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YEAH SNOW

It’s probably over 3 inches and it’s still snowing last I checked.

SNOWFAEC


I don’t know if you can really see it when this is zoomed out like this, but his hocks were CAKED with snow.


Ayy mateys, my name be Auggie McSnowbeard!


More snowy-beard.


He plunged his head back into the snow and when he came up again, no more snowbeard! How does that work?!


JOLLY BALL TIME


He’d roll it around with his paws a while before deciding to pick it up… weird dog.


Oh hai, I has a this.


WAAAAH SNOW


This is how he ends up with all that snow on his face. PLOOMPF


Oh hai jolly ball


I’m gonna pick you up…


but first…


I’m gonna munch allllll the snow off this handle thing here!


LOOK MOM


I like jolly ball

Stop-animation photography, haha:


AHHHHHHHH


fffffff snow in eyes


I can’t stop laughing at this for some reason.


licklicklicklicklicklick… slightly more sophisticated than the face-plunge.


My little guy <3

More stop-animation photography… this is how Auggie plays in the snow besides plunging in his whole face…


sproing!


sproing!!


Repeat sproinging.


Sproing EVERYWHERE


ALL OVER THE YARD


THE END


Christmas Eve/Christmas Morning


The “winning” shot in front of the tree this year… usually I shoot a bunch and only one turns out well. This is the one. Unfortunately even this one is slightly blurry.
A LOT of these are crappy because the lighting in this house is so horrible, especially after dark when these were taken, and some of them were easier to correct in Photoshop than others… some just came out awful colour-wise. So sorry in advance.


My mom wanted to put this necklace that lights up on him… he is a very good, tolerant little boy.


SANTA AUGGIE


He should just be glad I didn’t grab the hat with the beard attached to it this year.

No photos of him getting his snazzy presents on Christmas night… I forgot to grab the camera. He got a jolly ball, a brand new bed, and a new fleece blanket (he likes to play underneath it, or I’ll cover myself with it and he dances around outside the blanket wookie-noising at me.)
However, we opened stockings on Christmas morning and I remembered to grab the camera:

What? Dis mine, you say?


Oh yes, IS mine!!


HEAD IN STOCKING SHOT


Digging out the new loofa dog toy.


A brand new little basketball!


Pause to demonstrate to my dad one of the gifts I put in his stocking.


Auggie is tailgate tested, tailgate APPROVED!


Return to the stocking…


This brand new red ball is REALLY great. It was an awesome buy.


Playing with it right away.


All the goodies from the stocking. Considerably less than last year, but hey, there’s a recession going on… and also, he destroys fewer toys now that he’s older so I really, REALLY don’t need to buy him more. =P He has plenty.


Posing with his goodies!

Then we just hung out and played all day. It was nice to spend a day just hanging out with my little guy.

This is his new bed! At first he wasn’t sure if he liked it, so I told him I had the receipt and we could take it back, but then he changed his mind… he likes it a lot.


Staring some more at the Christmas tree… he really loves Christmas trees. Me too.


OH HAI MOMMY WITH CAMERA


HAAAAAAAAI (oh God this picture cracks me up)


I eats camera?


Layin’ on the floor near Momma!


This was after we played with that ball for about an hour. He was tired, so he went back to his bed.


Tired… so tired… so…


snznzzzkzzz

THEN WE HAD SOME SNOWS SO WE PUT ON OUR COATS AND WENT TO PLAY IN IT

I didn’t get a good shot of the back of his coat, but it has skulls and crossbones on it and says “ROCK STAR.”


Obviously we didn’t really get MUCH snow, and the wind was seriously awful. The temperature wasn’t too cold on it’s own, but the wind was super brutal, biting and strong. So we didn’t stay out long at all… we went back inside to play some more instead!

(I trimmed Auggie’s feet up today so they look much better now than they do in these pics. I honestly DO groom my dog, I promise.)


Secret Santa has visited Auggie!

The dog forum I belong to has done a Secret Santa for a couple years now, and Auggie’s Secret Santa package arrived today!

“For meeeee?”


I told him he has to always read the card first before he opens presents. So he did.


Sitting pretty with all the presents! This was hard because he already knew what was in the red packages, LOL.


PUPPY CHOCOLATE OM NOM NOM NOM (the smaller red package had people chocolate in it so it was put away immediately, LOL.)


I noms cuz this for me.


Sitting for a few pieces… he likes it a lot!


It was hard to make him want to open his other presents, LOL. I think he was like “YAY CHOCOLATE OKAY THAT’S IT BUHBYE”


“Whas in dis?”


A squeaky toy! Whoohoo!


Next, a lovely red lead! He tried it on. Sorta.


Sitting with his goodies! Thanks Secret Santa!!


“I can nom more chocolate now plz?”