Miley and Howie woke up to a giant stack of presents on Christmas morning! :)
Oh, they know what presents are.
And they know they get to open them on Christmas! They get very huffy while they have to wait for us to open our presents first. :)
I save and reuse tissue paper, but I set aside the tissue paper that just can’t decently be used another year and wrap Miley and Howie’s presents in it for them to rip, shred, and destroy…
Have at it, Howie!
It’s SAUSAGE!!!
Let’s open another one!!
Hey now, not so fast there you little stinkers! Cool your jets :)
Green bean rope!
That’s mine!
C’mon, give it, Dad!
Miley’s too quick, she chomps it as soon as it comes down!
Give it, Miley!
Okay Mama, what’s next? :)
I wonder what it could be?
Only one way to find out!
Hot cross bunz!!! Look mama!
That’s mine!
Give it, Miley!
Here’s one for you, Howie.
Howie, what did you get? Show everybody!
Blech! This stinky rubber cheese is apparently the doggie equivalent to socks and underwear for Christmas! Howie is not impressed.
Mama makes him pose with his present like a good boy anyway though. :)
Oh, maybe it’s not that bad.
I can tug it.
Here buddy, do you like this one better?
Baked potato!
Now’s Miley’s turn.
New present for Miley!
It’s crunchy cashews!!
Look mama!
Howie still likes his potato :)
Oh hai :)
What is this one?
It’s a Christmas bone!
Miley gets the last one…
Is this for me?
Is this my big present??
What could it be??
It’s a TURKEY!!
THAT’S MINE!!
No!
Give it Miley!
No!
Rawr!!
I gotta drumstick!
It’s mine!
Rawr!
Rawr!!!
Now it’s turkey and stuffing!
Look at all our presents!
We got a whole Christmas dinner!
One more??
What is this??
Squirrel!!
Can I eat it??
It’s crunchy!!
Let me see!
My new squirrel!
We love all our presents!
Zonk.
These puppies were pooped! They immediately sacked out hard for a Christmas nap.
Thanks for watching our Christmas!! :)
Happy New Year! Love,
Kevin, Amanda, Miley and Howie
:)
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AMAZING ! Thank you so much for sharing this !
Happy New Year, Joyeuse Année as we say in French
Don’t change you are great and we love you !!
Kisses !
Laetitia
What fun for your pups. Thanks for sharing your beautiful Christmas! The tree is gorgeous.
Hahahahha this was so much fun. Your action shot captures of the intensity in their eyes had me cracking up! Thank you for sharing. Beautiful tree. Adorable family. Snazzy jammies. Simply perfect! Happy new year!
Thank you for sharing!! I’m a fellow Boston owner & lover….and I eagerly await your BT posts!
PS: Where did Kevin get those fantastic Boston Terrier jammie pants??? LOVE THOSE!!!!!
I got them around Thanksgiving at Old Navy :)
Ohhhh it’s so funny!!!! Great photos! The puppies are so nice…
Happy New Year!
xoxo
Love the pups opening there gift. Now my little one is passed but she loved to do the same with her gifts. Only I could not put the gifts out till Christmas morning. On one special Christmas she thought all the gifts wrapped under the tree were hers, so she unwrapped and tore up everyone’s gifts. That was a site to see. Have a wonderful New Year. Paulette
Oh my gosh this was the cutest post I’ve seen in a long time!! They are just adorable and I can’t get over what great photos you got of them opening and playing with their new toys. Some of their expressions are priceless! I hope you don’t mind that I passed it on to several on my e-mail list to enjoy! Thanks for sharing!
Absolutely adorable! I love seeing dogs open presents, they’re just like kids! Did Kevin get those jammies at Old Navy? I want to say I saw them early in the season and thought of you guys! :)
Yes, that’s them! :) Someone sent me a link and I got them for him for Christmas :)
So cute!!
How cute and sweet! I remember those days before my puppy got so old (16).
I love how much you enjoy Miley & Howie.
Jan
LOVE the pictures!!! And love other families who’s dogs are their babies. :) Looking so forward to being a regular reader in ’13. PS ~ For the last photo in front of the tree…. Did you use a wide angle lens?
Hi Kim! Yes, you can click on any photo to see the camera, lens, and settings used. :) Hope this helps!
Thanks a bunch Amanda! What a cool feature. Looking forward to gleaning a lot from your photography posts. Happy New Year!
Loved this post! Made me laugh :)
Happy New Year!!
Fun post! Where did you get that stuffed squirrel?!?
Hi Rebecca! We found it at our local pet supply store where we get Miley and Howie’s food, but Kevin just did a search and found it Amazon Prime :)
Pawdoodles Krinklers Squirrel Dog Toy
Cutest pictures EVER!! What cuties they are! I always enjoy pictures of them…love how you spoil them! :) Thanks for sharing!
