The one sad note on our Hawaiian vacation happened early Wednesday morning while we were in Maui when my kids got a panicked call from their house sitter that their English bulldog, Tank, had passed away.  (Yep, JP’s dog!)

He was a sweet and silly bully who wasn’t obviously ill when we all left on vacation, but he was 8 years old and bulldogs are not generally a long-lived breed.  The lifespan is about 7 to 10 years and he was 8 back in November.

They are all missing him, as are we, but they gave him a wonderful life and we were honored to be his family all these years…