A Peanut Butter Carrot Doggie Cake//Oddball turns 2

   If you have ever read my blog, especially the beginning posts, you will know I love my animals.
So If you aren't that much of an animal lover you may want to leave now because this post is going to be mostly me talking about my dog, Oddball who is 2 years old today.

 Oddball and his siblings were unplanned, but adorable little surprises seeing as Marley wasn't fixed yet because there weren't any male dogs around until we got Blue  who was suppose to be taken to get fixed by the person who found him. But that never happened and I get a phone call while I was in Hawaii from my mom saying that Marley like most likely pregnant. Needless to say Blue had a vet appointment soon after to prevent any future "surprises". Our older dog, Playful (or Mama since she's the matriarch of the animals) came to us when she was pregnant and had 8 puppies so that was the number we were expecting for Marley to have..except she added 4 more to make a litter of 12! Out of 12 puppies, only one resembled Marley's tan coloring while most were either black or black and white.

Pumpkin PB Dog Treats

 It's been a while since I have made any homemade dog treats so I looked up and found a really good recipe. These are actually okay for a wide variety of animals. I split 1 4'' heart treat between our 2 goats & chicken, and another treat for our 2 horses and they all enjoyed their little snack.

When I was making these, I had 4 of our 6 dogs in the house with me because we had some guys come out to remove a few dead trees on our property. Marley and Oddball {my dogs} are the rambunctious ones, especially when they get to come in the house, but they are generally good when I'm in the kitchen cooking or baking. Once they figure out that i'm not going to give them anything they usually go to take a nap, but that doesn't mean that they won't sniff around to see if they could grab a bite.

Busy Weekends & Homemade Dog treats

                                                             This past weekend was crazy.
  Saturday my mom and I went to 7 different stores! 7 in one day! Target, Home Depot, Petsmart, Macys, Kirkland's, Fiesta and Albertsons. Then today we had to go to Walmart to get some last minute baking items and then to Home Depot again because our thermostat broke.  

Playful in her chair

  I also got my christmas present early. Its kind of a habit with me... getting my presents early, but I had a good reason for getting this one early. My mom got me a Kitchenaid Artisan mixer which was on sale due to the holiday season. She- my kitchenaid- is red and her name is Rosie. Since Im in charge of preparing/making all  of the food except the turkey and a few other things for thanksgiving, Rosie will be used much this week. I will be making sweet potato casserole, mashed potatoes, a corn saute, pumpkin roll cake, cookies, and deviled eggs from scratch. The rolls, the stuffing, gravy, and green beans are either canned or boxed, but will be modified to. Its weird, I usually prefer homemade to boxed, but when it comes to stuffing, I tend to prefer Stove Top over the homemade stuff.