Meet the newest addition to Team Watson

I know I just posted, but I wanted to introduce you to the newest member of the family.

If you remember a few months back, we lost our beloved dog, Bo Bear, that we got Amanda's Kindergarten year.

The day we brought him home.

Possibly my favorite picture of Bo and Ginger.

After we had to have him put him down, we told Brandon that as soon as he was ready for a new dog, we would get him one.  After spending Christmas Break with some of our family who had two Brittany dogs, Brandon decided that was the breed for him.  So after much research, Tom and Brandon found a breeder that they were impressed with who had a litter of pups due just in time for end of school with beautiful dogs that had great pedigrees.  

Saturday, we took a road trip to Frosty Meadows Kennels in Mt. Pleasant to pick up Brandon's new Brittany puppy that he has been patiently waiting on for months.  We now have a sweet little Brittany puppy named Annie. To say that Brandon is smitten with this new puppy is an understatement.   

Brandon's goal is to spend the summer working with the Annie, training her to be a gun dog.  That will be a wonderful project for him since this is our first summer without Amanda and I will be working.   

Ginger was very excited to meet Annie, although they spent the first evening just checking each other out and not really interacting much.  The next few days should be interesting as they work out territories and toys.  Today there has been a marked change in their playfulness and I think Ginger is happy to have another friend in the house.

A boy and his dog...is there anything sweeter?

Ginger and Annie are getting along great.  It is so cute to watch those two play together!  What is it about a puppy bark that just makes you laugh?

With our last week of school ahead of me, there are some major events coming up that are going to be extremely hard.  The Rock Ceremony, which we have participated in during the past two years of Amanda's fight with cancer is Thursday and that is going to possibly be the most difficult day for me this year.  Field Day is on Friday. We will not attend Field Day this year.  The memories of how hard Amanda worked to attend the past two years and participate with her classmates is still painfully fresh and too hard to face. 

My goal this week will be to focus on work and to make it through each day remembering to cherish who Amanda was and celebrate who she is. 

May 2013

Amanda would have loved another puppy in the house!

May 2014....how can this be just a year ago?

Mother's Day 2014

Romans 11:33-36

Oh, the depth of the riches and wisdom and knowledge of God! How unsearchable are his judgments and how inscrutable his ways!

“For who has known the mind of the Lord,
    or who has been his counselor?”

“Or who has given a gift to him
    that he might be repaid?”

For from him and through him and to him are all things. To him be glory forever. Amen.