Isabella Mae Clark

As many of you know, we got puppy!! It is so exciting, she is so fun and we love her more and more everyday. For months now, I have been trying to get Josh to agree to a dog. Finally last month he said, "We can get a dog when you are done with this semester." I didn't even let him think about what he had said before I was on Petfinder and KSL finding the "perfect" dog for our little family. We agreed we wanted a dog that was about 6 months to a year, that was already house trained, it would just make life a little bit easier. So I was searching, I would find a dog send him the picture and description and tell him we need it! He was a great sport about all of my email bombs with dogs from all over Utah. So the end of the semester came and we started looking at shelters last Thursday, then we went again on Friday. While we found great dogs and dogs that we thought that would fit our family we both weren't 'sold' on any of them. Saturday we went to a couple more shelters, until we finally said well I guess we will go to the Humane Society one more time even though we had been there multiple times and looked at all of the dogs they had online. We walked in, and in the lobby was 4 golden retriever mix puppies!! I took one of them out and started to cuddle and play with her. She was perfect! Josh was a little uneasy about a puppy just with the amount of work they take, but I convinced him (with a little help from Bobby and Elisabeth) that if we get a puppy we can train her the way we want to train her. So we filled out the paper work and got Izzy.

 The first picture we took of her at home.

 She LOVES to play, anything the squeaks or has frayed edges she can bite.

Josh loves her, they have bonded and in a way "come to an understanding" (Dad)