OMD! Amazing Adoption Day Weekend!

Ok, so you know how I totally got screwed out of an adoption day party? Well, my parents totally made up for it over the weekend because on Saturday, they got people to have parties all over the country. We had a personal BBQ and then at night, they really pulled out the stops because there were fireworks all over the city! Can you believe it? Talk about making up for your mistakes! And then on Sunday, we went to a park for a hike and I was totes exhausted afterward and then we went to Trader Joes and I got a monster braided pizzle! Woot!

And this is from the BBQ when I got a whole plate to myself with a steak and salad and grilled toast with butter. Do you think it's super weird that I ate the salad first?

I can has steak chunk? Nom nom!


Can I have some more please?


Then we went on super long walkies with Grandma and Auntie Kathryn's super nice mom, Deb. And crabby Ruby.

And this is me and my mom in the forest on Sunday.


This is me and my dad. He's giving me chin scritchies which are pretty much my second favorite.


Isn't my dad handsome and nice?

And then we found this little grove of maidenhair ferns which are my mom's favorite ferns.


And then I was sooooo tired my mom had to carry me to the car and they blasted the A/C on me all the way home.


About the eye - we went back to the ophthamologist because my cornea is still taking up stain and he said it's healing totally slow, but it is getting better so we are giving it two more weeks and then if it isn't healed I have to have surgery which is $800 and my mom is all - OMG Ikenstein, heal, heal!

And the winner is!

SNOWBALL!
Nothing says summer like that smile, that picnic, that super silly face!

Congrats Snowball!

And the design is finished for my mom's Meg tattoo! Look how beautiful it is! It was done by a fabulous lady on Etsy.com whose seller name is CLineCreations. You should check her stuff out! And she didn't even charge a fortune!

Screwed!

Ok, so you know how it's my adoption anniversary, well my parents decided to celebrate it this weekend! WTF, OMG! My mom says it's because she didn't get home from work until after 7 and my dad has been lazy since getting home, but that is no excuse. I expected balloons and cake and super walkies and all that stuff. They say that it will be more fun this weekend because there will be more people and treats and stuff, but I think this is just a screw job, seriously.
And the eye doc said my eye is infected, but if we do one of my meds 10,396 times a day it will get better pretty quickly. Whatever.
Don't forget to vote for the photo contest below! I'm gonna go chew up a shoe and pee on the couch and maybe I'll crap and eat it and barf on my mom's pillow.
How could they deny this face? I'm pretty sure they have no hearts.

Top 5!

Ok, so narrowing it down to a top 5 for the 2009 Summer Photo Contest was pretty much the hardest thing I have ever had to do. The criterrier for the top 5 were artistic technique, expression of personality and recognizable summerocity quotient.

First we have Stella! She shows her summerocity like no other with a good ol' fashioned roach in the clover. Her nether regions exposure was also a factor in my selection.

Snowball shows a love for summer and picnics with a smile that could light up an entire kennel. I slap a smile on my face every time I see this pic.

Patrick was selected for pawesome use of color, composition and bootyliciousness in a totally metrosexual kind of way.

Gus, Louie and Callie all share one stick - one stick! What a great way to show your love for each other and summer. Excellent composition and summerocity with standing in water and all.

Now Clover is just so darn cute. What says summer like a pug in crystal clear water floating in a life vest?

There were also a lot of honorable mentions: Pumpkin for the Frosty Paws barf - work it girl! Dexter and Samba for excellent summerocity - I would never want to eat hose water. Dave for pawesome Frisbee skillz. Cody's super cool action shot. Twix, Stan, Randi, Sophie, Dixie, and Bugg, an Maggie and Mitch for their sheer enjoyment of Wallymelon. Dozer for stellar swimming skillz. Tanner for clearly loving the sun. And Mack for just cutting loose inside. All the pics were sooooo pawesome, and this contest has been super fun!

Now vote for your fave!

Summer Photo Contest 2009
	Stella
	Snowball
	Patrick
	Gus, Louie, Callie
	Clover
pollcode.com free polls

All votes will be tallied, and a winner will be announced at 10:00pm on Friday July 3.

Pee S - I have to go to the ophthomologist tomorrow. Poopy.

Summer Photo Contest!

Ok, so this was pretty much the hardest thing I have ever had to do because there were 62 fabulous entries! Here is a video of all the entries, and tomorrow I will post the top 5!

Meg.

Ike's mom here: I'm helping Ike compile his 62! entries for the photo contest, and I noticed that his adoption day countdown ticker is down to just over 2 days. What that means to me is that I missed the anniversary of Meg's death three years ago. While I feel really guilty about this, I am comforted by the fact that I have an artist in NY designing a tattoo of Meg that I am going to have done this summer (thank you Chase Bank for not raising my rates yet so I can make one more big frivolous purchase!) I might have forgotten the exact day of her death, but I will remember her for the rest of my life every time I look at my leg.
I also get to celebrate another wonderful year with Ike (even though he peed on the floor for no reason yesterday - he's in one of his phases, anyone else have bad pee puppy phases?) It's amazing how far he's come in these three years! But more on that on his actual adoption anniversary.
So here are a couple of pictures of Meg who died after just a year and a half with us. She was only 6 and had a brain tumor. She was a very serious Boston terrier and would have had a quite sardonic blog. My sweet Meggo, I will always miss you.

As you can see, Odin is not choosy about the dogs he loves.


The 62 entries and the top 5 will be up tonight!
Oh, and my dad did the annual dog show on his radio show last night. Click on Variations on a Theme at the bottom of the page to listen!

So many entries! So hard to choose 5!

Ok, so the deadline for entries for the summer photo contest is tonight and there are so many pawesome entries that I don't know how I will choose 5 for you all to vote for the winner.
I'm starting the review process early, but you can still submit.
All submissions are due in by 10:00pm CST on Sunday June 28 - today!

Woot, this has been a really fun contest!
I just need a short nap first.