I think March was pretty empty. All of us got covid for the second time so not much fun was had.
April we got to have some visitors join us for Easter. I wish both Caleb and my health would've cooperated a little better, but we still got to enjoy the days.
The kids got to make (and sample) some Easter chocolates.
They got to enjoy their easter baskets. I don't know how I didn't get any other pictures, but now that the kids are older it just seems to be how it goes.
And long before April arrived, Caleb and I stumbled across a puppy. If you know us at all, you know we weren't entirely sold on getting a dog. Arya has literally been asking for a puppy for 10 years. She had a puppy themed first birthday party because that's all she wanted and loved. Both kids have consistently asked every year, but it never seemed to go farther than that.
Well, we saw a picture on a rescue website.
I showed Caleb the picture and he said that's the one.
It ended up being a litter of 9 at a rescue in Texas. They found the mom and babies on the side of the road eating a dead animal and all of them were starving. We went through the whole adoption process, interview, house study, all that fun stuff and we ended up getting the pick of the bunch.
Bowzer officially joined the family in April. They have no idea his birthday, but the best guest is 4ish months. We know his mom is a german shepard, but no idea who the dad is, some of the litter looks like it could be black lab mixed, some of the litter looked like it could have belgian malinois in them (with Bowzers personality so far we're thinking the latter is a definite possibility.)
We kept the entire thing a surprise from the kids in case it didn't pan out. When it's a rescue place you never even know if they'll still be there the next day. The plan was to get to surprise them when they came home from school. However, he was in a transport coming from Texas so he ended up arriving to our neck of the woods at about 2am. We were then going to try to surprise them when they would wake up from school in the morning, but he went so crazy with his squeaker toys that both kids woke up. I wasn't able to get Casen's reaction because we weren't expecting him to come down, but I did catch Aryas'. Mind you it was literally 3 in the morning, so she actually told us the next day she thought it was all a dream.
So the rest of our month has been full on puppy mode. He's a little insane ball of energy. He is super super smart. He gets most things in one training session. He'll play fetch as long as you'd like to, chase any squirrel in the yard, and zoomies I think are his favorite pass time. Unfortunately, we're not sure if it was his life before rescue, or personality, or the transport here, he is definitely scared of I think just about everything, including his own shadow and the wind. We're hoping soon he knows he's completely safe and gets to settle in, but he sure is making life interesting.
The floor is lava when he plays fetch
So, welcome to our crazy family Bowzer, you fit right in.
