In loving memory...

It is with great sadness that I announce the passing of a dear family member. Not a family member of flesh, but of fur. Our gerbil of just over 3 years, John Rambo, passed away today... He's was sick all day yesterday, I didn't even think he would make it through the night. His tired and old little body managed to make it through today and he passed away just over an hour ago.

Call me crazy for going to such lenghts with this, but he was a part of our lives for over 3 years. There's an empty cage now where he sat and where a piece of my heart lies. I still remember the day we got him. He was so tiny and weak, he didn't look like he would make it. Well, he proved us all wrong and grew up to be a strong and wild little man. He will be forever and deeply missed...

Here are some of my favorite pictures of him:

RIP little man, we will miss you...

Another addition to our furry family...

Yes, it's true. We got another animal. It's a baby gerbil. And it is oh so cute. Well LaVaughn, Jake and I all went in the pet store Saturday morning, well it's more like a feed store, but they have animals too, but anyway. We were looking around and noticed that in a cage under the fully grown gerbils, there were little tiny baby gerbils! I thought LaVaughn was gonna die. The whole time we were there she was like, "Oh my god, they are so cute, I want one!" So I went and asked one of the guys that worked there if the baby gerbils were for sale and he was like "Yeah." He also said that they had just been weened last week. So after we decided to get one, We picked out one of the cutest ones we could find, (but they were all cute) got it a new cage and left. We're still trying to decide if it's a boy or a girl. We're pretty sure it's a boy though, you can kind of tell. Well post her/his name when we think of a good one. Well that's about it. I'll post a few pics below. - Megan

He is so little and cute.

And also very fast and jumpy.

Look at how tiny it he looks in his cage.

Just a nice shot of the cage. We'll probably have to get a bigger cage when he's fully grown.