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I don’t think I’ve posted yet about my grandparents’ new puppy! They welcomed him home right before July 4th. I even got him a lil July 4th T-shirt for the occasion (but he ran round too quick for me to get a good pic of him in it!). Bocce is a Bishon Frise and only weighed around 3 lbs the first time we saw him. He fit under the couch, the end tables & the lazyboy foot rest!Jason & I were down there at the end of July and he’d grown so much! (But ran around so much Nana had to hold him still)We saw him again labor day weekend and Mr. Bocce is now around 7 lbs. Mom & I took him on his first beach walk that weekend, but we forgot to take a camera with us. Here’s one of my dad & Bocce. He loved trying to chew on Dad’s heating pad wraps which meant his lil booty was in my dad’s face!!

I’m sad to announce that my beach grandparents’ dog Bogey was put to sleep yesterday. He was getting pretty old (12) and we found out he had cancer in January. So it was expected but still kinda shocking and sad. My grandparents’ dogs have always kinda been our dogs too, and Bogey was certainly a special one. He and my grandfather shared a special bond. We’d joke that the order of Bogey’s love was Pawpaw, Steven (my brother), Nana then everyone else (I was only up there if I was holding a rice crispy treat!). Obviously my grandparents are very upset even though they knew this was coming. But we are all taking comfort in the fact that Bogey’s no longer in pain.
I wanted to share some of my favorite pictures of him with the blogging world. I don’t have as many as I thought on this computer, but here’s a few and the stories surrounding them. The top picture is from Christmas a few years ago~ I think ’07 is when I got that pink bag. Bogey’s favorite part of Christmas was helping Steven open the presents unless he had a Christmas ball under the tree~ he’d sniff those out for sure!
Looks like Bogey was trying to blog in the second picture~ but really he just loved that couch on the RV! My mom’s not a huge dog lover and Bogey and Mom spent the whole cross country trip “fighting” over seats. In the third picture, Bogey had decided they’d share the couch.
The fourth picture is Bogey meeting my brother’s cat Triumph when Triumph was a kitten. Right after this picture Triumph introduced Bogey to his claws and they chased each other around the apartment. It was funny and cute.
Bogey met Moe a few times when my grandparents would pick me up or drop me off while going to or coming from my parent’s house~ but only through a screen door. They weren’t fans of each other.
I took a few pictures of Bogey Easter weekend~ I think we all knew it might be his last. My Nana is a singer~ I can’t remember a time when she wasn’t in her church choir as well as her humming all the time. Well as Nana would be practicing, Bogey would “sing” along. He got so that all we had to say was “sing” and he’d start howling! Easter weekend he was doing so even with his favorite ball in his mouth. I couldn’t resist taking that picture~ it’s blurry because I was laughing!
The final picture is of Bogey napping in his favorite spot~ right in the middle of the floor in between the kitchen & living rooms~ so he could still hear/see everything that was going on.
Bogey you are so missed! We loved you so much ole boy! OIB will not be the same without you!

A guy at work lost his grandmother at the end of last week and sent out the sweetness, most heartfelt, touching email today to our dept thinking us for our cards, thoughts, and prayers. The part that touched me the most was the end which said that he was really thankful for all the time he had with his grandmother and that he was able to be with her and hug her a week before she died and to go hug your loved ones because you never know how long you have with them. That just tore me up! I was sitting in my cube crying! I am so blessed to still have all four of my grandparents. They all mean the world to me, but life gets busy and I don’t call or see them as much as maybe I should.
I’m going to see my dad’s parents this weekend. They’re so fun and spunky! Nana called me at work today to say that there’s a beach music concert Friday night and she was hoping we’d be down in time to go with her! I just can’t wait to give them a big hug! Here’s a picture of us at the wedding reception.Jason & I are going to a wedding in CLT in a few weekends and we’ll be able to see my mom’s parents then. They just moved into a retirement place~ I’ve been there once before and its a gorgeous condo but its been a huge adjustment for my very independent Papa. I can’t wait to have lunch with them soon! This is been on my mind all day, so I just wanted to share with the blogging world; go hug your loved ones!