Jude and Anna play with Olive for the first time

After over a year of thinking about it and weeks of planning we finally picked up our new puppy on Wednesday. Marcy and Anna drove up past Fort Collins to pick up Olive and brought her back to her new home. The kids fell in love with her right away with Jude calling her an angel when he first saw her. Anna met her last week and then did the drive with Marcy.

What a cutie

I was in New York until Thursday night so I missed the first 24+ hours. But Marcy got a decent night’s sleep that first night, it certainly could have been worse. In fact she has been a great puppy so far. Marcy has spent a lot of time reading up on dog training and we have her on a schedule and we get her up once a night to go to the bathroom and she has been pretty good then sleeping through until sunrise.

In full flight…Olive loves to run

Needless to say our weekend revolved around Olive. We took her to Anna’s soccer game but unfortunately dogs were not allowed on the ground. So Jude and Marcy took turns looking after her. Jude’s soccer game was a 45 minute drive on Saturday so Olive stayed home. And then Anna, Jude and I went to see Avengers End Game on Saturday afternoon which we all enjoyed. That was actually the second time in two days Jude saw the movie, he also went to a Friday showing given he was off school all week for Spring Break.

My favorite photo of the week

This morning, while Marcy was at the gym Anna, Jude and I played with Olive for a solid 90 minutes. She loved it but tired herself out and she was pretty listless for the next several hours. She was happy to be in her crate for the rest of the morning.

Olive loves to bite so Anna is trying to get her to chew her stick

We forgot to celebrate Anna’s half birthday on April 7 and I was out of town anyway. So, on Friday we all went to the donut place by Anna’s school where she enjoyed her now traditional half-birthday donut.

Anna with her half-birthday donut