They involve naps
and playing
and spending time with friends and family
Ok. So they aren't so different...
...but this one also involved cooking.
Yes, cooking! I'm so thankful for our friends Mandy, Chad, and Cady.
As Addie says, Cady is her bestest friend!
But in addition to being an amazing cook (among other things of course), Mandy is an incredible organizer!
And because of her, our freezer is now stocked with 8 meals and 2 sides.
Seriously? Seriously!
I'll let Mandy tell you more about that!
After Mandy left, I sat down to download some pictures and blog about Finn's story.
And there was nothing on my {external} hard drive.
Let me repeat that: there was nothing on my hard drive where I store all of my pictures!!!!
0 bytes out of 983 gigabytes.
Zero
Nothing left of over 30,000 files.
And I proceeded to have a complete and utter meltdown!
After many tears and Paul attempting to figure out what happened, we discovered that somehow my hard drive formated itself.
Yes, I know I'm giving my hard drive more power than it deserves...but I didn't reformat it. Addie didn't reformat it. Paul didn't reformat it. No one reformated it!!!
There is no explanation, but I'm praying what Paul is doing will recover 3 years of our pictures.
And today he's going to buy two additional hard drives so we have a backup and a backup of the backup.
Seriously? Seriously!
But the whole reason I sat down to blog {at 12:30am} was to show you these pictures of our boy.
We knew we would get another dog sooner than later.
We're a dog family. Ok, I'm a dog person. Well, really, I'm just an animal person!
But I started realizing that Audrey Kate was becoming very fearful of dogs we would be around. So I started looking at Golden Retriever rescues and moved to shelters in search of a Golden mix.
What I found though, was nothing short of amazing.
Finn was relinquished to a local shelter on March 11th because his family had too many dogs (um, don't get me started).
He became part of our family on April 4th.
I have no idea why he remained in the shelter for as long as he did.
He is so gentle with our girls. So kind with Addie. So calm.
His coat is in perfect shape. He is heartworm negative. He's a great age, being halfway through that puppy stage.
But I think he stayed because he was meant for our family.
Sure, there have been some ups and downs. Some accidents on the floor. Some barking and whining in his crate at night.
He loves to lay on the cold bathroom floor
On the cool dirt outside or underneath our huge magnolia tree.
He hasn't been mean to the cats, but he's clearly chased them enough that they are {on their guard}. You think?
But we are so thankful to have found another perfect dog for our family!
Welcome to the family Finn-ster!