Put a big grin on my face this rainy morning here in Georgia. WAR EAGLE!!
That was cute!
Loved the puppy Christmas!! I miss my girlie every day so it was nice to share yours!
HA! I love the tug of war shots – they’re so precious!
Hahahaha! Happy New Year, Amanda! xoxo.
Wonderful photo series – so glad they enjoyed their Christmas. Thanks for sharing their joy. Happy New Year to you & Kevin!
What a fabulous way to start my day! I love seeing your little Bostons! They remind me so much of my grandparents. They always had Bostons. And named all of them Prince or Princess, LOL!
LOL! This was so cute! The dogs were like little kids in a candy store. happy new year and thanks for sharing!
Merry (Late) Christmas. My pups got that same little fake food set a year or so ago. They love all of it haha, except I ended up having to throw away the crunchy cashews haha. Every time they chewed on it I thought they were chewing on a plastic bag haha and I’d so searching for them only to find crunchy cashews!. So it had to go haha.
So fun!! My dogs love toys… but one will. not. rest. until the squeaker and/or stuffing is outside of said toy. I love all the fun toys. Do you have a special place you get them? Love your Christmas pillows and throw, too. Great action shots… thanks for sharing!
Thanks Kimber! They came from Target this year :) The pillows and throw are from Target last year :)
Thanks so much for sharing your great family with us. I have 4 Bostons right now and love them to pieces. Wishing you much love and happiness for the new year to come!
Love these pictures of Miley & Howie! Bostons do love their games of tug of war. I now have 3, as I just adopted a 5 year old male named Oreo back on 12/11/12. He was an owner surrender at a local animal shelter.
Thank you so much for sharing your photos! They are adorable and your captions just make them perfect. Happy New Year to you, Kevin, Howie and Miley! :0)
I’ve been looking all over for a rug like yours and i have to ask where did you get it??
Hi Melissa! It is from Home Depot:
Artistic Weavers Blossoms Beige
So sweet! It is so much fun to share the holiday with pups! Mine sure enjoyed it and they had very similar issues with sharing, they just kept wanting the others toy! Makes Christmas morning a lot of fun! Thank you for posting!
Thank you so much for sharing your Christmas photos with us. I am totally in love with Howie and Miley!! As the mom to two dogs myself, I think everything is better when shared with your anipals. I wish you all a safe, peaceful, happy and healthy 2013.
Thank you so much for sharing! I’ve lived vicariously through your dogs these last 12 months or so.
Our two Bostons, Jackson & Bandit, have been staying with friends because the place we’re in won’t allow them. They’ve been away from us for a year now. We visit when we can but it’s hard on our girlz. We’re hoping in the next 45 days we’ll be in a house again.
Tooooooooooooooooooo Fun !!
That was so cute. What breed are they. I’m happy to see that my little chug is not the only dog that shreds stuffed toys!! I really enjoy your blog. Happy New Year to you all.
Miley and Howie are Boston Terriers :)
Wonderful :) I love that you have captured such great action shots. You are really doing your pups proud. Also, great job at having them unwrap their own presents. You really impress me Amanda! Happy New Year to you and your family. Hugs, Marsha
So sweet and adorable! Love the baked potato toy! Haha!
This is SO cute, my dog would never do that! She would loose interest too fast, even if I had actual food wrapped up!
Thank you for sharing your fur babies with us. My babies always have a Christmas basket full of goodies, (toys, balls and goodies). They know they are theirs but wait until Christmas morning to play with them, smart girls. Never thought of wrapping fur babies goodies, great idea.
Enjoyed the show! Thanks for sharing and Happy New Year!!
What a wonderful Christmas story! You truly have a beautiful family, thank you for sharing your fun Christmas morning.
HAPPY NEW YEAR :^)
SO adorable! I was laughing so hard after the “It’s a Turkey!!” Picture!! So silly! Love them! (:
Thanks for sharing! Loved all the pictures of Miley & Howie enjoying Christmas. We had a similar experience over here with our Boston, Olive, involving a crackly raccoon just like that squirrel! She was crazed!!!
Side note – LOVE your owl pj’s!!! Would love to find them for my daughter. Are they another Old Navy purchase? I bought her the bt ones you posted on last year!
Hi Lois! They were a Christmas Eve gift from Kevin :) The brand is PJ Salvage. He probably found them at Zappos! :)
I love your awesome photos of your awesome puppers! Somehow, I never realized how seal-colored Miley is. They are both so adorable (as are you and Kevin in your PJs)!
Those pictures were so cute! Put a smile on my face during this work day! Thanks for sharing!
Your puppies are adorable! Love seeing photos of them.
