Christmas Pic-tors!!

Here are sum pic-tors from Christmas. We're not in them 'cause Momma's not home wif us yet. But she will be in a few hours!!! Guess that means we better get the howse cleaned up frum the party we hadded. Heehee!!

This am Gabby. She used to be an owtside poodin' till Grammie 'dopted her. She talks...alot.

This am Belle unner the Christmas tree....afore Santy Claws camed.

This am Momma and Daddy wif their niece Hannah Grace.

Merry Christmas!!

We want to wish efurrycat (and their fambly) a furry Merry Christmas!!!! We hopes that y'all get lots of catnip and fev-vers. Again, anycat is welcome to come by and visit tomorrow (or tonight) while their beans are owt. Victor and Bonnie camed ofur yesterday to visit and play in the snow.

Guess what??!?! Momma sed that Santa camed early to Grammie's howse and broughted her and Daddy a new flashy box!! Whoohoo!!! Now we can post pic-shurs!! She said it am all the way nice too.

Merry Christmas Y'all!!
::purrs::
~Meeko, Kiara, Emmy, & Fambly

Friday news

Well the sun finally camed owt today. The metal monsters wif shovels on the front camed through and cleared *most* of the roads. (Mainly the main roads, side streets are still 'entertaining' to drive on~Momma). The Colorado Springs airport wuz open last night, and Momma wuz able to get home to Texas. She's at Grammie and Grampie's howse now. Momma gotted to see her new niece Hannah at Mimi's when she stopped to get her suitcase fom Daddy's car. He drove in his metal monster on Monday. Momma sed that Hannah is furry cute. We'll try to post sum pic-shurs after Christmas.

Anycat is welcome to stop ofur and visit wif us. The more the merrier we say. Y'all can come play in the snow!!

We didn't get owr Secret Paws pressie afore Momma lefted 'cause the mailbeans didn't come on Wednesday OR Thursday!! Momma left afore it camed on Friday. So.....it will be waiting fur us when she gets home to us.

Grammie gots sum way cool birdies at her howse.....doves, baby doves, sparrows, cardinals, blue jays, mockingbirds (MEANIES!!), and a pair of parakeets. Yes...blue and green parakeets. We they are a couple, 'acause one is really bright and the ofur isn't a colorful. Grammie isn't shur how long they's been owt there, but they kinda hang owt wif the sparrows. They all get along and the ofur birdies don't chase the parakeets off. It's kinda cute, Momma sez. We were thinkin' more along the lines of kinda tasty!!

Anofur Blizzard?!?!

Yup....we gots ANOFUR BLIZZARD!!!! Momma finks this one is worse than the last one (in Oct). The airport in Denver is shut down, along wif most of the highways in the state. The wind has been blowing since 5:30 this morning, if not earlier. And it's blowing 35mph wif gusts to 50+. Momma hadded a hard time walking to her car from the building where she werks, the wind kept blowing her around! But...we are all together and snug and warm. Momma's auntie didn't get to fly in today...maybe next week she said. Momma just hopes that efurrything is cleared up so she can fly to Texas on Friday.

We will be alone on Christmas Day, but Momma will get home that night. Gemini offered for us to teleport ofur to her howse, but we might just stay here. This way all of our friends can stop in here.....without adult supervision!! Y'all can try out the new kitty fountain and the new catnip toys that Momma maded for us. We're getting used to using the fountain now.

Odds and Ends

Not much new here....just gettin' ready for Christmas. Daddy lefted today fur Texas. Momma will be leaving on Friday to go too. We wanted to post sum older pic-shurs, but blogger wasn't coperating (BIG suprise there) and Momma "wasn't in the mood to mess with it." So......we just gots some 'life around here' updates.

Auntie Alicia camed ofur the ofur day...and she brought us TREATS!!! Whoohoo!! We loves Auntie Alicia. They were fishie flavor too. And then the next day, Momma boughted us owr own water fountain!!! It runs just like the sink does, but all the time! It took a little while fur us to get used to it, but now we like it. Momma sez that she'll try to gets pics of us using it.

Tomorrow night, Auntie Alicia is staying wif us, and Momma is going to take her to the airport on her way to werk on wednesday morning. Sleep ofur time!!! Then....on Wednesday night, one of Momma's aunties from Cat-i-for-nia is coming to visit us. She (auntie) has a jobbie interview out here in the Springs on thurday. So she's gonna spend a few nights here wif us. Then, on friday, Momma is flying home to Texas after werk, so she can be wif Grammie, Grampie, Mimi, Daddy, and efurryone else for Christmas.

