Nana Jans visit, fun days, SAD news too.

My mom flew in Monday evening -after a LONG day and has been here a week!!! She was supposed to leave today but had a little fiasco at the American Airlines counter regarding chica and her lack of a health certificate- that i have never had to show before and chica has flown numerous times- anyways, to make a long story short- they are still here til Friday!! Brian went out of town on Tuesday and so mom and ava and I headed North and spent 2 nights in Orlando and went to Walt Disney World's Magic Kingdom!! Our trip was great! We met a lot of characters, seen more bugs on the front of my car than ever before and just had a grand ole time!
We came back on Friday and spent the weekend at the beach and pool, went on an air boat ride and held an alligator, and also went down to Miami and went sight seeing! We decided in our next life we both want to live on  Star Island !

Brian got home late Sunday night and shortly after we went to bed, we got some sad news from Chris and Dave- they had to put our beloved, sweet, loving doggie Lola to sleep :( She had gotten very sick last week and had to have a blood transfusion among other things and never fully recovered. We are all devastated and in shock. She was our baby and I spent sooo much time with her as a puppy! She was part of our family and will be missed so much and remembered sooo fondly.