Our new addition...Champ!

Every boy needs a dog, or so the saying goes. So we finally have a dog again. We have been putting off getting another dog for several years now, and Nathan has been bugging us for several years now! Recently we started looking and I told Nathan to pray for the right dog to turn up. We have never paid for a full breed dog, but Dave didn't want to go to the pound either. So we contacted the Lab rescue society and were approved for adoption, right after we had called about an older lab puppy in town. We were torn as to what to do; keep our appointment to see the dog, or just wait a week and get a puppy from the rescue people. We decided to just look at the lab in town. The owners told us he was almost a year old and they only had to get rid of him because they were both about to hit the road as a truck driving team. They just wanted to give the dog away to a good family with a yard for him to run in. After driving to Goose Creek to see the dog, we were very impressed with the owners and the dog himself. We left saying we needed to think about it, but it didn't take long. He was a beautiful dog who was already house broken, and although we will miss the small puppy stage, we also were able to sleep last night without too much whining from the dog. And he is Lab mix and not a huge dog. And he was free!! Both the boys love him, even Camden who has been terrified of dogs. Nathan has been playing with him every second he can and they look so good together running around the backyard! So our life has entered a new chapter of having a dog in the family! It will be a doggone good year!