Friends Whose Names Start with "J"

Exactly one year ago Today

We were on our CrossCountryTrip to visit Bunches of our BloggingPals

Including Justin

Our LongTimeFriend who lives with his People, Missy and Stevie

in MerryLand, USA

(Justin at the beach in 2009 ... photo stolen from Missy ... we love this picture)

What a Totally Terrific Terrier ... at 16 years old ... he is

(Right, Missy?)

He's amazing and we love him (and his people)

(We sure wish we could be making that VeryFunTrip again this summer

What an FabulousTime we had)

Well

Exactly (okay ... almost exactly) two months ago

A VerySpecialBox arrived in the mail

(We were still in Colorado ... that was forever ago)

It was SUPPOSED to be in Celebration of my 6th Birthday

(Ummm ... Moma ... that was in May)

Well

Guess who didn't get to open the Box in Colorado?

and

Guess who brought the Box all the way to Florida?

and

Guess who kept the Box on her dresser in our Bedroom?

and

Guess who knew that box was up there?

and

Guess who sniffed it out (with a little bit of help from Bella)?

It was TooMuch

After weeks and weeks of waiting

and beginning to believe that Moma was NEVER gonna let me open it

Guess who decided to take things into his OwnPaws?

Yep

I pulled it down when no one was looking

and

Opened it up All by Myself!

(Talented fella, aren't I)

I got caught in the Act

But not before finding a nice Bag of BlueberryTreats

 And getting it nicely Open and Accessible

That was all it took

I got things started

and

Moma let Fergi and me finish the Job

And, boy was it worth it

Happy Happy Happiness All Around

We know

Sometimes waiting for things makes them ExtraExtraSpecial

These BirthdayPressies from Justin and Missy and Stevie are proof of that

BigTime

I can bark for all of us:

We feel so lucky to have all the BestestBloggingFriends that we do

and

We feel 'specially Lucky when we get to meet OurFriends

Snooter to Snooter

or

Hand to Fur

Which we did

Last week

Recognize these two HandsomeTwo?

Just Harry and Jake
(Thanks to their mom for the photo that we grabbed)

They're looking at us with a little bit of Yearning in TheirEyes
(Don't let their mom tell ya it's 'cause they just got a fur trim ...
... it's really 'cause they're remembering
That their DogMom came to visit us ... WITHOUT them!

Yep

It's true

Seein' as how we are sorta ColoradoTransplants in NorthFlorida
and
How Jake and JH's mom was temporarily transplanted from SouthFlorida up North
She came by our gramma's house
JUST to give us SuperSpecialScritchies

Which we LOVED

Even in tandem
(Lucky for us, she is ambidextrous
and really good at splitting attention)

We were in Awe ... her touch was Amazing

We ALL loved her visit
and
We promised to try to make it happen again

but

NEXT TIME
We hope that Jake and Just Harry can join the fun
at the DogBeach near OurGramma's

(with ice cream)
Life is Good