Death, Bugs, Rodeo, and One CRAZY Cat

So I haven't posted about all the little things going on in our lives cause really, there has been alot... After my appendix surgery I was kinda out of it to really realize what was all happening. And I know that the timeline within my posting doesn't match the timeline of actual events but who cares :)

For sure, I missed the Dixie Round-Up Rodeo. I mean I was there, in person. But not so much in mind. It was only 6 days after my surgery and I was still in some pain and still heavily medicated. Okay well a little too medicated now that I think about it in retrospect but at the time I felt horrible. I don't even want to post any pictures of the rodeo cause they; 1> are terrible because my camera is so freaking crappy 2> they really are of nothing cause while there I was so disoriented and confused that I didn't get any good ones even if they weren't blurry.

Then I had some tragedy in my life... Junior, our family pug, passed away on September 25. It was really hard to let Junior go, really hard for everyone actually. He was a really old dog and it was his time to go but its just hard when you've had something in your life for so long just for it to be gone. And other than him passing, it seemed to be like this passing away of a time of my life. I know its kinda lame but when our other dog, Pooch, died it seemed that it was kinda okay cause Junior was still there. But now that Junior is gone, that time of my life is gone. The time when my family was just my family, us siblings were all still at home and we were still somewhat small kids. But its all part of the journey and really, its almost nice to be starting this new part of my life when I am starting my own family. I just wish that pets could live forever like the cat in Hocus Pocus, but not die at the end of the movie. Oh and these pictures aren't of him dead, he's just sleeping :) I'm not that psycho.

This second death is very very humorous, well its humorous now.... During the hunt while Kerby's grand parents were on the mountain, we were responsible for feeding the 5 horses at the house. Well... one of the horses, Ricki, colicked and died. Yeah, it died. During the time that we were responsible for them, we killed it. Not really though, Ricki was fine in the morning when we fed and when we fed that night she just died. Kerby went out and noticed she was sick and 15 minutes later she killed over. It was really weird and it was really weird to see a dead animal... just laying out in a corral... in the rain... WEIRD

Then there was the tarantula...

... right outside our door CREEPY

And now the cat named Franklin :)

We put him underneath the laundry basket and just let him do his thing, he really is the weirdest cat I've ever been around.