This weekend I drove to Austin to return Gracie-kins to my mom and pick her up from the airport from her "oh so terrible" week long business trip to Vegas.  Dell and Intel choose some pretty horrible spots for business trips, don't they ;) 
This weekend being my mom's weekend, my sister also came home early this morning. I've been dying to try out a few things that have been popping up on pinterest lately, one being the crayons glued to canvased and then melted with a blow dryer. They all look so very cool on these blogs that I thought I MUST try it. I knew my sister would appreciate something out of the norm, so I've saved this project for her:) 
Needed for the project are, some crayons (new or old), canvas, hot glue gun and glue sticks as well as a blow dryer. We also used a fair amount of news paper to make sure we didn't get crayon everywhere when melting them.  
The crayons then get hot glued to the canvas at the top and heat them away with the blow dryer to get them to melt. Ours came out a tad bit different than the mentioned website above, but I still think they come out pretty cool.  My sister's is going on wall above her piano and I will definitely find a spot in the house to hang mine. Can't wait to get back to San Antonio and get it up on the wall. I will definitely do it again....maybe more the example next time. Theirs came out cool.

I've noticed a lot of people do the 365 day projects in regards to their favorite items, hobbies, pets, etc. Well, going through Pinterest today, I stumbled upon a 365 day pet project of Lulu and Wally. They are also part of Woofboard, which is an online forum for Boston Terrier's and their crazy parents and anything boston terrier related. I've been on there for a few years now despite being without a boston terrier. The people are wonderful and there are so many threads about SOOOOO many products. Going back to the original thought, I think I might go ahead and do this 365 day project with the boys:) Frank has changed so much in the past 3 years, I can't believe it. When I got him, we guessed his age to be about 2, but when he came in for his 2 year of vaccines, Dr. L found nuclear sclerosis in his eyes. This means that he has a cloud eye lens (not to be confused with cataracts) and is much older than 2-3 years, which was the original guess.  He then jumped to about 7-8 years of age!!!! Oh my! That meant that my time with my baby was much shorter than anticipated. This past year he has really began to show his age with a few other age related changes. 
This project is a must and am definitely willing to give it a shot...so stay tuned!

Here is where I got the idea! This is a link to Lulu and Wally's 365 day pet project! Enjoy all the Boston love!!!

I chose to make "cupcakes" for Oliver's Birthday today for him, Frank, Sadie and Snoop. Timon will probably enjoy some too, I'm sure. So here is what is in them:

Cupcakes:
2 cups shredded carrots
3 eggs
1/2 cup applesauce, unsweetened
2 tsp. cinnamon
1/2 cup rolled oats
3 cups whole wheat flour

Icing:
8oz of fat free cream cheese
1/4 cup applesauce, unsweetened

*Preheat oven to 350 degrees
*Mix together the carrots, eggs and applesauce. I went ahead and used the food processor to make it more of a mach and to break down the carrots some more.
*Mix the dry ingredients
*Add the wet ingredients to the dry and mix together well
**The mixture will be very sticky**
I used a small muffin tin since the dogs in the house are very small. You may fill the pan fairly full, as the dough doesn't rise all that much.

For the icing I made sure the cream cheese was room temperature and then mixed it with the applesauce.

Bake for no more than 25 minutes. I only baked for 20 since my muffins were very small. Then I used a pipping bag and tip to put icing on and done!!!

My oh my...why have I not posted anything is so long?! I've been a slacker, that's why. So much has changed since I last posted in December. I've had a new addition to my fun filled pack! OLIVER! He is a Boston Terrier, who turned 1 today:) I adopted him from a client at the clinic who was very ill and was very much over her head with a Boston Terrier puppy. Oliver has been such a joy and despite being sick the last couple of days (with an Upper Respiratory), he has been a ton of fun, puppy energy. I'm glad he's trying to rest being kind of sick. Some dogs seem to think they can still run around like crazy while being sick (...sounds like a lot of people I know).  He's been in his cage for a majority of the time so he's not running around the house contaminating everything and spreading it to my roomie's dogs.
Oliver, for not have been exposed to much or trained, has been so great! He loves to play and loves going to Camp Bow Wow and the local dog park. He is learning how to play fetch and loves chewing on his nylabones, rawhides and rawbones. I've had fun training him and he is slowly beginning to learn more tricks. So far he knows sit, stay, shake, other paw and we are slowly learning high five. Now this brings my pack to Frank, Oliver, Timon (the cat) and the 75 gallon salt water tank. Fewww....that's a lot of work:)

School has also started, which has been crazy and I CANNOT wait to graduate with my Bachelors of Science in Biology:) On my way to apply for veterinary school as well as trying to find a "big girl" job. I finally see a light at the end of the tunnel. My roommate is also almost done and she is doing her student teaching this semester at an Elementary school and a Middle school. She wants to be a P.E. teacher as possibly apply for graduate school for special education.  Chris, my boyfriend has also made it into Texas A&M San Antonio and is working on finishing his degree in Teaching with a specialization in Special Education. I'm very excited for the both of them and can't wait to see what the future holds:)

These are ADDICTIVE!!! I love making these to snack on or if I have a few friends over. These are the BOMB! They are so simple...only three ingredients:

1) Pickles- I like the get the spears because they are a tad bit smaller
2) Ham- preferably the square shaped
3)Cream Cheese- I used regular because that's what I had, but you can use low fat for a healthier option.

