On December 29 Jeff and I went to see my cousin Alice and her family. I decided we should go over to her mom’s house this time for one reason because I know that my Aunt Sue loves to see us. So this way we can see my Aunt and Uncle plus Alice and family. It was a good visit. We had pizza and it was good. Alice bought a house so we got to see pics of it. It’s a nice house but wow couldn’t believe how much they paid for it. Their house in Wisconsin would be less then a hundred thousand dollars. But in Utah it was over two hundred thousand dollars. So crazy!

Alice’s kids were being funny however her little girl Zarah was being super cute! She is one now and she can walk but she doesn’t talk yet. Just makes a lot of noise. She LOVED Jeff. OMG! It was soooooo cute! She learned how to fist bump and she wanted to fist bump Jeff more than anyone. Lol! Then she brought him her toys. Then when we were leaving she wanted to give Jeff the most hugs and kisses. It was so cute and funny!

After seeing Alice we went over to hangout with Adam. That was a whole other drama which one I thought was funny because I just knew how it was going to go. I just didn’t know how Adam would take it though. So at Christmas Kim says to Adam “Hey if you extend your trip till Friday. We all should hangout.” Adam got his ticket changed till leaving on Saturday so we all could hang out. Adam sends out a mass text to all the siblings that he wants us to come over to the parents house to hangout. It worked out because we had plans to be in Green Bay to have dinner with my parents. Which that changed because we all were going to hangout at their house and they decided to go to a concert with some friends.

Chrissy and I text back that, that will be awesome. We didn’t see Corey text back. I just knew, knowing Corey that he wasn’t coming. We all know how I feel about him and his wife. So if he came didn’t come, I didn’t really care. Jeff and I knew that he wasn’t coming. However Adam didn’t know that Corey rarely comes to anything so this made him mad when Corey texted that he couldn’t make it. Of course I was like ‘duh’. Wow Adam told him off and that is why this was funny. Just how much he gave it to Corey because Chrissy and I never say anything to him about this but Adam told him off. What I didn’t know is that this was Kim’s idea. My dad told me that, then Adam confirmed it.

Chrissy got so drunk and she is a silly drunk. We played Bang! And she was just being so funny! After that we told stories and just having a great time. So much laughing and it was great to see Adam again. Wasn’t sure if we would see him before he left. So this was perfect! I can’t wait till Adam sees Corey again it’s going to go down. Lol!

Oh no! Koko one day got this lump on his leg. And it’s not a tiny lump a big lump! We went to the vet yesterday September 28. I have been worried about it however Koko doesn’t bother it or I think he doesn’t care that it’s there. That is how he acts about it. Of course the lump is on his leg he has had so many problems with in the past.

Jeff found a vet hospital that is a little from us. The vets here in our town I do not trust. One of them you can tell they are for the money. This vet hospital you get the sense that they care about the animals. I thought for a hospital it would cost a lot. I was surprised how low the cost was and they didn’t charge for getting his nail trimmed. I think either they didn’t communicate with each other or that we got some bad news that day.

The vet knew her stuff! She straight forward and didn’t use big terms we didn’t understand. First she told us that it most likely cancer and it sits on his main bone. She could do surgery however where it is would be messy and they couldn’t stitch it up all the way because of the location not enough skin. So the healing time would be long. She asked if we wanted to do an x-ray and the answer was YES! Got to find out. Then awe!!! Heart-wrenching we could hear Koko whining and crying as they took the x-ray in a different room. I think he would have been okay if we went with him but we couldn’t. I felt bad. When he came back he coward over by Jeff.

First time ever! First time Koko was scared of the vet even before anything happened. Usually he kisses the vet and is happy but not yesterday he was scared. It’s like he knew it was going to be bad.

When the vet came back she told yes he definitely he has a high chance of cancer. She didn’t want to test the lump because she said that to take some could make it angry then progress faster. We didn’t want that. I didn’t know this but a dog’s leg has two bones. The one that is bigger holds all their weight and the second is for agility. She said the second bone was thinner then it should be. That is another indicator of cancer. She said we could go down to Milwaukee to see a specialist. Otherwise she basically stated “Koko is an happy old lab.” We agree he is. He doesn’t let a whole lot of things bother him and he is a happy dog.

Since he is 11 years old we decided to go with what the vet said. Just keep an eye on it and let him be himself. We will just go back to normal life with Koko.

Look at him isn’t he super cute! He doesn’t like his picture taken but he let me have this one.