He's NO doofus! He's Tanner!!!

This Blog is for my boyfriend/husband Tanner. His big brother, Joey likes to call him Doofus, but I tell you he is NO doofus to me! He's MY Tanner!
Noone is going to make fun of MY Tanner! It's just NOT nice! Mom tells me (and the hooman pups) that we must focus on the positive in people, not the negative. There are many good qualities of everypup out there! So what if he slobbers all over when he eats. I slop ALOT when I drink water. Does that make ME a doofus? Mom just wipes off my beard and away I go...... How could anyone call this little face a doofus? Doesn't he look just so cute in his fourth of July shirt? My mom dresses me up sometimes too.
I weigh 61 pounds (or so- mom hasn't weighed me for awhile) I don't look FAT.....and who cares if you have a few extra pounds as long as you are happy. Its just all the MORE to LUV! (and mom says if you get sick you have a little to go off of incase you can't eat).
Another thing we have in common are tennis balls. I love tennis balls and so does Tanner. Isn't he just cute here chewing on his little tennis ball? The other thing we have in common is that we BOTH love to smile! Mom says its nice to smile and I like to smile too and Tanner likes to smile so that is just another thing WE have in common! Mom says there is NO breed standard called DOOFUS so Tanner HAS to be a BOSTON TERROR!! That's another thing we have in common- I am a TERROR too! (Mom: that'd be terrier- but you can terrorize things, your'e right.) So, that's all I have to say about that! Tanner if you are listening/reading I love you just the way you are- DOOFUS or NOT. I prefer to call you Tanner and I think you are the bestes and if they call me Mrs. Tanner Doofus I don't care!

I think you are the mostes cutestest Boston Terrier around. Until next time........
MUAH!
Lillie Valentine

Cloudy Day

Today is a cloudy day. No rain, just clouds. Mom says she wishes it would rain because the crops need it so badly. So yesterday, I like was telling you about the pool and while I was fooling around here with the computer I found these pictures. Here is a picture of a hooman pup in the pool. This was when it was actually up an din running order. The tree that fell, well you can't see it cuz its too dark in the background.

So like this was what our pool looked like in the beginning, then one day we came home from work and found this........We had a small spurt of rain that day but really no winds. Dad looked out the window and what the heck???!? The tree was down. So he had to go empty the pool. Mom didn't get home til later and this is what SHE saw. Dad had managed to move the pool away from the tree after he emptied the water. He had to empty the pool and try and move it a bit because the tree was in it and he was afraid it would get ruined.

These are all the leaves that dad cut off the tree that fell. There sure are alot of them. He poled them right next to where me and Mr. Whiskers play.

This is another picture that mom took that shows the play set. The tree fell on the slide. The play set had been over farther, where the pool is sitting, but dad moved it so we could put the pool there. If we wouldn't have put the pool up the tree would have fallen on the play set!

So today is a lazy day. Mom is at work at the shop, Jordan is playing with a friend, Kendra is doing what ever 13 year old girls do, and dad is cleaning the "cat" room. The "cat" room.....I love that room. That is where the cat sleeps and hides. Plus there is this box in there that has these turds in it......that if mom let me I would send to Miss Sunshade, but dad is constantly cleaning it out so I can't get it there. HUMPH! These hoomans really aren't fun sometimes! O-k so I am getting off the subject. Well, friends, I best get going before someone finds out that I am on the puter unsupervised!!!!

Love ya all!
MUAH!!
Lillie Valentine

SASSY

I'm finally back and look what my mom puts for the title of my post. "SASSY". I want all of you to know that I am NOT sassy! My mom is MEAN!!! She hasn't let me post FOREVER! First, she was on vacation, and my idea of a vacation is my hoomans being at home WITH ME. BUT NO!! They were running all over the place and me and Mr. Whiskers had to stay home.

We did have a couple fires in our fire pit though- that was fun. Here is a picture of ME guarding our driveway. Its hard work!
The weather has been REALLY hot. Mom keeps the aireconditioner on most of the time cuz otherwise I get overheated.
We did spend a great deal of time outdoors and here I am guarding MY backyard. Dad was busy putting up swimming pool for the hooman pups and I was supervising. The pups didn't get to enjoy it much though- a couple days later a tree fell over in our backyard and guess where it landed?
Right in the pool! That wasn't the only problem my mom and dad had with that pool. Mom would rather I not go into the details as it ticks her off. She said that the tree falling in the pool confirmed her suspicions that OUR family was NOT meant to have a POOL! So, sadly much to the dismay of Kendra and Jordan, Dad put the pool away. Good thing too cuz after dad got that tree cleaned up another part of it fell and it would have been on the pool again!

Thanks for stopping by to visit me. Hopefully it won't be so long now in between posts. Mom has been having some issues with her lap top and not being able to access the Internet. Hopefully it will be fixed soon. Otherwise I have to go with her to the shop and update my blog and dogs aren't allowed in the shopping complex she is in. Do you know how hard it is to sneak a 61 pound dog into a mall?

