Presenting Miss Dixie

Saturday was a big day!  Jack and Amelia had their first games of the soccer season and we brought home our new puppy.    

I present to you Miss Dixie Cotter

Our entire weekend revolved around our new friend.  We are completely absorbed with Dixie and all of her adorableness.   

Can you blame us?

We picked our puppy up from Rochester, WA in the morning and got to know her a little better during the soccer games that afternoon.  Amelia LOVED carrying her around during Jack’s game and recieving tons of attention.

She slept a lot

She got lots of Liam love

…and got passed around to the point of delirium.

Dixie was matched with our family based on a series of tests that rate the puppies on their traits and temperaments.    So far, she is a perfect fit.  She is on the mellow end of the vizsla spectrum, and is well on her way to being house trained.  True to her breed she does not do well alone.  Crate training is going to require a lot of patience and maybe some earplugs.

I do need some help.  Maybe from you?  Although we are naming our new dog Dixie, we need a different name for her official registry.  The litter all needs to be registered with spy names.  Never having watched a spy movie (that I haven’t fallen asleep during), I am totally lost.  Even google is of little help.  Do you have a great spy name for our little Dixie?

Dixie spying on Cali (who was chasing shadows)

What is your favorite spy name?

Puppy Love

Ultimately, there are only 4 reasons why one finds themselves off to bed at just 8:55 PM:  a really good day, a really bad day, illness, or an early morning.  I am happy to report that last nights early turn down was the result of a super fabulous weekend.  I hope that wherever this finds you, you can share sigh and smile in reminiscence of a happy weekend .

We extended our weekend by playing hooky from Friday afternoon responsibilities.   In the clear, bright skies, we headed out to our cabin in the Olympic peninsula Friday afternoon.  That gave us a full two days to swim at Lake Cushman, hike at Dow Creak and play in the forest.  We also made good on a summer long promise to our children.  Well, we sort of made good on a promise.  The promise was to rent Kayaks.  With only one 2-person kayak left and 5 of us, we had to make do with a motorboat.

Beautiful Lake Cushman

Sunday afternoon is usually the time when the dread returns to our bellies.  Not this time!    Yesterday, as we packed up and closed down our Hoodsport home, we were excited to leave.  Why?  Because we were headed out to meet a new little of vizsla puppies!  After following pictures and videos of the anticipation, entrance, and early days of these 10 pups, we were finally going to meet them.  The result:  puppy love.

Amelia's Fav

Sleeping Puppies

 Which one looks like a "Cotter"?

I plan to ride this puppy bliss all the way to next weekend.