Meet the baby!

I guess there really is no explanation as to why I had to get a baby, but Mark obliged and we would like you to meet Bandit, our german wirehaired baby. I got an "itch" and started looking online for GWP pups, all the locals pups were from breeders and had papered lineage, so they would cost us a very pretty penny, but I found a couple selling purebred german wirehair pups for way cheaper than the $1000 the breeders were asking. However, these cheap pups were in Camp Verde, Arizona. (Mark's brother and sister-in-law, Steve and Heather, were coming out to visit us, and they got to Rawlins before the gates closed. They stayed overnight in Rawlins, but when the gates still were not open by noon the next day, they turned back to Utah, vowing to return when it's not snowing.) When they turned back, Mark asked me if I wanted to head to Arizona and go pick up the pup? The time we had originally set aside was the first weekend of May, we're pretty busy, and it's a 12 hour trip to Camp Verde, and a 12 hour trip back to CO. So, we bought some Dew, gummy worms, sunflower seeds, and some cashews and headed south. (It was snowing so bad in Denver when we left, it was awful. And Mark's work called and said they had an emergency in Boulder-opposite direction- and they might need him to go get some raccoons out of some guys house. So we turned around and waited in Lone Tree for the word to head to Boulder or not. The word never came, so we went on our way.) We stopped in New Mexico for a bit, and then we stopped just inside Arizona to sleep for the night. We then passed a shop saying FOSSILS but it had paper mache dinosaurs eating manequins ( hilarious and odd) and then we stopped at Wal-Mart a 1/2 hour away from Camp Verde, for dog food, dishes, a towel, treats and water. We then picked up the pup, and decided on the name Bandit, and it totally fits him now, he's always running away with his duck trying to hide it. It felt like the longest trip ever on the way home. (We stopped by at the Grand Canyon, it's beautiful and amazing, but not really on the route from Camp Verde-Phoenix to Denver, so the trip was longer going home than it was heading out.) But Bandit was a good puppy, and he didn't pee or poop in the truck at all! Whenever we'd pull over, he would always go then. He was such a good boy! But we finally made it home, and Bandit is adjusting pretty good for being 8 weeks old. So, welcome to our family Bandit! Yayay!

Love- bry and mark