Back in 1996 my mom and I saw a dog listed in the newspaper and decided to go look. We drove up to the house and come to find out it was the house some of our friends had lived in previously. Nikki came out and we fell in love and got her right then and there. She was a year old at the time.
We got her the summer before I went into the 8th grade. I remember that I had to do a speech in class and I did it about our new dog, Nikki. My mom even brought her into class as the visual aid for the speech. She's been with us through a good stretch of the Life Rollercoaster with lots of ups and downs.
Nikki was there riding along with me when I was 16 and learning how to drive stick shift in my mom's truck. It almost feels like yesterday we were riding around the block and playing Genie in a Bottle by Christina Aguilera.
