I wish to thank the Academy...

It’s award season, but forget about the Golden Globes and the Academy Awards!  Over the last couple of months, my terrific friends have been honoring me with some great blogging prizes.  But before I start accepting the awards, I want to tell you about a special new blog, Life IS a bowl of cherries!, by none other than Gampy!!  Many of you have been getting to know my Gampy through my blog and then his comments on your blogs, and now you can get to know him even better by checking out his new blog.  I love you, Gampy!

First up, the Liebster Blog Award. 

Liebster means “dearest” in German, and the award is intended to help blogs get the attention they deserve.  I am totally feeling the love from Minnie and Mack @ Minnie and Mack’s Daily Digest; Frank @ The Adventures of The Tank; Fredzio, Pucia, and Zuzia @ Zapiski spod miski (Notes from the bowl); and Yoda, Brutus, and Ellie @ The Pugs Strike Back.  Thank you all so very much!  You should know that I *heart* you too!

To accept the Liebster, I must:

1. Copy and paste the award on my blog.
2. Link back to the blogger who gave me the award.
3. Pick my 5 favorite blogs with less than 200 followers to pass on the award to making sure to let them know.

Since I received this award from 4 blogs, I think it’s only fair that I get to pick 20 blogs to share this with!  To help narrow it down a little more, I decided to only pick blogs that haven’t received the award before (that I know of) and have published a post in the last couple of weeks.  Without further delay, here are some of the “dearest” blogs that I follow.

• “Multum in Parvo”…with Cinnabon Tails (Salinger and Toby) 
• A Minnie Minute (Minnie Moo and Lincoln)
• I Tell Ya What (Hank)
• It’s Tiffy Time! (Tiffy)
• Life IS a bowl of cherries! (Payton’s Gampy)
• Proudest Pug (Izzie)
• Pug Possessed (Rosie, Stewie, Kiki, Zoey, Chloe, and Marty)
• Pug Slope (Sid)
• PUGnetwork (Coco)
• Sabrina’s Pug Tails (Sabrina and Poppy)
• ScreamingK9 (Gracie)
• The Adventures of Vito Marino (Vito and Vinny)
• The Art of Pug (Opaka and Kai)
• The Girls (Sequoia, Tuni, and Emma)
• The Pug Posse (Ernie, Pippin, Tucker, Eddie, Rosie, Gus Gus, Romeo, Eli, Timmy, Pugsley, Pudge, and Bella)
• The Pugpant Chronicles (Howie, AnnieBee, Java, and Hannah)
• two cats and a pug (Winston with Kizzy and Tika)
• Two Pugs in a Pod (Klaus and Natty)
• TWP (Tamara with help from Rupert)
• Writing Chances and Rainy Days (DW)

Next up is the Pawsome Blogger Award.

I am so happy to receive this award from Lola @ A Pug’s Tale by Lola and Frank @ The Adventures of The Tank.  Lola is so funny – always making me laugh; Frank shares the best pictures from his walks through the beautiful countryside of Wales.  You both are super pawsome!  In order to officially accept this honor, I must post the award on my blog and then pass it along to 10 blogs that bring me fun, love, laughs, and furiendship.  I think since I received it twice, I will share with 20 bloggers again because all the blogs I follow are pawsome!  Like before, I will narrow it down to blogs that haven’t received the award before and have published a post in the last couple of weeks.  Ok, so here are my picks.

• A Day in the Life of Pugs (Zoe, Peyton, Webster, and Liberty)
• Buddy’s Blog (Buddy)
• Hound Girl (Fred and Haylie)
• I Tell Ya What (Hank)
• It’s Tiffy Time! (Tiffy)
• Life is art…Art is Life (Archie)
• Lola Pug (Lola)
• Merrylog (Merry)
• Dog is God in Reverse - My Life with Dogs (Baily, Mesa, Big Carl, and Tori)
• Proudest Pug (Izzie)
• Pug Slope (Sid)
• rumpydog (Rumpy and the gang)
• Sabrina’s Pug Tails (Sabrina and Poppy)
• Sammy and Neko (Sammy and Neko)
• ScreamingK9 (Gracie)
• Southern Fried Pugs (Isabelle, Petunia, and Tallulah)
• The Devil Dog (Roxy and Lucky)
• The Pugs Strike Back (Yoda, Brutus, and Ellie)
• The Scarlet Sutras (Scarlet)
• The Slimmer Pugs (George, Gracie, Lily, Mimi, and Toby)
• Zapiski spod miski which translates to “Notes from the bowl” (Fredzio, Pucia, and Zuzia)

Last, but certainly not least, the Kreativ Blogger Award.

Yet again, Lola @ A Pug’s Tale by Lola was so nice to nominate me for this prize.  Lola, thank you so much, but you are the creative story teller darling!  However, I graciously accept any way!  I looked this one up on Google since it didn’t seem like an award that might have meaning for dog blogs.  Unfortunately, I was right, but with some slight modification, I think this will do!  Along with this honor comes some responsibility…I have to answer the 10 questions below and share 10 random thoughts and/or facts about myself before passing it on to 10 other blogs.  So here it goes:

Question/answer section

1. Name your favorite activity. 

• Eating.

2. Name your favorite treat.  

• Bacon, but I only get that on special occasions, so I’d have to say mango.

3. What ticks you off?

• Riding in the back of the car with a seat belt on.

4. When you’re upset, what do you do?

• Cry and scream!

5. What makes you indescribably happy?

• Food and my people.

6. What do you do when you are excited?

• Bark (roo-roo) and waggle my back end and tail.

7. What is your biggest fear?

• Missing a meal.

8. Describe your everyday attitude.

• Positive, happy, loving, and food obsessed.

9. Name your favorite toy.

• Tie between Cuz and Skinneez.

10. Name your favorite place to sleep or nap. 

• The big bed, but I’ll take anything with a bolster.

Random facts/thoughts section

1. Since being diagnosed with PDE, I have not spent a single second alone.  I’m always with mom, dad, Gammy, and/or Gampy.
2. I like sleep.  In fact, I've gone to bed (in the big bed) before my 'rents on many occasions.
3. If pugs are decedents of royalty, shouldn't we get a treat, or anything else we want, on command?
4. I don’t snort like most pugs do, but I do snore on occasion and toot a lot.
5. I have lived more years with PDE than without it.
6. I love to be outside, but only if the weather is nice.  If I don't get to go outside, I think mom and dad are being mean, but if they give in and let me out when it's raining (for instance), I look at them like they are crazy.
7. I have 3 white whiskers, as of this post anyway.
8. I know how to escape from a latched crate.
9. I've undergone the at home peroxide procedure twice so I would throw up a three inch arm from a toy and some mother's tongue (the plant).  I was a terror as a puppy.
10. Yes, it IS all about me.

I would like to give this award to the following blogs.  I hope they accept this because I think they are so original, and I am already looking forward to their answers.

• A Bowl of Noodles (Noodles)
• a boy, a girl and a pug (pug and landry)
• Bellatrix, I’m a Pug! (Bellatrix)
• I Tell Ya What (Hank)
• Kitty+Coco (Kitty and Coco)
• Life IS a bowl of cherries! (Payton’s Gampy)
• Lola Pug (Lola)
• Minnie and Mack’s Daily Digest (Minnie and Mack)
• Pug Slope (Sid)
• The Adventures of The Tank (Frank)

Fortunately because I felt so much love from many of my friends, I think I was able to pass it on and include everyone, but if I didn’t please forgive me.  I think that every last blogger that is a part of this crazy community is just great!  Thanks again to everyone that thought to share these awards with me...and thanks to the Academy!

Love,

Payton