Wow....that was a lot of news. Hopw efurryone has a great week!! Time to go snuggle wif Momma, she's got a headache tonight. AND it's furry cold and supposed to snow! BTW....Momma's car is all the way better now!


Purrs to my sweetest Victor!! ~Emmy

Good news!

Grate news!!! Momma gotted her metal monster back from the V-E-T!! She am all the way 'acited about it too. You'd fink that she won the lottery or somfing the way she's actin'. The car beans efun washed it fur her! Hope efurryone is having a good week.


We haf tried to post comments on some pages, but beta won't let us...boooo beta!!

Elf names

My sweet Victor (aka Spicy Stocking Stuffer) showed me this.....~Emmy

Hopefully this will werk out better than owr vishus deer names did.

Emmy's elf name....

Dixie Sugar Butt

What's Your Elf Name?

Kiara's elf name....

Sassy Blinking Bum

What's Your Elf Name?

Meeko's elf name....

Minty Hot Chocolate

What's Your Elf Name?

Momma's elf name....

Happy Tinsel Toes

What's Your Elf Name?

And..they're off!!!

Whoo hoo!! Our secret paw pressies are in the mail!! We can't wait for them to get to our pal. We hopes they like what we gotted for them.

Momma's monster *should* be all better sometime this week!!! She can't hardly wait to get it back.

Hope efurryone had a good weekend! We gots to go help Momma wrap more Christmas pressies now.


Purrs and nose kissies to my Victor!~Emmy

Pressies!!!

Momma wented hunting tonight and camed back wif our Secret Paw pressies!! Whoohoo!!! She's gonna *TRY* to get them to the mailman bean in the next few days!

Vishus Rain Deer

Meeko is...

You Are Donner

The most loveable and sweet reindeer, you're also a total dork! Why You're Naughty: You keep (accidentally) tripping the other reindeer while flying. Why You're Nice: You're always smiling, even if you've fallen flat on your horns.

Kiara is....

You Are Comet

A total daredevil, you're the reindeer with an edge! Why You're Naughty: You almost gave Santa a heart attack when you took him sky diving Why You're Nice: You always make sure the sleigh is going warp speed

Emmy is....

You Are Cupid

A total romantic, you're always crushing on a new reindeer. Why You're Naughty: You've caused so much drama, all the reindeers aren't speaking to each other. Why You're Nice: You have a knack for playing matchmaker. You even hooked Rudolph up!

Purrs and nuzzles to my sweet, darling Victor!~Emmy

Update

Sorry that it's fur-efur since we last posted!! Fings haf been crazy around here lately.

Ferst...the accident. Momma's monster is at the V-E-T gettin' all better. It's gonna be 3 squillon dollars to fix it!! Can y'all alieve it?!?! The ofur beans in-sur-ants is paying though. AND it's gonna be fur-efur for it to be all better. About 2-3 weeks~Momma.

Next.....we gots a TREE in the HOWSE!!! A real live fake tree wif an angel on top. How crazy is that??? It am furry pretty though. Momma didded good decorating it wif lots of shiny and sparkly fings. We like sleeping unner it. But Momma sez when Santy Claws comes there won't be room unner there fur us! That's not furry fair.

And then....we sented Momma shopping for our Secret Paws pressies!! Heehee! We can't hardly wait fur it to go to the mail place. Momma gots to box it up ferst she said. Hopefully by the end of the week it will be in the mail!!! We're not saying who we gots...but they do gots FUR!!!

Accident!!

It's furry cold and snowy here!!

This morning started out like any ofur morning: Momma gotted up early, gotted in the metal monster, and lefted fur werk. But then she camed back not too long after that. She wuz sitting at a stop light when, BANG, somebean turning the corner slid her metal monster into Momma's big metal monster!!! Efurryone wuz ok, but owr monsters' wheel is broken. She could barely drive it home (I was about a half mile from home~Momma). So now, Momma is waiting on the monster V-E-T to call her back about when to bring it in. But fur now....Momma is home wif us ALL DAY! Whoo hoo!

