Happy 2026 Fwiend!

Are you ready fur the new year? We sure are! 2025 was all over the place fur us furSmiths so we're ready to be way more intentional in 2026! We always use our 1 Year Bucket List Planner to map out what we really want to do each year. It's Free so, download yours to get your thoughts down on paper!

One of our new intentions is to stay in communication with you - this is our first Happy New Year Email ever! Hard to believe! We're working hard to put together some fun and informative newsletters to send you throughout the year! We hope you'll be pen pals with us!

We had a couple of amazing milestones in 2025! In case you don't follow us on our instagram we'll fill you in:

We got a new kitty brother! Well, that was totally not on our Bingo card - at all! His name is Oliver! Mom works in some remote areas during the week and on one of her desert appointments in May (2+ hours away) a skinny, dirty, orange and white young kitty came running up to her yelling as soon as she walked up to the clinic! They had named him Oliver and he was eating lunch scraps. Coyotes live in the vacant properties surrounding the medical building and somehow he had survived at least 2 weeks in the bushes! We were rescued from the desert too - not far from there - and its fur sure no picnic! S-C-A-R-Y! So, he sat on Mom's lap in the car and slept for the over 3 hour drive home to join the furSmith family! He's officially the youngest (and craziest) furSmith and life will never be the same with this energetic boy running around!

Our Pawcations were cut short in 2025 (due to above mentioned new boy) because Mom didn't want Lovey living in the master bedroom for 5 days straight. She's use to the whole house but Oliver plays way to rough when not supervised for our precious Lovey (who had her 15th gotcha birfday in October)! BUT, we were able to get one Eastern Sierra trip in just in time for Fall Colors (we have 5 videos on our Scoobylife Youtube channel so please like, subscribe and comment to help our channel grow)! Plus, we did one overnighter on Thanksgiving in our favorite desert town of Borrego Springs! Mom's always wanted to go on a "winter" holiday and we had a blast staying one night! Winter through Spring is the dream time to go to Borrego Springs because it's blazing hot in the Summer (it can get up to 124 degrees)! Um, no thank you! We also went to Mr. Ricardo Breceda's Iron Art Gallery (he made all of the 130 giant iron scuptures scattered throughout Galleta Meadows in Borrego Springs). We got to meet him too! Yay!

In 2026 we are going to plan more day trips or one nighters just so Lovey gets to keep her preferred lifestyle! We hope to get one Eastern Sierra trip in but if not, we'll try again next year! That is, unless ,you wanna kitty sit our brother at your house! (kidding) - well, maybe not! He's super fun and gets along with everyone. He's almost 13 lbs! Lovey is only around 8 lbs so his playing comes off extra strong fur our Petite Princess!

We had one more major milestone that we are SUPER proud of! We published our first book, Inspirations from Fwiends in May! It's a full color photography book of Scooby's garden, Niguel Botanical Preserve, where his Memorial Bench is! Mom and Scooby took all of the photos and Scooby is featured throughout the book which also includes notes written in Scooby's "Say Hello" notebook (we attached to his bench in 2023)! The messages and drawings people leave are so heartfelt and amazing we had to share! We also created a gorgeous collectible version of the book that has gold embossing on both covers and spine, a silk ribbon bookmark and gorgeous sprayed page edges and beautiful into and outro pages. It's even going to be included in the silent auction at Niguel Botanical Preserves Annual Fundraiser event on February 1st! If you live local you should get your ticket! Oh, and Scooby's book is also featured on the Preserve's website - alongside their cool branded merch! We're so thrilled! So much LOVE was poured into Scooby's book!

We had a couple of health hiccups - Oliver ended up in the emergency vet in the beginning with a scary urinary tract crystals (common and can be fatal in boy kitties) but, he's ok now. Lovey's labs came back a little progressed for her kidneys for the first time in years, so we're focusing on keeping that stable. Oh, and WE got Rabies shots! WITHOUT being drugged or wearing muzzles! People we don't know well scare us and the vet office scares us so that's a BIG milestone!

In addition to planning our 2026 PawVentures Bucket List, we plan on releasing Book 2 of Inspirations from Fwiends and Mom's writing Scooby's first of many short stories about all of his amazing PawVentures! We'll keep you posted!

Well, that's it for our news! What's your news? What are some things you really want to do in 2026? Let's keep each other focused on achieving our best lives this year!

XOXO,

the furSmiths

Luna, Ella, Lovey, Oliver, Mom and Angels Scooby & Zachy