One Friday, exactly one month after we were married, we had the whole day off together to run errands and happened to be by a Petsmart where the animal shelter was displaying dogs for adoption. We stopped and played with the pups for a good 30 minutes and even talked about getting one but ended up leaving and going home to our empty apartment feeling lonely. I decided to check out KSL classifieds and I ran across the cutest bunch of red and white Springer Spaniels puppies. One female and two males left. They were born on Christmas day and needed homes ASAP. Dustin didn't have to convince me to hard to call.
The couple who had the pups lived in Nephi UT, a good two hours away from us, but told us to come down and have a look even though it was already 9pm. We grabbed a blanket and drive 90 miles an hour the whole way. In the car we talked about how we wanted one of the boy puppies and I decided I was going to name him Louie because:
A) I just like that name.
B) I like dogs with a fancy type name and King Louie sounds fancy.
C) I wanted to be able to yell out "Lucifer!" when I was mad at him.
As soon as we walked in door the puppies came running. The smallest one ran right up to me and I picked it up and instantly fell in love. It was love at first sight. When I said I wanted the one I was holding the man ask "Well, is it the girl or one of the boys?"
I held the pup out at arms length examined and replied "I'm not sure."
Everyone laughed and the man looked over my shoulder and whispered it was the girl. We took her home and named her Lucy because that's kind of like Louie and she had red spots!!
I was so worry that she would be scared and sad to leave her family but she never cried and seemed generally happy to be with us. When we arrived home I remember thinking that she could sleep with us just for the evening but tomorrow she would have to get used to sleeping in her own bed. Lucy snuggled down on pillow between us and fell right to sleep. She has slept in that spot ever since.
