Christmas Present

From Christmas Past to Christmas Present...or should I say Christmas presents! Here's a few pics of Tess and Jazz opening their Christmas gifts today, despite the fact that they were still a bit tuckered out from last evening's festivities!

Merry Christmas to all...and to all a good night!

From our blog to yours, we wish you the merriest of Christmases and a happy, healthy New Year!

Lisa, Jazz, Jim, and Tess

Christmas Past

This morning, we're taking a trip back to Christmas Past of 1994. The adorable Santa and Elf in the photo above are Dottie (Santa) and Tigger (Elf). Dottie would have been six and Tigger was three. Even then, we had the tradition of Christmas photos of our Dals. My, how that has grown! We've gone from ordering a dozen cards to now ordering 100!! Every year, we can't wait to see the cards we receive...and this year was no disappointment. Thanks for all the great cards with photos of your pets.

We wish you all a very happy holiday!

Holiday Therapy Visit

Here are a couple photos from this evening's holiday pet therapy visit by Jazz and Sammie to UPMC Passavant Hospital. These two definitely spread some holiday cheer among the patients and staff tonight!

Here Comes Santa Claus!

We took our annual trip to Pittsburgh Mills Mall to see Santa tonight. This event is becoming more popular every year and the lines were very long, but Tess and Jazz did well. I was especially proud of Jazz, as there were a lot of dogs in a relatively crowded space, and she handled it all quite well and never stopped wagging her tail. I think she was trying to impress upon Santa what a good girl she is!!

Santa was in the midst of a woodland scene, and Jazz was very interested in all the animatronic critters, including this bear in the tree!

Tess and Jazz can rest easy tonight, knowing that they got to visit with Santa and tell him what they want for Christmas and let him know that they've been very good girls again this year. Ho, ho, ho!

Jazz Turns Two!!

We're celebrating Jazz's second birthday today!

Jazz and her "Barkday" cake

Birthdays are yummy!

A little help from big sister Tess opening gifts

Got a squeaky pink piggie from Aunt Mariann, Uncle Jim, Rocky and Sammie

A new pink leash and a big furry soccer ball

Here's Jazz with her cake and all her birthday presents

Hard to believe that Jazz is already two years old. We couldn't have asked for a better fit into our family. Jazz and Tess get along wonderfully, and Jazz is a great dog to live with. Special thanks to breeder LaDonna King and Jazz's mom Gia for bringing this awesome liver girl into our lives!

Spotty Portrait

Our friends from Paw Prints Pet Photography were at Splash 'n Dash a few weekends ago for portraits, and I just wanted to share one of the photos they took of Jazz and Tess. As usual, Virgil and Rebecca did an awesome job photographing the various dogs, people, and even a cat who came for portrait sessions. Stay tuned...more great pics to come!

Happy Thanksgiving!

Happy Thanksgiving

from The Bauers!

As Tess and Jazz are preparing for their Thanksgiving feast of Merrick's Thanksgiving Day Dinner and turkey cookies from the dog bakery, we wanted to wish everyone a very Happy Thanksgiving!

In addition to our two spotted Thanksgiving blessings, we are thankful for all our "dog" friends, who are like family to us. Thanks for all of your friendship, support, and for allowing us to share in the lives of these remarkable canines who brought us together!