Have a great New Year, can’t wait to see your upcoming posts.
What a fabulous Christmas! I have already scrolled through the photographs of yours three times as these are so adorable! Where in the world did you get all of those neat toys? Miley and Howie are so adorable! Check out our blog too when you get the chance to see our doggies, Nikita and Bella and how they enjoyed Christmas, New Years, and all the snow that dumped on us. http://www.nikitaland.wordpress.com Happy New Year to you and your wonderful family!
Hi Valerie! We found them at Target this year :) Thanks for the link, those ice balls are really cool! :)
I love your puppies! All your pictures makes me want a boston terrier so bad!
Your pups are adorable. As usual! Thanks for the smiles=)
Y’all are the cutest family!!!!
They are so cute!! I think I am feeling guilty that Piper and Rupert did not get such cool toys for Christmas, great idea with the tissue paper. May have to try that next year. Hope you, Kevin, Miley & Howie have a great 2013!!
Kevin & Amanda, I love the updates on Miley and Howie. so glad to see two more Boston Terriers who chew up stuffed toys and leave the stuffing for us to clean up. My Boston Izzy just turned 3 on New Years Eve and she loves to rip the toys open, remove the stuffing and squeakers. She then turns them inside out to play with them that way. She is so funny to watch. Happy New Year.
Miley and Howie are way too cute. Looks like they had a wonderful Christmas. Your family pic was sooo good, love your tree. Here’s hoping you have a wonderful 2013 with sprinkles and a cherry on top. lol. Hugs, Becky
Too much fun! Our mutts like to chew up mini tennis balls from Target like they’re munching on popcorn. And Christmas morn’ wouldn’t be complete without a “flyover” from a remote-controlled (mini) helicopter that our older dog likes trying to catch mid-air. Every year I think both the kids and dog are getting too old to enjoy this activity, and every year I’m wrong! Thanks for sharing your holiday photos. Have you ever done a Christmas video of your dogs?
Thank you so much for sharing your Christmas with us. I just love the posts about Miley and Howie, they bring such joy. Your website is what drew me to the Boston Terriers even more, and I knew that we couldn’t just have one! We have 3 Boston Terriers, Ebony who is the princess of the family, Baxter was our first and the King and Cody who is the baby of Ebony and Baxter and the biggest one of all. We love them so much and so much so that both of our daughters have brothers of Cody so you can imagine a house of 5 Bostons all under the age of 4 running around at times.
I do have one question, how long do the toys last? I have to find the strongest toys possible or else they would be shredded just like the tissue paper!
Again thank you for sharing.
I love those photos of Miley & Howie. The hubs enjoys them too:-) Looks like they had tons of fun opening their gifts, they are so adorable, love them. Our girl has been up and down with her health so Christmas wasn’t much fun for her:-( Hope that you have a wonderful 2013 filled with lots of fun, travel, goodies and love. Oh a Christmas video sounds like a good idea of those two.
So darn cute, Howie and Miley make me smile. I lost my little guy in September after 15 years, missed him so over the holidays and this helped me more than you know! Thanks for sharing your holiday time – take care and Happy Happy New Year, keep smiling!
This cracked me up! My two dogs love their presents too! I have to keep my Tucker’s presents hidden before Christmas because he can sniff them out and loves to open them early!
I love the pictures , they are so cute! Thanks for sharing with us. We have a Australian Shepard and a Lab mix.{ our children } This is the first year they really went wild over opening the presents.They are three years old and seventy pounds each. We adopted them when they were pups. I love your tips and advice,very helpful!! Have a wonderful New Year and keep the pictures coming.
Love the Miley and Howie post!!! Cute pups!! Thanks!
Oh my goodness!! How adorable! Your pictures are fabulous, but what really makes it all so much better is your hilarious commentary. I love Miley and Howie! We are getting a puppy in the spring and I hope it’ll be a BT… just need to find a breeder.
Thanks for sharing your Christmas, and happy new year Amanda, Kevin, Miley and Howie!
Hello guys !!!!!!! HAPPY NEW YEAR!!!!! Wish you all the best!
Great pictures, Miley and Howie seemed to have a lot of fun!!
PS: You know what we all expect, right?! A home tour!!!!!!!!! :-)
Big hugs,
Dora
This was SO stinkin’ cute, Amanda! Love it!
My dog loves presents too. She knows which stocking is hers and if you say presents, she goes to it and stands up and whines. I never thought to wrap in tissue paper so she could open herself. Will have to try it next year. Your puppies are sooo cute and funny.
I LOVE Miley’s spazzed out eyes when she sees the turkey. Best shot ever
Great pictures, I thought my 9 foot tree was tall! wow~!
