The Day After

Christmas in our house is dedicated to the pups.  It's the one day of the year where they can shred paper and make a larger than usual mess - our gift to them.  The start of the festivities is always delayed a bit, with visits to my Mom, horses to feed, Aaron waking up, so I decided to take a little time and photograph all the beautiful Christmas cards we received.

Do not ask me what the painting is in the middle - I do not know.  ;)

Our final tally was 64 for the pups (including e-cards) and 8 for Aaron and me - and yes, we counted party invites as cards for us.  Monty thinks we are cheating...

 Aaron helped Monty open his gifts this year, but we were pleased to see that Harlow remembered how it was done.

I can shred dis?

...even though she got a little distracted in the middle...

Ooo - present...

Both pups got new blankets - blue for Monty and pink for Harlow.  Previously she showed no interest in having her own blanket, but a couple of weeks ago we had a little bit of rain and we gave her a towel to lay on.  After everything was dry I put the towel in the laundry and she kept pulling it out and trying to hide it.  We realized then that Harlow really wanted a blanket of her own.

...because sometimes a pup wants her own fort...

I think this might be the happiest pup on the planet.

Of course, when you have blankets involved, it brings about a session of blanket wrestling...

Rawwwwrrrr!

Christmas bitey face....

Harlow loves when Monty wraps himself in his blanket.

After the wrestling was done, they settled down to enjoy their toys.

Our boy was really happy with the new blanket!

There were also bully sticks to chew on - did I mention our pups were really good this year?

I think our pups really enjoyed their Christmas.  Later in the day we noticed a very happy and sleepy pup, getting ready to take a nap with her wubba...

Zzzzz....

We hope you all had a wonderful Christmas!