Year 10 – Week 20 – Day 4

Happy first birthday to our crazy butthead cuddly fluffy mutt, Trooper da Booper da Snooper da Whooper da Boop Boop Booper Trooper!

He is a joy and a pain and he sure is getting big!

Brendan made him his very own special birthday cake. We found a recipe online called “Spoiled Dog Cake” which is perfectly fitting. It is made with pumpkin puree, peanut butter and applesauce.

Of course Trooper got to lick the beaters! He approved.

Getting Trooper to the table was a challenge, he wasn’t sure about the backdrop. He kept wanting to be on the wrong side of the table.

Happy Birthday to you!

Blowing out the candle

Trevor ordered a white funfetti cake for the human birthday party participants

Slice number two! Trooper eats cake like the owl in the old tootsie roll pop commercial. Lick number one!

Lick number two!

Gone in a single chomp!

Of course I made Trooper sit for regular pictures

Ultimate “puppy dog eyes” begging face!

Trooper’s little friend Maisie (Bailey’s dog from down the street) came over for some cake too!

She poked around and got frosting on her nose, but she didn’t want the cake at all!

She had to sit for some portraits too! She is just a puff of fluff!

Happy birthday, dog. We hope year two brings come calming maturity. HAHA!

Year 10 – Week 10 – Day 7

This morning we had to say goodbye to our visitors. We are so grateful that they made such a long drive out to spend the week with us. We hope they have a safe and uneventful trip home!

Trooper has to work on the hole. He misses his “ring around the house” buddy already.

My boys will have to keep working on the crater

We are going to do a lot of this today. The house is weirdly quiet!

Year 10 – Week 10 – Day 6

HAPPY NEW YEAR!!! We are all glad to say goodbye to 2020. Almost every night this week, the adults have stayed up until almost 1am talking after the kids were in bed. But New Years Eve, we all crashed by 10:30PM. No fireworks, so celebrating.

Today is Kierans 8th birthday!!!

Once we all had birthday cake for breakfast, the boys jumped in to a big game of “Goat Simulator”

Aunt Shannon is hiding something

It is a tired Brendan that needs more cuddles

Malcolm was scared of Trooper at the beginning. But now they are best friends.

His shirt really describes the day (the bottom part says “My parents”)

Malcolms face had multiple layers of dirt and dried tears

He still is a silly boy

He’s been watching “Next Top Model” or something

The birthday boy!

The crater in the yard keeps getting deeper!