Introducing EMBER
We did it...We got a puppy. The Legers next door had their 2nd litter of pups on May 31st and offered us one out of generosity for the help we've given them over this past year. We debated it. Puppies are so much work! But given that it was Summer and the boys were home to help, we though no better time than now. We've always been a two dog family and we are hoping it might liven up Freska a bit since Rags has been gone for almost a year now. All 14lbs of cuddly cuteness... We originally were going to get a golden lab, but after the calm black female was left in the litter, we decided that a black dog might wear in the mud a little better than a golden one (o; Her name was up to a family vote. W and Dad liked "Stella" and Calvin and I liked "Ember". We went with Ember def: a smoldering coal or ash from a fire. It fit a black lab! Plus Calvin's 3rd grade class had read the City of Ember books during school last year (Calvin loved them) and it