Elway loves sleep

At work-




While watching me read-



Watching Garrett play video games-





On his toy-



In my spot-



Cuddling with me on the couch-



In his bed-




Watching the game-

Elway and Hobbes

It is quite funny to watch Elway and his best friend Hobbes playing. A stranger would be concerned for Elway's life-Hobbes is much bigger and they get rough! I can't even describe how much fun they have playing together-so I'll let a few pics show it!

Elway's First Birthday

I have some really cute pics of Elway and Hobbes playing, but that will have to be another time.

Elway turned one on April 11th, and to celebrate we got him a VERY expensive doggie bed (his first) AND a new toy. He appreciated the new toy very much. However....he refused to lay in the bed. Of course. So it was promptly returned and traded in for a cheaper model that resembles his bed at work.

He also got switched to Adult food mixed in to his puppy kibble. Soon it will be all adult food. He was so excited for his birthday that he destroyed my new strawberry potter. Dug all the plants right out, looked really proud of his work too.

First Snow

For the past 24 hour it has been slowing slightly. This is actually a rather rare occurrence in the Seattle area. Given Elway's breed, Michele was eager to see what he'd do in the snow. As these picture show, he seems go get along fairly well with the white fluffy stuff. Actually, it wasn't long until Elway was gleefully tearing through the snow, fresh powder flying everywhere.

First Puppy Grooming

Ah, the joy of being a Lhasa Apso. Enough fur to keep warm all winter. Unfortunately, that means being brushed daily. And still having matts. So it was decided that Elway was going to spend some time with the traveling groomer, Chris. He spent 2 hours and managed to not only please Michele (who has strong opinions on how her puppy should look), but made Elway look adorable (and smell great!). People are raving about being able to see his eyes again.

It followed me home!

Elway was trying very hard to convince us that we should adopt a stray kitten for him to play with at home. The perfect little kitty even showed up at work, needing a home. Kitty and Elway were best friends from the start. She slept best curled up with her new furry protector.

Michele decided to bring the kitty home for the weekend, the cuteness of the two together was just too much to pass up. Alas, allergy's got in the way of Elway getting to keep his new pet.



Elway had to say good bye to the kitty after the weekend, but he gets to see her every once in a while. She was adopted by Michele's coworker and visits the clinic and Elway periodically.

Elway is once again any only-puppy.

It was a dark and stormy night...

...when we decided to carve pumpkins. Garrett spent a long time trying to draw a good looking imitation of Elway, but in the end it was Michele who settled on this modern interpretation of the Lhasa Apso form. As Elway's uncertain look indicates, he was none too happy to have this pumpkin sitting on his back porch! Over the three days that it sat there, he barked at it several times and would run by quickly on the way to his daily bathroom breaks in the back yard. To say that he misses that pumpkin would be a gross overstatement.