Entry for April 12, 2008

I woke up so tired this morning. Kayla slept terribly and therefore so did I! I think she is cutting her 2 yr molars and its just so painful.. her cheeks are really flushed and she keeps rubbing her gums with her fingers.

Jim went to work early again this morning. He had a tough day yesterday and didn't make it home till almost 7:30pm. He was a little down and out this morning... so when he got home we just had to get out of the house.. we went garage sale hunting and the weather was just terrible.. a mixture of ice and snow.. it was SO cold! We found a few little things, nothing special. Then Jim remembered that he heard on the news that Wayside Waifs (a pet shelter in KC), was having a 1/2 off adoption fee weekend.. so we went over there and played with a few dogs.. but none of them felt like they would fit into our family. The place we packed and I just felt so rushed in there. When we left there, Jim had a paper with a list of all the other shelters in the area, and there was one in Raytown, so we typed it in our GPS, and off we went. We walked into the shelter and they were the nicest people. They had SO many dogs there, I was very impressed! Out of all the shelters we have been to here, that was the nicest, cleanest one in my opinion. So.... we started walking around, looking at the dogs, when I came accross some puppies. Some people came in like 10 minutes before we did we dropped 3 puppies off. They were lab mixes and two were black and one was yellow. I hovered around the cage since the 2 black puppies were taken and there was a couple there looking at the last yellow puppy. I just kept on thinking, "if she is meant to be ours, then she will be ours". Sure enough, they picked a different puppy who had been there since yesterday!! We pick her up from the vet on Monday.. she is getting her shots and getting spayed. We are still deciding on a name. Here are our first pictures of her.

We think she will make a great companion to our precious Jozie, who by the way is jumping at the Dock Dogs competition at the Pet Expo next weekend!!! Here she is!