Lola

Tonight I am grateful for surrogate puppy snuggles.  This is the seester's dog, Lola:

She's a 6 month old shih tzu and has apparently decided that I was put on this planet to rub her tummy, because every time I get within a foot of her she flops onto her back and gives me adorable face until I scratch her.  I'm the only one she does this to.  While I am grateful this little cutie seems to like me, I also feel like I'm cheating on my own puppies.  This feeling is not helped by the hubby sending me this

with the caption, "MOM, HOW COULD YOU?"  Poor Tallulah.  Now she's going to need therapy.  Let's not tell her that tonight's shoes are inspired by Lola, OK?  Please?

 

I'm pretty sure Lola needs duckie slippers.

I admit to dressing my dogs in outfits, but the hair bows?  I ust can't quite seem to get on board.  I think Lola is lovely without the hair bow.  Plus it might get in the way of her cow-chasing and cow-poop-eating ways.  Yep, she's classy that way, our Lola.

 

Aw...this one is adorable, and I would wear it.  Except that I wouldn't because my dogs would be mad at me for the rest of forever.

 

Also adorable.

Now if you'll excuse me I need to go get some therapy for cheating on my puppies.

Puppy Pups

Today I am thankful for my snuggle puppies.  I love coming home after work to their happy, wiggly, jumpy selves and then having them join me on the couch for some post-work decompression snuggles.  I mean, look a these adorable faces:

I just want to smooch them.  Oh wait, I do that on a regular basis.  So let's look at puppy shoes:

And now let's go to sleep.  Or not, I mean, do you what you need to do, but I'm exhausted, so I'm off to bed.

Happy Halloween!

Happy Halloween!

Some of us are in the spirit today:

Tallulah and I match!

I love this picture, from the sweater to the pose to the handsome dog.

Pedro McTate.

And, because it's a shoe blog, a couple of Halloween shoes (since I've already posted a bunch):

These just have a little bit of everything!

I like all of these, but as a set I really like them.

Happy Halloween!  Be safe out there.

Puppies

It's National Puppy Day!  I miss these tiny little bitties.

I don't miss them pooping on the floor or throwing up every time they got in the car, but I miss those little faces.  I love my "big" puppies, too, though.  They are currently snuggled up next to me and the hubby as I type.  They are so very happy their daddy is home.

And now puppy shoes!

 

They're all kind of similar and all adorable.  The PB could have a different pair of puppy shoes for every day of the week!

Memory Lane: 2013. 2014 (we took the puppies on adventure although I don't think I realized it was National Puppy Day).

3 Things:

1. The hubby is home!
2. I love my puppies.  Never thought I'd be a dog person, but I have totally become one.
3. I chopped 11 inches off my hair yesterday.  I loooooove it, and will donate hair for the 4th time.  I even updated my bitmoji to reflect the new do:

Yep.  Looks *just* like me.

Happy 4th!

I hope you all had a fun, safe, and relaxing holiday.  We did absolutely nothing but have a reality TV marathon, which was fine, but man do I miss our annual family reunion on Flathead Lake.  One of these years I'm actually going to be able to take the hubby home for that.  Oh well, we hung out with the puppies, who dressed up for the occasion:

Yes, I did make a paper hat and force them to wear it.  The hubby says I need therapy, and he says the puppies are going to need therapy as well if I keep tormenting them with outfits.

 

Pedro also wore the hat, but here's a picture from earlier in the day with him in his flag shirt (which I made last year).  He's sitting on the rug I crocheted from old t-shirts.

Our mantel is a little more festive than last year, but still not terribly exciting.  Have I mentioned that my awesome mama made all of the wooden people you see on the mantel each month?  So at least I always have something cute to start with.

Last one before the shoes.  I used to do flags on my toes every year for the 4th, but I haven't done it the last several years, and I'm clearly out of practice.  The right one looks like it was done by a blind, drunk toddler.  But at least I tried to be festive.

 

OK, shoes.  I love these.

And these.  I could maybe even make a pair like this (although I doubt I could get my lines to go straight).

I have no idea what is happening here, but it frightens me.

Cute, but again, all you would see is a boring red strap once you put them on.

Damn.  That is all.

Much better.  I think this is quite cute.

Oh wow.  Why oh why can't I get the hubby to wear crazy men's shoes?

 Love love love, even with the stupid slingbacks.

I like these, too.  Kind of crazy, but I think 4th of July is a holiday you can get away with slightly crazy-festive.

 

Ribbon laces!  And adorable kiddo shoes.

Happy 4th, everyone.  The puppies and I are worn out from all of the couch snuggling we did today while watching TV, so we're off to bed.

Ohhhh...Boys

I posted on Facebook tonight that my dad is in the hospital overnight for observation.  Apparently his heart rate was over 140 this afternoon and he was dizzy.  It happened a couple of weeks ago also, and the Dr. wasn't concerned but told him to come in if it happened again.  The man drove himself to the hospital, but at least he went (eye roll).  He's probably horrified that I posted and am writing about it now because he's "fine," but 1. he's my daddy and I love him and worry about him, and 2. it's a tiny town so probably everyone already knows where he is and why anyway.  The hubby isn't feeling well today, either.  He's got a cold so he's sneezing and coughing and generally miserable.  He just took some Nyquil and basically passed out, so I'm hoping he gets some really good sleep tonight.  And poor Chalupa has allergies, I think.  He sneezes all the time (which is actually kind of adorable, but as an allergy sufferer myself, I still feel bad for him).  Oh, and Bulbasaur is molting so he looks terrible.  My boys are having a rough day.  Hopefully everyone will feel better tomorrow.

So at my birthday party I was excited to see a couple from St. Someone's that I hadn't seen in over a year.  It was great to see them and catch up a little.  They hadn't met the dogs yet, and she asked me what their names were.  I told her Chalupa Batman and Tallulah Cooper.  Then she wanted to know what we call them for short and was less than impressed when I said Chalupa and Tallulah.  Apparently that's just too much.  She said she would call them Choo Choo and Lulu.  Which actually makes me giggle.  The hubby said no.  The hubby has no sense of adventure.  It did inspire me to go look for some Lulu and Choo Choo shoes.

These are all Lulu Townsend shoes.  They all look like bridesmaid shoes to me, but I'm not holding that against them.   The blue is my favorite, of course, but I actually like them all, with the exception of the wedges.  If they had a different heel I would really like them, but I'm not a fan of that type of wedge.  I like all of the dainty flower details.

I thought about doing Jimmy Choos for Choo Choo, but decided choo choo train shoes were more fun.  Also, I think these are more representative of Chalupa.  They're fun, a little quirky, and all boy.  Tallulah's shoes work too:  dainty and sweet.  At least I got to find some cute shoes from the nicknames we won't be using.  

I'm taking my headache to bed  Hopefully tomorrow will be a better day for my boys.