After missing having a four-legged friend around our house terribly and lots of research, Neal and I finally decided to get a dog back in February. We found out about a litter of the breed of dog we were looking for through a friend and started setting it all up! The mama was due soon, so we waited for news of the pups arrival! We heard from them in late February that they had 10 sweet puppies and one of them was ours! The next week, we shared the news with the girls, who counted down the days! We picked out toys and started making lists of names we liked. We eventually had a ranking system to pick our family's favorite name - Piper! The wait for her to be 8 weeks was so long, but finally on the 20th, we were able to meet our sweet pup. She was in Lubbock, so we started our drive right after getting Meredith from school (the drive was a little long with a still recovering Jillian, but we all survived!) We stayed the night in Lubbock, and got up early Saturday to go meet Piper! Then we headed straight back home to introduce her to her new house.
A picture of the 5 of us at Piper's first family's house
Piper did awesome the whole car ride home. She pretty much just snuggled in my lap for the whole 5 hour drive. Such a sweet puppy!
We are just loving sweet Piper - the girls adore her (although sometimes her excitement is a little too much for Jillian!) We are working hard to keep toys out of her reach. But all in all, this little girls just loves to snuggle and love on us. The girls have never laughed so much as they have this past week with Piper. We are so happy she is at home with us! Here are some pics of us during her first week!
Look - Piper fits in Jillian's new Doc McStuffins wagon. Poor Piper!
Meredith is definitely the most smitten with Piper. She writes about her at school and talks about her constantly and just can't wait to spend every minute with her.
It has been unseasonably cold and Vizslas don't deal well with cold, so we pulled out a coat of Coki's for a walk.
Snuggling on the couch is her favorite pastime!
She sleeps with her tongue out! :)
Sweet Piper helped Jillian with her breathing treatments
A proud Hill Student of the Week and puppy owner! Meredith loves me to bring Piper to pick her up from school. Piper was a little apprehensive the first time, but now she is loving all of the little hands that love on her while we wait on Meredith! Piper has quite the fan club now.
The girls are doing great helping with Piper, too - they actually are excited to help with the poop scooping! And they fight over who gets to feed her. Plus, Meredith is always up early so she can walk Piper in the morning.
We've taken Piper to the park several times this week. She has fun but is always exhausted from the walk. Here is also tuckered out from digging in the sand box!
Piper is also helping me to get the girls awake if they sleep too late. She is always more than happy to lick their cheeks to get them to giggle and wake up. Here she helped me with Jillian, only to collapse asleep on the bed seconds later!
Here are a few pictures we got from her family to introduce us to Piper...
Piper and her brothers and sisters at 1 week old!
Our first shot of Piper. We got to choose her through email which was a little stressful. This was the face I first fell in love with, but we waited to hear about temperment to choose her. I was really happy when I learned that the one we felt fit best with our family matched with this sweet face! I think she was 5 weeks here.
Here she is cuddling with the family at 6 weeks old.
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