Happy Birthday, Pup.

You would have been nine years old today...

Party Animal

RoseBud always celebrated her birthdays with lots of food (preferably meatballs!) and lots of gifts.  She had a Super Sweet First Birthday that was lots of fun...

Invitation:

Treats:  bone shaped petit fours, chocolate covered marshmallows with rosebuds on them, paw print cookies, pup cakes and more...

Craft: All the kids made frames and had their picture taken with RoseBud.

Gifts: Lots & Lots of gifts!

Love: All the kids wrote something to RoseBud for her birthday.

You are my (sunshine) RoseBud

Since I was a little girl I would always sing the song You are my Sunshine with my dog's name in place of the Sunshine...

You are my RoseBud - my only RoseBud

You make me happy when skies are gray

You'll never know dear - how much I love you

Please don't take my RoseBud away

So, to RoseBud Clementine, Gypsy Ming Rose and Pepper - keep shining!

ROSEBUD

GYPSY

PEPPER

PS - Happy Birthday to ME.

Boo

RoseBud had a lot of clothes & a lot of costumes!  She had many fans on Halloween that would come by to see what she was dressed as.

Here are a few of her costumes.

Wordle

Still here... It's actually February!  I'm going to do some back posting so check back for new posts soon!

In the meantime... I came across a site called wordle that creates a design or "word cloud" (as they call it) of words used in recent posts. Kind of neat...

Oh, RoseBud

It's been 6 months since we said goodbye to RoseBud.  After she died we started a journal of her. We wanted to capture EVERY memory we ever had - not that we'd EVER forget the time she spent with us.  It's full of nicknames and places we visited and things we did...  One memory is how we would always say "Oh, RoseBud..."

Oh, RoseBud - what do you want to do today?

Oh, RoseBud - we better take you outside.

Oh, RoseBud-  you are so silly.

Oh, RoseBud - your feet are dirty!

Oh, RoseBud - you're the prettiest pup around!!!

Even today, 6 months later, we're still saying it.

Oh, RoseBud - we miss you!

RoseBud lounging in Norfolk, VA - 2006

5 Star

Dear RoseBud,

I know you stayed at all kinds of hotels - La Quinta and the Radisson and the Hilton and a couple beautiful beach houses but I'm sorry you never got to stay at a 5 star hotel.  We always talked about taking you to New York City to stay at the Plaza like Eloise and her pug Weenie and we never got around to it.  We were just in Bedford Springs (which we also talked about taking you to visit because it's pet friendly) and thought of you -  you would have liked sleeping in the big comfy bed!

Love the Bud,

J

Little Pumpkin

Little Pumpkin from 2006

Dandelions

While we are on the subject of flowers...
Soon after RoseBud passed away I was greeted by a sea of dandelions in my Dad's back yard. Got a little creative and made RoseBud's name in Dandelion heads.

(Thanks for the inspiration, Chrissy & Eva!)

Dear Flowers - I'm sorry...

Dear Flowers,

I'm sorry I haven't watered you since the middle of April.  It's now September.  I know a lot of you are still holding on but some of you just couldn't take it anymore.  :(  RoseBud and I used to come back from our morning walk and "give you guys a drink" and since she's been gone there really hasn't been much of that (if any) at all. RoseBud would get so excited when we walked in the door and I went for the watering can.  She knew we would be going outside for a little longer.  We would go in and out a few times to refill and each time we went back out she was just as excited as the first.  Hopefully there will be more Buds (in all respects) in the future and I promise to water all of you.

Love, J

Here are a few photos of The Bud and Her Buds...