Happy Birthday to Me & Oreo!!

Meet Oreo! The love of my life :)

Okay, it's technically not our birthdays today, but yesterday was my 19th and my dog, Oreo's 119th (17 human years) birthday! It also technically wasn't my dog's birthday yesterday either, but to tell you the truth, no one in my family knows her real birthday. All we know is that I was two years old when she was born. However, I like to say that we have the same birthdays just to make everything more simple! I also like to say that everyday is her birthday and that we should treat her like it is but some people might not like that too much..

Left: Oreo's cake 

Right: My cake (also my first ice cream cake! Picture of the inside below.)

For those of you who don't know really know me, you probably don't know how much Oreo means to me. She's basically my best friend (too cliche?). But really, she's always been there for me when I needed her. I didn't always have the greatest luck with friends in school. And yes, I was one of those kids that got bullied in school. Thankfully, I wasn't physically bullied but there were quite a few kids that would really upset me at school daily. Looking back, it was actually really a depressing time for me back then. I was only in sixth grade and was growing up/trying to figure out who I was, so going to school and facing those kids was really hard for me on some days. I won't bother you all with the things they would do to me, but I always knew I could always go back home and Oreo would be there for me. Also, just the fact that we've grown up together has made a big impact on my life. I don't remember the night very clearly, but I was there when she was born (my sister's dog at the time was her birth mom). I was also there when Oreo gave birth to her children... TWICE! She's also been with me through every graduation that I've currently been through (elementary, middle school, & high school). 

My sister and I with Oreo(right) and her mom, Baby(left)

Oreo with her second litter

Us after my elementary, middle school, and high school graduations.

Last summer, I found her coughing/wheezing very abnormally. I was so terrified. I literally was in tears because I had no idea what was going on. I knew that with her age, anything could happen at any moment and I would need to try to be as strong as I could whenever it were to happen. But I couldn't help myself for crying. The next day, when I took her to the vet, she was diagnosed with a heart disease and would have to take a medication called, Pimobendan for the rest of her life. Still being confused with everything that had happened, I went home and researched everything I could about the medication and found that most dogs who take it live at the most 9 months (according the the research done). This really terrifed me. When I calculated when 9 months would be, it was around April which is now :| . Knowing this, I didn't really plan on doing much for my birthday. As the day was approaching, my parents would continuously ask what I would want to do. Seeing that Oreo seemed fine during the month of March, I was hopeful that she would still be here for "our" birthdays.

Oreo waiting to be examined..

Soo what did we do for our birthdays? Well, I was up all night (or I guess technically morning?) making a cake for the two of us (yes, I really did make myself a cake hahaha), but later in the afternoon my parents and I took her to the dog beach. After the beach, we went home to clean up and prepare some food for my aunts, uncles, cousins, etc that were planning on coming later that night. And yeah! Here's some pictures of how it all went down...

"On the way to the dog beach!!"

"We're here! Yippee!!"

"HII EVERYONE! I HAVE ARRIVED!!!!"

"Sup."

Me and my baby girl at the dog beach together :)

"Is that really me?!" 

"Mmm who's ready to eat me?!"

So earlier in the post, I posted the cake I made for myself, but it didn't have anything written on it. I felt too awkward to write happy birthday to myself so my mom said she'd do it. She for the most part doesn't [ever] help me with my baking but I guess she thought she'd give a try with piping a message on the cake! What do you guys think? 

I also said earlier that I'd post what the inside looked like so here it is! 

One of my aunts was very thoughtful and got Oreo her favorite food, Cesar!! Yum!

She's usually pretty good with letting people take pictures of her but after awhile she was getting a bit finicky with everyone yelling her name so that she'd be looking at their cameras.. :|

& that's it! In case you guys were wondering, no, my family did not eat the dog cake. None of us wanted to "cut Oreo." So as of now the cake is sitting in my fridge as we speak. I'm okay if someone wants to eat it, I just ask that I don't have to see it while being cut...