Meet Gracie

Meet Gracie, our black lab mix.  We got her the day after Thanksgiving from a lady in our ward.  We think she was meant to be ours because of the pathway she took to get to our home.  Back in October on our way to football practice Cody saw a sign at Lins Grocery that there were black lab puppies for free.  He begged and begged me to go and get one and I drug my feet saying we needed to check with Doug who was moving houses to North Dakota at the time.  Doug felt like it would be OK and we went to Lins to get a dog.  When we arrived the girl with the sign was gone, and so were the puppies, which caused a lot of finger pointing at me for dragging my feet so long.  The kids forgave me and we continued on with our lives.  About six weeks later our Relief Society President Janet Campbell place an add in our Relief Society newsletter wanting to help an elderly sister in our ward give away a black lab puppy she had and couldn't keep.  I tried to ignore the add because we still were not ready to adopt a dog, we needed a fence or a kennel to keep the dog in.  During the weeks before the add Cody had called the dog pound and asked that if a black lab were to come in that they give him a call.  Janet called the pound about giving the puppy to them and they gave her our number.  It turns out that the elderly lady had picked up the dog from Lins the night we tried to and kept her inside for the six weeks after.  She had trained her to not bark and to go outside for the bathroom and had named the puppy Gracie.  Gracie, however, was just too much puppy for the elderly lady and she had to get rid of her and gave her to Janet to find her a home.  We went over to Janets and met the dog and the kids were in love with her from the start (of course), but because of the Thanksgiving holiday we couldn't take her home.  Janet was kind enough to keep her for us until we got back from Idaho on Sunday. 

Cody was able to get a dog kennel from his Uncle Bret while we were in Dayton for Thanksgiving and we brought it down with us.  He had it assembled the very night we got home on Saturday and we picked up Gracie from Janet on Sunday afternoon.  She stays outside and lives in a doghouse Cody built weeks before when he was anticipation getting a dog.  She is a cutie for sure, and very much a puppy, biting and nipping and running away.  She has been good for the kids though, and a good friend for Cody.  I'm glad we adopted her.