Before there were three...

Before our newest addition we were a happy family of four :) Myself, my husband Ted, and our two kitties, Whiskey and Debbie.

I have had Whiskey since my senior year of high school. She is very loving cat who is often misunderstood. She doesn't like strangers much and she only likes to be held on her own terms. She has lived with me since I graduated from college and she is much happier now than she was when she lived with my parents and their cats!

Ted and I found Debbie while we were searching in the woods for our cat Lucy, who we lost last year. She was only 6 months old, and if we hadn't taken her in that night she would have soon died from an infection that she had. We got her the medical attention she needed and fell in love with her desire to sit on our shoulders and her outgoing personality. Although we were happy together in our little house, we always felt like there was a piece missing...

After we arrived home from our honeymoon I thought that I was going to have a lot of time on my hands. I knew that I would no longer have wedding phone calls to make, details to decide on, and little projects to do. But I love to keep busy, so I planned on scrapbooking, gardening, and maybe even finding a new hobby. Or maybe get a puppy!

The dog idea started one day at work with my coworker Kristi. She was talking about her dog and it made me start to think about how much I have always wanted a dog. Ted and I have talked about getting a dog for years, but we kept saying that we would wait until the time was right. I started thinking about how right the timing felt. I work only a mile from home so I have the flexibilty to come home on my lunchbreaks. We have a fenced in backyard perfect for a puppy. And our lives are only going to get busier!

Sure people have told me about how much work a dog is. But I started looking around online for one anyways, and of course I fell in love with a picture of a puppy that I found online. His name was Fonzi and he was at a shelter in Groton. He had only been there for a few days because he had been rescued by them from a high-kill shelter in Tennessee. I showed the picture of Fonzi to Ted and he agreed to take a ride down on Friday to meet the little guy. I contacted the shelter and we set up an appointment!