HAPPY BIRTHDAY BELLA!!!

On thursday Bella turned 2 years old. I can't believe she's 2 already, it's crazy how fast the years fly by. To celebrate she wore her new birthday dress (compliments of lola) and i bought her some doggy birthday cookies, peanut butter truffles and a birthday cake stuffed toy from this really cute dog barkery by our house. Of course Perogi got to share everything as well.

Bella was the princess for the day. Wait, what am i saying? she's a proud princess everyday!! (and we love her for it) Happy birthday Bellski!

It's meme time!

Lex tagged us for a meme, so off we go:


The rules of the game get posted at the beginning. Each player answers the questions about themselves. At the end of the post, the player than tags 4 or 5 people and post their names, then goes to their blogs and leaves a comment, letting them know that they have been tagged and asking them to read your blog. Let the person who tagged you know when you have posted your answer.



1. What was I doing 10 years ago?

Me: I was just graduating high school (my 10 yr reunion is this year..yikes) and for the record...i HATED dogs. If you would have asked me in high school if i would ever own a dog i would without hesitation say absolutely not! Yuck! Now, i'm so obsessed with mine that i have a blog in their honor :-)
The Pugs: Bella was -8 years old and Perogi was -9.2 years old


2. Five Things on my to-do list today.
Me: Take the dogs to the groomer, pick them up, make turkey sausage ziti for work tomorrow, Go to gym to do step and body pump class, clean
Perogi: Beg mom for food while cooking, roll over many times for belly rub, lick everything in sight, obsessively play a game of fetch till Dad gets tired, nap
Bella: Cry while going to the groomer, look spectacularly adorable afterwards, follow mom around all day, burrow under the covers, bark at tv


3. Three snacks I enjoy.
Me: Baked Lays, candy specifically jelly beans,granola bites
Bella: Clementines, milkbones,anything mom and dad are eating.
Perogi: ANYTHING...because he inhales his food, he doesn't taste it or chew, just swallows.


4.Things I would do if I were a billionaire:
Me: Pay off my gigantic school loans, buy a nice house with a backyard for the pugs,travel a lot!, quit my job :)


5. Three of my bad habits.
Me: Biting my nails, not putting away my clothes, watching too much reality tv
Bella: Barking at the tv, scritchy scratching on the door when she's not allowed in, being too spoiled to eat kibble without some human food on top (ie mozzarella cheese)
Perogi: Ripping up the carpet, barking off of balconys, being obsessed with toys and fetch.


6. Five places I have lived.
Me: Long Island, Pittsburgh, Tampa, Alexandria, Arlington
Bella: ??puppy mill??, pet store, home with us
Perogi: Breeders then here with us


7. Five jobs I have had.
Me: babysitter, bookstore, pharmacy intern, Staff Pharmacist, Pharmacy manager
The Pugs: being the two most adorable puggies in the world..it's a very tough job and they do it exceptionally well


Ok we tag anyone else who wants to do this meme!

Lastly, here are the puggies after coming back from the groomer!! They are so soft and fluffy, and of course adorable.

Trip to Orlando

We got back from orlando this week. We were down there for Jeff's friend's wedding (from Dental School) Here's us at the wedding:

While there we also got to go to Universal Studios and Islands of Adventure. We noticed a lot of photo spots, which Jeff felt the urge to take pictures of: how pretty :)

We had a blast!! btw...the new simpson's ride was amazing!! While there our friends took care of our dogs. They have the cutest bulldog, Lola who is Perogi's girlfriend. They all had a great time but made sure to give us adequate licks and kisses when we got back.

Bella and Perogi are taking part in Pug and Bugg's Sophie's next top pug model. They are so excited...This week we have to send in pictures of them with their stuffies. I've sent these...

How Fierce!!!!!

Wordless Wednesday

Happy May

Hey everyone! Happy May! here in DC the weather has been absolutely wonderful!! My mom sent the pugs a package. Bella received some beautiful dresses and my mom crocheted each one their own scarf (for next winter). We then had a fashion show to show off all their new items. WARNING: major cuteness below. observe at your own risk.Bella posing with new scarf. It's perfect for winter and matches her harness!Perogi looking very dapper in his scarf! So adorable.Here's the first dress my mom sent Bella. It says "love at first bark" and if you knew Bella you would find this humorous because she constantly barks at the tv with her high pitched bark. We still love her though!Here's the 2nd dress. It's a ballerina dress with a heart on it. She loved it so much she wore it all day b/c she wouldn't let me take it off.

that concludes our fashion show. Thanks mom!! Bella and perogi give you tons of licks and snuggles

Memoir meme

Lady Pug mugs and Chronicles of Pugs (being a relatively new blogger, i haven't figured out how to link their names) tagged us for the 6 word meme . . .Here are the rules:


1.) Write your own six word memoir.

