A happy ending

Hi, everyone -

We have a happy story to share with you. Do you remember over the summer when Mama posted about a dog that was abused? We saw his story on Dogster. We have been in touch with his guardian and we found out that he has been adopted by a family in Pennsylvania. This family loves him so much that he gets to go to work with his mom. She is an attorney. We are so happy that Phoenix found such a loving home. He certainly was a sick pup but now he has so much hair that he is constantly shedding. Have a good weekend everyone.

Love -

Hershey and Kaci

Thanks everyone

Hi, everyone -

This is Kaci speaking. My surrogate Mama and I wanted to thank everyone who wished me a Happy Birthday! I had a great birthday. My wish came true because Hershey and I spent part of Thanksgiving Day together. We have so much fun when we get together.

Love -

Kaci

Sorry if we confused you all. This snow was from last winter.

Two new awards

Hi, everyone -

We received these awards from our good friend, Thor.

and

This lovely award is created by Crystal @ Memoirs of a Mommy in honor of Noah and the donor of his sweet little heart who ENCOURAGES us to SHARE THE LOVE! Thanks Crystal! [Click on Memoirs of a Mommy to learn and read this special love story!] The rules for this award are to pass it along to some people whose blogs you love. They make you laugh, smile, leave encouraging comments on your blog. You would like to share some love with them because they have uplifted, inspired, encouraged or prayed for you. Please include this paragraph with the link to Memoirs of a Mommy so that everyone knows where this award originated from.

Thanks, Thor!

We would like to pass these awards to whoever has not received them. Have a good weekend, everyone!

Love -

Hershey and Kaci

This link says it all

Hi, everyone -

Here is a link about a husky. We hope you enjoy this.

Love -

Hershey and Kaci

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qXo3NFqkaRM&NR=1

Today is Kaci's birthday and don't forget to vote

Hi, everyone -

This is Kaci. Today I will be four years old. My surrogate Mama wanted me to remind everyone to go and vote.

Love -

Kaci

Today is Mama's birthday

Hi, everyone -

Today is Mama's birthday. She is taking the day off to be with Papa and me. We will have fun but it is raining now. Happy Birthday, Mama!

Love -

Hershey

Hershey's new haircut and our hike to Lantern Hill

Hi, everyone -

This is Hershey. Mama, Papa, our friend John and I went hiking up Lantern Hill. Mama and Papa used to climb the hill when they were kids - but not together. We went today. Here are some pictures.

Hershey and our friend, John

My new haircut

Foliage on Lantern Hill

Mama at the top (it was cold brrrrrrr)

Foxwoods Casino as seen from Lantern Hill

We are about 20 minutes away from Foxwoods Casino. Mama and Papa rarely go there - mostly the tourists like to come and gamble. Lantern Hill is in the town where Mama grew up. It is called North Stonington. We hope you like the pictures. Have a good weekend everyone.

Love -

Hershey

A great link

Hi, everyone -

Mama, Kaci and I wanted to repeat this link for everyone. You can light candles for your furiends who are sick and/or missing.

http://www.gratefulness.org/candles/candles.cfm?=eng&gi=pdpcd

Have a good weekend everyone.

Love -

Hershey and Kaci

We got another award

Hi, everyone -

We got another award from Happy. We are so honored!

These are the blogs we would like to pass this award to The Three Musketeers, Happy, Butchy, Snickers and Ruby, Hammer, Ginger, Crikit and Sparky, Scruffy, Lacie and Babystan, 4xB's and Scottie.

Love -

Hershey and Kaci

A link to help stop puppy mills

Hi, everyone -

Mama just found this link. This is to help stop puppy mills.
http://www.gratefulness.org/candles/candles.cfm?l=eng&gi=20%2F

Have a good weekend, everyone.

