Jack's "Blast from the Past" post--- (Fall 2007)

Hello Ladies and Dudes!!!!!

Jack-man here!

My sissy did a GREAT job on that Blast from the Past post. I figured I'd chip in and help her with the Blast from the Past posts as well.

I'm going to share some of my "Re-memory-ber-ies" (I'm not the bestest speller, here! Sound it out, Jack, sound it out!) from the Fall of 2007.

The Fall months I will include are August, September and October!

In August we coninued trying to figure out who we were, learn about our family and where our places were in it. We went to the veterinarin for our regular check-ups to keep us healthy. We also would go there occasionally if our Mommy and Grandma and Grandpa had to go on a trip.

Most of all, we continued going out, meeting new friends, and enjoying LIFE with our family!

This is our Mommy and us with Mommy's friend Michelle!

Our Mommy also started at a new school....it is called Salem College. We missed her whenever she would leave for school, but when she wasn't with us, she was learning and would read us stories when she got home. When she wasn't with us, our Grandpa and/or Grandma was with us.

September 2007 had ALOT of stuff happen. Our Grandma and Grandpa celebrated their anniversiary (25th). Mommy celebrated her 21nd Birthday, Mommy got Stung by a bumble bee one day (but Me and Sissy made it all better by kissing it) and Mommy had a car accident (but again, we made her better with kisses). Mommy said that she realized more and more how thankful she was for us. She loves bringing us on car rides, but was very thankful that she didn't have us with her when she got in her accident. We coulda gotted hurt, and mommy never wants us to hurt or cry. We love mommy and we want the same for her.

October 2007 found us in school. This school wasn't quite like Mommy's. It was Puppy School where we learned how to sit, drop it, hussle, go to kennel and alot more. We also made lots of doggy friends and people friends. We still see our teacher whenever we go to PetSmart. She has a BIG doggie, but I wasn't scared of him. He is nice. We also graduated from school! Mommy was so proud of us, and still is proud! We learned a whole lot and still know alot of it!

We also both had surgery. We got what you humans refer to as "fixed" so that we couldn't have any puppies. When we got home we did not hurt, but we had stitches. They were really itchy and felt funny. We had to wear cones/E-Collars on our heads. We looked so funny. We also met our cousins who came into town. And we continued to grow and enjoy our life.

Our mommy was hurting in her ankle and foot quite a bit during this time. She had a rough time. We kissed her, licked her tears, and cuddled her every night, because between school, having a rough time and her foot and ankle hurting bad, she cried and was not very happy. She longed for every second with us. She loves us very much and always will.....We love her too!

For Halloween, I was a PIRATE! GRRR!!! Captain Jack Sparrow!

My sissy was Ella-Belle the sweetest Witch!

We LOVED Trick or Treating! Our favorite treats were kisses and tummy rubs. Who could pass those off?!?!

Stay tuned for Sissy's "Blast Post" which will be the Winter of 2007 (Nov-Dec)

Love

Jack

ELLA's "BLAST FROM THE PAST" (JUNE & JULY 2007)

HI THERE!

My name is Ella! I love tummy rubs. My brother sure did a nice job on the post before this one! He is a good brother. I am sorry that I am mean sometimes, but I have to! It is just so fun! Squackers lived a fun life and needed to be played with a bit so I did. I really didn't mean to hurt him that bad. I will be lots nicer to Mr. CawCaw, though. I don't want to hurt any of Jack's babies.

I love my brother and am very lucky to have him.

I am going to put some pictures of June & July 2007 on here. I will also type a little bit about that time. My mommy had to tell me about it, because I was just a baby.

On June 15th, before I even knew my Mommy, I was a puppy. I was still living with my siblings and my Beagle Mommy and my Pug Daddy.

My mommy had to say goodbye to my Angel Brother, Sir-C on June 15, 2007.

It made mommy sad to have to send Sir-C to Heaven.

On June 23, 2007 I was with my brothers and sisters in the play pen. This was the first time I saw my Mommy. She walked into the room at the breeders, and I popped up to see who was there. My mommy saw my pretty face and she picked me up and gave me a BIG hug and kiss! She also rubbed my tummy, which I loved!!!!

I loved my mommy, and she loved me, instantly!

My Grandma then saw my brother and picked him up to cuddle. It was a busy day, and we were REALLY tired because so many people wanted to hold us and play with us. We loved it though!

I was very glad that my Mommy, Grandma & Grandpa picked out me and my brother! I love my brother a whole lot! And he likes me too :)

A few days after we came home with our family, my brother got really sick. He wouldn't eat his food or drink. He didn't feel good. My mommy and my grandma&grandpa brought Jack to the doctor. Mommy held me while he was in the doctor room. The doctor @ the Emergency Vet said he might not live through the night. I was sad about my brother and wished I could kiss him. My Mommy and Grandparents were sad too. Mommy had to leave my brother @ the Doggy hospital all night. She came home and held me in her arms and the phone in her other arm all night long.

The next day my mommy cuddled me and put on the tv. This is when she discovered that I liked Mickey Mouse Clubhouse. She and Grandpa went to pick up my brother and bring him to the regular doctor. By that afternoon my brother was alot better. He was still sick, but he WOULD live!

We are not sure what it was. My mommy said that we both got tested for Parvo and did NOT have it, so that was good. My mommy thinks that we just left our doggy mommy a little too early, maybe. Whatever it was, my Mommy and my Grandparents realize that we were Heaven Sent.

