Hoping for Homeward Bound

Most of you know our recent news of Olive being lost. However, somehow it feels wrong to continue posts as if everything is the same. She has now been missing for over a week and we are heartbroken.

Today would have marked a year since we adopted her. We were so excited and had planned to celebrate her "birthday." We know that God can work miracles and are praying that He brings her back to us. 

 

Even though she isn't with us, we still wanted to celebrate her and the time we spent loving on her! 

 Sept. 25, 2011 - Bringing her to home for the first time!

Her first trip with me to Wash Park! (Sept. 2011)

 This is one of my favorite pictures! Matt was taking a picture of my new snow boots and Olive just had to be in the picture as always! :) (Oct. 2011)

 Another favorite with Matt...If we were on the floor, that was always an invitation to her! (Oct. 2011)

 Olive's first camping trip!  (Mar. 2012)

 Olive's first friend, Duke! They loved playing in the river together. (Mar. 2012)

     Olive was always exhausted after our big adventures! (Aug. 2012)

 Our first camping adventure in the living room. Even at home she had to be right in the tent with us! :) (Sept 2012)

 This is Olive sitting on our balcony chair watching for Matt to come home from work! Once she would see him, she would run inside and down the stairs to greet him! Such a daddy's girl!

 This is where Olive and I would sit every day when Matt left after his lunch break. We would sit and watch him leave and then run up to the balcony to say goodbye and watch him drive away...every time.

For all those reasons and more, we love and miss our baby. Although, even though it hurts, we are trying to see God at work in the midst of this hard time. Over and over, we have been asking God to show us what He is trying to teach us. Through this, we are learning more about one another and growing closer together. We are learning how each other expresses sadness and grief....learning how to comfort each other and how to better respond when we are hurting. We also are experiencing closeness grow between Matt and I. As each of us have moments of weakness and breaking down, we rely on the other to encourage and pick us up. Finally, we have been claiming the truth that God works all things to the good of those who love the Lord.

So, Happy Birthday Olive! We love you and can't wait until you are home again!

If you have any suggestions on finding her, we are all ears! Here is what we have already done or been doing - We have checked shelters, petharbor.com, craiglist (checked ads and posted ad as lost), spread info on facebook, registered her lost with Home Again (microchip company) which sent alerts to shelters and vets of her missing, posted flyers all over the area, our apartment and old apartment, went door-to-door in neighborhood talking to people and leaving flyers 3 blocks long on 7 streets wide where she was lost, and passed out flyers in nearby parks. We have even looked up possibly hiring a bloodhound to track her, but CO doesn't have trained bloodhounds for tracking pets (some other states do). 

So please, let us know any other ideas! Also, please be in prayer for us and for Olive's return.