Love -

Hershey and Kaci

Our visit at Cape Cod

Hi, everyone -

Papa, Mama, Mama's sister Donna, Grandma, Grandpa and I (Hershey) went to Cape Cod during the Labor Day weekend to help Mama's aunt celebrate her 80th birthday. We had a lot of fun and it was my first trip to Cape Cod. Here are some pictures:

The whole family

Mama and Hershey

My Grandpa (Mama's father) and Cousin Steve

Mama's Aunt Grace (the birthday girl) and Cousin Brandon

Ode "guarding" the chickens

We had so much fun. The weather was perfect and Mama got to see her cousins that she hadn't seen in about 20 years. Have a good weekend, everyone.

Love -

Hershey

Some new pictures

Hi everyone -

This is Hershey. Papa recently took some pictures of me in our back yard. I love bringing my stuffies outside. Here are some pictures:

Hershey kissing Ducky

Hershey with hedgehog

Hershey being adorable

Hershey after playing with Ducky

Have a good weekend, everyone!

Love,

Hershey

We are still in LOVE and an important question

Hi, everyone -

We are still in love with our boyfriend, Rocky. He is so adorable.

Mama has an important question to ask fellow bloggers. Mama is seriously considering adopting a brother for me (Hershey). She has never adopted a dog before and was wondering if anyone would be willing to share their experiences.

Love -

Hershey and Kaci

We are in LOVE

Hi, everyone -

Yesterday Rocky posted a picture of us on his blog. We think it is so beautiful! Thanks, so much, Rocky.

He even got the bronze medal in the Olympics for kissing. But we will NEVER kiss and tell. We think you are so handsome, who could not like you?

Love -

Hershey and Kaci

A really neat link

Hi, everyone -

Mama found this link. You can light candles for all your furiends who are sick and missing. We thought this was so pawtastic!

http://www.gratefulness.org/candles/candles.cfm?l=eng&gi=pdpcd

Love -

Hershey and Kaci

We got another award

Hi everyone -

We got this BFF Gold Card from Rocky (the Hudson Furkids). These are the rules...
Now, the rules re passing it on are as follows:

1. Only five people allowed.

2. Four have to be dedicated followers of your blog.

3. One has to be someone new or recently new to your blog and live in another part of the world.
4. You must link back to whoever gave you the award.

These are the five we would like to pass the award to: Maya and Kena, Twister and Furby, Candi, Happy, and HuskeeBoy.

Love -

Hershey and Kaci

I am going to see Kaci this weekend

Hi everyone -

Guess what?!? I am going to visit Kaci this weekend. We are going to have a BBQ all weekend. Mama and I will have limited access to the internet.

We also hope that Asta does not mind if we copied the dogstar to this post. It rained tonight and it is still raining. So we will have to send our power of the paw and prayers for Jackson, Charlotte and Phoenix to the dogstar picture.

Have a good weekend everyone.

Love -

Hershey

Our pawlimpic pictures

Hi, everyone -

Here are our pawlimpic pictures:

Thanks, Lenny! We think they are great.

Love -

Hershey and Kaci

We got THREE awards

Hi, everyone -

We got THREE awards from Twister and Furby

Here is the first award:

And the second:

Here is the last award:

The rules for the last award is that we have to pass this award down to seven other blogs. We would like to pass the award to Maya & Kena, Deetz, Thor, Herbie, Fatty & Nixon, The Cat Realm, Rocky, Bear & Angel Lacylulu and Kodak.

We don't always follow the rules so we would like to pass this back to Twister & Furby

Love -

Hershey and Kaci

Another sad story

Hi, everyone -

We know that some of you also are on Dogster. But if you don't belong to Dogster, Mama, Kaci and I want you to be aware of this story. This is a neglected dog. Here is the link so you can read his story http://www.dogster.com/dogs/824397

There has been so many sad stories lately. But this one really put Mama over the edge.

Love -

Hershey and Kaci

Kaci's letter to Hershey (part of a tag)

Hi, Hershey -

Linda and Kevin took me for a walk and you know how much I love walking with them. I also got to cuddle with Mama last night and it was so much fun! We cannot wait when you come to visit us in two weeks. We will have so much fun wrestling and driving your Mama crazy.

