Anyone got a name?

This cute little kitty mysteriously showed up on our back patio doorstep Wednesday morning. It was a really nice morning so we decided to open the patio door and go outside for a little bit just before school. We had Grandma & Grandpa Branch visiting us and they called me from inside to show me this little cat that was in our yard. It's a sweet cat and very calm. It's apparently been somebody's pet because it's very comfortable around people and likes to be petted.



So we didn't think much of it. We all came back inside and got ready for school and when the day wore on, the cat was gone. Okay, no problem, just a little visit from a cute cat.



Well then Thursday morning the same thing happened. Kind of weird I thought, just about the same time Wednesday morning that this cat showed up, it showed up again on Thursday morning. I thought....okay, cute, what a coincidence? Right? Yeah so I thought.

The cat is very thin and we all felt really bad for the cat. I really thought though that the cat would just disappear and we'd never see it again. But to my surprise it just kept showing up every morning like clockwork. Right around 7:30 a.m. Okay, so we tried to call Animal Control to see if we could get someone to come get it, but of course it's closed until Tuesday for some reason. Do I consider this a sign...I mean really....closed until Tuesday....what happened to Monday?

Oh well....so off to Walmart we went to get the cheapest cat food possible. We fed it yesterday....I know...I know....if you want the cat to stick around, just feed it. Well it was starving. It ate like it hadn't been feed in a month. Poor thing. Anyway so we fed it and sure enough it hung around all day yesterday. Now the kids are getting attached to it and Robert and I aren't sure what we're going to do. It really is starting to grow on all of us. It's just so sweet and mellow. I mean we've lived here 16 years and never, ever had something like this happen before. I think the kids are possibly heading for a pet. What do you think? I'm just not sure we want to take on the possiblity of this being a girl cat and having to have it fixed to keep from having more kitties. I'm fine with it just being a stray and it and come and go when it pleases and when it disappers again we'll just deal with the loss, but the vet bills.....I'm just not sure we want that. Any suggestions?

Take me out to the BALLGAME

Several weeks ago our good friends the Quiorz's invited us to go to a Diamondback Game at Chase Field. We've never actually gone to a game before so we thought it would be a lot of fun to go with friends. The Quiroz's have a son who is just one year younger than Kyle and then a girl who is the same age as Nathan. They are in our ward as well. Anyway, we knew the kids would have so much fun at the game just hanging out. Well, the night before the game Stephanie Quiroz called me and told me that her husband wasn't sure he was going to make it back in town from a business trip in time to go to the game. Then her oldest son (Nick who is 19) found out that he had a last minute baseball game for college that he had to play for. So Stephanie had 3 extra tickets for the game. So she decided to invited our other good friends the Curtis family to go. So Phillip took his two boys and went to the game with us. We were quite a group.

It was so much fun for everyone. No foul balls were caught, but a lot of great memories were made with really good friends. The boys went to the batting cage and had lots of fun practice hitting. At the end of the ballgame there was also a fireworks show that was really neat. The kids just loved it. All in all everyone had a wonderful time. We've got to go back and do it again real soon.

THE GANG: Phillip C. , Dallin C, Nathan, Kayla, Sis. Q., Sarah Q., Robert, Jill, Ryland C., Kyle and Christian Q.

Kyle & Christian Quiroz

Nathan & Ryland Curtis

It has only taken me a couple of hours to finally figure out how to put this here on the blog. I think I should get a gold star for that one.

I saw this on the Larimore's blog and I knew it was for me. I really needed to hear it. It seems like lately there's a lot of things that are keeping my attention away from where it should be. Thanks Christi for posting this.

My new Moto: "Never let a problem to be solved become more important than a person to be loved".





I need to blow these up all over the house just because they make me smile.

This is only a test

NO we did not get a dog. We did however have a dog for a night last week. Our good friends the Quiroz's had a problem at their house and called last sunday evening and needed "Honey" the dog out of the house immediately. They didn't expect her to be at our house so long, but by the time the crisis was over it was 10:00 p.m. The kids wanted to be able to say goodbye to Honey but since they were in bed like good little children, I asked Stephanie if Honey could please have a sleepover. She gratefully agreed and the kids were pleasently surprised the next morning when Honey and her kennel were still here.

What a great dog. She never barked not once. Even when we took her outside and the neighbors dog was barking. She perked up her ears, but not a peep. I think now we'll be on the dog sitting list for them whenever they go out of town.

Honey is usually quite a bit puffier. She is a Bichon Frise and is usually very cute....kind of like this...



But as you can see in the first picture, she didn't have that much hair. She had just recently been to the dog groomer and ended up being clipped a little too SHORT! She looks better in the picture than in person. She actually looked naked in person. Poor thing. Oh well, the kids loved her and had a lot of fun with her.