Babies are born every second of every day, but until one of those babies is part of your immediate family you don’t realize just how amazing and beautiful one baby truly can be.

Yesterday, August 20th, 2010, my brother and his wife welcomed the perfect Emma Grace into the world. It’s the first baby in the Correia family and we are all just couldn’t be happier or more proud of my brother, his wife, or that little bundle of perfection that is my little niece.

This was a very bittersweet week in the life of my wife and myself. Exactly one week ago from tonight we were very excited to add a new four-legged member to our family: A six year old beagle (mix?) named Nash:

We were very happy to welcome him into our lives, but at the same time we were sad because we saw how much life and energy Nash had in him, while our other beagle, Butch, who was twice Nash’s age, was slowing down and was quite sick.

What I couldn’t believe was that after only 5 days of Nash and Butch living together, Butch was really losing his fight with his illness. This past Wednesday my wife and I decided that it was time to put an end to Butch’s suffering.

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