RIP Spot

Always, always, take care of your animals when it is hot. We lost Spot to heat stroke.

This is Spot as a baby when he was being raised by his "foster" mom.















Spot as a growing boy!










Spot with his best friend Charlotte. He will be missed by us and many zoo visitors who watched him at the farm over the last 15 years. He was 18.

Gratuitous work pictures...jealous much?

Mary Lou loves to use us as a perch.














Eloy! What a good boy!













Edward kisses. (And people think Edward Cullen is cute)













Nothin' like a good ol' scratch behind the ears.

I must be crazy

So we are trying again. Tuesday we had two embryos implanted. Hopefully third times the charm. I have two feelings on this one; 1) it won't work and we will have to use our other two embryos and 2) it will work, but both will implant and we will end up with twins. I will go in for the blood test on May 3rd. Until then I will have to hope for the best.
Honestly though, this hasn't been driving me crazy like last time. I guess because when you have been thru hell, or at least feel like you have, you loose some of that excitement. I know if it does work and I end up pregnant, I will be nervous for months on end. Last time we figured all would be well once we got the ammnio test results. Then learned that even if the genetic part of the results came back good, things could still be horribly wrong. I guess I just won't be comfortable until I am holding a healthy baby. They say that life isn't fair and that it is what it is. Things so far this year have been pretty great. Hopefully this wave of good karma will continue. I won't hold my breath, but I will keep my fingers crossed.

Up up and Away!

Ever have an elephant pick you up? It's pretty cool!