Happy New Year 2015

Harlow has spent the whole day prepping the Soon-to-be-Pretty Pink Princess Castle for her first New Years Celebration...

I hope everybody likes it, da Momma...

 She's excited that we'll be bringing in a new year!

Dis hat iz big, Momma.  Good ding I got lots of ear floof...

Monty and Harlow are wishing everyone a very wonderful 2015!

Monty may have already gotten into the bubbly...

We look forward to this new year and the adventures it will bring...

Here's to another year of blogging, friends across the world, and happy and healthy pups, ponies, and kitties!  (...and to all our wonderful blog friends!)

Monty looks quite buff in a t-shirt, doesn't he?

Happy New Year!

Wordless Wednesday - Harlow Edition

Traversing the desert...

After Saturday's great adventure, Harlow has decided she needed a better way to explore the desert...

Dis is so much better!

You have to admit, our Princess has a lot of style!

Harlow vs Nature

As you know, our Harlow is a little princess.  

Dere's a lump in my bed...

She has, however, decided that she wants to expand her interest and has become interested in hiking.  She has been studying Shawnee's blog (stop by and say hi!) and has decided that she was ready for her first outing.

She has a bandana, because all the cool explorers wear bandanas.

 Harlow had a lot to learn.  For one, there are a lot of princess-sized bushes in the desert...

Da Momma, you better go in front and whack some bushes for me...

That the wind can blow your butt furs something fierce...

It's quite rude to da Princess...

That the desert is full of paw poking cactus...

Dese big fuzzy ones are not shnooter friendly either!

Trust me - I thought I was going to have to carry her out after her first cactus encounter.  She was also not pleased to find the desert wanted to stick with her...

Get it?  Stick?  Bwahahaha...  Sorry...

After I checked to make sure the ground was clear of deer poop and twigs, we sat down to take a break.

Da Momma forgot my cushion...  I haz to sit on my fuzzy tail...

Of course, Harlow needed some nourishment.

Any chicken jerky in here?  Da Shawnee always eats chicken jerky.

After a while we headed back...

Dis wouldn't be so bad if it waz carpeted...

I'm hoping next time we will make it out of my Mom's driveway.

Harlow swears we hiked miles...

;)

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!

Merry Christmas!

We hope all of you have a wonderful day!  Merry Christmas from all of us at How Sam Sees It!

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