Stella and her lazer eyes...

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Wednesday Morning Funny

I usually get up in the mornings around 6:00 am, then hit the snooze button for 20 minutes for Jonas to wake up around 6:20. When I get up, I usually feed Stella, fix my cereal, and sit down to watch the news for about 20 minutes before I start getting ready for work. While I was watching tv, I notice the time is 6:25 and Jonas hadn't gotten up yet. So I tell Stella to go get him, and she runs to the back, but the door was shut so she didn't go in the bedroom. At 6:30 when he is still not up, I go back to the bedroom to wake him up - and he is still snoozing while the radio-alarm is playing. I tell him hurry up! It's 6:30, you are already 10 minutes late......

So he rolls out of bed and throws on some clothes to take Stella for their morning walk. He tells me he'll be back soon and I hear him walk out of the door. So I head to the kitchen to grab a glass of water, and he walks back in the door holding the kitchen scissors.

So I ask him, "what were those doing outside?" because I assumed he found them outside and was bringing them back in.

He responds, "I grabbed the scissors instead of the leash to take Stella on a walk...." and sets them on the counter next to the leash, grabs the leash, and walks out the door.

Ok, so maybe it's not that funny, but I could not stop laughing this morning. It usually does not take much at all to amuse me. At least it started my day off with a laugh. :)

It's Stella's 4th Birthday!

My sweet puppy turns 4 today. She is now about the same age as me in dog years. So, I decided to post a few puppy pictures of her! Somebody will be getting lots of treats tonight!

This is Stella laid out on the floor the week we got her, around 7 weeks old. So tiny!

A couple weeks later - about 9 weeks old.

Blinded by the flash - this is around 11 months old

This is around a year and a half, on the beach at Jonas and my wedding. She LOVED the beach. 

Here is a couple more:

Here are a few pictures from our Gatlinburg trip in November 2008, about 2 and half years old:

This is around 3 years old: Stella and Daisy waiting for somebody to throw the ball so they can race for it. Daisy is trying to get a head start. :)

Here are a few pictures of her playing in the creek in Mashulaville....one of her most favorite places:

The date is definitely not right.

Completely under water, digging for sticks...

Posing for pictures

March 2009 Snow (about 3 years old)

About 2 months ago at the creek.

I'll probably take a few more later and add today.

Stella Retrieving

This is what Stella does over and over and over when she goes swimming at the lake behind my mom and dad's house. She absolutely loves it. While we were at the house, I said, "Stella, do you want to go swimming?" and she took off and was waiting in the water when I got there. The little boxer is my uncle's dog, whose house you can see across the pond. Her name is Saint Drew Brees, or just "Saint." She loves watching Stella and trying to do what she does. Sometimes Saint will even water retrieve. But only a couple times until she is bored with it.

Stella, Are You Hungry?

So my dog Stella knows a lot of words. Some of her favorite words are: walk, play, swim, ball, treat, and hungry. Last night before I fed her, I let her demonstrate how she knows what "hungry" means.

Sorry  the video is sideways. I'm new to this stuff, and don't quite know how to rotate.

Oh, Stella....

Since Jonas is out of town right now, I've been letting Stella sleep in our king size bed with me. Sometimes she even sleeps in the bed with both of us all night without stirring. But last night didn't go so well for her.

I woke up to this huge THUD-sound, and immediately had paranoid thoughts that somebody was trying to break in the house. Usually Stella would be aware of  anybody making noise outside the house, so I reached over to touch her and said her name to see if she was awake....and she wasn't there.

Then I heard her claws very slowly walking around the bed to my side, where her dog bed is, and she plopped down on her bed. Never even acknowledged me. Then I realized she had rolled off the bed and was embarrassed. Poor thing. But she went right back to snoring, so must not have hurt herself too badly. At least there was no blood involved.

This is not a picture of her falling off the bed, because I was not even thinking about getting up at 2 am to find a camera or a phone to take a picture of her, but this is a picture of her from this past Friday when I decided to dress her up in my Dragon Boat Regatta bandanna. (She likes bandannas. I think she thinks they are like a collar, and she loves her collar....)