Showing posts with label Zoe & Lexi. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Zoe & Lexi. Show all posts

Saturday, September 13, 2014

Happy 7th Birthday, Zoe!

Zoe's birthday was a few days ago on September 11th, and you know what that means... PRESENTS!

As always, the girls got spoiled for Zoe's birthday with a bag full of toys and treats.  I've mentioned it before, but our dogs (especially Lexi) destroy toys like you wouldn't believe so I always buy them at the dollar store.  It doesn't matter if I pay one dollar, or ten, for a toy, Lexi will have it destroyed in under 10 minutes. Guaranteed.

When I went to the store this time, the selection was pretty dismal and there wasn't a single plush toy in the whole place - which is their favorite kind.  They both get a kick out of pulling the stuffing out of them as soon as they manage to tear a hole in them.  So, I ended up getting them more treats than usual and got them a few repeat toys from years past that I know they like.  Plus a few frisbees for Lexi that we bought last month.  Around here we call frisbees the toys that keep on giving because Lexi doesn't play fetch with them, she chews them up.  She breaks off little pieces all around the house, and then the cats bat them around for hours of fun.

But enough of that, let's get to the good stuff, shall we?

Lexi and Zoe waiting patiently for their present...


Checking it out...


Digging in...


Score!...


Wait, this thing still has the wrapper on!...


That's not very nice!...


Seriously, guys, I can't get this thing off.  Somebody unwrap it for me!...


Give it to me, give it to me!...


Yum...



Did somebody say more treats?...


I just adore this photo of Zoe!  It's one of my favorites...


I loved the fun bright colors of this rope toy, and couldn't resist it...




These two images are definitely among my all time favorite photos of Lexi!  She has such a huge personality and she's such an inquisitive dog, and I feel like that really comes across here...



Another fun colored rope toy...





These cloth frisbee type toys usually don't last long, but Lexi seems to like them...



Sweet Zoe...


Lexi with one of her new frisbees...



Since the bag contained too many treats to eat at one time, Kevin was picking most of them up to save for later as soon as the dogs got the tissue paper off.  Zoe is all about food and wasn't too happy that her prizes kept getting scooped up as fast as she could open them.  She has her eyes glued to Kevin in a lot of these images hoping he's going to return her loot...





Even Daisy and Gasby joined in on the fun!  Only this time they didn't watch from the side lines or wait until things had settled down a bit to see what all the fuss was about.  They were right there in the middle of the room checking things out, hiding in the tissue paper, and playing with some of the dogs' new toys...


She's not quite sure what to think yet?


What is that crazy dog doing?


Well, I guess it's ok.  I'll just lay here and watch...


For me?  You shouldn't have...





I may have gone a wee little bit overboard on photos with this post, so thank you if you made it all the way to the end and you're still with me!  I liked a lot of these and wanted to share them, plus it's been an eternity since I posted photos of the dogs on the blog.

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Friday, February 14, 2014

Run, Zoe, Run

A few weeks ago I was experimenting with photographing moving subjects using a new camera setting, and in an odd turn of events Zoe was my runner of the day. (Probably because I was bribing them with treats and Zoe is much more food motivated than Lexi. She was more interested in sniffing at the pool. I might have to start taking bets how long it takes before she jumps or falls in.)

Since it's such a rarity, I decided to post some of Zoe's running photos on the blog today.

Zoom. Zoom...








And back to the calm, lazy Zoe we all know and love...




As always, thanks for stopping by!

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Saturday, December 7, 2013

Happy 6th Birthday, Lexi!

Where, oh where, does the time go??  I cannot believe that it is already early December and Lexi's birthday has come and gone once again.  I probably say it every year, but it feels like I just adopted my sweet pups a year or two ago.  I don't know how it can be almost 6 years since I brought little Lexi home!

Just like always, the dogs got to open a bag full of toys for Lexi's birthday.  They love opening their gifts, and we love watching them.  It is such a riot seeing them tear into the bag.  Of course, every time they see a gift bag they think it is for them, so it does make it a bit challenging to exchange gifts on human holidays without the dogs trying to help us open them.

Waiting for Kevin to give them their bag...


Hmmm.  Is there anything good in there?...


A new rope to play tug with!...



Zoe's favorite part is tearing the bags up...


A little game of tug with one of their new toys...




It probably seems like our dogs get a ton of toys every year, and you might be wondering how we aren't drowning in dog toys.  But the thing is our dogs are rough on toys, and they don't last long around our house.  That's why most of them come from the dollar store!  The toy pictured above lasted about 15 minutes, and then it had a gaping hole in it so Lexi proceeded to pull all of the stuffing out of it...


Just a little cuteness...



Another game of tug over the string from the handle of the bag...




Success!...


Until Zoe stole it!...


I just love that face!...


She had the tennis ball on this one destroyed in about 10 minutes, too!...


Gatsby and Daisy decided to get in on the action a bit, too!  The kittens have fit themselves into our household better than I ever could have dreamed.  I wouldn't go so far as to say that they are BFFs with the dogs, but our four fur babies do all get along really well.  The dogs accepted the kittens into the house with barely a glance and the kittens haven't been scared of the dogs, either.

Gatsby was being pretty brave and was right in the middle of all the commotion.  She did have to make a run for it and dive under the entertainment stand at one point to avoid being stepped on when the dogs got a little wild, though.

Here she is checking things out...



Gatsby has really unique eyes, and I am just in love with them!  They are green around the pupil and orange around the outside of her iris.  Here she is peeking at me...


Daisy is the wild child between the two kittens.  She's the one we are more likely to find climbing up on the top of someplace where she shouldn't be, but she was a little intimidated by the dogs being all crazy.  So, she did a bit more watching from afar...



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