Hello, sweet friends...
I'd like to introduce you to our {soon-to-be} new addition! I say "soon-to-be" because he is currently about 4 weeks old right now and living with his mama dog. In 3-4 more weeks, we'll get to bring him home.
We went out this evening and picked him out from a litter of 11 (yes, I said ELEVEN) lab puppies. There are 5 boys and 6 girls in the litter and every. single. one. of them is soooo adorable!!
Many of you were with us a month and a half ago when we lost our sweet Riley dog after 11 years. We have prayed a LOT about if/when we should get another dog. We still miss Riley so much, but in the last couple of weeks we've been so looking forward to the prospect of a new little bundle to love and care for. When Bart found this litter online, everything just sort of fell into place and it seemed like the perfect time to consider bringing a new "baby" into our home.
We got on the list a couple weeks ago, to go and pick out a puppy, and tonight was finally the night to go choose our new baby. The breeder has been so sweet to send us pictures each week so we could keep up with their growth progress. We fell in love with this little boy the first time we saw him, however we knew there were a couple of others on the list ahead of us, who would be choosing their puppies before us so we tried our best not to get too attached. We also wanted to observe the puppies and get at least a bit of a feel for their little developing personalities.
When we got there tonight, the breeder told us that the two people on the list before us had backed out which meant that we were now the FIRST to choose from the 11 puppies! I would say that it would have been an awfully hard decision to make except that we had already started falling for this sweet boy -- the one brown boy with a black nose -- and no one had been able to choose him before us, which meant that he was still available.
He was the first baby that Bart picked up. :)
GAH......puppy booty. Ca-UTE!
Seriously, there were puppies everywhere! The breeders had set up a temporary pen in the front yard and had all the puppies inside. Each puppy is wearing a different colored collar, to assist with telling them apart, but it was still a bit tricky to keep them all straight so she pulled all of the boys out of the pen for us and set them on the ground around us. (We were pretty sure we wanted another boy.)
In the photo above, that's our boy right in the middle......with one sister chewing on his head and another attempting to sit on his head. :)
This is the part of the show where I turn into a proud mama and force you to look at all of my adorable baby photos. :) Thank you for humoring me. :)
It cracks me up when they lay like this. Seriously.
And when I see this baby -- especially when I see this baby in my husband's arms -- my heart melts. Like buttah.
Who could resist that face?
I can't even begin to tell you how happy I am tonight. Yes, I still miss my Riley baby, but I'm rejoicing over the fact that soon, we'll bring home another baby to love and care for and I can't wait. I have plenty to keep me busy in the next few weeks, but I'm not gonna lie. I'm kind of hoping they go by quickly, so we can bring our little sweet pea home. I'm in love already.
Before I go, I also wanted to give you a head's up on a sale over at Ellen Hutson's store. Now thru July 7th, everything in their entire Paper Place category is 20% off! Click the link or the blinkie to check it out!
Thanks so much for allowing me to gush a bit about our new addition. You all were with us in our grief over Riley, and I knew you'd want to share in our joy over our new little furry bundle. You're dears like that and I love ya.
We absolutely can't wait to bring our sweet boy home. And for those that are wondering, we haven't decided on a name yet. We have a couple names in the running, but we're still deciding. We'll let you know, once we've settled on the one. ;)
Thanks, dear friends, for sharing in our joy,
P.S. There are several more puppies already spoken for besides the one that we chose, however I think there are still about 7 of them available, in case you're falling in love with one of them yourself. I'm not sure if you'd need to be local or not, but I'd be happy to check with the breeder if any of you are interested in buying one of the other puppies. Send me an email if you're interested and I can put you in touch with the breeder.
