Our new puppy!

Meet Almanzo-- "Manzo" for short! He's the cutest ball of fur you've ever seen! We picked him out a few weeks ago and he was ready to go today so Todd and Katherine went to pick him up tonight. Both boys are sick with the flu, or we would have all gone. We thought of lots of names: Cousteau (for Jaques Cousteau since our theme this year is explorers and we are doing marine biology), Flame (we just read Heleman 5 and we all loved it and Nephi and Lehi were in flames but were not burned), Diego (as in Dora and Diego), and Almanzo after the main character in Laura Ingalls Wilder's "Farmer Boy" book that we just read and all loved. Alex loved the book so much he read it in his Friday school, we read it as a family, and he read it again to himself. Reading that book made us want a farm and want animals, and that's what lead us to getting him. In the book his mom called him "Manzo" for short. Out of all the names, he seemed like a Manzo, and he would look when we called him Manzo.
He is full of energy and playful and hasn't been at all shy or scared since it came to our house. We are all so excited about our cute puppy!!!!