Ollie.. And the dog food bag! -Video

When we buy bags of dog food or cat food for that matter we open them, EMPTY the contents into the appropriate corresponding containers and leave the bags in the lounge for the dogs to play with!  I managed to capture Ollie going right inside of the 8kg bag of dog food a couple weeks ago.  Allie does this too quite a bit, she loves the cat food ones more!

Back on the bike

And so today, it marked the day of my first time back riding my bike- I had no pain in my knee it was so good! I haven't ridden my bike since at least May (when I had the surgery) and so to be back on it as the warmer weather is showing now, getting warmer leading up to summer!

On the way we stopped for lunch, then we saw the damage from the recent storm that passed through which happened to be at its strongest when it is high tide, on a king tide so the sea levels were rather high and took out a lot of the built up sand around the coast, you can see evidence of this all along the Orewa Beach stretch of the coast which is a good few kilometers long (five I think).  There is barriers all up along the beach front and the grass just goes straight down and all the tree roots are showing- that is all that is holding the beach front.  There is still a lot of debris on the beach as well.

I don't have pictures of the South end of the beach where the damage is a lot worse as the height of the sand/grass walls are a lot higher!!!

Even old steps were uncovered... 

This use to be covered in sand...

Saw this mailbox too- very cool!

We then went and got ice-creams...

And Allie got licks too- her treat :-)

S'more cake anyone?

I spent this afternoon at home with a friend baking, we made s'more cake... you know:

Marshmellows cooked over an open fire, Squished in between graham crackers with chocolate in it too...

But this version was a cake, it was crushed up biscuits in cake like mixture, with chocolate chips and marshmellow mix spread in between the two layers of cake with the marshmellow mix all over the outside of the cake coating it.  We put the rest of the crushed biscuits from the cake mix all over the outside of it, but the recipe did say to put the chocolate chips on the top instead.. we did both :)

Danielle mixing the cookie, and evaporated milk in with the rest of the mixture.

Allie decided that she wanted to be under the cake when we were putting cookie all over it... she ended up covered!!!

The clean up crew- Allie and Ollie

Danielle has taken the cake home with her, to put in her fridge as we don't have enough space and she is going to bring it to school with her so that at interval everyone can devour it.

Update: It got devoured all right.. it actually tasted quite good too, to be honest!

Cutting the cake.. Out on the bench in the freezing wind!

The masterpeice S'more cake!!!!!

Allie and Traffic Crossings

This video- again taken back in January (last summer) is of Allie crossing at the lights.  As soon as she hears the noise they make for pedestrians to cross now she is off, she knows exactly what it means and when she is allowed to cross!!  So cute!

Walks with Allie last summer

Summer is just over 3 months away!!! So exciting, more swimming and late night walks!
Oh, and the WARMTH!!

Here is a couple of videos of Allie at the beach last summer- she would have been 7 or 8 weeks pregnant (nearly due to pop) that is why she was able to have the leash let go- we were able to easily catch her if need be!!

Allie and Ollie

When these two hear a car, hear people, hear the cats, or hear anything that could possibly mean attention to them they will go up to the front door (ranch slider) and sit waiting.  If they see a human, especially either Mum, Wendy or me, they will sit wagging their tail as though their butts will wag off!! 

There are constantly dog toys lying around the house as the basket of Allie and Ollie's toys sit in the hallway.. it is often empty when Ollie is around, he loves to go and get one by one and empty it and leave them places- mainly the lounge!!

Allie knows that she is not allowed on the couch at all when people are home, but she will go up there and sleep on it when we are out.  Where as though Ollie knows he's not allowed he will constantly be up on the couch with a teddy playing with it, or "pretending" to sleep.  

Allie loves having Ollie's company and when Wendy isn't at home for a day or more and has Ollie with her, Allie will act all sad, and be really annoying wanting her playmate back!!  

Allie and Ollie get on really well, and love to play together- chasing each other mainly and trying to get the best treats as they sit waiting in the kitchen when you are cooking, or will sit next to you while you are eating.

Puppy photos

Here are some of the puppy photos from our visit a couple weeks ago:

Em (Dolly)
Katie (Andee)

Em and Katie

Em and Katie

Allie, Em, Katie and their "dad"

Allie, Em, and Katie

Katie and Em (pups)

On February 6th 2013, Allie gave birth to 6 puppies via c-section.  By the middle of April they had all gone to their new homes.  We have kept in contact with 2 of them who live only 10 minutes from us.

This couple brought 2 of the little girls that they have named Katie and Em, formerly Andee (named by a friend of mine) and Dolly (named by my Granddad).

We got to go out to see them when they were 12 weeks old, they are now 5 months old (as of July 6th) and last night we have been able to go out to their place and see them and their owners again, this time we went out to their house for dinner too.

Here is a picture that I managed to get on my iPad before switching to Mum's Galaxy Phone as it has better picture quality.

I will update more photos if I can when I get them from the phone to my laptop.

I am not to sure as to what puppy this is, as I can only tell by the colour of their collars- Katie is red, and Em is Blue.  

If you have me on Facebook there is a picture that got posted on my timeline by their "mother" last night, I will try and put it on here at a later date with the other photos.

Jasper

My little puppy (I claimed him as mine when we had them from birth till when they went to their new homes) Jasper is the only one which we don't have contact details for sadly, so as I have posted a picture of him recently on my instagram I thought I may put a few pictures of him on here.

 Just 10-15 minutes old (Mum and I got to rub their belly and backs to get them to breathe after they were taken out of Allie's stomach, we had to be super fast and rough as their was only the two of us as the vet was delivering them, and the vet nurse was monitoring Allie's stats closely)

I chose him as mine as he has a 'J' on his chest)

The guts!! Jasper would go around scoffing everyone else's dinner then go and eat his, I ended up having to take him away once he had what he needed.

 He wanted in, this was taken through the window.

Playing in the grass.

My little smooth coated boy- with massive paws, and long legs!!

Just before he left to go to his new home- held by mum.

Pets

You can click on the pictures to make them a little bigger, and more read-able.

Libby Cat

This is how I found Libby while I was doing my homework and Mum doing the dishes... she made herself quite comfortable on Mums work bag... You see, Libby decides that anything that is someone else's (including the dogs bed) she claims as hers to sleep on.  Those teddies in the background- they are Allie's (dog) if I put them away in her toy box she will get them straight back out again.