MUAH!

Lillie

Quiet *HOT* Monday

It's Monday and not much is going on around here......Mom stayed home from work with the boy hooman pup because he isn't feeling very well. Let's just leave it at that. Don't want to get into the gory details of what HIS stomach did this morning. Kind of like when we dogs eat grass! It is SO hot here (above 90 degrees) that mom put on the aireconditioner and won't let us go out only to do our business. It is nice in the house and I don't pant so much in the cool aire. Otherwise I am drinking tons of water, slopping on the floor, which causes mom to slip and fall. So we are just hanging out inside today!

So, since Mom was home, I decided I should take over the kitchen. The kitchen is my favoritest place in the entire house! You all know why.......FOOD! She never shares with ME so I have to counter surf and see what I can find. She gets mad at me when I get up on the counters. I just don't understand why. She should just leave all that good food and junk down on the floor so I could get it. It would be ALOT easier that way!
Here I am on duty protecting the fridge. She wanted to get into the fridge but I said no way! I can't be in the fridge you can't be in the fridge. PLUS I heard she's on a diet and that means she isn't supposed to be in the fridge if she's on a diet, right? I was doing MY civic duty by keeping her out of that fridge!Here is a picture of me guarding the enterance to the kitchen. I wasn't letting anyone near ANY food.

So that was my day. Just hanging out with mom and Kendra. Poor Jordan. His belly is upset and he is really quiet. He doesn't even want to play with me. I hope tomorrow is a better day for him!

Mail Call!

LOOK what we got in the mail today.......Jordan did get a smile on his face when he saw that we got a package from Miss Sunshade the SUPERDALE! Nothing in it for me, though. Just the hoomans. Jordan got this cool necklace. It says "courage" Isn't that neat? Thanks to Miss Sunshade, her mum Elaine and Jaffa and Qila for the gift!

This is what Kendra got from Elaine and Miss Sunshade and the aire kids. She put it on the minute she opened the package. Isn't that just the cootest shirt? Her necklace says "virtue" She LOVES it and THANKS!
This is a close up of othe necklace from Miss Sunshade and family.
Mom didn't get left out either! She got one that says "mom" Isn't that just sweet of them? Thanks so much for your gifts! The hooman pups and mom just loved them!
Well, that's all that is going on here today. Thanks for stopping in to check on me. Sign my guestbook if you haven't already. MUAH! Princess Lillie not of sparkle Liberty......I think that is the name that my prince Tanner Doofus of hot aireizona gave me. I went to his blog and it says he went on a date with Princess Lillie not of sparkle Liberty. I hope he was talking about ME~!

Happy Father's Day to every dad out there!! You guys are the best~

Not much has been happening around here. We have been busy going to soccer games. I LUV soccer. Here is a picture of me, watching the boy hooman pup (Jordan) play soccer. They won 6-2! It was a great game! It was really hot out and there was no shade. Mom had dad buy me a water bottle because I was SO thirsty. After the game, we went to the Dairy Queen, and I got my own ice cream. It was the first time I ever had ice cream and it was SO good! I had an ice cream beard. Mom didn't take any pictures of me because she was too busy getting everyone their treats by the time she sat down, I was already DONE! Thanks for stopping by!! Sign my guest book and let me know where you are from. Lots of LOVE! MUAH!!! Lillie V.

PS. Tanner......if you are reading this I am glad you decided to stick with me. I wuff you!! I will be sending you something in the mail very soon..............

TGIF and No dogs allowed!!

Hi Everypup! So, Friday started out like any other day. I was glad it was Friday because that means my hoomans will be home a couple days and I don't have to sit in Jail with Mr. Whiskers. Mom and Dad and the hooman pups were gone for awhile and I will share in a little while where they went, but first I have to say, I'M MOVING TO VANCOUVER to be with my Aire sister Miss Sunshade! Vancouver lets dogs go EVERYWHERE! (O-K I am NOT REALLY moving there- I just think we should since they let dogs go everywher in Vancouver). Here is MINNESOTA dogs aren't allowed ANYWHERE! Last night, mom packed up the car, and put me and the hooman pups in it. We were going on a very "special" walk. At least that is what mom said. We went to one of the local high schools where we saw a sign like this:
It may have well said "NO DOGS ALLOWED" cuz when we got there, that's what they told mom. I was being a very good Airegirl, and people LOVED me, but some army dude came up to mom and said "Didn't you hear the announcement? No DOGS allowed!" Mom and me and the hooman pups were looking for MY aunt LAURIE! Mom told me we do this walk every year around this time. But NO I couldn't do the walk, because "NO DOGS WERE ALLOWED"! Mom found MY aunt LAURIE and I got mad. MY AUNT took the hooman pups and left me with MOM. Mom said Lillie you are a good girl, lets go for a walk. So we walked and walked and walked. Then, mom took me to the car, and I had to stay there! Mom said she had to go get the hooman pups.

