i thought i'd spend my snow day with my puppy...but he would rather spend it with his favorite blue blanket :p…

is he not the prettiest?! 

in like 10 minutes, on my lunch break/lunchtime puppy visit, and it was AWESOME and adorable and he manages to maintain his little puppy composure in the midst of my hysterical squealing and fits of glee! 

this is the face of one accomplished puppy…

Today Machete got his 2nd BarkBox and it is super duper awesome!!!  Especially since this time we got to open the box with our puppy, and he got to enjoy all the treats immediately.

Look at all this awesome puppy swag!

This one shipped really fast, I basically got the tracking info yesterday and BOOM! here it is!

The first nifty treat was actually TWO treats!  Two sample sizes…

we're not a valentine's day household, cuz UGH...but the local pet shop had a furry friends valentine's contest type thing and MACHETE WON! well, he was one of 30 lucky pets to get a prize, and today we went out in the snow to a.) get him used to car rides b.) get him used to the place he'll be taking puppy kindergarten and c.) pick up the swag!

since we were…

and we've officially had him for two of those weeks, yay! he's pretty much just the best little puppy in the whole wide world...ever.  

he started puppy kindergarten yesterday, and it's going to be awesome.  the trainer is really amazing, and we're so excited about it.  snow is melting every day so we'll get back on the leash training and…

Monday started Machete's first days alone in the house without either of us — safely crated, with his water bowl accessible & the puppy cam focused right on his little face — and he did SO WELL!!

Seriously, best little pup ever! He didn't mess his crate, he totally amused himself or stayed napping, and when I came to visit him on my lunch breaks he went potty very quickly and was happy to play.  He's done great on the housebreaking so far, though I can tell he's getting a bit of…

http://youtu.be/BFVYDFqF5tkPu

Machete loooooooooooooooooooooveesssssss Aragorn...gets sooooo happy when he comes home from work!

Machete is totally dubious of Mondays.  We had an issue at home with the bathroom renovations and the WORST CREW EVER and it's made the house a disaster and is slowly traumatizing the pets.  The cats are dealing with the worst of it, right now, poor lil' guys.

Machete is not a fan of the car at the moment.  He will quietly settle eventually, but at the start he's…

friday we somehow managed to get ourselves together and get on the road to duxbury in one piece, but it was an ordeal for sure.

and then, and then, after FOREVER AND EVER AND EVER OF WAITING, we finally picked up machete! and he was perfect and snuggly and adorable and awesome. we spent some time with anne learning about his feeding habits, his…

by this time tomorrow we will be on the road to pick up our pup

by this time tomorrow i won't have to wait anymore

by this time tomorrow WE'LL BE ON OUR WAY TO PUPPYTOWN! OMG!!! 

by this time tomorrow we'll be corgi owners

i am not going to make it through the LONGEST F'ING DAY of my life,…

today machete's first bark box arrived! so exciting!  it's full of awesome stuffs.

still got 10 more days until we bring machete home (and somehow i'm not screeching uncontrollably?) so we're just finishing up our puppy prep.

the bark box was awesome. it had this really amazing little toy octopus that i…

cobbled together clips from all our video of the visit.

we had our second puppy visit today and it was possibly the greatest thing in the whole wide world and OMG PUPPY WE HAVE A PUPPY WE HAVE A PUPPY!!! OMG!!!

ahem, and now i will present to you: Señor Machete el Grande Corgéz!!!

IS HE NOT THE CUTEST THING YOU HAVE EVER SEEN!!?!?!?

WILL YOU LOOK AT THAT FACE!!!?!?!?!?!?!?

this is our puppy! and we’re going to…

we bring our puppy home in 1 month, 1 week exactly and I am basically losing my mind until then.

example, i had a birchbox subscription, but wasn't too thrilled with it and then along comes barkbox and YES! i've been waiting until it was at least closer to the time we bring puppy home to get it and yes, this is it!

totally subscribed :p

i'm so excited i can't even wait for the first box to arrive, and every box after.  really i just can't wait for our puppy to be here!…

I am basically a ball of incoherent squealing and screaming and twitching right now, but it was AWESOME.  so awesome! they were all adorable and cuddly and fantastic and I WANT THEM ALL!!!

They're having our temperament testing done in 2 weeks, and we're visiting them again January 19th and at that time we will know which one is our little future puppy! I CANNOT WAIT!!!

so happy!

Star had her litter on Friday and it was 5 boys, 1 girl, and we’re getting a little boy puppy!!!  We are finalizing puppy names (shhhhh!!! it's a seekrit!) and now we know we're going for a boy puppy name!!!

HOORAY!!!

This is Star:

This is the sire, Andrew:

I CANNOT EVEN…