Our little guy Gus turned ONE on November 22!* We celebrated with him during our Thanksgiving trip to NY.

Here we are getting him ready to see his special doggy birthday cake that we got from Spot before we left town. (The cake had rice krispies, peanut butter and some fake chocolate stuff – obviously they loved it!) I like Charlie’s “expression” in this picture.

And here’s Gus about to blow out his candle. Wouldn’t it be cool if he actually could do that?!

We had a good trip back east for Thanksgiving. The boys were incredible on the plane. They squeezed together into the same carrier and slept soundly – and silently – for pretty much the entire flight both ways! We had a fun trip – my in-laws have a big back yard and the boys had a good time running around the open space. It was cold at times, but they really didn’t seem to mind. We found Charlie’s coat in the pile of our winter stuff and bought Gus a brand new bright red fleece (from Spot of course).

But mostly we spent the trip relaxing. And more often than not, relaxing means piling on my lap!

*(I’m super late with this birthday/Thanksgiving post, but life totally got in the way recently. Doesn’t mean I love the little guy any less.)