The hooman pups were walking around a track. There were lots of bags on the track just like this one. This one is for MY aunt LAURIE! She is a cancer survivor. I don't know what can sur is, but mom said we are lucky because MY aunt LAURIE is a survivor. Can sur surviving is good (that's what mom said). Mom told me that MY aunt LAURIE has survived a brain tumor for 12 years! That is almost as old as Kendra is!

Since no DOGS were allowed, I couldn't go along the track or be anywhere near any of the fun stuff. I didn't have to wait too long in the Lilliemobile for mom to come back with the hooman pups. She told me she was really sorry and couldn't believe they wouldn't let DOGS in. Especially WELL BEHAVED ones (ahem- like ME). I told Mom I'm moving to Vancouver! That is it! I am going to move in with Miss Sunshade because she goes everywhere and noone says "NO DOGS ALLOWED!" Before the Relay for life, my family had left me at home, alone to go watch Kendra.

She is in her Middle School's marching band, and because of that, she has been home with me ALL WEEK LONG! She has had practice almost every day. So she stays home with me until its time to practice, then she comes back. I don't get lonely at all. Kendra is in the color guard. She doesn't play a musical instrument. She twirls a flag and she's the best flag twirler I know (o-k, maybe she's the only flag twirler I know).

This was their first performance. They had a special "family night" which I might add DID NOT include ME (and I am part of the family). The kids were getting ready for their first parade on Saturday.

SOCCER

I really love soccer. The reason I love soccer is because both hooman pups play it, and this is one place that DOGS ARE ALLOWED!! So I have been practicing and Kendra has made me the o-fish-all un-o-fish-all mascot of her team. And look what she did......

You can't see it, but she took one of her REALLY old jerseys and now it is mine. It has HER number (and this year her number is 7 too) and put MY name L. Valentine on the back. Isn't that cool? So now I can wear my own jersey to the games.

This isn't a very good picture, because I wasn't being very cooperative, but here is a picture of me in MY jersey! Mom promises she will take some good ones of me and I um didn't promise I'd be good but I'll try.

SO.......that's MY Friday. It was pretty good, except for the NO DOGS ALLOWED part. I just don't get it- why are we not allowed when we are so well behaved, and ahem....CUTE?

Thanks for stopping by! Have a GREAT weekend! MUAH

Lillie Valentine

A trip down memory lane.......

Mom decided to take a trip. This was no ordinary trip, either. She didn't GO anywhere! How weird is that? She got all emotional and funny on me. She sat there at the computer oohing and aahing over all these photos. Can you guess who they were of?

That's right....they were of ME!!! Some of them were of Daisie, and that made her very sad. You know, I really miss my Daisie. She was the bestest aire sister ever. Anyhow, mom found this picture of me at 7 weeks (above). Wasn't I just cute? (mom: yes, and small. You aren't small anymore!)

And I was such a good pup. I never got into ANY trouble, as you can see by these pictures. In this picture I am NOT chewing on Jordan's backpack. And in this picture I am NOT trying to get that nummy pizza. (mom: not here you aren't, but NOW we can't leave ANYTHING on the counter or in the sink because you think if its on the counter or in the sink its YOURS!!)

Here's a picture of me sleeping. I think I was probably dreaming about my bestest boyfriend Tanner in Arizona. I don't think he luvs me anymore though. I thinks he has a newer girly friend that is closer to him. You know what long distance relationships can do to you.

This is my favoritest place ever. It still is. I like to sit on my dad's lap. He never cared when I was up on him when I was little.....Now I am big and he tells me in his bestest dad voice "DOWN LILLIE". I tell him I don't want to be down dad! I LOVE you!

Remember that gluing incident? That was like the worst time of my life. My ears were glued right to my head. Like what kind of mom did I have GLUING my ears to my HEAD?? What was that woman thinking??

Here is a picture of our lovely Daisie. If it weren't for her, and Miss Sunshade, and her Mum Elaine, I wouldn't know any of you OR would I have this awesome blog!!! Not only that, but I wouldn't live with this AWESOME family I do cuz mom wouldn't have found out what great joy it is in owning an Airedale and then who knows WHO I'd be living with, and then I wouldn't get to sleep inside the house or drink out of the hooman's cups, or eat their food when they aren't looking. OR (mom:o-k Lillie, I think they get the point. Its great that we have you!!)

Well, that's all I have for today. Mom's getting all sappy on me and the tears are welling up in her eyes and she can hardly see the keyboard anymore. She isn't listening to me and is having a hard time with my dictation. So I will go for now, and until next time...........................

Love ya all! Thanks for stopping by. MUAH!!

Lillie Valentine