I didn't know what I wanted to do as a memorial for Kona on the blog. As a journal of sorts of our life, I felt like something had to be said. But what do you say?

She was a one of a kind dog. There has never and will never again be a dog just like Kona.  She was exactly what we needed in our life when we got her.

She was named after Kona Coffee Beans, we went on our honeymoon to Hawaii and fell in love with Kona coffee, and so it seemed fitting that our brown and black dog be named Kona Bean.

She has been a constant companion of Miles and I for pretty much our whole marriage. She has been all over the country and has experienced things that dogs rarely get to do. Snowshoeing in Montana, backpacking through Utah, swimming in Key West, visiting our nation's capitol, being the mascot for a middle school youth group, traveling across the country in the front seat of a Honda Civic, camping in Yellowstone, swimming in the boiling river, Snake, Logan, Maddison, Gallatain, Yellowstone, Bull Run, and Eno rivers (the girl liked to swim) and the list goes on and on.

I tearfully went through hundreds of pictures that we have of our beloved Kona, and here are a few that I love.

She was our fluffy muppet, our western big-eared dog and we loved her more than we can put into words. She truly was part of our family and we all feel the hole that she left.  We gave her the best life that we could, and hope that she knew to her last breath that she was cherished.