2) Post it on your blog and include a visual illustration if you’d like.

3.) Link to the person that tagged you in your post, and to the original post if possible so we can track it as it travels across the blogosphere.

4) Tag at least five more blogs with links.

5.) Don’t forget to leave a comment on the tagged blogs with an invitation to play.

6) Have fun

ok here goes...

Bella: Dainty, proud, barks a lot, snuggly (what about pensive??? Jeff)


Perogi: Food!!, licky, licky, fetch, licks ears

Here's a pic with their new puppia harnesses. Don't they look so adorable? Perogi's camo harness makes him look real manly...so cute





Ok we tag:

Too cute pugs

Weeny and Daisy

Pug Posse

Pug NYC

Pug and Bugg



Enjoy

Cute pug pics :-)

Sorry for not updating in awhile...this was my lloooong week at work so i haven't been home much. We have taken some cute pics of the Puggies:This is Perogi's favorite spot to take a siesta. I think it's adorable that he lays in his toy box. He barely fits but that doesn't stop him!This is what happens when i come home from work! The pugs go crazy jump all over me and both must get in my lap ASAP. We don't know why the dogs came out with devil eyes.Here's Perogi just chillen in our den. Once he gets his eyes on a stuffy toy he won't let it out of his sight till we have to hide it at bedtime. He's become very ocd lately..warning never let him get you throw it for a fetch because once you do it he will want to fetch for the REST of the night.

Here's a very "manly" shot of Jeff sharing a margarita with Alex. Awwww sooo cute :)

Everyone needs a comfy spot

Perogi has certainly found his...laying on Bella!! The funny part is that she doesn't mind one bit. Too adorable.

Please!!!!! can we come up?

This is what we see every morning after we walk the dogs, give them breakfast while we go back to bed. It's inevitable that they will scratch on the bed till we give in and let them come up. Sometimes we are lucky and they cuddle up and go back to bed...most times they start wrestling and playing while we're trying to sleep :( but seriously how can you say no to their cute little punums? (mom did i spell that right??)

The most wonderful internet invention ever

We just discovered stumbleupon.com and in the past hour it has totally changed my life. Everyone needs to go get it. They put a little tool bar on your browser and a button you click that will pop up a random web site from a bunch of topics you choose from. The sites are all really interesting, and when you get bored with it, click the button again for a new one.

Here's just a sample of what popped up in the last few minutes:

http://www.changar.com/text/bushmail.html

http://www.safenow.org/

http://www.skeptictank.org/hs/vanish.htm

http://www.phatfusion.net/googledrive/

http://www.thecuteproject.com/

http://www.lefthandersday.com/

http://puppywar.com/

http://mil-millington.com/

Every since uniquedaily.com went down I've been bored with the internet 0 spent most of my time reluctantly following Jamie-lynn spears pregnancy or whatever. Now the internet is fun again.

As we were driving past the pentagon the other day this thing flew over our heads and landed right there. The pic doesn't show it well, but that is the largest helicopter I've ever seen. You could fit a tank in it if you were so inclined. Where else do you get to see stuff like that?

This kid sat next to me at the hockey game the other night. That says "obama" on his head. I was kind of scared of him.

And there's the best pug in the universe.

Awwww....

A little slice of napping heaven

The Pugs most favorite spot.

is on my lap of course. I'm off from work for a couple of weeks and so far the first week has been spent mostly with the pugs on my lap watching tv. They don't care how uncomfortable a position i'm in they will find a way to snuggle into a comfy spot. Closeup............(awww)uber closeup...darn he woke up. Can you tell i've been a little bored lately??

Salt and Pepper Shakers

These are almost too adorable for words. Jeff's mom bought these for us (thanks Lillian!) She was also the one who bought us the pug tape dispenser that was a big hit. I don't know where she finds such adorable pug items. They are especially perfect for us because we have 1 "salt" colored pug and 1 "pepper" colored one. they also have magnets on their noses so they are kissing salt and pepper shakers. We love them!!

Sorry it's a little blurry. But here's the view of them kissing and of them apart.

I tried to find a picture of Bella and Perogi kissing but i couldn't. I thought that would be perfect to end the post. Instead enjoy 2 recent pictures of our little puggies :)

Pugs try out the new convertible

They approve!!! On easter we tied them up in the backseat of the car and drove home from Jeff's mom's house. We didn't know if they'd like being in a convertible. Well they had a blast. It was gorgeous out and they loved the fresh air and the sun. Perogi kept on sniffing the air, it was too cute.

