After she had died, I looked for the heart and thought of when I bought it. I had gone shopping with my cousin Joanie a few nights before Chirstmas. I knew I just had to find a special gift for Reina. I had already bought her treats, but I remember Jr, my husband, telling me to find soemthing like the purse he had gotten her a couple of years before. I looked through so many toys and then I took one more look behind the box and I found the pink heart. I knew it was just what I wanted for her and it squaeked too. When I got the pillow, I smiled at the rainbow because it reminds me of God's promises. Then love because Reina will was and always will be a love in my heart. Maybe God was giving me something to remind me that He is always there. There is a verse in the Bibe that says "And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose." Romans 8:28. So through my baby's death, good will still come from it like sharing this webpage. And because I trust in God, I have peace and God will use me in someway. Maybe it will help me to prepare for things yet to come in my life. God knows.

Before Christmas, all the doggie toys were wrapped and left on the table because Reina always new which were her gifts.

She loved to open her gifts and little Eddie laughed when he saw her opening them. Our "grand doggies were there and Pepper was watching Reina open her present. After she opened and chewed her gift, she went over to her daddy and layed on the middle of his outstretched legs. If she wasn't with him, she was next to me if I was on the computer or in bed. I don't like this picture of me but it says it all, she was always by my side.

Of course Reina loved to be outside, like most dogs. One day when we were watering, we heard her barking and she was chasing the water going down the gutter. It was the funniest thing and several neighbors were laughing too. My son Andrew got her into a lizard craze. He would stand at the back door and tell her to go get the lizard and then he would open the slider and she would run out barking and looking around. One day she barking like a crazy girl and she had caught a lizard. It was really funny, to watch her. We loved when she was outside and would play a chase game with us. We would run to her and just when we got to her, she would run in another direction. We would do this until she we were all out of breadth.

As she got older, she did not do it as much. But if we said "crazy girl, crazy girl", she would get a toy and start running around to be chased. She made us laugh. She helped us to express ourselves freely. We baby talked with her and gave her funny names. My husband called her Ginkiters. We called her Wri Wri, short for Wrinkes, her middle name. She was the queen in our home and in fact her name is Spanish for Queen.

I don't like this silly hat.
She kept her reign well until the babies came. First Eddie and then Jazmyn and she prooved to be a loving part of the family even to them. We always included her in with the kids and she never lost her spot as my #1 baby.


Nov 14, 2007


Grampa Jr. and Reina with baby Eddie.

This is one picture that was just so special. Reina had her tail curled under her.

Here is Reina as a puppy with her new toy. She had a million toys, but just a few favorties. This toy stayed in one piece and now in my bed along with a toy Reina who is wearing her color. It is the way I am dealing with it.

When Reina was a baby, I also sang her this song I made up.
I would scratch her and sing it to her.

You are my pretty baby girl, baby girl, baby girl
You are my pretty baby girl, my pretty little darling.
I love my pretty baby girl, baby girl, baby girl
I love my prety baby girl, my pretty little darling.

The song is not lost, I sing it to my grandbabies,
substituting their name instead of Reina's.



The New Rainbow Bridge
By the edge of a woods, at the foot of a hill,
Is a lush, green meadow where time stands still.
Where the friends of man and woman do run,
When their time on earth is over and done.
For here, between this world and the next,
Is a place where each beloved creature finds rest.
On this golden land, they wait and they play,
Till the Rainbow Bridge they cross over one day.
No more do they suffer, in pain or in sadness,
For here they are whole, their lives filled with gladness.
Their limbs are restored, their health renewed,
Their bodies have healed, with strength imbued.
They romp through the grass, without even a care,
Until one day they start, and sniff at the air.
All ears prick forward, eyes dart front and back,
Then all of a sudden, one breaks from the pack.
For just at that instant, their eyes have met;
Together again, both person and pet.
So they run to each other, these friends from long past,
The time of their parting is over at last.
The sadness they felt while they were apart,
Has turned into joy once more in each heart.
They embrace with a love that will last forever,
And then, side-by-side, they cross over… together.
Copyright 1998 Steve and Diane Bodofsky. All Rights Reserved. Reposted by Permission Link below.


This was taken on Mother's Day, 2009
Until we meet again my love.


Thank you Darylynn for the Angel of Friendship, it touched my heart.

Making this page has been healing for me. I have been blessed to receive so many well wishes and support from my webfriends and it has greatly comforted me. Then today in church, our lesson began with these verses: "Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in any trouble with the comfort we ourselves have received from God." 2 Cor. 1:3,4

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