To prevent taring when you put on the cream cheese, pat dry the ham with some paper towels. This will also help the cream cheese to stick to the ham as well.

As you can see, I have spread the cream cheese fairly evenly on the ham. You can make it as thick or as thin as you would like. I like a decent amount of cream cheese...well...because I like cream cheese:)

Next pat dry a pickle spear and place it at one end of the ham, cream cheese side up.

Then, tightly roll the pickle up in the ham. Cut the "roll" up into 1/2 inch sections and place on a dish as I have done in the next picture...

Then...eat them up and ENJOY!!!

If you're not part of the Pinterest world, then you are missing out on the different recipes done with Pillsbury items and yummy brown sugar, cinnamon and all sorts of yummy-ness.  If you're not following me, then you will have missed my pin on "Sticky Bun Breakfast Ring". I made mine in a bread loaf and when and when I make it again (About to do like 3 hours of Zumba to burn off what I ate today) then I will use only 1 can of the Pillsbury Buttermilk Biscuit can (16 oz I believe). Also, I will try and lay them out flatter than what I did. I stacked them on their sides, so they were standing up, and it took much longer to bake because of the thickness.  Here are some pictures of what my "sticky buns" looked like.
So Delish, but TOnS of calories I'm sure.

I thought I would add how I made Frank's Birthday cake. Just in case anyone wants to know.
It's all dog safe (Duh) and super easy and you can do what ever your heart desires to it as long as it's dog friendly.

*1 cup flour (white or whole wheat or GF)
*1 Tsp Baking Soda
*1 egg
*1/4 cup Vegetable Oil
*1/2 cup Low Fat Organic Peanut Butter
*1/3 cup Honey
*1/2 cup shredded carrots

Blend it all together until you get a "doughy" consistency. I Baked this at 350 degrees for 30 minutes. NOW, I used a pan that made the dough about 3/4 of an inch thick and I feel like I baked it tooooo long. I should have taken it out at about 20-23 minutes.

For the frosting:
*8 oz low fat cream cheese
*Some water- depends on the consistency you want to achieve
*Honey
*Peanut Butter
Blend it with a blender preferably. Make sure the cream cheese is at room temperature, because it's difficult to blend when it's cold.
I used some canned for for the "F", but you can sprinkle some carob chips or some carrots.  I thought about using some of the canned food in the icing, but opted not to.
Have fun with it and be creative. You can't make it wrong or right (well...unless you ad something toxic. Remember, no raisins, grapes, craisins,  orchocolate.

Today Frank and I celebrated his rescue 3 years ago!!! I can't believe this time has flown! So many things have changed in the past 3 years.  Today he spend half a day at Camp Bow Wow, then we made some cookies and a cake and then took the cookies to the clinic.  Also, Frank got his vaccines updated today! What a day of events! My goodness.  What a day!
HAPPY GOTCHA DAY FRANK!!!!!!!!!!!

Here is Frank sporting his new "pull over fleece" I got at Petsmart. I love this green color and it never gets SOO cold here that I need some massive dog sweater. I think Frank looks rather handsome in it:)

So today Frank got to go on a new adventure. He had his first visit at Camp Bow Wow here in San Antonio at the new location. I never really thought I would take him to a day camp for dogs, but the opportunity presented itself and I thought "why not". His main reason for going was to get a much needed bath. It's been fairly cold, cold enough to where I am not bathing him outside and the price was very reasonable, esp. since I already do his nails and anal glands when needed.  Camp Bow Wow is a nice, clean, open facility, with very nice staff that showed me around the place and allowed me to choose his shampoo even! Frank was really eager to go see what was going on behind the walls of all the barking dogs.  I was also able to enjoy viewing him during his visit from their Camper Cams and saw how much more playful and independent he is when I am not around. It drives me nuts that he never wants to play when I am in his sight, so I was really glad that he enjoyed his time and played nice with the other dogs. There is always some one there to watch the dogs in each of the enclosures and I got a nice update when I came to pick him up.  I really enjoyed seeing other people bring in their dogs and was greatly impressed when the lady behind the desk knew the 2 dogs that came in by name. I really like that personable service when I go places, esp. when it comes to taking care of Frank.  He felt really nice after his bath and had a cute bandana to go with his clean self.

Overall I really loved Camp Bow Wow and so did Frank. I will definitely use their services in the future and recommend them to all.