Love -

Kaci

Hershey's letter to Kaci (part of a tag)

Hi, everyone -

We were tagged by Twister and Furby to tell them how our parents make us happy dogs. Here is Hershey's letter to Kaci

Dear Kaci -

Mama took me for a walk tonight. We met some really nice people. One lady we knew from before. We saw her walking our friends Monty, Zoey and Lexie. Mama, Papa and I can hardly wait when we come to visit you in two weeks. We will have so much fun.

Love -

Hershey

Another great story and Snickers Birthday

Hi, everyone -

Mama found this link to another great story. A woman who has terminal cancer had her dog stolen in New York. The dog was found in a shelter in Rhode Island and reunited with his owner in New York.

http://www.abc6.com/news/rhodeisland/25519624.html

Happy 6th Birthday Snickers! Love, Hershey and Kaci

Another award

Hi, everyone -

We got this award from our good friend Thor.

Thanks, Thor. We are so happy you are our friend.

In accordance with the rules set by Arte-y-Pico we must clearly state THE RULES...so grab a pawtini and make yourselves comfy....here you go...

1. You have to pick FIVE blogs that you consider deserve this award for creativity, design, interesting material and also contribute to the blogger community regardless of language.

2. Each award has to have the name of the author and a link to his/her blog to be visited.

3. Each award winner has to show the award and put the name and link to the blog that has given him/her the award itself.

4. Award winners and the one who has given the prize have to show the link of the "Arte-y-Pico" blog so everyone will know the origin of the award.

5. In compliance with said RULES, the award winner must show the RULES.

We will pass this award to Maggie and Mitch, Agatha and Archie, Deetz, Candi and Asta.

Love -

Hershey and Kaci

I am in big TROUBLE

Hi everyone -

This is Hershey speaking. Just when I thought I could not find any more mischief to get into - I sure found some last night. Mama had come home from work and Papa and I were out in the back yard. Papa went down in the basement to put something away and Mama was trying to get some homework done. I decided to do some investigating and went over to my neighbor's yard. Papa came outside to find me to see that I was not in the yard. He tells Mama that I took off and Mama got really nervous. We live too close to our street so she ran out really quick and started yelling for me. Papa did see me in the neighbor's yard and gave me "the look." I ran back into the yard and the house and I got yelled at for not staying in the yard.

If that was not enough, Papa went out with me again last night and this time a skunk invaded our yard. Personally, I thought the little bugger was cute so I went to see - and got sprayed for trying to be nice. I went to go back to the house but I wanted to see the skunk again. But Papa picked me up and I had to get a bath last night. I guess I really "screwed up" big time.

Love -

Hershey

Fort Griswold

Hi, everyone -

Since some of our blogging buddies go to the park once in a while, Mama and I (Hershey) thought we would show you some pictures of Fort Griswold State Park.

The stairs in the Monument (there are 166 steps to the top)

This is the street we live on

The Gold Star Memorial Bridge

The Gold Star Memorial Bridge goes from Groton (where Mama, Papa and I live) to New London. Mama used to drive the bridge to go to work - now Papa does. The bridge that is open right next to it is the Amtrak bridge (train bridge). The Gold Star Memorial Bridge is also part of Route 95.

If you enlarge the middle picture, you can see our house - just the roof. It is on the right hand side and it is the black roof right in front of the white roof (the lower right corner). Have a good weekend everyone.

Love -

Hershey and Kaci

We hope everyone had a Happy 4th of July

Hi, everyone -

We hope everyone had a great 4th of July. Mama is learning how to use photobucket. Do you like these pictures? Thank you everyone who came to our barbecue. Mama says that we can have one next weekend too.

Love -

Hershey and Kaci

Everything's ready for our barbecue

Hi, everyone -

Kaci and I think everything is finally done. How do you like your food cooked?

Love -

Hershey and Kaci

Cooking on the grill

Hi, everyone -

Here is our version of cooking on the grill.

Love -

Hershey and Kaci

Our summer haircuts and new toys

Hi, everyone -

Here are the pictures of us with our toys and new haircuts.

Hershey with the frog and duck

Kaci with the duck

Kaci playing ball (she loves posing for the camera)

Kaci the watchdog

Hershey modeling with the frog and duck

Hershey with the ducks

We hope you like our haircuts. Mama keeps saying that we both look beautiful. Have a good weekend everyone.

