Good bye Dusty!!

Dusty came into our lives about a month before Kristen was born. Heather quickly fell in love with her and enjoyed playing with the new puppy while I was busy tending to the new born baby.
As Kristen grew up, she too claimed Dusty as her own dog. As some of you know Kristen is a dog lover even more than Heather. She always made sure that we had dog treats for Dusty on hand and fed her so many of them just because.
Both the girls would take turns in the feeding and caring of Dusty and on the weekends it was there chore to clean up after her.


Yesterday we found Dusty in really bad shape and we still don't know how it happened. She was past the point of recuperation so we had to make the though decision to put her down.
We broke the sad news to the girls after church last night and they were heartbroken. They cried and hugged each other, never seen such solidarity...

Each one got to call a friend to share the news and it was so sweet to watched them feel loved and cared for from their friends.

Yes it was a rough night but they are doing better today... of course many questions were asked
about death, where is she now?, why did she have to die? etc.. We have never experienced any thing like this before besides our beta fish and gold fish. :) It was quite the mourning process but I think they are doing better today... now the new question is: -When are we going to get another puppy?....



Not fun to watch your kids go through this but is part of life and together we learn, enjoy the memories and life moves on... and hopefully we can find another puppy that will be a great fit to our family.