Sorry that we didn't post all weekend...Daddy wuz hogging the 'puter playing sum Crafting War game.Hope efurryone hadded a good weekend. Moom awuz proud of herself fur going skiing TWICE this weekend and not getting hurty at all!!


Accident update, 6 pm: Good news!! The ofur monsters drivers' insurance is paying to fix owr monster!! Owr's is already at the V-E-T, but they haven't looked at it yet. They will tomorrow. They efen gotted Momma a rental monster to drive. Momma sez it's way cool. We just thank God that nobean wuz hurted. God is GOOD!! Stay warm efurryone!!

Happy Thanksgiving y'all!!! Hope efurryone is having a great day and gets to eat LOTS of turkey!!

::Purrs::
~Meeko, Kiara, & Emmy

They're heeerrrree!!

Whoo hoo!!! Grammie and Grampie are here...wif us!!! Yea! Scritches from Grammie are the bestest!! We probably won't be posting the rest of the week. We hope all of y'all have a great Thanksgiving!
::Purrs and headbumps::
~Meeko, Kiara, Emmy and the rest of the fambly

Purrs to my sweet!~E

Sunday

Hi efurrycat!! Momma sez fanks for the kind werds about her bad day. Friday wuz a *little bit* better fur her. No yelling....just crazy busy. She gotted home efun later than the night before. She said somfing 'bout 7 1/2 hours of ovurtime in 2 days, just before she crashed into bed. Her ribs are all healed up after falling, and she wented skiing again today. She didn't fall, said that she did really well, but when they were leaving, her hand gotted shut in the big back door of her friends BIG metal monster!!! OWIE!!! We might not let her go skiing anymore....at least not wifout Daddy there to look out for her (he hadded training all weekend). She's gonna take pic-shurs of it tomorrow at werk wif the bone camera. Then one of the doctor beans will look at it and tell if it's ok or not. We'll let y'all know.

One of Momma's werk friends hadded to help his woofie to the Bridge the ofur day. The poor woofie hadded cancer and wuz really sick. But we, and his owner, know that the woofie isn't in any pain any more and is having fun playing wif all the ofur woofies at the Bridge.

Grammie and Grampie will be here in 2 days!! Whoo hoo!!!

Hope efurrycat has a great week!

Update- Monday 7:40 pm- Momma's hand is OK!!! Nothin' is broked just badly bruised. SHe wuz furry lucky. She only hadded on thin little mittens too. So, there's a little scratch on the back of her hand, some swelling and a bruise on her palm. But, it's still plenty sore. Our flashy box is ded, so we can't post any pic-shurs of it. Momma furgoted to bring the pic-shur from the bone camera home wif her. Maybe tomorrow?

Purrs and kisses to my sweetest Victor!~Emmy

BAD Day!!!

Poor Momma.....she hadded a purrty bad day at werk today. She didn't get home 'til WAY after dark, and when she did get home, she wuz still wearing her werk pajamas! She wuz sooo tired that she didn't efun change clothes. She sed that she and her nurse gotted yelled at by a doctor bean today , a couple of times. He wuzn't furry nice at all she sed. That was ferst thing this morning...just after the sun came up!! Then efurrything just wented downhill from there the rest of the day. She wuz furry happy to get home to us (and have sum liquid human nip). Momma's got the heaty blankie turned on and is ready to go to bed and forget about the day. Time to go snuggle wif her. Hopefully her day will be better tomorrow....'cause after all, tomorrow is another day!

Werdless Wednesday

Weekend update

Here are sum pic-shurs from our weekend....

Emmy being Miss Priss.

Falcon....The Air Force Academy Mascot.

They fly during halftime at efurry home game.

Momma and Daddy at the tailgate before the Air Force-Notre Dame game.

Air Force losted...no surprise there.

We hadded a great time wif Grampie here. They all hadded fun at the game too. Momma sez that Grammie and Grampie are gonna be back here next week!!! Yea!! We can't wait. Momma is gonna be cookin' a tur-kee. Sounds yummy!

Saturday

Kiara here. Y'all will never a'lieve what happened this morning!! All 3 of us were in bed wif Momma....at the SAME time!! Wif NO hissing or fussing!! I fink it wuz a miracle. Momma sez she needs anoffur hand to pet us wif, so we can each haf our own hand. Maybe Santa Claws can bring her one fur Christmas?

