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

Wanna buy a Mini??

Jeff bought a new car (yay) so he has to sell his old one. By old i mean 2 years old. It's a mini cooper s. It's super cute and super fast. See below. If anyone is interested let us know!



Now onto pug related news....We can definitely say that Perogi is officially trained!! Yipee!! He's only 6 months but has not had an accident in the house in forever. Jeff couldn't get home from work to walk them and we left him out of his crate yesterday. We came home at 5 to find 2 perfect puggies waiting anxiously to go out. We're so proud of him!! (At 6 months Bella was NOWHERE near trained)

I wanna be a Puggy model

We got a special delivery for the Puggies recently. My mom sent us a package with new outfits for the kids. They loved em!! We all know Bella loves getting dressed up but i didn't realize how much perogi likes it as well. He was strutting his stuff all over the apt.

This is Perogi's bomber jacket. Doesn't he look so handsome?

She also bought him a velour hoodie for when he works out. It has studs all across the bottom and hood and it says "punk pup". hehe

Bella was not forgotten. She got a tshirt that says "local celebrity". It's perfect for her since she prances around like she is famous and we're her entourage. She did win the first ever pet of the month at our apartment complex :)

Thanks Mom!!! Your grandkids sent licks your way.

Deep Creek Lake

For Jeff's birthday we rented a cabin at Deep Creek lake and invited a bunch of his friends to celebrate. It is so wondeful there. The house was right on the lake, which was completely frozen.


I had my friend Tammy bring a cake for Jeff so he wouldn't see it and we surprised him.

If you can't read it well that top says "happy 29th birthday Jeff" He loved it and had to have a taste immediately :)



The next day we all went for a walk on the lake. There was even a family ice fishing. It was pretty cool even though in the back of my mind i was freaking out that i could fall in. I was assured that it was frozen solid, but you never know


Here's the house from the view of the lake

The ice fisherfamily. Look at the view!!

a picture of jeff and me, of course the puppies had to get in on it too!! Bella and Perogie LOVED! the lake and running around without their harnesses/leashes all weekend.

Naked bella without harness.

The pugs were exhausted when they got home, and so were their owners :)
Oh and guess what??? Jeff stopped smoking on monday!! So as of today, he's 3 days smoke free. He's taking Chantix and using Nicorette gum. I'm soooo proud of him.

Jeff shows off his birthday suit

No, it's not what you are thinking...this is a pg rated site. Silly readers! I bought Jeff a Hugo Boss suit for his birthday. He looks sooo good in it. What do you think? He wore it to our Valentine's dinner.

We didn't do too much for Valentine's day b/c Jeff's birthday is the day after and he thinks it takes away from his special day. We usually just go out to dinner. This year we went to Morton's. It was delish. I got the surf and turf. I took a picture of it while noone was looking.

The pugs weren't left out of the equation. They got a package from their grandparents Ken and Debbie in CT. (we got some chocolates too..yummy)

all the presents!

The pugs investigating. They could smell it was something yummy

They love these, here is bella sitting patiently for hers

They also got these paw cookies..which look like real cookies but with paw prints on them. They absolutely love these. I swear i think perogi swallows it whole.

Anyway, on behalf of myself, Jeff, Bella and Perogi we want to thank Ken and Debbie for their wonderful valentine package. Many kisses....

Alright so that sums of valentines day. Tomorrow i'll post pictures of Jeff's birthday weekend at the lake and his tooth birthday cake. I know, the suspense must be killing all of you..yea right :)

Hey All!

Hey, just wanted to let you all know that our internet has been down since last week! we finally fixed it but i'm on my way to work

I will post lots of new pics of valentine's day, jeff's bday and our trip to deep creek lake

Stay tuned...........

Red Sunset and Doggie Friends

Sorry the posts are slow coming but i've been lazy. It has been SOOOO cold here and i have little motivation to do much of anything.

Anywho, the other morning we woke up to a red bedroom. It was the strangest thing, the sun coming through our window shone a beautiful color red. Jeff quickly snatched some pictures from our balcony. They don't truly depict the red that we saw but you get the idea:

Later that day we had some friends over and they brought bella and perogi's friends. it was our own little puppie meetup.

Below is a picture of our friend Micah with her poochies tippie (perogi's girlfriend) and thompson (bella's boyfriend) they are all so adorable together and love eachother so much

Here's Alex with his boxer puppy Tyson. Hard to believe that he was once smaller then Bella

Here's my friend Michael's pug puppy Max, he's adorable and has such a great pug personality.

They all went to the park together.

Well, that's a rundown of all our doggie friends. We're lucky to live in an area where everyone owns a dog, and obviously Bella and Perogi are very popular. :)

Gotta run, Big Brother season premiere starts and i'm quite obsessed.......

The Rug Doctor is in!

Last night i came to the realization that our carpet looked gross due to all the puppy training that has taken place. I know that this is every puppy owner's reality but now that Perogi is 6months old, and for the most part trained, it was time to do a little carpet cleaning. I wish i had a before picture to show you but it was too embarrassing to put on camera. Here is what we used:

We rented it from Safeway for only $21!!

Here's the after:

Our carpet looks brand new, not 1 stain has remained!!! Even Perogi is impressed. The rug doctor is really easy to use quite affordable!! So...until we move someplace that has hardwood floors and our stubborn pugs are perfectly trained, we're gonna rent this every couple of months. You would totally be surprised how much dirt and yuckiness it picked up.

Bored at work

Hey i just read this book today at work. Obviously we were very slow. It's super cute and definitely recommended if you own pugs. Warning to all the guys: It's definitely chic-lit. I loved it b/c it's about a girl from long island who loves pugs (like me!!!). Let me know if any of you read it or have read it.

Snip snip

Poor Perogi lost his manhood yesterday. He went under the knife at the Vet and was neutered. Thankfully the surgery went well. He was sooo out of it last night, it was so cute. He didn't seem like he was in much pain which made me very happy. Today he is definitely back to his normal self minus the humping :)

Perogi post op:

To make up for his surgery i bought him some very masculine clothes. He needed a new sweater and coat anyway since he gained 5 pounds in 1 month!!! (that seems unbelievable to me) He is now 18.5 lbs and Bella is only 15! Below are pics of him modeling his new wardrobe:

his bomber jacket with fur hood!

his winter hunting sweater..can't get more manly than that :)