The Myers' Get A Puppy!

When we first got married, we brought home a stray boy yorkie. He was scruffy, wild & not a puppy like we thought. After 8 months of having him, we decided to find him another home. It wasn't that we couldn't handle a dog the first time around, but we just didn't make him a priority like we should have, and lived in an apartment. We made a LOT of mistakes with our first experience of being dog owners, and we had more failures in it than success, but we learned!

Two years later, we are ready to try this whole dog thing again! We are trying to be prepared & educated. Pinterest has taught me so much! We've purchased a legit dog crate for her to sleep in at night. In fact, we've purchased a LOT for her, and we still don't get her for two more weeks! :) I've been trying to clean every inch of our home extra close to make sure she won't get into anything. I feel like I'm puppy nesting, haha.

Jearen called me one Friday and at the end of the conversation he mentioned us getting a dog. I haven't talked about a dog in a LONG time (the only time I mentioned it was when we were putting our hardwood floors down). He was pretty set on getting a girl labordoodle, and I just thought it was the sweetest thing. Over the weekend we talked about all of the pros/cons and I had several doubts (just being honest) but his desire for this dog just cancelled my doubts.

We picked the name Maggie because Jearen grew up with a dog named Maggie, and I wanted to keep it in the family. We picked her out last Friday night, and are enjoying all of our time before we officially become a family of 3 ;)!

Any suggestions, encouragement or advice would be great for us with raising this little gal. It's going to be hard work, but I'm excited to have another chance to be the best puppy mom I can be.

Counting down till she's home!
-Becky

Zac Brown Band Concert!

As soon as the tickets were purchased, I looked forward to this concert! I knew some ZBB songs from the radio, but didn't purchase my first cd of theirs until Easter (part of Jearen's Easter basket that I gave him!) You Get What You Give is such a good album. Thanks to my friend Serena, we were able to get the other two albums to catch up before the concert. The music was so good, and it was a blast being their with our friends, Chase, Serena, Nick & Tiff, but I'll be honest, the crowd (from where we stood) was disappointing.

Don't get me wrong, it was PACKED, but we sat on the lawn and it seemed like we were stuck in high school at a football game. You know what I'm talking about...where everyone stands around to socialize and hang all over each other. Where the guys sneak in alcohol and the girls obviously did NOT dress that way when leaving the house! Yeah, we had to stand back there with that! Plus random chanting of "USA! USA! USA!" DURING the concert. (I'm patriotic, but know when to hush when someone is pouring their heart out while playing in front of thousands!) But hey, when "Chicken Fried" played, the kids stopped their annoying party to sing along. To which point we say "Hey, welcome to the CONCERT!" HAHAHA. Oh man! We have another concert to attend on the lawn in June (MUMFORD & SONS!) but after that, we learned our lesson: either get there EARLY to sit up closer on the lawn OR pay the extra $ for an actual seat!

-Becky