Grampie gotted here OK yesterday. Grammie didn't come this time....we miss her. Love you Grammie! She and Grampie are coming back out fur Thanksgiving! Grammie gives the best scritches!! (Don't tell Momma we said that). Momma is all a'citied about the game today. It's gonna be chilly there though....right now it's 24 degrees outside. Momma just gived the squirrellys some more peanuts to eat and bury in her flowers.

Momma here. The claw caps (Soft Paws) are little soft plastics covers that go over each claw. You first trim the claw, then apply what *smells* like nail glue, then slide the cap over the claw while pushing on the paw pad to extend the claw. Kiara still doesn't have hers on. Emmy has managed to pull three off, and Meeko has pulled off one. Not bad for 2 weeks, I think. The package says that they will last for 4-6 weeks. I don't think that I put enough glue on them. The girls seem to be OK with them. They still use the scratching posts as usual. You can buy the colored ones online at PetSmart or Petco. THey only have the clear ones in the store. With the clear, it's hard to tell if the cap is still on or not. As for the football game today....I grew up cheering for the Irish, but...we're an Air Force family now (or so I've been told!) So....I'm gonna cheer for both teams and be happy either way!

Hope efurryone has a great weekend!!

Go Air Force!! Go Irish!!

Here's Emmy's (belated) Tummy Tuesday pict-shur. She's sittin' on Momma watchin' the Longhorns play.

This am Momma and Daddy (they're in the middle) wif Jonah, Scott, Jon, and Auntie Alicia last year when they were skiing in Keystone. On the right side of the pict-shur, in the way back, you can see Breckenridge Ski Resort. Momma is feeling LOTS better now, but still a little sore. Fanks efurryone fur your prayers and kind werds. She sez that she can't wait to go again....and hopefully not crash this time!


We gots to run now....Momma is getting ready to use the carpet monster and we gots to go hide. She's clening the howse 'cause Grampie (her daddy) is coming to visit us!! He'll be here on Friday. They're going to watch Notre Dame play Air Force on Saturday. Momma am all the way 'acitied bout that!! We're not sure who to cheer for!?!

Party

We is soooo sad that we missed the party at Smeagol and Strider'sthis weekend. We knew when it wuz, but the 'puter wuzn't turned on. Momma wented skiing, Daddy didn't 'cause his ankle is all hurty, and she didn't turn the 'puter on afore she lefted. Momma hadded fun , but she felled down REALLY hard and did a "face plant" and split her lip open and maked it bleed. She also finks that she re-sep-a-rated one of her ribs. Today, she sez she feels like she wuz hit by a truck! Poor Momma!

Go Air Force, Beat Army!!!

9:30 pm- We winned 43-7!!

Capped?!

OMG!!! Momma capped us!! She putted caps ofur our claws!! Can y'all 'alieve it??!! The horror!! Well...she gotted them on Me (Meeko) and Emmy. Kiara mangaed to get out of it somehow. Momma sez that Kiara will be getting hers this weekend. Heh.

I wasn't about to let Momma get a hold of me...I heard the noise that you two were making! Efun having Daddy hold me didn't help. She only gotted one paw clipped. Heehee. ~Kiara

Really girls....it's not that bad. Besides, now you can't scratch each other (or me). Next time we'll get the purple ones. I promise. Besides, you got plenty of treats for your troubles. I didn't get Kiara's on, because I didn't want to get shredded by 13 lbs of ticked off Kiki. The caps went on pretty easily, once I had everything under control. I wouldn't try doing it alone though....too hard to hold the cat, paws, and caps without getting glue everywhere. I'll let y'all know how they work.

Emmy here. Well Momma broked the flashy box. She's trying to figure it out now. New batteries didn't help. Sooooo....I fink that means there won't be any pic-shures any time soon. Sorry to disappoint y'all!

Note 8:45 pm- The flashy box is o-fish-ally D-E-D. Maybe Santa Claws will come early and bring us a new one?

Snow pic-shures!!

Emmy in the snow.
Kiara in the snow.
The street in front of the howse.








Momma's "beer garden"...she and Daddy hadded a party, and used the snow for a cooler!





Sorry that the werds are all messed up and not by the pic-shures....blogger was stoopid (again) and Momma isn't used to posting wif Picasa.

More Snow Pic-shurs

This is our backyard. And yes, the snow is halfway up the fence.


12 inches of snow!!



Our front door before Momma and Auntie Laura "shoveled" it wif the sled. (that's Momma)
The front patio between our howse and Auntie Laura's.

