Thanksgiving, Tree Lighting, and a Sad Day

 We had a great Thanksgiving.  It was so wonderful to see my family in town from Oregon and up north.  They all got here late Tuesday night and Wednesday morning.  We mostly just spent time hanging out and watching Calin.  He is the new family entertainment! 

We spent Thanksgiving morning hanging out at Robby's parents and saw his family for a little while.  We then headed over to my grandma's house to eat Thanksgiving dinner with my family.  It was a wonderfully delicious turkey dinner!!  Calin did not have anything exciting for Thanksgiving dinner.  He just had some carrots.  Yum!

 

Hanging out at the Comeford's with his "I'm Stuffed" Thanksgiving outfit.

 What a cute turkey butt!!

 Hanging out with cousins Gracie and Preston.

 Gracie showing off her reading skills!

 Spending some time outside on the warm Thanksgiving day with Grandpa Mielke! 

 Enjoying some time with Aunt Becca and Uncle Erich

 

Playing with Grandma Mielke while the rest of us watch "Brave".

We went to "Santa's Workshop" at the convention center.  It was pretty sad compared to years past, but Robby and I still managed to spend some money...We did get to see Santa though!  Yea for Calin's first visit with Santa!! 

 Spending some time with Grandma Mielke before saying goodbye.

 Saying bye to Grandpa Mielke.  We were very sad to see them go!

The Monday after Thanksgiving we went up to Veteran's park here in Washington.  We went to see the big tree lit up (we missed the actually lighting) and to listen to the choir from the Elementary school I worked at sing.  We also had some yummy hot chocolate and donuts.  Yea for Christmas time! It's fun to get out and celebrate the season!

 Robby and Calin looking at the lights.

 Waiting in line for donuts and hot chocolate.  They were free! :)

Me and Calin enjoying the tree!

On Sunday (after Thanksgiving) I talked to my mom and dad when they got home from their long drive back to Oregon.  They had picked up our two little beagles Mia and Koby from the kennel.  They told me that Koby was not doing too well.  He had not eaten all day and was not able to go to the bathroom either.  They took him to the vet the next morning and found out he had some kidney problems.  They gave him an IV to rehydrate the poor dog.  However, it was not doing a lot of good since he still was not going to the bathroom.  Tuesday night my parents brought him home for his last night. :( We were all devastated.  They took Koby in to be put down Wednesday morning. We love our two little dogs and I was heartbroken I would not get to see him one last time.   We were able to skype on Tuesday night and say goodbye to Koby. Though he could not really see or hear us talking. :(  Poor Calin will miss out on playing with Koby.  It was a very sad couple of days for our family. We sure will miss him!  

The other sad part about this is that Koby has left his sister behind.  They have been together since birth and she is now alone.  Mia had a rough couple of nights (my poor parents!)  but seems to slowly be doing better.  She was able to go to the vet to see Koby and hopefully understand that he was gone.  How sad for our poor little Mia.  It is so sad to see Koby leave us.  My sister told me "all dogs go to heaven".  I sure hope that she and the movie are true!! :) We will miss you Koby!!