Pluffy.

Wow, third post in one night!! And yikes it's getting late.. better hurry up.

So... as I've mentioned before, there are a few stray cats in my neighborhood. Four to be exact.. a mom and three kittens.. only they aren't so little anymore. However, at the time, their cuteness and smallness melted my heart and we took pitty and decided to feed them. Hopefully they will become a little bit more friendly and then we can see about catching them to get them fixed.

Anyway.. the Mommy cat had another batch of kittens right around Halloween. I don't know where she lives and in all of my snooping, I haven't been able to find them. So we had no idea if her babies made it or not.. especially being so late in the year and it being cold at night.

Well this afternoon I was downstairs and I hear meowing.. little baby kitty meowing. I ran upstairs and looked around outside and discovered the most adorable little bundle of white fluffiness. In our window well. I had to leave it in there because it was time to pick up Hayden from school.

As we quickly walked back to the window well, we were just in time to see it crawl under the metal part.. and back behind it! As in under the dirt! Darn cats and their curiosity....

My children became very distraught about the idea of their missing kitty and so I became part of the Wonder Pet team (in the episode where they save the baby kitten). I stayed out there an HOUR trying to get it out. It didn't work. I tried twice more.. and finally around 8 (yes, over 4 hours later) I was able to get it out a little so I could grab it and pull it out. Yes, a Hero to all.

Aubrey really liked the name fluffy.

Hade really liked the name puffy.

Meet Pluffy

SO ADORABLE!

It's so cute you probably didn't even notice the hideous blanket it's laying on. It's a baby comforter someone gave me forever ago.. you'll never believe this, but it wasn't quite my taste so i never used it. Yes, I'm just now getting it into the donation pile.

And good news, Pluffy has at least one sibling. I saw it tonight on the side of the house.

Tomorrow I'll be able to investigate further.. hopefully I can determine if it's 'everyone' so I can (sniff, sniff) have them all taken away for adoption. Heaven forbid I become the neighborhood's crazy cat lady.... :-D

Snowmen

I've been following a blog where there is a super star mom who does a craft project with her toddler pretty much EVERY DAY. :-O And they use paint.. glitter.. and all the fantastic things I've thrown out over the years because of the mess (I know, mom of the year...). I ooh and awww over her blog.. and think about doing it.. and that's about as far as it goes.

But then she created a glorious snowman where the glitter was contained! I KNOW! So I went to walmart the other night to purchase contact paper only to find none. Boo, hiss. So instead, I purchased glitter glue.

Allow me to show you how we created them.

Take a paper plate (ours were Dora) and turn it over.. we like colorful snowmen (just no yellow.. get it.. yellow snow.. hahaha) so I had each kiddo choose a color, the boys took their shirts off, and they started painting. Oh, and I used our craft tablecloth.. then they can get paint on it or wipe their fingers on it, etc. and there are no worries!

Then, we squirted the glitter glue all over the painted area and spread it around with their brush (there was Red, Gold and Silver).

Next, I poured each child a little bit of sparkle things (I bought a bag of it at Walmart.. has sequence and other shiny things). Here's my tip.. pour it in a coffee filter so it's contained. Back when I worked we used to put snacks in those all the time since they are so cheap.. we do that too. Love it. Anyway, the glitter glue worked out well because the sparkles stuck right to it.

Aubrey and Hade were particular about their designs.
(love Kait blowing raspberries)

Carson was of course very random.
This is what I get when I had them say Cheese.

At this point we cut out hats, twig arms and carrot noses from construction paper. We also cut out circles for the head and decorated the faces (for Carson I put glue dots on the face and he put everything on himself) and then stapled them onto the body.

Then, the children dug through my lovely ribbon and chose their scarf.

Drumroll please.... ta-da!


(did you notice Hade's haircut?? Drew did it!)
Love the rosey cheeks!
Are those cute or what!

I'm definitley going to start doing more of her projects.. the kids loved it!

Credite Due: http://www.notimeforflashcards.com/2008/11/let-it-snow.html

Gobble, Gobble

I took an astounding amount of pictures over the Thanksgiving time period. What do you expect after going to three different locations???

Ok, actually, I took Three. THREE. Yeah.

I guess I get distracted when there is pumpkin pie involved. lol But really, can you blame me?

These were taken at my brother Dan's house.. My mom, Quinn and John were there as was Amy and her crew. Eleven kids total. Brandy's turkey and other food was awesome.. Quinn's food was good and Amy's pie and rolls rocked (the Cherry pie was fresh from a local farm). Of course my jello, apple pie and sweet potatoes were good. Especially the sweet potatoes, by default because they took so much effort. I had to go to several stores to find them as well as the marshmallows (seriously, walmart was out.. I went at midnight when they were stocking and some lady got there before me and bought the TWO CASES that they had!! and they only had colored marshmallows in the shapes of trees and stars).

ANYWAY, the pictures.

Here is Kaitlyn and John.. they were so cute together. (and wow does she look like Hade!)

Aubrey playing with her cousins under the stairs.

And one of Hade. He was SO thrilled to have his picture taken that I didn't even have to beg. Just hammed it on up. No holding back.

Or not. hehehe

We also went over to my In-Laws for pie that evening and to Dan's side of the family up in park city on Friday (so fun to see so much family!).

Hope you had a good Turkey Day! Gobble, Gobble