BLIZZARD?!?!

Yup...there's a blizzard outside!!! And Momma and Auntie Laura taked us out in it!!! AND they taked pic-shures of us! They'll get posted later. What Momma? Oh... she sez it wasn't really bad on the porch where we were. But we did have four foot drifts there. And Momma couldn't get in the door when she gotted home from werk. Yes, she hadded to go in for sum beans surgeries, but they all gotted to go home earlt. Well, we gots to go snuggle now!

Double Shot

It's a tortie tummie!!

Note: the batteries on the flashy box are ded...so we's don't have any Emmy tummy pict0ures (sorry Victor). Momma will fix that soon! 

Tummie Tesday

Here's Meeko's tum-tum!! 

OUCHIE!!

Emmy here- Tonight ...when Momma gotted home from werk, she wuz pettin' me and scritchin' my ears. Well, she felt somfin' funny on my hed. She looked....and it wuz a CLAW SHEATH!!! STUCK IN MY HED!!! She tooked it out fur me (it kinda hurted a little) an gave me kissies on it to make it all better. But, it wuz still...stuck..in..MY..hed!!!! Not funny...at all!!

Note: Momma just noticed 2 scratches on my nose and one on Meeko's. Now Momma is mumbling somfing 'bout claw caps fur all of us when she gets paid?!

Tummy Tuesday

Dang it!! The Dread Pirate Blogger stikes again!! We wanted to post pics for Tummy/Tortie Tuesday..but it won't let us. Stoopid blogger!! Plus our blogrolling hasn't been werking right eifur! Gggrrr! Momma has been saying sum bad werds at the 'puter.

Anywho, sorry we haven't been around as often as is the past. Momma has been pretty busy and not able to help us blog. She sez that she feels bad about it too (as well she should!). We have been keeping up with efurrycat though. We hadded a nice visit wif Victor and Bonnie this weekend in Whisckerconsin. We saw all of the purrty leaves on the trees, birdies, squirrels, ate temptations, and snuggled. It was 24 kinds of fun!

Emmy is settleing in well. There is still plenty of hissing and fighting going on. Meeko is efun sporting a scratched nose! We're not saying who gave it to her....Momma isn't furry happy 'bout that!

It's SNOWING here again!! It started this afternoon, and it's still falling! There's got to be about a squillion inches on the ground!! (Only about 6 inches- momma) Momma gotted out her heaty blankey and flannel sheets for her bed.....guess we know where we're all gonna be sleeping! We would get pictures of the snow, but Daddy has the flashy box wif him at school. Now Momma is muttering somfing 'bout waxing her skis, digging out the gloves, going to the mountains, hitting the powder...not shur what that's all about??

Check out this site! Sum nice bean putted Momma's 9/11 tribute up on this site! How cool is that?!?! Momma is way proud of it! The entire site is furry cool.

Time to go snuggle wif Momma now! Anycat that wants to come see the snow is welcome to come visit!

SNOW?!?!!?

What the h*ll!! It snowed this morning!!!! What's up wif that? We didn't get alot....just a dusting on the grass. The wever guy sed that C. Springs gotted about an inch. Guess it's time fur us to start growing out our thick winter coats.

I'm shur glad that I don't live outside anymore....efen if the ofur two still fight wif me and get all hissy. ~Emmy

We might go visit our friend Victor ( and Bonnie) in Whiskerconsin tomorrow or thursday. We want to get up there before all of the pretty leaves fall off of the trees.

We lost.

Well.....we losted. :-( But, they sed that it wuz a purrty good game. Now Momma is looking forward to the Air Force- Notre Dame game (Grampie is coming out fur that game). Momma wuz happy that Notre Dame won. Daddy wuz happy that Texas beated OU. Yes....we like our football in this house!!

We hadded a good visit wif Victor. Momma lefted the blinds open so we good lay in the sunspots. And we watched the birdies. We're gonna go visit his house sometime this week. We can't wait.

Saturday

Good mornin' y'all!!

We shur haded fun at Luna's party last night....we gotted there a little late though. We're furry glad that she's home now. Victor is coming ofur today to hang out wif us. Momma is going to be at the Air Force/ Navy game, so she won't mind. And were gonna go see him some time this week, and see all of the purrty fall leaves. Hope wfurryone has a great weekend!!


GO AIR FORCE!! SINK NAVY!!

