It’s April 16th already?? I’m still waiting for the nice spring weather to arrive. We had a couple of not bad days but yesterday it rained again and today was rainy on and off. Bleh.

We have a new little critter in our household. Yep another. Well, we had something very sad happen a couple weeks ago. Almost overnight one of our guinea pigs, Stanley, got very sick. We got up to find him lying in the middle of his cage breathing heavy and he sounded congested. Brent got his stethoscope out and listened to his chest and said he thought Stanley probably had pneumonia. He rushed him to the vets and they took him in right away telling Brent they were going to keep him for the day. They called us later to tell us they started him on antibiotics and that they were going to do xrays and most likely were going to keep him overnight. About an hour later they called back and said that Stanley had died shortly after the xrays - and he did indeed have pneumonia - his little lungs were full of fluid. That’s how quick it came on and suddenly he was gone. Brent had been right. We were really upset as Stanley had been our favorite piggie.

One of the other pigs has been quite sick as well for weeks now - he has abscesses all across his neck and has had to go to the vets many times. He even spent an entire week there and we just got him back on Friday. He is still not well - on two antibiotics and we have to clean his neck and wounds with a special solution.

Anyway there was a guinea pig at the local pet shop we go too that was being fostered there from the Human Society. I was in there last week and saw him and was amazed to see how similar he looked to Stanley! I went home and mentioned it to Brent thinking he would say no way, we don’t need another. But he didn’t, he said if I wanted him to get him! But I wasn’t sure I wanted another. I did phone the human society to ask about him and they said that since he is older, they are looking for someone who has experience with guinea pigs who will take him home and spoil him for the remainder of his days. She said if we wanted him, we could have him and she’d call the pet store to tell them. I told Brent and he said “Let’s go get him right now!” LOL. Since we had to go away for the weekend we waited until today to pick him up. Here he is: this is Ernest

We had a huge online crop at Scrap Galaxy this weekend and it went really well! I really wanted to get some scrapping done and participate but we had to go to Victoria for some family stuff. I did get a couple exploding boxes made on Friday ( gifts for my aunt and grandmother).

I’m teaching a class tomorrow night at Precious Memories on how to make these boxes - it should be fun!

Here are a couple pics from the weekend in Victoria - we spent most of it visiting all our family members but I did have a chance to hang out with my best friend for a little while which was cool - I haven’t seen her for awhile so it was fun. She’s hilarious and we always laugh so much when we’re together.

Ok, that’s it for tonight, I better sign off now and get to bed. Have to be up at 4:30am tomorrow cause I’m working the early shift at the gym. Then teaching tomorrow night - it will be a long day!