Bye Sweet Ramona

Our baby girl left us yesterday. After 12 years it was very hard to let her go but it was time. She was diagnosed with a pretty severe case of irritable bowel syndrome (similar to Chrohn's disease) more then a year ago but had had been doing well on medication. Sadly over the last few weeks she stop responding to her medication and went downhill fast. She was about as sweet as they come and had the best purr ever. She pretty much purred anytime you talked or petted her. She was sweet and mellow and loved sleeping on the couch and laying in beams of sunlight on the wood floors. We are very sad and will miss her.

35 weeks prego

Hard to believe we are in the final stretch. We still have a lot to do. Here are the latest images plus my belly made the news. Too funny. You can see it here:

http://www.kvue.com/video/index.html?nvid=241995&shu=1

Breaking up a curb

Check out the photo of our back yard transformation. Somehow Jon talked a group of friends to help tear out the mysterious curb in the back yard. It was a lot of work but the beer and oysters after word made it a little more fun. Jon next ripped out the circle in the center of the yard, cleaned it all up and added sod. The checker board pattern makes me think of a giant chess board. He has been working on the beds and all the trees are now filled in. Will post more images as more things start to grow and bloom.

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