We (and Momma) just wanted to say fanks to efurrycat for the kind werds of encouragement. It means alot to us. We were hesitant 'cause we didn't want anycat to feel that we were bragging 'bout Momma. We kinda were...but y'all know what we mean. The new jobbie is going well. Momma is just trying to get the 'lay of the land' as it were. She already knows some of the dok-tors she's werking wif. She's just really sleepy...she's not used to getting up that early in the morning anymore (she has to be there at 7 am). Hope efurrycat is having a good week! Time to go watch the Stars play hockey wif Momma!! (Cocoa...no, Momma's not playin' hockey...just watchin' it. We can see how you would fink that. Heehee)

Hi

Hi y'all. Just wanted to post reel quick. Momma wuz furry busy at her old werk the past few nights.....she werked 5 straight nights! 12 hours each night!!! We finks that means LOTS of treatsies for us!! Momma started her new jobbie today. She liked it, and she will be werking during the day now and not at night. Also...the new place is only 10 minutes from the howse, not 45 like the ofur. We haven't sed too much 'bout this, a'cause of ofur's not-so-good jobbie situations. We're keepin' them in our prayers though. TTFN...hopefully we'll have more later in the week.

Help!!

Momma added a little info about Emmy......and now all of our links are missing! What the heck happened?!?! Momma sez that she'll try to fix it while she's at werk. If anycat has any ideas...let us know!!

Update:: Nefurmind...blog rolling hadded the hiccups we fink. It am all fixeded now. Fanks for the info y'all!

Playdate

Emmy here again....

My playdate wif Victor wuz fun! We layed in the sunspots, played wif fev-vers, watched the squirells and birdies, ate temp-tey-shuns, and did a little snuggling. We're not a "couple" yet..he's not quite sure what he wants to do. Momma sez that that's not too un-usual for boys . We did have a good time hanging out though....don't get me wrong. He's a great friend to have. Hopefully he'll come hang out some more.

Luna is HOME!!!! Woo hoo!! Go to her blog for the details.

Visitor!!

Emmy here....

My friend Victor Tabbycat is coming to visit me today!! Yes...ME!!! Well, Meeko and Kiara will be here too. His momma is werkin' lots, so he decided to come here. I'm sooooooo a'cited!! I hadded a great time visitin' wif him at Charlie's party. I know he wuz hopin' to lay on the stairs in the sun, but I fink the weather is gonna be icky out. Cloudy, rainy, and chilly. But...it will be perfect for snugglin'. Momma will be here for a little while, sleepin', a'fore she has to go back to werk tonight. But...she sed that she'd put out extra water, stinky goodness, nip, fev-vers, and ofur toys. And, she'll leave the blinds open in case the sun decides to come out, so we can lay in the sunbeams. We can watch the birdies and squirrels too!

Yea!! I can't wait!!

Heehee!

We scareded Mommma today!!! It wuz soooo funny! She wuz takin' a shower, and had the door mostly closed but not latched. Well, we were playin, and somecat ran into the door and pushed it ALL the way open. That's what scared Momma....she knew that noone else wuz in the house, but the door flew open. That'll teach her to not latch the door. Heehee....that wuz great.

Pic-shures!!!

Here is Emmy sunning herself.

Kiara watchin' the birdies and squirrel's....while being where she shouldn't be!

Emmy posin' for Momma.

Efurrycat eating *peacefully*.

One of the few minutes of peace in the house! ~Momma

Meeko takin' a nappy on the couch.

What a week!!!

What a week!! All kinds of stuff happened....

Ferst....Momma gotted a new jobbie!! Yea! Now she only has to drive 10 minutes instead of 45 or so. AND she'll be werking in the mornings/ daytime and not at night anymore. We am all the way a'cited 'bout it ( and so is she!).

Second....Daddy flew his plane all by himself on thursday!! That's a preety big thing. We am soooo proud of him!!!

Therd.... Mimi wented back to her werk on wednesday. She's still a little tired, but feeling better efurry day.

Last nite we wented to not one, but TWO parties!!! One wuz fur Ayla's purrfday and the ofur wuz fur Charlie's Gotcha Day. We hadded 56 kinds of fun!! And Emmy wuz seen cuddling with Victor Tabbycat.

We were trying to post pic-shures of all of our fluff....but blogger won't let us. Grrr! Maybe tomorrow?

