A New Addition To The Family!!!!!!

Meet our new baby.......................her name is Zoey! :)

AND....she LOVES water!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Here are some details about her.  We think she's a Golden/German Shepherd mix.  Her previous owners got her from the pound about a month ago and LOVED her, but the mom had to go back to work and didn't want to leave the dog alone in the house all day.  She's been fixed, has all of her shots (just needs one more heart-worm treatment), has been micro-chipped, and is potty trained!  She's between 5 and 6 months old.  After doggy sitting a couple of dogs for some friends we decided that we needed a dog with a little more energy that wouldn't lose interest in the kids and thought it would be nice to have a younger dog for that purpose.  She's a very sweet mannered dog and still has a lot of puppy habbits that she will grow out of soon enough I'm sure.  I didn't care how old she was, as long as she was house trained, and the previous owners did a great job of that, so Mommy is VERY happy.  :)  As you can see, she's VERY adorable and she likes to snuggle too.  Whenever she hears one of the kids crying she immediately goes and sits by them.  Unfortunately on our hour ride home from Lebanon where we got her from, Megan was crying because she was afraid of the puppy and she wouldn't leave her side.  A little counter-intuitive, but Megan eventually adjusted and now loves the doggy. The kids keep calling her "Chase" because that's what our friend's dog is named.  It doesn't help that she kind of looks like him too.  I think we'll just be naming her Zoey Chase Nyberg.  They're finally catching on to Zoey.  When we went to pick her up, we just told the kids that some nice people invited us over to play with their dog, so they had no clue.  We didn't want to get their hopes up if it didn't work out, or we didn't feel like she would be a right fit with our family.  Of course our kids were misbehaving and the dog went crazy with three screaming children, but we felt like we got to see the dog at her absolute worst and it still wasn't bad, so at her best, she had to be REALLY good, and once we got her home and calmed down, she was GREAT.  We absolutely love our little Zoey and now officially consider ourselves dog people.  And of course, to top it off, we went and rented "Marley and Me" last night and bawled our eyes out.  It's a good thing she's a puppy and we'll have MANY years with her before her "movie" ends.  Well there ya have it.  That's the end....or rather the beginning, of our adventure.