Torturing the cats

We have no children to occupy our time, so we torture our cats. We found a $1.50 costume at WalMart and thought that maybe our cats would like it. Ok we really didn't think that they would enjoy the sweater, but it would be fun to see what they did. Kyleigh was too chubby for it, and we had to squeeze her into it. She kept trying to step out of it, and fell over trying to get it off. Tugger was frozen in his spot after it was put on. He couldn't figure out what was going on and when he finally moved he was creeping low like he was trying to get out from under something. We didn't even try to put it on Reno. We have breakables in the house and he wouldn't have reacted well. He freaks out at stuff.

New Years Eve

New Years Eve was a blast. We went to my sister Sharon's house. We ate pizza and tons of sweets. We took turns playing Wii and watched Eagle Eye. I fell asleep which is very common for me. I have a hard time staying up late. My poor husband poured his own sparkling cider and welcomed the New Year without a kiss. He tried waking me up and so did my sisters and I may have sat up, but I was not all there. I didn't make any goals for the New Year, but I do have a sweet dream and that is to have a baby. So we'll just see what happens with that.

Christmas 2008

Christmas was good this year. It was hard since it was only a month after Matt's dad died. But in spite of that it was a good Christmas. Melissa has a very hard time when there are presents in the house that she can't open. She was doing alright when she knew what they all were, but as soon as there were a few surprise presents it drove her crazy. Luckily Matt waited until a week before Christmas to get her the surprises. With the presents from family and friends the tree did look pretty full underneath. One of the presents was a beautiful advent calendar from Lauren. She made it and it will be displayed with pride next year. She also remembered the kitties. She sent three little toys for them, that had catnip in them. On Christmas Eve the cats were locked up because they were interested in the toys and would have taken them out of the stockings that they were in. We also got two sets of our wedding china and a picture of the D.C. Temple from Matt's mom. We cleaned out the china hutch that we have in our house from Melissa's grandma, and put our china in it, and hung our Temple picture on the wall. It was a good Christmas.

Christmas Santa

Melissa's Grandma had this up year round in her home. Just before she passed away she gave it to Melissa because she knew how much she loved it. This is the first Christmas since she passed and it's little things like this that help us remember the people we love.

Babysitting

Matt and I watched my nephews one night for my sister Sharon. Our night consisted of guitar hero for two hours. Jake's getting pretty good, Justin will be good he picks up fast, and little Kyle, well he thinks he's playing. We turned off the game and thought popped popcorn and a movie would be fun. We turned on the popcorn machine and I said well stand together so when the popcorn starts I can get a picture. If you look close you will see the lid starting to fly off. After the picture was taken popcorn flew everywhere. Jake ran away, Justin jumped off the counter, I stepped away, Matt stood there for a few seconds as Kyle was left on the counter with the popcorn flying all around him. He was terrified as all of us were screaming(except Matt of course) and not helping him down, luckily Matt came to the rescue, he grabbed Kyle and unplugged the popcorn machine. We had a pretty good laugh after wards.

I have a great wife.

Melissa is sleeping on the chair next to me and so I thought I'd put something on here. I wanted to thank Melissa for the wonderful day yesterday. She wanted everthing to be nice for me. She even went to see a Bond movie with me. My wife loves me and I love her too.

Basket Stealer

Well to my much surprise, we now have another basket stealer. I came home from work today to find Reno in our handtowel basket sound asleep. I guess we will have to find a new home for our handtowels.