Our 1st Fatality

I will blog more and post pictures soon about our fun trip to Abilene, but for now, I have some sad news... We lost our first fish. Sweet Little Bell went on. We woke up this morning and Cason came to tell us that he thought she was "sleeping." He was sad when we told him that she was dead, and we had some questions about death (fish go to heaven, right?) but he is ready to go pick out another one (she was still under her 14 day warranty)... anyways, I know she is the first of many, but it was still a sad morning in the Best household!

"In Memory" of Belle:

so far, so good....

ok, so it is only day 4 of our lives as fish parents, but they are doing great... we added 4 more to the tank today, so now we have a family of 7 fish babies. I have gotta say, these are so much easier to care for than any other babies we have welcomed into this house in the past! :o) I didnt get great pics this time and they are not on my compt yet, so here is the info... Each of the boys picked one out this time and named them themselves... their names are:
Minnie (she is Mickey's twin brother) Coby's fish
Belle (she is a pretty yellow fish) Cason's fish
Tigger (he is a really fast little striped fish) "Bryson's" fish
Macy (tiny little fish with a single neon stripe) Micah's fish... he named her Macy bc that was going to be his name if he was a girl. I had never told him that, but he discovered it recently when he was reading his baby book! I thought that was sweet!

Introducing.....

... The newest members of the Best family:

here is Molly.

Here is Snow White. She was a little nervous about her new home, and we couldnt get her to be still for a picture. She is a really pretty angel fish.


And here is Mickey.

Cason picked them all out and named them all. We will get to go pick out 3 more at the end of the week after these have adjusted. He helped put them into the tank, too... it was a pretty exciting, long anticipated event! We have had this tank set up since July 7th so the water would be ready for fish on his birthday!

He was so intrigued by them. he sat and watched them for a long time even after he fed them!

Just being crazy!