How Mom Spent Her Vacation

Mom took some vacation days to celebrate Dad's birthday, and to spend lots of quality time with us.  So in photos, here is how Mom spent her vacation.  Basically, she spent lots of time with us, took a lot of photos of us, and fed us lots of snacks.  Sounds like the perfect vacation to us!

We spent a lot of time bouncing around!

I think Abby actually landed this one!

 

 

 

 

 

 And we spent a lot of time testing Mom's frisbee throwing skills!

And we got in some zoomies!

And we spent some time totally ignoring Mom!  Heehee!

Mom who?

I can't hear you if I'm not looking at you!

We also consumed some goodies from the nice people from Chewy.com (BTW, the Orijen snacks totally rock!!!)

Mom, stop taking photos, I'd really like to check out the snacks!

Which led to me posing for a portrait.

And to us posing for Dad's birthday (although Mom CLEARLY needed to supply us with more treats here!).

And Dad got to spend Mom's vacation clearing away some of the snow we got!

It was great to have Mom home for a bunch of days!  We think she should do this more often!

*kissey face*
-Fiona and Abby the Hippobottomus

Happy Birthday to Dad!

Happy birthday - or else!  Heehee!

Mom says we look a little menacing here. We say she should take a photo of herself with a Happy Birthday tiara on, and see how SHE looks!  Heehee!

We did have a few photos where we looked a little less menacing (which, says Mom, is the most she can hope for).  We may not have big smiles on our faces, but hey, we are sitting still and not eating the birthday hats, so that's something!

You're going to give us those Orijen snacks now, right?!? Right?!?

Happy birthday, Dad!

*kissey face*
-Fiona and Abby the Hippobottomus

Yukky Weather

The last few days have been really yukky in the weather department - grey and damp, and our snow hasn't been freezing at night, so our feets sink in to the point that it's not even fun to go chase frisbees (Really! Did you ever think you'd hear that from us?!?).

Luckily, Mom has lots of photos of us enjoying the snow back when it was still enjoyable.

Mom, where's all the good snow?

 

There has been a little dancing going on, too.

Nekkid doodle dancing!

Mom says this photo kinda scares her.  I think it just shows off my pearly whites!  (You can see our snow vanishing here.)

 

 

Nope.  Not looking at the camera. This snow is terrible, so we are protesting.

And here I'm only looking at the camera because the nice people from Chewy.com sent us some totally nommy Orijen snacks and I REALLY like them.  Hint, hint, Mom.  Take note of those treats, and the attention I give you when you have those snacks.  Just saying....

While our current yukky snow situation has made us sad, it IS snowing right now.  (It won't last, but at least it's better than the rain we had earlier today!)

*kissey face*
-Fiona and Abby the Hippobottomus

We Blame Mom!

*oops! This got posted on Mom's photo blog and not our own page.....*

Yes, we are all alive and well.  Mom has just been crazy busy with her day job (aka "The Great Kibble Provider"), photographing at the animal shelter and paying photography clients, so our bloggie has been neglected (again).

However, Mom is still taking photos of us, and we are having fun playing in the snow, so all is good!

Pay close attention to the mid-leap pounce....

The pounce invariably results in the frisbees being buried.  That's why Mom has a lot of backups!

Me? I like to throw out the parachute when I jump on frisbees, so I can find them!

We still have springs in our leggies!

*sproing*!

Hey, um, Mom, are you going to throw the frisbee, or what?

Zoom-zoom!

Abby, pretending to be all contemplative.

Abby doing what she does best!

In all of her photography, Mom had the opportunity to meet and photograph Belle, Goose's girlfriend  (and now Buddy's friend and pillow).  Not only has Belle been a long-time interwebs friend, but she's a "mature" gal, and Mom loves spending time with senior doggies.

Michelle clearly loves Belle, too!

I think Belle pulls off the 'looking contemplative' thing better than Abby!

Mom got a few tutus (and other goodies) for Valentine's Day photos at the shelter, and when she was there last week, she got to indulge her desire to get photos of Pibbles in tutus!

Mom got a 'super-sync' radio trigger setup, specifically to capture leaping doggies at the shelter - and everyone seems to be happy with the setup!

This little puppy kept crawling up in Mom's lap and giving her kisses and puppy breath and the whole bit. Luckily, she also reminded Mom how crazy puppies are!  (Not that Mom is not is one to be swayed by puppy wiles!)

Ballerina doggie!

 

Mom still doesn't know what this guy was a mix of (we're thinking part Weimaraner and part Newfie and part shag carpet, but it's really anyone's guess as Bo - the model - wasn't telling!)

So not to worry, world! We are alive and well - our secretary has just been super busy with "other things"!

*kissey face*
-Fiona and Abby the Hippobottomus