A "DOODLE-ICIOUS" Birthday!

Hey Y'all,

My name is Maui and .........

Today is my Birthday!!

Woof, Woof, WOOF!

How old am I?

Well, I am 6 years old.

And everyone says I am just as SWEET 

as I ever was.

Here is what a day is like for me.

First, I wake my Mommy up.

I don't bark or anything.

That would be rude.

I just sit and stare at her.
Sometimes I give her a little tap with my paw.
Sometimes I sit and stare.
Cause I love my Mommy.
And she says I'm such a good boy:) 

I want her to play with me but she usually just takes me

for a walk first thing in the morning.

But I take my ball with me, just in case I get lucky:)

When we get back home,
I get my treat and then I usually just hang out with my
best buddy and brudder, Freddy.
Isn't he little?
And he's WAY older than me.
So sometimes he bosses me around.
But that's okay, cause he's my brudder and I love him

My Mommy usually has stuff to do for a little bit,
and then she goes to take a shower.
I DO NOT like to have her out of my sight,
so I beg to go in with her and just lay down......or sometimes I stare at her,
cause she's my mommy and cause I always want her to know
 I would like to go play with my ball
 and maybe swim a little bit.

Sometimes it works right away,
but sometimes I have to hang out with Freddy for awhile longer.
We like to lay on the balcony and look for squirrels.
Or sometimes the cat that lives behind us.

Sometimes we get tired of waiting so we go lay on the couch.

After we play,  it's my nap time.
Sometimes I take a nap by myself and sometimes my Mommy takes one with me.
She says I'm the best nap taker she ever knew.

 My Mommy says I am so stinkin cute,
especially when I take a nap.
That's because I know how to use a pillow
just like humans do.
And she thinks it's very cute:)

 After that, it's game time with my brudder.
I like to spend time with him,
cause he's getting old and has a really bad heart.
And I don't know how long I will have him to hang out with.
If anything happens to him,
that will make me a very sad boy.

Then I crawl in my favorite leather chair and watch some tv.
Or I watch my mommy in the kitchen.
I need her to know how much I LOVE her.

Or I go back outside and look for squirrels.......and cats........and birdies.

 Then we go for another walk and then my daddy gets home.
Before I know it, it's time for bed.
Can you believe my mommy and daddy let me sleep on their bed?
I know I'm kinda big,
and they say I weigh 80 lbs.
But I don't hog the covers or anything so they don't mind.
Today I hope to get a special treat for my birthday.
I heard my mommy say she might take me for a ride in my new jeep.
I hope so.
 Now THAT would be a treat:)
My name is Maui the Goldendoodle, 
and today I am 6 years old.
XOXOXOXO
Maui

Meet Ray. . . . .he will MELT your Heart

maybe you've seen this little guy, named Ray, around the internet.

he is a cutie.

a real, sweet, cutie pie.

and he was recently adopted by a guy named Andrew.

bless you Andrew!

it's easy to hold out for our definition of "perfect" in this world.

whatever that is.

but you didn't. . . .and i bet you will get years of pure joy from your 

sweet little guy.

are you ready to meet Ray?

well, scroll down to see this

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Ray. . . . .

you see, Ray is 9 weeks old and was born completely blind.

from everything i've read, especially because that is all he's known,

he will live a happy, frisky joyful life,

thanks to a kind soul who adopted him.

***note to Andrew, wherever you are.  Thank you.  And be glad you saw him first

because if I had, he would've been mine:)

Happy Friday everyone!

xoxo

Suzanne

P.S.  LOVE the jammies, Ray!

Maui the Goldendoodle

Please pray for my big boy Maui.

tomorrow he has to have a lump on his neck removed and biopsied.

I love that boy (and I never call him a dog:)

and he brings such joy to everyone he meets...

 ...he looks out for me and i look out for him:)

we can learn from our best friend.....

 life would sometimes be soooo much easier...

but no way!

 wouldn't we all...

Please pray for everything to be okay with my big boy:)

XOXOXO

Suzanne

a sweet, sweet story...

A SPECIAL DOG AND HIS "SEEING EYE" COMPANION

Lily is a Great Dane that has been blind since a bizarre medical condition required that she have both eyes removed. For the last 5 years, Madison, another Great Dane, has been her sight. The two are, of course, inseparable.

HAPPY...

LOVING, AFFECTIONATE, LOYAL, FUNNY, FRIENDLY, CUDDLY, GENTLE, PLAYFUL, EXCITED, CURIOUS, JOYFUL, SILLY, KIND, SWEET, FORGIVING.

So...
How many people do you know that have ALL of these qualities...
every day...
all at the same time?????

I don't have them all...
at least not all at the same time.

And personally, I don't know of anyone else who does either.

But MAUI does...
which is why we are celebrating my sweet boy's 2nd birthday!

HAPPY BIRTHDAY MAUI!!!!

Thank you for bringing joy, companionship and laughter into our lives every single day!!!

I wish you a day filled with bones, car rides, open windows, playing fetch, napping on the couch, chew toys and lots of hugs and kisses!
Oh...and lots of fun things to bark at...
like the pool guy, the lawn guys...and bunnies.
XOXOXOXOX

Woof, Woof...From Freddy

Look at me...

