We've got a tiny addition to our family!

We have a new member of our family! She's the cutest little thing and we are so happy to have her here with us now. Don't worry, I haven't been hiding anything from anyone out there. It's not a baby girl (although someday it will be), it's a puppy!

Her name is Sadie and we picked her up last Saturday. We've been wanting a friend for Moose for a long time, we always feel bad when we leave for work and he's home by himself for 9 hours. The only problem was we didn't have much room in our apartment for two dogs, and now we live at the in-laws (who were opposed to a second dog in the house). So, I was goofing around on ksl.com and found Sadie's ad and couldn't help myself. I talked with Jer and we decided to just go by and see her. We didn't want to get all excited for a dog and find out she was ugly or something. Yes, I'm superficial with my pets like that. I joke around with Jer that I hope our kids aren't ugly, I may end up liking the pets more. :)

Jer's parents are currently at the MTC getting ready to go to Africa and we went down on Saturday morning to take them to lunch and go to the temple. Turns out couple missionaries have it good down there, at least compared to what the kids deal with. For example, they don't have to live at the dorm and when they are not in class they can go out to eat if they want or go shopping. Anyway, we got down there with the intention of going to lunch and finding a way to bring up the puppy situation. We were planning on going to see Sadie as soon as we finished visiting.

Turns out Jer's sister Jamie took the parents to breakfast so they didn't want lunch. Problem with that was Jer and I were planning on eating first so we hadn't had anything to eat yet. Needless to say we were hungry. As a solution, Jer's parents went into the MTC and got Jer and me a sack lunch. Not Sphaghetti Factory like we were hoping for, but it did keep our stomachs from waking up all the people sitting around us during the session.

After the session we headed to Jamba Juice to have a drink and visit, and along the way we brought up getting a puppy. Very smoothly. Okay, not so much. Jer pretty much just asked if we could get a puppy because we may have found one we wanted. We both managed to conatin our excitement when we heard the classic answer, "Do what you want". We had our Jamba and after dropping off the parents back at the MTC, we headed out to Eagle Mountain. This was a very long day for me just because of all the driving.

We met Sadie and we knew we liked her when we got inside. She snuggled right up to me and that's all it really took. She's a spaz but she is so cute! She's 7 or so months old, and just skin and bones right now. We're working on bulking her up. We seem to be good at that (just ask how much I weigh right now. Wait, don't ask). We learned part of the problem was her food, it was going right through her. I'll get into how we found that out in a second. She's calming down and learning to fit in with our family, and Moose is learning to share and be friends with her. That's exactly why we wanted to get another dog, just so Moose would learn to not be so jealous of anyone around us. Specifically a baby. No, Jer is not pregnant yet. We're just preparing the way I guess you could say.

We got Sadie home and decided she needed a decent haircut. The poor girl that owned her before us had tried to give her one before we showed up but the clippers broke. She had little patches that were too short, and after we started to shave her we could see why. Did I mention our new puppy is a spaz? Try cutting her hair. Especially her front paws. Jer has a nice scratch right below her right eye. I wonder if people at church the next day thought it was from me...

Anyway, we found out that Sadie is what I like to call a nervous poo-er. Not in the sense that she can't poo with other people around, but that the moment she gets nervous she lets it go! And if nothing is up there at the moment you still get the smell. We were shaving her and wondering why it smelled. Jer had her in her lap holding Sadie while I shaved her. We switched it up and that is when I found out what she was doing. I had a little pile forming right next to my leg as she was whining. So we decided to take a break and clean things up before we finished, and that is when we saw that there was a bunch more by Jer. Well, more like on Jer. At some point she ended up sitting in it.

I have to say I never thought something that small could poop that much. Because she wasn't done. She didn't have much left, but she had enough to make another mess by the end. That's when we found out just how starved Sadie was. We think it was a combination of food not sticking with her (we had fed her 30 minutes before) and depression. Her previous owners kept her in a cage/kennel thing mostly all day long. That's why they were getting rid of her - they didn't have time to take care of her. And that's why it's good that we got her. :) She was really skittish with us that first day. Probably didn't help that we gave her a haircut the first night in a new house. She's like a little rat dog right now. I think she'll bulk up though. We're hoping she'll get at least close to 20 pounds in the next few months.

That's our news for now, other than that we are just taking care of the house and working. Jer's parents are coming here to stay tomorrow night before they leave on Friday to Africa. So we expect to spend at least part of the night visiting with them. And have popcorn. We make the popcorn on the stove and man is it good. One of these days we'll have to have some friends up here and you can try it out. So good!

Time for bed, so I'm off. Hope everyone is doing well!