it's been an emotional couple of days here at our house...

first, Avery finished 1st grade on Friday!


she got perfect grades, and we are so proud of her! excited for summer to be here, and swimming lessons to begin next week!

also, yesterday, we found a family for Piper to go and live with. We have been wanting to re-home her for some time, but I just have never been able to go through with it. There are several reasons that we wanted to find a new home for her, and i don't want to go into all of them...

the family has 2 little girls, similar in age to our girls. both the mom and dad were SUPER excited to have a dog, and it is just a great situation for her.

but, it sucks. it really really sucks. saying goodbye to her, handing her over was so stinkin' hard. i did the ugly cry numerous times today, and i just hope that i made the right decision for our family. the new mommy and i have been emailing and texting all day, and so far Piper is doing good. she has even sent some photos for us to see, which has been helping.

anyhow, here are the last photos of Piper that we have from this morning...




sigh....i sure hope this gets easier...