-- The Grissom Family --: Millies Birthday

So today is Millie's 5th Birthday. I know everyone who keeps up with the blog does it to see pictures of Jetton, but today I have to do a post about my "first baby". Matthew and I started dating on May 5th, 2007 and SOMEHOW I convinced him that we "needed" a puppy together. :) I'm pretty good at convincing him of things so this really wasn't that hard. It was the beginning of June on a Friday and we started looking and happened to find a lady who would meet us in Searcy with her last female golden retriever puppy. I was SO excited.. I have to add that we started looking and bought a dog in the same day. It's not like it was a long drawn thought out process. We went to meet her to see if we would click. My mom went with us and we meet her in the Wal-Mart paring lot. Yes.. we broke ALL of the rules people tell you to follow when buying a dog. We didn't meet the parent dogs, we didn't see the whole liter, we didn't go to the place where she lived. We just met her in the wal-mart parking lot. One dog, one lady. Millie immediately took off running and I chased after her, when I picked her up she PEED ALL OVER ME. Matthew says this is when he knew she was ours. We didn't tell Diana, or my dad or anyone really. We just bought her and decided hey! we have a dog! We named her Millie after a character in one of the first movies we ever watched together. From that day on she was our baby. She got really sick and almost died right after we got her and she has horrible allergies and has to be on a special food. She has super weird quirks. She's very vocal..and you could stuff a teddy bear daily with the hair she sheds, but she is our baby. We wouldn't change anything about her..