big news.

the mr. and i have been discussing some things lately - serious things. and now i think it's time to share those things with you.

we've made a few visits in the last month or so and decided to go through with it all. after trying and failing, we never thought we'd experience the joy of having a little one in our home - one to take camping and fishing and to be our best friend. after looking forward to and wanting it for our entire marriage and things not going how we planned, we were pretty disappointed. but now, all of that has changed. oh, and i guess i should probably mention that the adoption center we visited was for animals...

yep, we are giving things another go and just adopted a brand new puppy. friends, meet copper:

you can't have a hound dog and not name him copper right? {cue the fox and the hound}

i just can't get enough of this little guy. he has seriously got to be the sweetest puppy i have ever seen. he's a big time cuddler and is actually pretty obedient for being only 9 weeks old. he's only had a couple accidents in the house and is already starting to let us know when he needs to go out. it's made me realize that we weren't wimps about jetta after all. she was just a bad egg. copper is the dog that we have envisioned owning since we started talking about even having a dog. i can't wait to watch him grow up and truly become our best friend.

-the mrs.