happy howl-o-ween!!

halloween is that special time of the year when my fam (2 and 4-legged) geek out more than necessary. is it to the point of ridiculousness and downright embarrassment? sure, probably. hence i say geek out.

after a long day at work, i came home on friday to a very excited sis. VERY. a lot of the geeky excitement actually originated from her so we got in her car and drove to target to look for doggy costumes cuz our local dog park was hosting their 3rd annual "howl-o-ween" costume contest. omg. like you had to ask if we were going to participate.....

it went from us browsing the aisles, to figuring out a theme, to laughing hysterically at our brilliance when we figured out our plan.

we ran across a white rabbit costume (from alice in wonderland) and also a generic kingly robe. since charlie was going to be the white rabbit, i suggested that lucy go dressed as the queen of hearts. all i had to do was sew a red felt heart on her robe which i did and a smaller red heart on her crown to emphasize our point. hearts + more hearts = the queen of hearts. that's how we roll.

although lucy did look super cute as the white rabbit if i must say so myself but we wanted to stick to the gender roles. besides, the robe was waaaaaay too big for charlie. we tried. we really did as he struggled to get away.

unlike last year when charlie was the only participant, we upped the heat and wanted to make sure that we won SOMETHING this year, so we decided that the WHOLE family had to be a part of the act. since my sis had a blue dress, she was dressed as alice and my fiance and i became the playing cards. brilliant. you know you love it.

when we got to the dog park, it was PACKED. it was quite the celebration indeed because everybody was in a jovial mood and all i heard was laughing. i love that people celebrate with their pets in all manners of silliness.

i did see a not so happy butterfly. perhaps pink wasn't her color.

here's a dog straddled by an angry cowboy.

a cow that jumped over the moooooooooooon. omg, so cute!



and a dog with the largest set of muscles ever. what a great body guard he would make!

a mummified dog. so scary!

marie antoinette with her one eye.

and the smallest giraffe in the world. i was floored when i found out that the costume was all handmade by the owner. i'm telling ya, the heat was on!

but in all seriousness, my dogs were 10,000% cuter! come on now! C-U-T-E! <3

we saw another themed group there, but ha! please don't cry when we dominate you captain america...especially since yours is not a cohesive collection.

cuz we are rockin' it alice in wonderland style!



and we won! THE END.

juicy lucy

hi, my name is lucy. i'm getting kinda big and my momma always threatens to starve me so i won't grow anymore. i know she's joking....do you think she's joking? my daddy feeds me in the morning before he goes to work and my mommy feeds me at night...but after eating all that food, all i really want to do is run around and play but stupid charlie is fat and sleeps too much. sometimes i get so bored chewing my rope by myself that i fall asleep too, just like this. zzzz.....

mommy thinks she gets a nice break when we take our naps, but i'm still a puppy so that only means i'm resting so i can jump higher and run faster around our wee house...especially when she's watching something she had recorded on t.v. it's funny watching her rewind the shows over and over again because she missed something. maybe if she didn't yell at us to be quiet all the time, then she would have been paying attention to her shows. i don't understand her sometimes....

other than running around and annoying my mommy, i also like to eat a lot. i'm trying to grow up to be big and strong so that i can knock charlie out with one paw swipe. even though i eat everything in my bowl, i like to sit REALLY close to charlie when he's eating his food. sometimes so close that my nose touches his bowl. my mommy laughs at me when i do that.

now that i'm older and taller, i also know how to dig into things so i've been playing a game called "retrieving." my mom throws something in the recycling bag and then i take it out and she throws it back in again and i take it out again.

it's really fun until she yells out "NO!" really loudly and then i run into my kennel and turn on my rock music and pretend she doesn't exist.

oh darn, where did the time go? it's already 2:34 in the morning and my mom said something about us being busy tomorrow because we are getting ready for halloween. ok, nice meeting you! i need to go to sleep! talk to you soon!

smoochies,

lucy

unpacking

there is no reason to be reflective when it's so late in the night. what i really need to do is go to sleep so i don't look like a sloppy raccoon tomorrow. but here's a few thoughts that ran through my mind as i sit here listening to my loved ones snore (dogs and fiance) right next to me:

1) it's hard to be happy for people when you hold a grudge against them.
2) it's hard to say good bye, so when you do, you gotta make sure that you're committed to doing so in the first place.
3) when there's no feelings left (be it positive or negative) about the matter whatsoever, the cycle is finally complete and you can give the baggage a mental rest.

so good bye, good night, and in a few hours, good morning. somewhere in the grand scheme of things, everything does happen for a reason.

(i should not have eaten that coffee dessert that keeps me up thinking way past my bedtime........)