Easter Surprise!

So Easter this year was full of lots of fun....and....excitement. haha  So the day before Easter, I'm running errands with my mom.  We went to Petco to pick up dog food and walking in with this man is the cutest dang puppy.  So I'm asking him about her and then he says, "She's actually here for the dog adoption going on today.  I'm just her foster home."  I'm like HOLY COW don't tell me that.  If you know me, you know that I can't resist these sweet little animals and when there are adoptions going on, I will turn and walk away because if I could, I would bring every single one of them home with me.  But I can't.  So I don't even look.  But with this one, it was too late.  I put her in my shopping cart and hauled her around the store with me while I thought through all of the reasons why I should or shouldn't keep her.  I was not planning on getting another dog.  Puppies are so much work, and dogs in general are a permanent responsibility as well.  Plus, I had a really good thing going.  Sadie is the best dog in the whole world.  She stays home for 10 hours a day while me and Jordan are at work, she doesn't destroy anything, she doesn't have accidents in the house and she's just an all around amazing dog.  So I didn't want to throw that off.  But this puppy!  For some reason I couldn't leave her.

I called Jordan and he wouldn't even come down to the store to see her.  (He knew he would fall in love with her too.)  And told me he didn't want another dog and that I needed to really think it through.  Long story short, I ended up bringing her home.  Jordan was not thrilled.  I promised him that I would do all of the training and work of raising a puppy and another dog.  For the first week, I heard nothing but how horrible it was having another puppy in the house and that Sadie was miserable.  (Both were exaggerations of course, but I did bring her home against his will.)  So I just gutted it out.  Many times I thought, WHAT WAS I THINKING?!  But I just couldn't bring myself to not keep her.  I've had opportunities to adopt before and I turned them down, but this time was different for some reason.

So because I have to work everyday, I LUCKILY have this amazing brother who comes to my house every single day for 4 hours to let her out of her kennel and play and go potty and such so she doesn't have to be stuck in there for 8-10 hours a day.  He is also helping me train her, which is most helpful since I can't be there all the time.  I was so lucky with Sadie because I was able to bring her to work with me while she was a puppy.  So I was with her all of the time.  But this time around it's different.  I'm so grateful for EJ!!!

Anyway, this time around is a whole different experience, not only because of EJ's help, but because this puppy actually sleeps through the night in her kennel.  Wow does that make a difference.  With Sadie, I was up every hour during the night, then had to work full time and take care of her full time.  I did not enjoy Sadie's puppy months near as much as I should have.  I was just so tired I couldn't even cope.  So it's super nice that I'm not feeling like I'm going to keel over and die everyday like last time.  Plus I have Sadie to help too.  At first Sadie wasn't too thrilled about this new thing in our house, but now they play together and Sadie is a good big sister teaching her how to be a good dog.  Now for pictures. :)

Meet Dixie, 8 week old pointer mix.

The next day, on Easter Sunday we carted the girls over to my parents house for dinner and a small Easter egg hunt.  It was a lot of fun!

It was nice to come home with exhausted doggies too!

Now that we have had her for 2 weeks, she is finally starting to learn her name and getting better at potty training- yay!  She is still sleeping through the night, even bigger yay!  Last night we went on our first walk with both the doggies.  It went perfectly!  Dixie learned to walk with Sadie and it was so cute.  I'm so happy that it's finally the weekend so I can spend even more time with both my cute girls!