introducing.....

Ellie!!

just LOOK at that face!!

So we had been talking (seriously and not so seriously) about adding another dog to our family.
We thought it would be fun to have "his and hers" dogs, and to let Obi have a friend.  We also hoped that another dog would pressure Obi to eat his food better (anorexic dog over here).

We are suckers for the KSL classifieds and are always browsing either the pet section or the free section and emailing each other links.

Well my friends, that is where we found Ellie. 

According to the ad, Ellie was 12 weeks old (we found out later she was actually 15 weeks). She was not living in the best situation and needed a good family to adopt her.  I immediately fell in love with her (scotty was more interested in a german shephard or something like that) and wanted to go get her.  We contacted the people who had her and got up saturday morning and drove to Tooele to get her :)

We think that she is a little bit afraid of the car b/c that is what took her away from the only place she had ever known, but she is pretty cool with it now.  I think the family who had the puppies breed their dog and try to sell the puppies for Christmas $$, but it didn't work out so well for them this year and they just needed to get rid of the puppies before they got too old. If we could have, we would have taken home her brother, too (I think my sister almost went to get him, but he found a family).

APPARENTLY her dad was/is a champion dock jumper....which I totally believe, because you should see this little puppy jump!  She is SO much more adventurous and hyper than Obi ever was at her age!

She is just as goofy though:

Ellie LOVES Obi, and I think he's a little embarassed to admit it, but Obi loves her too ;)
He is SO protective of her, but he does pick on her quite a bit.  I think he really likes having a companion and constant playmate around.  They are definitely besties!

Fortunately, we have an awesome landlord and an awesome house with an awesome yard for them to run around in and hopefully they will catch those darn gophers!  The best is when we get back from the park, however and they are EXHAUSTED, so they just go lay down in their beds and sleep like good quiet puppies!

the trick is wearing them out, though :P

relative finder

Here we go.  This is my "look how awesome Audra's family is" post ;P

Here are all the REALLY COOL people I am somehow related to (according to facebook/BYU):

a few others include George Washington, Abe Lincoln, Richard Nixon, the Bush's, Joseph Smith, a lot of European royalty, GORDON B HINCKLEY, and a lot more WAY cool people.  There are too many to name.


You should download the relative finder app on facebook and enter in your info.  It is pretty darn awesome.  Thanks Marci :)


I'm convincing scotty to log in so I can see his stuff.  Hopefully my next post isn't how me and him are related! :/ weird.  but its been known to happen.

	Thomas Edison, 6th Cousin 7 times removed Common Relative: J CRANE From England,1599
	Philo_T Farnsworth, 7th Cousin 4 times removed Common Relative: J STEBBINS From England,1626
	Samuel Morse, 5th Cousin 7 times removed Common Relative: M BARNARD From MA,1614
	Eli Whitney, 3rd Cousin 7 times removed Common Relative: S FOSTER From MA,1656

	Gail (Candy Bomber) Halvorsen, 8th Cousin 3 times removed Common Relative: R SHEPHERD From England,1606
	JonSr Huntsman, 9th Cousin 3 times removed Common Relative: S CARPENTER From MA,1644
	The Osmonds, 9th Cousin 2 times removed Common Relative: J CROW From (B.England),1615
	Mitt Romney, 10th Cousin 3 times removed Common Relative: J THOMPSON From England,1590
	Jon Steven YOUNG, 10th Cousin 1 times removed Common Relative: J CROW From (B.England),1615

	Truman Angell, 4th Cousin 6 times removed Common Relative: J TRIPP From England,1610
	Susan Brownell ANTHONY, 5th Cousin 8 times removed Common Relative: P SHERMAN From England,1610
	Humphrey Bogart, 8th Cousin 4 times removed Common Relative: J PERKINS From England,1583
	Bing Crosby, 8th Cousin 4 times removed Common Relative: H HOWLAND From England,1604
	Emily Dickenson, 7th Cousin 4 times removed Common Relative: N DICKINSON From CT,1600
	Walt Disney, 9th Cousin 5 times removed Common Relative: J JOHNSON From England,1590
	Thomas Edison, 6th Cousin 7 times removed Common Relative: J CRANE From England,1599

	Philo Farnsworth, 7th Cousin 4 times removed Common Relative: J STEBBINS From England,1626
	Jacob Hamblin, 6th Cousin 6 times removed Common Relative: T GRANT From England,1601
	Nathaniel Hawthorne, 7th Cousin 9 times removed Common Relative: A BUTLER From England,1521

	Russel Ballard, 9th Cousin 2 times removed Common Relative: E FULLER From MA,1626
	David_A Bednar, 10th Cousin 1 times removed Common Relative: J HARRINGTON From England,1592
	Robert Hales, 8th Cousin 2 times removed Common Relative: J TRIPP From England,1610
	Jeffrey R. Holland, 8th Cousin 3 times removed Common Relative: J SNOW From MA,1638
	Dallin Oaks, 9th Cousin 1 times removed Common Relative: J BENEDICT From NY,1649
	Boyd Packer, 8th Cousin 3 times removed Common Relative: G ABBOT From England,1615
	Tom Perry, 10th Cousin 1 times removed Common Relative: J HARRINGTON From England,1592

	Oliver Cowdery, 4th Cousin 7 times removed Common Relative: E FULLER From MA,1626
	Martin Harris, 5th Cousin 8 times removed Common Relative: R MOWRY From England,1612
	Hyrum Smith, 5th Cousin 6 times removed Common Relative: E FULLER From MA,1626
	Samuel_H Smith, 5th Cousin 6 times removed Common Relative: E FULLER From MA,1626