Nice Evening

Yesterday we went to spend the afternoon and evening with Meema and Peepa (Dane's parents). Their house is close to my doctor so usually when I have an appointment we will go over and have an evening together. We watched the movie Marley and Me which was so good yet so sad. The movie is about a couple that adopts a rather difficult dog and tells the story of the life of the dog and couple. Spoiler alert ahead, if you don't want to know what happens skip the next sentence. In the end the dog dies and it was suprisingly emotional for me because it brought up a lot of feelings about a dog I lost about six years ago. Dane and I had just started living together down in California and I adopted a chihuahua named Star. She was adverstised in the paper as a rescue dog and I ended up beating over two hundred other applicants to get her. We had only had her for about a month in California and then we moved back up to Oregon. About a week after we got here Dane and I went out for an afternoon together and ended up leaving her alone for about four hours which was the longest she had been alone in our new place, but we had left her longer before at our old place. When we got home we found her collapsed under the kitchen table. We rushed her to a vet but she had already been dead a few hours. The vet said she probably had an undiagnosed heart condition and that because she was in a new environment and was scared that she had probably had a heart attack. It was really an awfull thing to go through but I firmly believe that she was meant to be with us for only a short time. She taught me a lot in the little while we spent together and that has gone on to benifit our family today. After watching the movie we rounded up the girls and came home but I managed to sneak in a picture before we left.


Here are the girls rocking out to Diego in their matching pink pjs. I know it's nerdy but I love to dress them alike. Can you believe that one time when we were out and they had worn matching outfits someone had asked me if they were twins? Yeah, I know. Anyways, we came home and went to bed and got up this morning and have had a nice relaxing day of arts and crafts and Dora. I love the weekends.

- Jessica