Spirit Animal Wisdom

11/13/2025

Our sweet new friend in Sicily. This sweet boy lives a few doors down from our hotel in Mondello

11/12/2025

Happy bees. Sicilian bees at a wonderful mountain winery 🐝

09/23/2025

Car ride time for Sinjin!

09/09/2025

Beauty in the AZ sky ✨️

08/28/2025

Raindrops keep falling on my head. Sinjin 🐾

07/22/2025

When its over a 100° out, an air conditioned car ride and a drive thru puppercino hits the spot! Lucky Sinjin 🐾

06/29/2025

04/27/2025

My sweet, smart, strong son. You had no idea how much good you did in this world in your short life of just 27 years. You touched the lives of so many with your strength, kindness, quirky humor, immense knowledge, beautiful smile, and gentle hugs. Wade, I know you are now with the angels, and I do feel your presence, but I am going to miss everything about you for the rest of my life 💔 I love you forever sweetie 🪽🩵

04/13/2025

These are words no mother ever wants to share. My heart is shattered in a million pieces 💔 At 11:01pm on April 10th, our 27 year old, big strong beautiful son Wade Sobotka lost his fight with mental illness. He tried so hard to win the battle. His heart and body was so strong that he survived long enough on support for him to be lovingly surrounded by myself, his father Rick Sobotka , his brother Austin Sobotka , and his step father Mark Briggs as he peacefully passed. We have no idea how to carry on knowing we will never see his bright beautiful smile again, hear his big laughs or feel his gentle long hugs that he loved to have and give us all the time. He was loved by so many people and he adored his most recent job as a personal trainer at Temple Fitness in Scottsdale. In the end he managed to be the hero he wanted to be and saved the life of 2 or 3 people as we followed through his wish to be an organ donor. It gives us some comfort that in this way, Wade lives on. Aside from that, we know he is now one of heaven's biggest, strongest, brightest angels 🪽
A celebration of life is planned for our sweet Wade on Saturday April 19 at 2pm at Messingers Chapel, 12065 N Saguaro drive here in Fountain Hills... the town he happily grew up in.

01/20/2025

Omg. Won't anyone play with me. Sooooo bored and dejected.
Really Sinjin? 😆🐾 You are so spoiled

12/24/2024

Sinjin has been a very very good boy. He's keeping an eye out for Santa tonight 🐾✨️🎄

12/21/2024

A quiet moment w my sweet Sinjin out back before dinner. Happy to be home 🏡 🐾❤️