Friends in Far Away Places

Do you follow us on Instagram?  If you do, then you might have noticed homerdog22 is usually one of the first to like our posts.  Meet Homer:

We've become good friends with Homer and his Mum who live all the way around the world in Australia!  Such good friends that Homer recently sent us a few gifts.  If Mommy had had her act together, she'd have taken a picture of everything that arrived all together.  But she didn't . . .

The first things that rolled out of the package were three Kong squeaky balls!  We were (and still are) in heaven!

That's Ruger running by in the background with a ball in his mouth.  Ruger LOVES squeaky toys and runs around like a madman whenever he has a new one!

We each take turns being the ball hog!

Ruger and Dixie had a bit of a scuffle over a ball that first day despite the other two being readily available!

Homer also sent each of us new collars with our names on them!  They are color coordinated for our personalities (you can see the colors above) and are super soft on the underside.  Along with each collar came a light that has the ability to flash for us to wear on our collars so we can be seen when we're out at night.

Here's Dixie showing off her new collar before Daddy put the light it.  Not sure what Ruger's doing here besides being his usual pesky self!

I look so serious here, but I'm trying to show you Ruger's beautiful blue collar. 

I got the blue light!  Mommy thought it matched my purple collar best.  You know purple is the color of royalty, right?  Just saying.

Dixie's light is yellow when it's off, but a little orangey when it's on.  It goes great with her pink collar.  Pink is such a sweet color and that's exactly what Dixie is . . . or so Mommy tells me!

And Ruger has the red light!  It matches his blue collar really well.  Plus, he can be Ruger the Red Nosed Reindeer with his light during the Christmas season.

We LOVE, LOVE, LOVE our gifts all the way from the Land Down Under, or the Land of Oz as Homer calls it.

Here's Homer with our Halloween card (it took about two and a half weeks to travel that far!):

Thank you so much for all of our lovely gifts, Homer and Homer's Mum!  As we approach our American Thanksgiving, we're thankful for our new friends across the globe!

Jenna
(and Dixie & Ruger too!)

Insta-Us

If you aren't doing so already, you can follow us on Instagram!  You don't even have to have an account.  You can just creep around on the site and check out all kinds of pictures!  No need to feel weird about doing so.  Mommy used to do that all the time before she opened an account for us.

We post almost daily and have some pretty funny pictures out there.  We have a link on the actual blog site, but a lot of you receive our posts through email and never make it to the website.  We thought we'd show you what you're missing out on  . . .

One of our biggest hits:    #flossingwithfeathers   #gonehunting

We were jealous of the recent snow some of our instabuddies received.  

This was as close as we could come!  #wewantsnow  #luckydawgs

Sometimes we don't even appear in the pics.  This is Jenna's leopard trying to escape the Jaws of Life.

#lifeofastuffedanimal

Sisterhood in black and white    #sisters

We've had lots of warm days this winter and we've taken advantage of those by playing outside.

#summerinjanuary    #ballhog    #blueskies

Dixie stole Jenna's bone.

#slydawg    #notachance    #dareya

Not even Mommy was allowed to take the bone.

#pawsoff

Jenna tried to steal Mommy's spot on the love seat.

#bestseatinthehouse

In her free time, Mommy's been watching Downton Abbey.  She LOVES it!  

If you haven't watched it, Jenna and Mommy both highly recommend it!

#thosewonderfulbritishaccents

Mommy says if we were boys, we'd be living up to a stereotype.

#livingthedream   #firedogintraining

We hope you've enjoyed a few of our Instagram moments.  Feel free to hop on over and join us there for more fun and excitement (and moments of stupidity too!).

Dixie and Jenna