Highlights from December

We did all our favorite things this December. So much fun was had all around.

 

Went home to Arizona to be with our family. Family time is the BEST time.

Attended our first Christmas dance party for the Edmonton Down Syndrome Society

 Had super fun slumber parties.

 One of my super favorite activities is feeding the giraffes at the Reid Park Zoo.  I always feel like a kid at my favorite zoo.

 First time going to the North Pole Experience was so much fun.  Very magical and amazing!

 Celebrating Jesus' birthday of course!  Best family tradition is attending midnight Mass.  I love singing and celebrating it brings me to tears every time.

 Playing baseball and walking to the park is also such a fun tradition we do every Christmas eve.

Losing Acer

With a terribly heavy heart I write this post.  I met Acer, my sweet soulmate's dog back in 2004.  The year Greg and I met.  I traveled to Nova Scotia for New Year's.  She welcomed me with open paws.  We loved each other from the start.  She was the most faithful, loving, loyal, hyper, caring sweetest dog there ever was.  It's difficult to write this post without breaking down and wishing for one more hug. She was protective but she loved everyone that walked in the door.  She was social and playful.  She would do her thing while we had visitors and as they were about to leave she would come to the door to say goodbye, and would stand there until they were out the door. I always said she was part human and had a heart of gold.  

Our Sweet Acer had such a beautiful life, she loved running in the field behind our house.  I loved those summer days when we would go fly kites and she would chase us and run free.  She loved walks and marked her territory at every six inches, she was so funny!

We celebrated her birthdays with a cute birthday cakes. Ana Maria and I would go to Pet Smart and pick one out a few days before her big day.  We would let her eat most of it and sing to her.

The most difficult time was telling Ana Maria she was in heaven when she came home from school.  Daddy had called me to let me know that she was gone, then he came home and we all cried together.  It was so painful to see Ana Maria's heart literally breaking for her best friend.  She was her faithful partner all of her life.  Acer was always the reason why she wanted to become a vet.  I cried for Ana Maria's and Greg's pain for the first couple of weeks and then it hit me hard that my Acer was gone.  

As mothers we always put others first including sorrow.  God gives us the strength to somehow carry others pain before us and then He carries us through our own heartbreak.

We miss her so much and we still cry for her more than once a day.  She was a MacKeigan, she was our family and we will always hold her close in our hearts. 

Rest in Peace sweet girl, and know we LOVE AND MISS YOU TERRIBLY.