SOPHIE!!!

So we bought our very first dog today! I am SOOOOOO excited I can hardly contain it. We aren't going to pick her up though until after we move the first week of April. The story of how we got Sophie couldn't have played out more perfectly. Chris works nights, so we we're looking for a buddy to be at the house and make me feel safe. That's when Chris got really hooked on dobermans. The thing is a good doberman can range from $1,800-???. And that doesn't include shots, etc. We were pretty convinced we would buy from this breeder in VA. But they were selling their dogs for $2,500. Which is a lot for poor college students. We called another breeder who lives about 1 1/2 from us to see what she had available. She didn't have any puppies, but when Chris explained the situation and what we were looking for she said she might have a solution. She had 3- 6yr old female dogs that she was done breeding that she was trying to place in a home (and was selling them A LOT cheaper). So we planned on coming down for the weekend to check them out and see if one would be a good match for our family. Well...we weren't able to go down over the weekend but set up an appointment to go down today.
When we got there she had even better news. A lady who had bought a dog from her 3 years ago was moving and couldn't take the dog so she had brought her back for the breeder to find the dog a new home.
She is as sweet as can be. Already trained, mellow/yet not boring, loves to cuddle (its like she cant get close enough to you) and LOVES to please. Her and Savannah hit it off right away. Sophie (the dog) came up to Savannah and Savannah went right up to her and kissed her on the nose, it was the SWEETEST thing! Sophie was VERY gentle with Savannah. We are VERY excited to be able to bring our Sophie home...not till April though! The breeder was nice enough to hold on to her for us until we moved out of my parent's house.

SO EXCITED I CAN HARDLY CONTAIN IT!!!!

Airplanes and Cars

We went to Idaho this last week. Poor Savannah was SOOOO sick of the driving by the time we got home. Poor kid! Surprisingly she did GREAT on the plane ride home. The only time she really even cried was when she pulled the tray in front of her down and it smacked her in the face...so she had every right to cry! She made a few friends with all the people behind us.
She was very entertained with her train book she got from Aunt Julia, Uncle Randy, and cousin Parker for her birthday. We drove the train on the tray table and say "CHOO CHOO" she would giggle every time I said "choo choo!" Thank you Randy, Julia and Parker!
At one point I was reading a book with her. Baby's First Colors, each page has a different color theme with pictures of something in that color. On the yellow page there was a picture of a banana and three other yellow items. She grabbed at the banana and "shoved" it in her mouth with a gulp sound. I was laughing SOOOO hard. I've never seen her do that before and frankly I have NO idea where she got it from. Then she did it again, only this time put her hand up to my mouth as if to feed me and said "Mmmmm".