Are you kidding me??

Perogi loves his toys and he loves to eat..combine them and what do you get?? Well let me tell you. Perogi has been having intestinal issues the past couple of weeks. He acts fine except he gets the runs. A couple nights ago he jumped off the bed so i dart after him and he starts heaving heavily. All of a sudden he throws up and something was odd about it. It looked like he puked up a mouse. What did i discover???:

He did puke up a mouse, a blue and white plaid stuffed one that is. For everyone's sake, i spared you the actually picture and took a picture of the same toy only red.We couldn't believe it. I am still perplexed on how such a little puggie could have swallowed whole a stuffed mouse. That seems to have been the source of his tummy issues because now he's doing great. Jeff and i now have to watch what he plays with. It amazes me how different our 2 pugs are. Bella, in order for her to even eat a treat, she has to sniff it for a while then lick it a couple of times then decides whether or not it's worth daintily eating. Perogi on the other hand, will bite your hand if you even put something near his mouth. Silly pugs!

Spring is in the air...

Therefore Bella can wear her favorite spring dress!! Yay. Doesn't she look sooo pretty????

We're really enjoying our nice spring weather. I hope it lasts!! I'm so over the winter and walking the dogs in the cold.

Here it is.....

Here's his new car with the top down (almost)!!! We're so excited about it. Unfortunately the pictures don't show it's true beauty b/c it was raining out.
With the top up
The front!!
He's so excited can you tell??

Jeff got his new car!!!

Jeff got his car yesterday (Finally)! Of course it's been beautiful out all week and the day he goes to pick it up it's pouring rain out. You can hardly put the top down in weather like this! It's supposed to rain all day today as well. What a bummer!! Check back later for pics of his gorgeous car!! I'm at work and can't post them till i get home.

We're back....minus a harddrive and everything that was on it

Yay, so our computer works. We had a broken harddrive with all our pics and our itunes and NO WE DIDN'T BACKUP! So now we have to find some way to get everything off. Luckily we have iphones so every single song and picture that was on our computer is on our iphone. The only problem is that Jeff and I don't know how to get the songs/pics off the phone to our computer. Apple is sneaky like that. We have to give them a call.



Perogi is doing MUCH better and Jeff and I feel like ourselves again. Perogi is such a mischievous little puggie. The other night when it was time to go to bed Perogi went under the bed and made a hole in the netting at the bottom of the box spring. He then was running all around IN our boxspring...and couldn't get out. He started crying. Jeff went to help and after making more holes took this picture:

He was stuck between the boxspring netting and the wood of our bed. Silly Puggie. He finally was freed by his dad and was told never to do that again. We'll see.....

Here's a silly picture of after we gave him some pepto bismol for his stomach. It was taken on my iphone and is kinda blurry

His face and our floor was covered in pepto..hehe. We have a video which we'll post once jeff get's around to it which is hilarious!!!

Hope everyone is having a great day, soooo glad to be back online. Can't wait to read everyone's blogs...

Vicky

No fun times :(

It's been one long, anything but fun, weekend
1. Our computer crashed!!!!! I come home from work on thursday and the computer is black so i restarted it. Jeff comes home and restarts it thinking i did something. Fast forward 24 hours....still not working. Jeff called our good friends at Dell and turns out our hard drive blew out. Our HARDDRIVE with ALL our pics, our thousands of itunes!! They are gonna send us a new harddrive and we're gonna TRY to get our stuff off our old one. Whenever they say they will try it means in computer language that there's no chance :(
2. Since Wednesday poor Perogi has had stomach issues. He's had the doggie equivalent of the "runs" (all over our carpet). Let me just tell you...definitely not fun times, especially since we just cleaned out carpets a couple weeks back http://bellaandperogi.blogspot.com/2008/02/rug-doctor-is-in.html He got better towards friday but got worse this weekend. Took him to the vet and they gave him flagyl and food to eat. He's acting fine, but he's going to the bathroom like 10 times a day and it's not solid :( Poor thing....i hope he gets better! It's so hard seeing your poor puggie under the weather.
3. Jeff and i celebrated our 2nd anniversary on saturday but had to cancel our dinner reserva b/c we felt like poop. Turns out i think we both have a form of the flu. Fever, chills,lethargy,nausea (you know all the fun stuff)

So now i'm at work hoping 6pm comes soon so i can join the rest of my sick family at home. Obviously i won't be able to post until our computer gets fixed, hopefully by the end of the week. i'll keep you guys posted, no pun intended :)

Vicky