It's my Birthday!!!!



Yep, I know my Mommy is taking a blog break.
But it's my 7th Birthday...
Which means I'm actually older than her!
Don't you think that deserves a blog post to celebrate lil ol' me?

Okay, here goes...
My name is Freddy Boom-Boom.
My dad wasn't crazy about getting a dog but my mom said
"who cares...we're getting one anyway".
That's how I got to be here.
(And just to be nice, they named me after my daddy's favorite golfer,
Freddy Couples, just to make sure he fell in love with me...which he did:-)



I was born in Florida (I'm a Native!!!!) on April 15th.
(Yes, they thought about naming me Uncle Sam)

I have 2 big sisters who love birthdays and love to spoil me.
They also love to dress me up...Yuk!!!



I also have a little brother.
Well, he's about 55lbs more than me so he is a BIG little brother.
I act like I don't want him around but at night,
my family finds me curled up with him.
(And don't mess with him because I am very protective of that Big/Little guy!!!:-)


I love to ride in the car with my Mommy.
She says I'm her little co-pilot.
I would do anything for my Mommy!



I love to chew bones.
I like tennis balls but not to play fetch.
I prefer to hide them from my brother.
And sometimes I chase Maui around the pool.
I could catch him if I wanted to but I let him beat me most of the time.
I'm kind of nice like that, you know.

Most of all I love my Ruby.
Ruby is a stuffed reindeer that has lost all of her eyes and only has one antler...
but I love her anyway.


She's my special friend and when I am upset,
there is nothing I like better than being with my Ruby.
But I have to watch out because Maui will eat her.
My poor Ruby...living in a house with that monster.



I broke my leg when I was a puppy and ever since then I have been very spoiled.
Look at what my family gave me for my birthday...
A Florida gators raincoat.


Now my fur won't get all wet and yucky when I need to go out in the rain.
And I do look kind of cute, if I do say so myself!

Hmmm, what else...
My favorite food in the whole wide world is pizza.
Or anything my daddy is eating!
Yummmmm!


Well, I guess that's about it.
If you were here I'd give you some of my birthday cake.


Thanks for stopping by my mom's blog.

XOXOXOXO
Freddy

Sick Puppy...

As if life isn't crazy enough these days,

I think I have a sick puppy in my house.

My big, sweet boy Maui has the sniffles.

Can dogs get a cold?

He is sneezing his poor head off at times.

Not all day...just little fits once in awhile.

(It's cute and pathetic at the same time:-)

And while he is always up for a walk or a game of fetch,

he's much quieter in between times and is doing what I wish to do someday...

take lots of naps!

His nose is kind of dry but the minute he licks it...

big wet nose...

so that one is hard to tell.

I saw online that they can have allergies

but there is nothing new in his life, unless he's allergic to the

huge amounts of perfume my house guest likes to wear:-)

But he's acting really punky and I wouldn't think allergies would do that, right?

I'm thinking it might be time for a trip to the vet for my big guy.

Any experience with puppy colds, please let me know.

Hugs and Puppy Kisses,

Suzanne

Yikes!!!

So there I was, making dinner and watching a favorite TV show.
Had a nice day.
One daughter at ballet.
The other working on a research paper.
When the phone rang.
Me: "Hello"
K : "OMG...Suzanne, you will not believe what was walking
between your house and the neighbors, crossed the street to my yard,
sniffed around the basketball hoop
and then wandered into the empty lot!!!!
Me: "Ummm...do I really want to know this???"
K: "Yes!!! It is the BIGGEST Florida Panther you have ever seen!"



In case you're wondering, I am not one of those people who gets a kick out of living in the Discovery Channel.
I am used to seeing a bobcat in my back yard.
But now I'm thinking it wasn't a bobcat but a baby panther...
because it did look like this.

Beautiful in a wild kind of way.
So what's the big deal?
I walk my dogs at night...sometimes more than once.
And sometimes Maui gets spooked by things I can't hear or see...
but he drags me home anyway.
And this dog LOVES his walks so that is always kind of
Creeeeppppyyy!!!!!!!
And little Freddy is getting older so sometimes
I just let him run down the stairs, do his thing and then come back in.
(Look at my boy in his "mohawk" hairdo:-)


I have a Key West style home,
meaning we go up the stairs to get in the front door...
and the area under the stairs is open...
very pretty...
and now very creepy.
ANYTHING could be under there.



There have been times my dogs go out the front door
and just sniff under the stairs as they go down.
Like I said...YIKES!!!
Well, that's my news for the day.
See ya...

I'm grounded!!!

Yep...that's right...I'm grounded. You see, I have been sooooo BAD about visiting your blogs, answering emails and responding to the many wonderful comments I have gotten so I decided to ground myself from my own blog until I catch up with YOU!!! (Hopefully, this will happen before Pink Saturday:-) I leave you today with a thought and a pic of my adorable boys...because I know you MUST miss seeing these cuties.
Your thought for the day...


"Wag more...Bark less"




Get it? ...Wag more (be happy)...Bark less (chill out)!

Au revoir, Suzanne