didn't react very well. He apparently just wanted to go home, especially when we went upstairs and this guy in a red suit picked us both up. And it went a little something like this:

Vinny was looking at Mom to save him. Ha, ha, ha.

Vinny doesn't like being held facing outwards (he's a real weirdo, that one), so they got better with time. As you can see though, I freakin' LOVE being the center of attention! I bet you thought it would be the other way around - that I would be the grumpy one. WRONG! Look at me just hamming it up for the camera! Woo-hoo!!

Wheeeeeee!

OH! And our friend Lucy and her Mom Melinda came too. Lucy didn't start out so great either.

This is Mom's FAVE!

But they finally got some really "traditionally" good ones too!

And after all of that, we had to go adopt my stupid brother Vinny. Moving on.

Later, friends!

PS. these were done by David Carlyon from Darkwood Studios at Pets in the City. He's amazing and photographs the beautiful stray dogs in East St. Louis that are helped by Gateway Pet Guardians, and the proceeds from these photos went to them!

Our Holiday Card from Shutterfly!

Our foster pugs have meant so much to us this year, so we wanted to honor them in our Holiday Card! And thanks to Shutterfly, we got to do that at a big discount (plus free shipping from a standard coupon on their site)!

We love you Louie and Pippa, and yes, Vito even loves Vinny, as he finally made his way in to our family officially after a long 5 months, and 3 surgeries. And this Thanksgiving, we are thankful for all of our pug friends & family in blogville, and most especially, for Pippa being found safe & sound and ready to celebrate her first Christmas with her forever family (and we are told, lots of presents coming her way!).

Photo Card

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Happy Gotcha Day, Vinny!

It's official - he's staying!

To celebrate, the boys got their pictures taken with Santa today. It all went surprisingly well. Except that I definitely need to invest in one of those double-leash contraptions. We'll share the pictures with you when they arrive via email this week.

We love you, Vincent! Even Vito.

Thank you for finding us.

THANKS, GAMPY!!!!

Oh my pugness. I got an EXTRA-SPECIAL gift in the mail today!! Guess who it was from??? PAYTON'S GAMPY! He sent me a Cardinals jersey! And it is a super nice satiny one!

Now you know that I don't care much for clothing. But I do care a LOT for the Cardinals, so I am able to make some clothing-exceptions.

Ah, satiny and soft. See how happy I am?

I already had a Cardinals jersey BUT it was not as nice as this one! It was that cheap-o "polyester" stuff. So guess who that jersey belongs to now? You're right! My very unimportant FOSTER brother, Vinny! HA HA HA!

Vinny in his itchy cheap polyester version.

I have UPGRADED now, thanks to Payton's Gampy! It was SOOOOOO nice of him! He said Payton's Cub-fan parents have brainwashed her so much that they wouldn't even allow her to try it on. Oh that's so sad. I always pity those who are born Cubs fans and just don't know any better. Thank goodness I was raised right, just like Gampy! GO CARDS and thank you again SO much, Gampy!!


Gampy, when we meet in person I will be sure to wear my jersey!

PS Saturday is the big day when supposedly Vinny becomes my brother forever. Bah humbug.

Jeez, do you have to sit so close to me?

Later, friends!

Shutterfly 2011 Promotion!

Thanks to Minnie & Mack's recommendation, we are participating in the Shutterfly Promotion and we are very excited about it! Shutterfly has great cards for all seasons, photo books (a friend made one for all of us from a girls' trip to Napa two years ago and it's the perfect keepsake!), address labels - you name it, if it involves pictures, they've got it.

We also really like that Shutterfly has cards that can be "holiday-neutral" as we have lots of Jewish friends who we want to share cards with but "Merry Christmas!" splashed all over it just doesn't seem appropriate.

We have our Holiday Card all designed, just waiting to hit "Order" on payday! :) We hope to be able to share it with you soon! And don't worry about Vito, it doesn't involve ANY hats! We went with a snowman theme as that is what all of my holiday decorations are - no Santas for me!

PS, speaking of Santa don't tell Vito or Vinny they are going to get their picture made with Santa on Saturday. :)