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We still miss you, Kylie…

everyday, all the time. You were the best part of our lives, the best part of ourselves; you are loved always!

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Life was always an adventure with Kylie!

 

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It’s a sad day. It seems incomprehensible that Kylie has been gone, from the planet but not from our hearts, for seven years. There’s never a day when we don’t think of her and miss her and her beautiful silliness.

For example, we were just talking about how we would be lounging in the living room and Kylie would go out her doggie door and come right back in, then go right back out and come right back in, over and over.. Until somebody would ask “Kylie, what are you doing?” She would respond with a look trying to convey that something very important was happening, and we should come and check it out. Not quite the “Timmy fell down a well” look, but there was definitely a sense of urgency.

After just a few minutes of this excitement one of us girls (aka, suckers) would get up to go see what was going on outside, but as soon as you took a step in her direction, Kylie would bolt to the Cookie Bar all excited! – ‘As long as you’re up, you might as well come over here and give me a cookie!’

Of course we would try and resist and explain to her about The Dog Who Cried Wolf, but since we actually admired her powers of manipulation, she usually did get a cookie out of the deal! Which meant she would play this little trick repeatedly! What can we say… we were happy to be Kylie’s bitches!

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Kylie’s zest for life was contagious, every day had the potential for a party!

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We miss her energy and her sense of adventure so very much.

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It’s not a christmas song, but feels appropriate..

I got a pocket, got a pocket full of sunshine  526796696_893201dab6_z

I’ve got a love and I know that it’s all mine

Take me away
A secret place
A sweet escape
Take me away
Take me away
To better days
Take me away
A hiding place

 

There’s a place that I go that nobody knows
Where the rivers flow and I call it home

We’re missing our sunshine on christmas and everyday.

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It was never hard to make Kylie happy..

..and it was even easier for her to make US happy!

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..just relaxin’ by the river, in the mountains, on a perfect summer day.

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A young and very sassy looking Kylie..

It’s great when we come across a picture we haven’t seen in years, it’s like seeing her in that state for the first time!

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Once when Kylie was still a pretty young pup, back in Hawaii. We had ordered a big jug of doggie bagels. She was very pleased! So when offering them to her we just opened the big jug and held it out so she could stick her little snout in and grab one. But the little dog who seemed otherwise fearless, and always looking for trouble, was scared to stick her head in the container..

So in an attempt to empower her, as always, we encouraged her to just go for it – “carpe’ bagel, Kylie!” But she  wasn’t buying it, so then we tried reverse psychology, “Ok, guess you don’t want a bagel. Well, we’ll just leave this big, open container of doggie bagels on the kitchen floor.” And we walked away.

Unfortunately -or fortunately for Kylie- we girls have always had pretty short attention span. So half an hour later when we realized Kylie was chomping away on a big bagel, we said “uh-oh!” We went to the kitchen to find a half-empty (although at the time it seemed half-full) container of bagels! Woops! No wonder Kylie was pretty pudgy as a pup! She was sneaky!!

But the importance of this incidence was setting the precedence of Kylie conquering her fears. As long as we were patient and encouraging.. Kylie could do anything!

Drive a car, sled down the big hill, maybe even wrestle alligators.. but on that one we decided we should hold her back! (we weren’t always bad parents!)

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