McKenzie

Here's my confession:

I am totally becoming a dog person.

All 17 years of my life, I would never say I was a dog person. I liked to pet them and play with little puppies, but training & owning a dog just seemed like way too much work. However, then we got McKenzie. :)

I'm sitting here right now in the family room and she's just laying on her little carpet. All curled up in a little ball and her big brown eyes just staring at me. Now that I'm looking at her, her tail is wagging like crazy, making a big "boom" noise as it hits the wall behind her. She must think we're going to go play.

For those of you who don't know, McKenzie isn't exactly the world's greatest dog. I mean, she's adorable and playful and fairly obedient, but the truth is that she needs more exercise than my family can give her. And because of that, she has more energy than any living thing I've ever seen and uses that energy to dig holes in the backyard, chew up anything she can, and growl at the snakes/coyotes that somehow make their way into our yard.

Think "Marley and Me" on a smaller scale.

But somehow, through all of this, I have just fallen in love with this dog. It's one of my favorite things to just sit on the couch watching TV while she rests her head on my lap. Or to laugh at how content she is having someone rub her ears--her fav. :) Or to see what crazy-cute things she does next. Just yesterday, we looked outside and McKenzie was fully laying on top of my dad's flower bush, crushing them all but happy as could be.

The fact that I'm even posting a blog about a dog is proof enough that I have become a dog lover and someday when I'm married, I will absolutely be getting a dog. I just might not get one with so many energy... :)