Meet Shyla

Brycen's new dog. About 4 years ago Brycen had to give his dog Lady away so we could move to Hawaii. It probably was one of the hardest things to ask a kid to do, and yet he did it. Recently he was going through a box of his in the garage and came across all her old stuff. No joke folks he has some of her items laid out on his dresser next to her picture. That was his first dog, and a boy couldn't have fallen more in love.

So over the years Brycen has asked us many many times if he could get a new dog, one that is just his. So last year we decided to get a family dog, but getting a Doberman was not the right fit for our family. We still see Sophie every now and then because my dad is the proud owner of her, and in turn we inherited his German Shepherd DeeDee. Dee is the perfect dog, she is well trained and good around the kids, but she is very old.

A couple days ago Brycen seen our neighbor giving away puppies and came home begging us yet again for a dog. We told him that he already has a dog DeeDee, and though she is the family dog, Brycen still wanted one to call his own. After much thought we had to tell him no.

Let me give you some history. Lady, Brycen's dog was a small dog, one day the door bell rang and Brandon jumped off the bed to go answer it and it startled Lady and she came running out from under the bed and thats when Brandon stepped on her breaking every bone in her paw. Since then Brandon has vowed not to ever have a small dog again. And the puppies across the street were just that, small dogs.

After dinner, Brycen was sitting on the couch and you could just tell his heart was broken. So I asked him what was wrong and he got all choked up, Brandon the softy heard our conversation and started looking up on craigslist for puppies. He was sending me text messages with pictures of German Shepherd puppies and how can u resist? So we told Brycen we were going to Wal-mart, and that we would be back shortly. Little did he know we were really off to get him is dog.

When we returned he was in bed already, so I walked into his room and threw a puppy toy at him, he sat up with this look on his face, and I told him to go down stairs his dad wanted to talk to him. So he went and the rest is history... Now we don't ever have to hear how we made him give his dog away ever again!!! So here she is Shyla the newest addition to our family.