Wild Weekend

Friday night Will and I went to South High’s football game with Will’s family.  The game proved to be a fairly exciting one!  After giving Will as many reasons as possible to critique how poorly South’s team was playing, they pulled it together at the end and went into overtime.  The overtime paid off.  South walked away with a win.

Saturday was another exciting day for me and Will.  Due to help from Will’s dad, we were finally able to get our fridge moved from Will’s granny’s house to our own.  Our landlord provided a fridge, which we have been using, but it is nice to have a much larger fridge in our kitchen at last.  Now all we need to do is get rid of the landlord’s fridge!  That kitchen definitely is not big enough for two fridges!

But the most excitement on Saturday comes from the fact that our little family increased by one.  Will and I have wanted to get a dog for a while now. We've been doing a lot of research to figure out what breed would be best for us.  We started off with a long list of dogs we were both interested in owning, then we read up on each of them.  We finally came to the conclusion that the boxer breed was the dog we wanted.

Boxers are a very energetic breed.  They love running and playing, however, they are best as a house dog because they chill and overheat very quickly and easily.  Boxers are very friendly, and they are supposed to be particularly fond of children.  Being as we planned on still having the dog by the time we start having kids, this was our main point of interest.  We wanted to choose a breed that is well known for naturally being good with kids.

We couldn’t wait to get Payton home.  Over the past three days that we’ve had her, she has learned so much!  At her last home, she lacked much human contact, let along training.  We were slightly worried that we would have a difficult time training her.  All our worries have ceased, however.  Payton has shown us just how intelligent and loving she is.  We love how attentive she is and how quickly she picks up on things.  She has learned to sit and lay down on command, and we have begun teaching her how to heel.  She does get easily distracted still, but that is only to be expected with a 6 month old pup.  After we show her something once she remembers it well.  She loves praise and is willing to earn it.  Of course training treats are pretty good encouragement as well.