Maybe coming home to more than one? :) We're considering maybe getting a second dog after we're more settled. It would be nice to have some company for Layla during the day, if we can find a dog that's suited well to her personality.

I fell in love with a little rescue dog I found on Petfinder. She's a yorkie mix and a special needs dog since she has had hip surgery. But she is very very submissive, which I think would be great for Layla since she gets upset when other dogs get right in her face and all she wants to do is hide behind me!

http://www.petfinder.com/petdetail/15819998?recno=3

Isn't she adorable??? She is located quite far from me, but only about a half hour away from my best friend, who is now pregnant and also just bought a house :) So we will be going to visit her and her husband in the next few months and if this little dog is still there I think we will also be going to see her!

Aww Lindsey! She is just adorable and I love her name. I hope you get her.:)

Thanks! I hope so too! I will be sad if she's gone before we can see her, but at least she'd be in a good home which is better than a shelter. I don't know of any dogs with the surgery she had, but I did a little bit of research and it seems like she would be okay. I worry with all the stairs in our house!

She is a real cutie pie Linds, and needs a good home. Good luck! Layla would love her!

I thought so too! I did email about her yesterday and they told me their dogs absolutely do not get trials :( Every shelter or rescue around here will do a trial but this one won't. So we'll need to be 100% sure that she will do well in our family before we get her. So it's something to think about!

On another note, I ABSOLUTELY love my new town!!! Yesterday it finally stopped raining and snowing and the sun started shining! So after work I put on my flip-flops and hauled the patio furniture out of the garage, and ran around the yard with Layla for a little while. Scott tried out our underground sprinklers in the back yard and got them working. Then we took Layla for a walk! We saw a few families out walking and everyone cheerfully said hi to us. We wandered downtown and read the "Heritage Building" signs on almost every building. They've all been there since the early 1900's! Even all of the churches are very old. The United Church downtown is the most beautiful! There was also a Roman Catholic church and an Anglican Church (the smallest of the three... figures because I'm Anglican lol!) And we decided that maybe when we get married we'll just do the ceremony there and have it small with close friends and family, and then do a reception in the city so more people can come and have hotels to stay in :D Anyways, it was just great to imagine our whole lives playing out there!

On our way home it was getting dark and we could hear the owls calling :) Little things like that make me feel so much more at home than I was in the city! I think I was smiling all night!

I'm so happy for you Lindsay! Your new home sounds just perfect! I love hearing happy endings to stories!

How far is it to drive to work? I don't remember your mentioning how far you have to drive each day. I hope it's not far and/or doesn't take long. Is the traffic bad at all?

I'm sorry to hear about the shelter not doing a trial. THat just doesn't sound very practical.

The town sounds so perfect! It looks like you and Scott found your forever home!

The drive is about 20 minutes to the edge of the city, and then about another 10 minutes to my work, and then Scott drives from here to his work which is about another 10 minutes away. However, to make things easier I just applied for a job at the same office he works at (I know I know, we just tried to get away from that, but we'd still be working for different companies and on different projects!) So I'm keeping my fingers crossed, but how much good luck can one person have?? Lol

A couple of people stopped by yesterday while we were raking the yard! One was an older woman named Grace who lives across the street from us in a seniors home. She was so friendly and gave us her room number and said she'd love to have us over anytime we want to stop by! And the other person was an older man who lives in the house behind us. He was really friendly too! I can't wait to meet more of the community!

Things just sound perfect, Lindsay! You are going to have a wonderful life in your new community!!!

Lindsey, It sounds so wonderful!!!! The neighbors are so friendly!! It sounds like such a great place to live!! I'm so happy for you!!!

Lindsey I can feel your pain about the previous weather! But today it was 25*C Here! It has gotten so beautiful, hopefully it's better there too!

You must be so excited about your new house and your life just coming together so perfectly!

Lucas sends Layla puppy smoochies :)

I'm so happy for you!! What a perfect place to raise kids:D

Thanks :)

Maddie, I saw how bad Calgary got hit! Aren't you just sick of it? Lol I hope now spring is here to stay. It's been around 20-25 C here too in the last couple of days. I actually got a tan raking the yard on Sunday afternoon! And Layla sends Lucas puppy smoochies right back :D

Yesterday we played in the yard with Layla for awhile before taking her for a walk "downtown" (down our street haha) to pick up our mail. On our way back, Scott was holding Layla's pink leash that was attached to her pink vest harness, and as we walked by the seniors centre (where they get together to play cards and things) an old woman called to Scott "I think that might be too much dog for you" Lol! I am just loving that everyone is so open and everyone says hi or waves when they pass. In the city it took us 6 months just to say hello to our neighbors and we lived in the same building!

Don't you just love small town life?

LOVE IT! I can't wait to have a family there! Everyone asks us if we have kids lol. Grace from across the street said "I always thought this would be a perfect house for 6 or 7 kids to be running around" haha I just said "Well, we don't have any YET, but someday!" :)