Heather,
Hi. You are so sweet for offering to help me get some pictures, thank you. I do feel rather frustrated about not having seen the puppies yet. And to be honest with you, I'm not really sure what approach to take. That's why I told you that I feel so frustrated that I'm so far away. It's not like I can call Jayde up and say "we really want to come take a look at the puppies this weekend, can we?" I feel so helpless. I've been telling her since they were born four weeks ago that I'm dying to see pictures. The first few weeks after they were born, she was still taking care of the three puppies from Tori's litter so she really had her hands full, and I understood that maybe she didn't have time to take pics right away, get them developed, and then scan them. Then after a couple of weeks passed, and their eyes started opening, she said she wanted to wait a week or two until their eyes developed more because the flash was damaging to them. So finally, last weekend I sent her some pictures of me and Joe, the boys, and the dogs, and she told me she had pictures she was developing and would try to scan them that Sunday night. Then I didn't hear from her until the end of that week because her e-mail wasn't working. So now, I'm hoping for pictures anyday, but so far, no luck. Would you like to be an ambassador for me and go see the puppies?
Just kidding, I wouldn't really ask you to do that.
So the wedding was beautiful huh? You and Mike are still newlyweds, CONGRATULATIONS!!! How long have you been together? I think I should have been a wedding planner because I just love everything about them. They are so pretty, festive and emotional. I love the decorations, the ambience, the dancing and music, alcoholic beverages (champagne in particular), the flowers, seeing the bride for the first time, etc., etc. For the longest time I was addicted to "A Wedding Story" on The Learning Channel (do you guys have that). If you don't get that, it's a half hour long show where a tv crew interviews and follows a couple planning their wedding. They talk about how they met and then at the end, they show their wedding. Then after I started getting tired of that, I started watching "A Baby Story" which is also a half hour long and a couple talks about how they met, getting pregnant, and then at the end they show the birth (in a very PG way). That show will give you major baby fever though and it was one of the main reasons I got pregnant with Tyler, so it's kind of dangerous.
Getting a dog, rather than having a baby, was a wise decision for now. Puppies are MUCH easier, and they won't ever tell you off after a certain age. My ultimatum to my husband was kind of the same as yours. I told him that I'm sick and tired of being the only female in this house and drowning in this constant sea of testosterone, so I told him either we get a female dog, or we try to have a baby girl (I was secretly hoping for the puppy) so he didn't hesitate and said we could get a dog.
So Jackson will be your first Boxer huh. You are definitely in for a treat. They are like no other dog in the canine world. They have such incredible personalities and you guys are in store for MANY laughs. I read other people's messages on here about them being really hyper and having problems with them being destructive, but I guess we got really lucky with Apollo since he was very mellow, and was pretty much a good boy most of the time. However, in retrospect, I wonder if his mellowness was partially due to his being sick all the time. If he had been a completely healthy puppy from the start, maybe he would have been more hyper. So to be honest with you, we may be in for a treat with Marley. But the looks they give you, the way they "talk" to you, and most everything else about them is so endearing. I was telling Jayde that the thing I look forward to the most is pinching Marley's jowls. I used to grab Apollo's droopy lips and look him right in the eyes and kiss him and he just loved it. And the funniest thing ever was when I used to take him for rides in the car and I'd put him next to me in the front seat with his seatbelt on and I'd look over at him and he'd just be sitting there like a human looking straight ahead out the window and sometimes he'd look over at me like "wassup mom, I'm just chillin over here checking out the scenes." We didn't get another Boxer until now because I was too afraid it would remind too much of Apollo, but I just got to the point where not having one seemed worse.
So the puppy you had posted the picture of may not be the one you end up getting?
