New Dos, New Puppies, and New Lungs!

So how do y'all like my new do?! (says with left hand on hip and right hand bouncing the bottom of hair). I LOVE IT!!! Man, I tell you that Shauna is one talented chic! Click on over to My Designs By Shauna (her button is on the left) and check her stuff out. I got all this for the bargain price of $45.00. I had been looking around for awhile for a new layout....searching for someone to do this for me....saw several that I liked but Shauna was the cheapest. Most other's were charging at least $75 for the work she did. I gave her a couple pictures that I wanted as the "inspiration", gave her a general idea of what I wanted, and she came up with all this in like a day. Then, I woke up this morning and *POOF* my blog is magically transformed into this gorgeousness!! It's perfect! Talented I tell you!

On another note I've found our puppy! And I, devil that I am, talked Kelly & Randy into getting our puppy's brother. She's a Havanese/Shitzu mix....aka. Havashu. We're driving down to Indiana together Saturday to pick them up. The puppy in the first two photos is our little girl and the last two photos is her brother and will be Kelly and Randy's little boy.

We lost power for a couple hours last night so I decided to go through the naming process the same way we did when we named Gracie. I googled "puppy names" (on my Voyager phone...we had no computer) and found several sites and just started jotting down all the girl puppy names that I liked. I ended up with about 30-40 names. Then, We (the 5 of us) all sat down and started taking turns, youngest to oldest, eliminating names one by one until we were left with our last two favorites. Now we'll wait until she's here to decide on the final name. The last two names left were Rosie and Foxie. Most of us were partial to Rosie but my daughter had a fit cause she wants Foxie. What do YOU think?

My wonderful husband is having a difficult time with all this. He feels we're being disrespectful to Gracie's memory by getting another dog so soon after Gracie's death. He feels the least we can do for Gracie is mourn her for a couple weeks before "replacing her." Don't get me wrong, he wants a new puppy too, he's just having a hard time because it's so soon after we lost Gracie. I keep trying to explain to him that we're not "replacing" Gracie....we're just trying to fill that void in our home with a little joy. So what are your thoughts on this? Is there a proper mourning time for dogs?

And now on another note. I'm making myself accountable to blog land. My hubby and I are trying to quit smoking again. I haven't smoked since Monday evening. It's been a whole 34 hours since our last cigarette. I'm not doing pills this time....we're doing the lozenges instead. Say a prayer!