Scarlett!!!!

Another post as promised :-) explaining why I wasn't completely home alone.  Back in November, right at Thanksgiving, we lost our chihuahua of 14 years Beau.  He was our first baby and was spoiled rotten by Nick and I.  We had other dogs that came into our family along the way but Beau was the only one that stuck around after we started having "real babies".  Nick and I were devastated by his lose.  I can still see his little head poking around the corner to check out what we are up to. He was such a good dog and we've found replacing him to be very difficult.  Right after our Disney trip in December Nick and I decided to get a chihuahua mix puppy to surprise the kids.  We quickly learned that a puppy was not the right choice for us.  The kids didn't like a puppy jumping on them nor did they seem to understand or care for the importance of training.  It made for a lot of work for Nick and I.  It had been quite a few years since we had a puppy and we began to feel like....what where we thinking getting a puppy.  After a lot of time and effort put into trying to make it work, we made the heavy hearted choice to find a new home for him.  And we did, he went to a single mom of an 8 year old boy that needed a play mate.  We were still feeling like we needed a family dog but didn't want to make another quick choice.  On our trip back to kc in July we all fell in love with nat and dom's big dog.  We began to think maybe a full grown big dog might be a good fit for us.  Nick started stalking recuse sites, Craig's list and the humane society looking for the right dog.  And we found her!!!

Scarlett!!! She is a six year old great pryenesse/lab mix.  We got her from the humane society.  She is perfect!! 

She sleeps with her tongue out!! The kids love her and she loves the kids back.

You'd think she's always been ours.  Nick leaves for work around 3:45-4:30am and she comes in every morning to tell me he has left.  Took a bit for me to figure out what she was doing but Now I find it very sweet and protective of her none the less.