Just got back from BlogPaws and boy, are my arms tired...

No, wait, that's not right...

Jan and I got back from BlogPaws around 9 o'clock Sunday night. We left Virginia at 10 a.m. but oh the traffic was tragic from NJ through CT.

I have a bunch of stories I want to share and thoughts to pass along but I'm still exhausted and recuperating and taking the easy way out tonight with a video of our welcome home greeting from Bella. Vacations are fun but I think everyone in Casa de Bella thinks coming home is better.

I do want to congratulate all the nominees and the winners of the Nose-to-Nose awards especially our special friends Mrs. Taleteller from Tails and Tales on their win for Best Photo and Jodi from Kol's Notes for Best Bark Blog. You ladies rocked the house and we are so proud of you!

So for now, allow me to leave you with a little video of my pretty pup who was, apparently happy to see us even though she had a grand time at Camp Nana's. (Watch the tail.)





(PS - THANK YOU, Nana, for taking care of our little girl! I don't know what we would do without you.)

Wordless Wednesday 90 - We're going to BlogPaws!

One stop in RI to drop Bella off at Camp Nana's and then we're BlogPaws bound! Looking forward to meeting everyone there. If you'll be there too, be sure to drop a note in the comments so we'll know to look for you.

Happy Wednesday, everyone!

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Wordless Wednesday 58 - Tender Tiffany

Wordless Wednesday 57 - A Pony for Christmas

I was digging through some old photographs and found this one. I loved it and thought I'd share.

Breaking the 'wordless' rules for today, I wanted to let everyone know that Casa de Bella is going on vacation next week. (And yes, including Bella!) I have some posts scheduled to go up but since this one was supposed to and it didn't work, you may not hear from us again until October. (We'll see if I can get this schedule thing figured out. Any and all suggestions are welcome.)

Hope everyone has a wonderful couple of weeks and that we don't miss anything too terribly exciting in our absence.

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Thankful Thursday - For Pamela and Blog Paws Swag

I have so many thankfuls and thank yous due, I figure I have to start participating in the Thankful Thursday blog hop just to make sure I get them all in. Over the next few Thursdays, I promise I will get to saying thank you to all the kind folks who have graced us with an award over the last few months.

But first, since I'm tired and somewhat lazy today, I'm going to start by saying thank you to just one person -- Pamela from Something Wagging This Way Comes for the massively monster bag o' swag she sent us after we won the Match Game contest she ran in July.

Thanks to her fabulous clues (and my obsessive-compulsive analytical nature), I was able to match the bloggers with the pupsters and won her Bag O' Swag contest. This meant we were sent a huge bag of goodies that she picked up when she was at Blog Paws back in June. Well, I'm just going to let video speak louder than words to show you just how awesome Bella thought that was.



As you can see, Bella definitely approves.

So, thank you, Pamela. It was fun opening the package. Tons of neat treats for Bella, new products we're going to check out as well as lots of info for me to read up on. Her favorite thing in the bag, however, were the samples of "Whole Life" freeze-dried treats. A few had fallen out of their baggies and were at the bottom of the totes. This would be why I couldn't get Bella's head out of the bag.

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