Happy 5th Birthday Nano

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Nano as a baby.

 

 

My favorite photo of Nano

 

 

Nano celebrating today with an ice cream.

 

 

Happy Birthday to our little baby...

Mommy & Daddy love you very much!!

 

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Merry Christmas from The Shewbridges

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Well, as usual, I'm late.... But know that I love you all deeply an pray that you had the most wonderful of Christmases, surrounded by those you love.

I sure did.  I was with Bill, Nano, Mia, Mandie, Mumbo, and Wiggles. Don't they all look so adorable in their Christmas clothes? We also heard from all our children, who were having a fantastic time, except for wishing we could all be together. 

Praying for those who cannot be together as they are serving our country, protecting us so that we may have our religious freedoms to celebrate all our holidays in the way we wish. Also a prayer that they will all return home safely and soon to their loving families!

HUGGLES to you all!!

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Countdown to Christmas..... Nano and Mia's New Christmas Outfits

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6 Days Until Christmas

We got all the babies new outfits for Christmas... actually we got them more than one each.  But you probably figured that out already if you know me. HaHa

Here are Nano and Mia in one of their outfits each, if you notice, the bow on Mia's dress matches the print on Nano's outfit. Too cute. =)

 

Hope your Christmas plans are going well..... Stay safe and sane.

 

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Yes, People We Have Five Doggies.....

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Bill got this photo from a friend of ours and it reminded me of the reaction we get from people whenever we tell them we have five dogs. It really is hysterical and I fell in love with this photo.

Here are my babies.....



(L-R) Lady Mia, Nano, Mumbo, Mandy, Wiggles

I don't know if you would call us crazy, but how can you resist these faces?

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 OK, yep, we ARE crazy, but we sure do have a lot of love in our house!


If you have enough room in your heart and home for a dog (or any other pet), PLEASE adopt don't buy - save a life with your love.

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Happy Talk Like a Pirate Day

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Image Credit

 

Today, Wednesday, Sept. 19, 2012 is the 10th anniversary of the International Talk Like a Pirate Day.  An original concept created in a moment of temporary insanity by John Baur and Mark Summers, as they like to say, it has now become a full-blown international phenomenon.

 

Just check out the map on their website to see where it is being celebrated this year.  Look, even my doggies have gotten into the act... they have been walking around the house saying, "AARRRRFFF" all day.  (OK, I couldn't resist.)

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Even Krispie Kreme got into the act... anyone who went into the store and talked like a pirate, got a free donut..... If you dressed in full pirate regalia, you were rewarded with a full dozen of their glazed donuts.

 

Now if you know me, I will do just about anything for free Krispie Kreme donuts, so here is what I did:

 

 

 

 

..... and here is my reward:

 

 

YUMMY!!  They were even hot. I made the lady behind the counter laugh, however it turns out that I wasn't the only one who took advantage of the deal... while I was there, another girl came in dressed up in a homemade costume with a paper plate on a ruler with a pirate face drawn on, a parrot colored in and taped to her shoulder, plus she was hiding her hand and holding a wooden fork as a a hook, she looked adorable. Her friend was taking a video of the whole thing while we were all cracking up, including the people who worked there.

 

The funniest thing that happened was on our way home, we stopped at a local drug store to pick up some things for our Halloween baggies - me in that silly Pirate getup - and it didn't phase anyone. I got not a single funny look, not a question, or even a second glance. At first Bill and I couldn't believe it... then I realized where I live: In the heart of tourist-ville. There are the parks (Disney and Universal) and other attractions (2 Pirate golf places within 10 miles of my house), so there are people walking around in costume ALL THE TIME. I have seen them in Celebration and never even looked twice. Oh, well... I got my donuts!!

 

What did you do on Talk Like a Pirate Day?????

 

 

 

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Monday's Music Moves Me ~ The Week that Was.....

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**REMINDER**

This is the 95th week and EVERYONE who plays today and the next FIVE weeks is in the running for our

Grand Gala Giveaway!

Head on over to XmasDolly's blog to start entering -
the Rafflecopters are now up!

Welcome to our 94th Monday's Music Moves Me!!! We want to make this one of the BEST meme's in all of Blogville, but we cannot do that without YOU.... so come share your music with us and bring your friends to share theirs with us, too!!


Running this little dance party of ours is the sweetest and most wonderful Marie of XmasDolly. The cohosts helping to keep the party rockin' and rollin' are ME, Callie of JamericanSpice, Stacy of Stacy Uncorked, and our newest, and of course just as fabulous, Cathy of Cathy Kennedy's Blog. Also, because life gets to be so hectic at times, we occasionally have one of our faithful followers/participants help us with our cohosting duties. This month, we have the lovely Naila Moon of Just The Suff Ya Know helping us out, so don't forget to go visit her and follow her blog also!

This week is FREEBIE WEEK.... so you get to post anything your little heart desires. We've had an interesting week, so here's several different songs going through my head this week. As many of you know, Nano hurt his leg earlier in the week and had to go to the vet, got a steroid shot, and is taking meds. He is doing better, but still a little soar.

This first song is for my baby Nano.....

