I’ve been attending the annual St. Louis Earth Day Festival for about five years, but this was the first year I was able to bring the pugs with me. It’s always been a dog friendly event and I was always so jealous seeing everyone’s dogs, but alas, it’s usually a bit too warm for my […]
On Saturday we joined people all over the country in local March For Our Lives events. While there was a much larger march planned for St. Louis, I decided to join the nearby march in O’Fallon, IL. Not only was it in my own state, but I wanted to support the high school students who […]
It’s hard to believe it’s already been a year since Pugs joined our family. Yet it feels like he was always meant to be. Since I was in the hospital for his birthday on November 30, I went all out for his first Gotcha Day and made him a two-layer cake to celebrate. And what […]
This past weekend we kicked off the Mardi Gras season with our fifth Beggin’ Pet Parade (Pugs’ first). It was miserably cold so the crowds were smaller than usual. But we along with about 1,000 others braved the elements to strut our stuff.
Since it was too hot to wear costumes at our first Halloween event we had to live it up this week. On Saturday we attended a fall festival in our town and then the boys dressed up again to hand out candy.
Every October we attend the Howl-o-Ween festival put on by our local rescue, Partners 4 Pets. This was Pugs’ first year attending! Normally I dress up the dogs (Howloween was the setting for one of my all-time fave costumes, the Power Ranger Pugs), and I had a spider theme planned out. However, it required the […]