Love -

Hershey and Kaci

Fuzzy haircuts and gifts from Abby

Hi, everyone -

Here are some pictures of our presents from the Gift Exchange from our new pal Abby. This is some of the "loot" we got.

The note Abby had her Mom type

Hershey and Kaci playing with one of the frisbees

Kaci with her Mama (Hershey's Grammy)

Kaci and Grammy with the duck that squeaks

Lots of treats to try out

Papa with Hershey and Kaci (the lap dog)

Rosebush in bloom

Thanks, Abby for all the presents and to T-Bone Beasley and Chef for thinking and planning this for everyone. We also each got a tennis ball with PetSmart written on it and a frog that squeaks. We are sorry that I (Hershey) was not in too many of the pictures. I would not stay still long enough. Our next post will be of us playing with our presents with our "new summer haircuts."

Love -

Hershey and Kaci

Kaci is here

Hi everyone -

Papa, Grammy, Kaci and I came home last night. Kaci and I are having so much fun wrestling and trying to out run each other. This is a surprise - please don't tell Grammy - but Kaci and I are both getting our "new summer haircuts" tomorrow. We are both pretty fuzzy right now so we will look like completely different dogs.

We haven't forgotten about our presents. Mama is planning on us opening them tonight. Have a good weekend everyone.

Love -

Hershey and Kaci

Kaci and Grammy are coming

Hi, everyone -

Guess what? Kaci and Grammy are coming to visit us this week. Papa and I are going to get Kaci and Grammy in New Hampshire. Mama will be home because she is starting another class on Tuesday. We have our goodies from the Gift Exchange and will open them together. We can't wait to see what we got from our new pal, Abby.

Hope everyone had a good weekend.

Love -

Hershey and Kaci

We've been tagged

Hi everyone -

We have been tagged by our new pals Cooper and Levi. Here is how the game goes. Each player that is tagged answers a set of questions about themselves. At the end of the blog entry, the player tags four or five other dogs to play. Then they post their names and go to their blogs and leave a comment, letting them know they have been tagged and asking them to come read your blog for the rules and quiz. After answering the questions, you then go back to the person who tagged you and let them know you posted your answers to the quiz.

1. What was I doing 10 years ago?

That's easy - we weren't born yet!

2. What are five things on my to-do list for today?

Hershey: play frisbee with Papa, go for a walk with Mama, look out the window for Mama to come home from work, run around in the back yard and give lots of kisses

Kaci: go for a walk with Linda and Kevin, look out the window for the mailman for Mama, give Mama lots of kisses, sit with Mama and play with Pippi Longstocking

3. Snacks I enjoy:

Hershey: Milk bones, popcorn, any type of cookie that Papa has

Kaci: Kaci doesn't get many treats because she is on a special diet. When she is given treats she gets treats from Iams.

4. Things I would do if I were a billionaire:

Hershey: Buy lots of frisbees so Papa and I can play together

Kaci: Visit Connecticut a lot more often so I can see my surrogate Mama and Papa

We both want mean people to stop abusing animals!

5. Three of my bad habits:

Hershey: chewing the beaks off of the ducks and pheasant, barking loudly in Mama's ear, whining when Papa comes home

Kaci: being jealous when Hershey gets attention from everyone, sometimes not listening to Mama, barking at cats she sees

6. Five places I have lived:

Hershey: I have only lived in two places, in Maine where I was born and in Connecticut

Kaci: Iowa, where I was born, lived in Connecticut when Mama had knee replacement surgery and New Hampshire (my forever home)

7. Five jobs I have had:

Hershey: I haven't had five jobs yet. But the best job is loving my Mama and Papa.

Kaci: I haven't had five jobs yet either. The best job I had was when my surrogate Mama lost her first schnauzer. I loved making her feel better when she was sad.

The dogs we tag now are Lorenza, George, and Maya and Kena.

Love -

Hershey and Kaci

Our first award

Hi, everyone -

Recently we received our first award from our friend Candi.

Thanks Candi, we are glad you are our friend.

Love -

Hershey and Kaci