Puppy Love ~ Donny Osmond 

                                              

We have had really crappy weather with LOTS of rain the last couple of weeks and we're expecting a big storm this week, possibly even a hurricane named Debbie, so that got me thinking of this song.....


Rainy Days and Mondays ~ The Carpenters



On Saturday, we attended Noah Larkin's Celebration of Life at the Corpus Cristi Church. It was bittersweet, he was such a wonderful child who touched so many lives including mine. The last song that was played at the service was Noah's favorite song and one he wanted played at the service...... Rest in peace my friend, God bless you and your family.


Theme from Star Wars ~ John Williams




Well, I hope you enjoyed my selections... I can't wait to hear what's moving you this week. Here's all you need to do to play along:

Step One: Head on over to You Tube, pick your videos and post them on your blog! Upcoming themes are to you LOWER RIGHT of XmasDolly'sblog.

Step Two: Grab the 4M Button and the Hosts' Buttons and place them on your site... we all have them clearly visable on our sidebars.

Step Three: Make sure you are following your hosts - either on GFC, Linky, via email, Twitter, etc. and we will follow you back. This one is really important if you want to participate in our Grand Gala Giveaway coming up in 2 weeks.

Final Step: Most important, SIGN the linky, visit the other participants AND LEAVE A COMMENT! You know you like comments, so do your fellow players.


Now lets get musical... every week we will have a random drawing for our spotlight dancers who will be in our #1 and #2 spots in the Linky... however, this week we have a SOLO dancer! This Spolight Dance has been given to one of our regulars who has also been so helpful with our Grand Gala Giveaway, by helping design our button and created a piece of jewelry as one of the prizes!! This spectacular woman is none other than:

Kayla of The Eclectic Element 

CONGRATULATIONS!!

Don't forget, as a Spotlight Dancer, you can proudly display your badge telling everyone you were chosen as our winner. Go on over to XmasDolly's blog and grab the button to let everyone know just how special you are!

So let's go everyone... post your songs, link up, tell your friends, and don't forget about the GIVEAWAY - good luck everyone!

ROCK ON EVERYONE!!!

*** Just one more thing...

PLEASE, we are family friendly blogs

and while we really don't want to censor anyone,

we do ask that you keep your songs rated PG13 or less.

If you find that you need to post songs of an explicit sexual nature or language,

please find a different venue.

If your song does contain a small amount of questionable language,

please put disclaimer BEFORE the video.

Thank you very much!***

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Friday Flashback Photo ~ Baby Nano

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Alicia from More Than Words says she started Friday Photo Flashback because "I have so many pictures from my PRE-digital camera days. I thought it would be fun to scan them and share them here with you.. I'm having so much fun doing this, that I would love for you to join me, too! So dig out the photo albums and put your scanner to good use! Don't forget to link up so we can all visit and comment on each others blogs!"

We had to take poor little Nano to the Vet Thursday morning because he was having trouble with his right front leg. We noticed it on Wednesday night and had no idea what happened. The Vet said he was pretty sure nothing was broken and that it was just a soft tissue injury. We figured it happened while the dogs were horsing around with each other. He was given a steroid shot and an anti-inflammatory and is doing a lot better today. He still cannot walk on it completely and the Vet said not to let him take his walks all weekend so he can rest his leg - that makes him really sad because he LOVES going outside with us.

All this had looking at photos of Nano as a baby, so I decided to share some with y'all today. Hope you like them, I happen to think he's adorable:

I think Nano is still really adorable at 5 1/2 years old, and he'll always be my baby.

I can't wait to see your photos, so don't forget to link up with Alicia on her blog.

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Wordless Wednesday: 5/23/2012 ~ Isn't this Daddy's Pillow?

Welcome to Wordless Wednesday... a post where a photograph speaks for itself.

I hope you'll join by posting your photos and linking up with the WW Hub.

PLEASE, leave your email with your comment, I want to come visit you.

(Posted from Blogger for iPad)

Wordless Wednesday: 3/28/2012 ~ Happy 4th Birthday Nano Bytes

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Tuesday, March 27th was Nano Bytes, our first Yorkie, our little baby - the one we love with all our heart and who loves us unconditionally, turned four years old.

He is so special to us and we are so happy to have him in our lives... we are really lucky.

Happy Birthday, Nano.... we love you!!

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Wordless Wednesday: 2/15/2012 ~ Honest Daddy, We Didn't Do Anything

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Welcome to Wordless Wednesday..... I'm looking forward to seeing all of your photos, so if you leave a comment, please leave your email address so I can come on over and take a look.

For more Wordless Wednesday posts, head over to the WW Hub, leave your link, check out the other participants, and don't forget to leave a nice comment - you know you like comments, they do too!!

 

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Wordless Wednesday: 1/4/2012 ~ Nano and Mia Make New Friends - Russian Wolfhounds, BIG DOGS!

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Welcome to Wordless Wednesday..... I'm looking forward to seeing all of your photos, so if you leave a comment, please leave your email address so I can come on over and take a look.

For more Wordless Wednesday posts, head over to the WW Hub, leave your link, check out the other participants, and don't forget to leave a nice comment - you know you like comments, they do too!!

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