You see, if our family had not brought us home when they did, then we would probably not have made it. Our family was planning to go on a cruise a few weeks after getting us, which is why they were NOT going to bring a doggy home. But they fell in love with us, and God was up there, working things out.

We grew really fast in our first June 2007 and in July 2007 also.

These first two months with our family, we got to know our family and they got to know us! Our likes and dislikes.

They quickly learned that we both loved meeting people and snuggling.

We loved each other, and we loved playing!

I loved tummy rubs, and Jack loves his babies.

I'll post another BLAST FROM THE PAST-JUNE & JULY '08 soon, so stay tuned....

Thanks for reading this!

Lots of WAGS!

Ella-Belle

From Jack: What we've been up to!

Hello FRIENDS!

This is Jack Carpenter! I wanted to update this blog (since it is mine and my Sister's, we will do some of our own updates and our mommy will help us out!)

Things have been SO busy around here. This is the first time I have typed on here, and my Mommy introduced this "blog" in May.

Since we are 2 years old (May 4th was our birthday) this site will require some upkeep so people can get to know us; and learn about us.

I sat down with Mommy and Sissy and we decided that we would have a "BLAST from the PAST" entry at the beginnig of each month! In these entries we will put pictures from the past. If it is JULY entry then we would put a "BLAST FROM THE PAST JULY" pictures of past July's.

My sissy will be writing and picking out pictures for our first "Blast" entry following my update.

As I said, we have been BUSY!

We have been able to go to the doggy park several times (but not as often as we'd like, because it is hot!)

2 times ago when we went, we met Will and his dog. Will works at Barnes & Noble and he has always been helpful to our mommy there. It was funny because it was purely timing that brought us together. We had a good time playing with his doggy, who is a Beagle. She was really nice (and cute too!) My tail was wagging the whole time!

We also went there last week with our Mommy and Grandpa (Mommy's daddy)

In June our Mommy had to bring us to the vet and board us for a week. This was because a good family friend died. She had a disease called Scleroderma. Mommy, Grandma, and Grandpa were pretty sad for alot of May and June as her death approached. You see, Their friend, Miss Sally, was a really special lady. She was 51 years old and her daughter, Andrea (who is our Mommy's best friend) is 22. Her birthday is acutally coming up on the 12th!

Miss Sally suffered the effects of Scleroderma for a long long time (longer than we have been alive!) She was a fighter! Mommy and Grandma & Grandpa were sad because they knew that their friend would not be here much longer. We did a lot of cuddling and snuggling; and licked all their tears as the events of Miss Sally's last weeks unfolded. Our family was very sad for their friend, and they boarded us to go say goodbye to Miss Sally and attend her funeral.

When they got back, they were still sad, but at the same time they were happy to see us. We gave them lots of kisses. My mommy said that Miss Sally lives with our BIG BROTHER in Heaven now. Our BIG BROTHER was Sir-Cinnamon. We never met him though! He was a Sheltie. He was Mommy's dog before we were her doggies.

He died on June 15th 2007 and she got us 9 days after he became an Angel.

Mommy assured us that Angel Sir-C was waiting @ the Rainbow Bridge for Miss Sally and wanted to see her and show her around Heaven.

When Mommy got home it was still June.

Right after they got home, our Grandma got an email that one of her long time friends was getting married. Grandma and Grandpa went to the wedding (which was five hours away, in Morehead City ---same place where they were for Miss Sally's funeral). We were VERY HAPPY to hear about the wedding and Happy that our grandma and grandpa could finally go to Morehead for a happy occasion. You see, they have been to Morehead 3 times now---in a row---for funerals of friends.

The first was in October when their friend, Pat (Who was Miss Sally's Mother; and Andrea's Grandmother) died suddenly.

The second was in February when a friend of Grandma's died @ the age of 104....

...and then June, for Miss Sally.

So we were happy to hear that Grandma and Grandpa would go for a wedding!

We celebrated with them and gave them kisses and snuggles. We wagged our tails so hard they almost flew off!

We missed our Grandma and Grandpa while they were gone, but our Mommy was home with us and we had fun with her.

Some friends of hers even came by and played with us on Friday and on Saturday another friend came by. We LOVE to make new friends, dogs and people alike! We LOVE to meet people and kiss and cuddle!

We were happy when our Grandma and Grandpa got back!

July is here already. We did not watch fireworks, but we did hear them. Our mommy went to watch fireworks down the street. She did not bring us because she didn't want us to be scared. We heard them and were not very thrilled. We were a little scared of them, but our mommy cuddled us and kissed us. She told us the fireworks were saying "Happy Birthday" to America!

The rest of July we plan to go to the dog park, and play, and get all our snuggles in.

Last night was a little bit sad, for me especially. Nothing TOO tragic. My sissy, Ella, ripped up one of my favorite "babies". His name was "Squackers" and I named him myself! He was a duck with a square belly that had squeekers all in side his tummy and his feet. I named him Squackers because he had squeakers and because ducks say "quack".

Sissy is my best friend, but she can also be mean sometimes :(

I was sad about my Squackers being ripped up, but Mommy let me kiss him goodbye and told me he was going to the Rainbow Bridge and Angel Sir-C would take care of him!

Today, Mommy even bought me a new baby to replace Squackers! He is a parrott and is really pretty. I named him Mr. CawCaw because when you squeeze his belly he says "caw"