Such fun, Christmas with the Boston’s. They are so adorable. I love seeing Miley & Howie updates. Thanks for all of the great pictures.
too cute!
Happy New Year to you too!
Sandra ltb
funniest thing EVER!!! you always get the craziest shots of those dawgs……too cute! and where, oh where did yu find all that dog “food”??!!!!!
Oh………and just read thru comments. Your husband shops at zappo’s???? He must be a keeper!!!
Too adorable for words! Thanks for sharing your Christmas with us. You made me smile! And I love your p.j.’s! So cute. Happy New Year, Amanda (and fam)!
Hi there! Your dogs are just so cute. Just wondering, do you guys have kids? Because I’ve been reading your blog sense forever and I never read anything about that.. Love, and happy new year to you all! xo
Hey guys. Just read Jane’s comment and wonder the same. Gorgeous pictures!!
OMG, LOVE these pix. Thanks for sharing!
I absolutely love this!! Boston Terriers were the only kind of dog we had growing up, so while reading this I also was able to hear the sounds the dogs were probably making while they were fighting over the toys, haha.
LOVE these series of photos!! Put a smile on my face for sure!!
Thank you so much for sharing.
Happy New Year!
I loved it! I watched it thru my tears. I have lost my beloved 3 bostons in the past 18 months. They were 15, 13, and 12. I love to see pics of yours! Happy New Years!
These pictures are so great! Glad my family isn’t the only ones that buy the pups Christmas presents.
Great photos (as always!) Your babies are adorable!
Happy to sees some of the house and furniture – Dora’s right! We expect a home tour!!!
Thanks for sharing!
Too funny, Amanda. Those doggies sure know how to have fun and you guys surely enjoy your puppies! PS LOVE the ug. : )
I meant “rug.”
These pics are hilarious. Your captions made them that much better haha..thanks for sharing!!
Really cute toys! If I gave my boston terrier, Rocky, any kind of stuffed animal toy it would be ripped to pieces in less than 5 minutes. Which is too bad for me because I love buying the cute stuffed toys.
Awwww! How much adorability can one Christmas morning hold?! :) Miley and Howie pretty much max it out, I think!….
Thanks for sharing your fur babies with us! I’m in awe of your photography skills!
Wishing you, Kevin and Miley and Howie an absolutely wonderful 2013……….
Hi Amanda!
This was such a fun post! I have been a long time reader of your blog (actually, I just finished reading your entire blog last night…all 160 pages!!) May I just say, it is fantastic and I am completely addicted. In fact, you have completely inspired me to really get going on my blog, take photography classes (cause I really suck at it!), and get involved in the blogging community. (I just registered with BlogHer, too!) Well…I hope you, Kevin and the puppies had a very wonderful Christmas and New Years and have a wonderful 2013!
P.S. You and Kevin both look amazing!
Amanda – I laughed and laughed! Your doggies are so funny – your photos are super. Thanks for posting!!
A friend sent me the Christmas pictures of Miley and Howie’s Christmas. I love Boston Terriers and these pictures are great. They really capture their spirit. Thanks for Sharing!
hahaha oh man I always love the pictures of your dogs :]
Love your blog – your photo & food tips are superb! – though right now I am on a diet!
Very tall christmas tree – where to buy?
And, as an European I can not resist – we do not aloud shoes inside the house ;-)
Happy New Year to all 4 of U!
Love this, your fur-babies are so cute!! Happy New Year!
Your pictures are FANTASTIC!!! You inspire me to work harder on my photography. Thanks for sharing your Christmas morning with the world…and I love your puppies!
Ohmygosh you have the cutest pups! They look like so much fun to be around!!
Your dogs are so cute. They seem like they loved their gifts. Great photos. I’ll show your photos to my son tonight. He will like it. Happy New Year to you and your family. I think it’s my first time on your blog. I don’t remember seeing it.
I love your puppies!!!
Happy New Year!! This was adorable.
So flippin’ cute!! I used to have Boston terriers and you capture their energy so perfectly. Makes me miss my babies :( But I love my Maltese/Yorkie babies too!
So adorable! I always love seeing pictures of your pups – they are such cuties. I have a question – can you tell me the approximate settings you use for taking these pictures? I have a hard time capturing motion that is not in bright light and I am in awe of how you were able to freeze the motion so well!
Happy New Year~!
Hi Lauren! You can click on any of the photos to see the camera, lens, and settings used. :) Hope this helps!
Ooo there it is – thank you so much for responding! Sorry I didn’t notice before. :o)
This post seriously made me laugh. Love your puppies!
Your pups are adorable. I had to put my Boston down in September of 2011 and I miss him so much. My husband doesn’t want another Boston because of all the health problems ours had. :( Enjoy those sweet babies!!!!