I’ve entered several posts tonight, so keep scrolling! Some were actually written before Christmas, but we were having picture problems yet again. I think we may have it figured out now 🙂 at least until we change it again.

Well, its official – we are dog owners now. We adopted our dog last week from an older couple who had gotten it for their grand daughter who was living with them. We have been looking on craigslist for a while now for a great dog. We found one that we really wanted, and couldn’t make it to her before she was sold. The next one we went and met, and was cute but so jumpy and rowdy. When we walked away from that dog lacey was so upset. She yelled, ‘Let’s buy HIM! I want to buy him!!!” I was a little embarrassed about how spoiled she sounded, but we talked about that later. It made the situation a little awkward and very funny in hindsight. We met another dog, and he was fun and could do some fun tricks, but was not my favorite looking dog. I thought I could live with him because he had been in a house with kids and seemed pretty well trained. The people said they would call us back because they had a few families that wanted him. Well, turned out that we didn’t qualify to have him (which I was a little relieved about :).

The dog we ended up adopting is about 2 years old, spayed, house trained, and very calm and kind to the kids. She listens well and must have been trained at least a little because she sits when we tell her to, is overall very obedient, is pretty good about going to her crate at night,  has not run out the door or even acted like she would, very gentle,  and is just a very nice little dog. The only thing we need to work on is a bit of barking when people come in the door. The previous owners had named her “Baby” which wasn’t our favorite. After considering Lady, Daisy, Mele, Muffy, and several other names,on a whim we came up with Sparkle (because we had painted Rachelle and Lacey’s nails with Sparkles) and Sparkle was the only name that everyone liked (although Chelle tells me she wants to call her Baby Sparkle now and Micah wasn’t the biggest fan at first). She has gotten more playful as she’s gotten more comfortable and we are loving her.