Our family is growing...by four feet and a tail!

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Our dear friends the followell family just adopted a daughter (Eden) from India, so we adopted their dog, Shaw! 


Jordan's excited. I'm a bundle of nerves. Shaw is just sniffing it out. 

Welcome to the family, Shaw Followell Thornton. 

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