Not All Heroes Are People

Grammy sented this to Momma..it kinda goes along wif our Sept. 11 tribute. We're not sure where she gotted it from...we liked it, efun if it IS about a woofie.

No matter the storm, when you are with God, there's always a rainbow

NOT ALL HEROES ARE PEOPLE ~ ~ ~

James Crane worked on the 101st floor of Tower 1 of the World Trade Center. He is blind so he has a golden retriever named Daisy. After the plane hit 20 stories below, James knew that he was doomed, so he let Daisy go, out of an act of love. She darted away into the darkened hallway. Choking on the fumes of the jet fuel and the smoke James was just waiting to die. About 30 minutes later, Daisy comes back along with James' boss, who Daisy just happened to pick up on floor 112.

On her first run of the building, she leads James, James' boss, and about 300 more people out of the doomed building. But she wasn't through yet, she knew there were others who were trapped. So, highly against James' wishes she ran back in the building.

On her second run, she saved 392 lives. Again she went back in. During this run, the building collapses. James hears about this and falls on his knees into tears. Against all known odds, Daisy makes it out alive, but this time she is carried by a firefighter. "She led us right to the people, before she got injured" the fireman explained.

Her final run saved another 273 lives. She suffered acute smoke inhalation, severe burns on all four paws, and a broken leg, but she saved 967 lives. The next week, Mayor Guilaini rewards Daisy with the Canine medal of Honor of New York. Daisy is the first civilian Canine to win such an honor.

I hope you enjoyed this story. I thought it was terrific!

New York Pictures~ My Tribute is Below

New York City Skyline

Before and After

The Light Beams

The patch for Ten House

(note the Twin Towers the fireman is standing on)

An inspiring picture!

We will NEVER forget!!!

The 2,996- Sean Patrick Tallon

When aircraft crashed into the World Trade Center's twin towers, it was New York City's Bravest that did what they did best - head directly in to danger, in order to save lives. Firefighters, paramedics, and EMTs - side by side - as was the case so many times before.

Together with members of that city's Finest, they made their way to the heart of the tragedy. Grabbing their gear, the firefighters began rushing into the gigantic structures to assist with their safe evacuation, while the paramedics and EMTs began tending to the injured below.

It was while doing those jobs - in the kind of rescue that they had performed so well, so many times - that their lives were taken from us. (Taken from here)

Sean Patrick "Charger" Tallon was one of those such men. At 26, he had only a month or so left of being a "probie" (a probationary firefighter). Sean was one of the first responders, along with the other members of Ten House. Their station was right across the street from the World Trade Center. On the way up the stairs of Tower One, Sean helped a fellow firefighter that was having a heart attack, then he continued up with two more of his fellow firemen. They were trapped when Tower One collapsed.

Sean led an active and varied life. He was a Marine Corps Reservist. He also loved Irish music and playing the button accordion. He would practice for an hour or more on many evenings. The steady, easy flow of sweet hornpipes, tasty reels, and lively jigs would fill the house.

This is part of a song that was written for Sean, and was played at his funeral:

"Up the stairs boys, running to the top

Without a thought to slow or stop

Upstairs boys on 9/11 and they kept on going

to the gates of Heaven.

With the men of Ten House was Sean Tallon...

Although he wasn't the first, he wasn't the last...

With love of God and Country he never thought he could

see such acts of hate...

As we remember our Charger and the others

and shed a mournful tear for all his fallen brothers,

Although we didn't know them all,

we knew them well enough to know what they were made of...

And that was hero stuff.

written by Dereen and Marian Griffin

Sean left behind his parents, grandparents, sister and brother-in-law, and extended family in the United States, England, and Ireland, along with many friends. He is greatly missed by all.

May you rest in peace Sean Patrick Tallon. I would like to offer up this blessing:

Traditional Irish Blessing

May the road rise to meet you,

May the wind always be at your back,

The sun shine warm upon your face,

The rain fall soft upon your fields,

And until we meet again,

May God hold you in the hollow of His hand.

Thank you for all that you and your brothers do and have sacrificed for all of us! You and yours will be in my prayers. ~Rebecca Buchenot

note: I wanted to add more pictures, but Blogger decided that I had enough. Grrr! I'll try to add more later.

Check out these cool links:

2,996 Memorial List ~List of ALL the blog memorials!

Ten House Homepage~ They have an AWSOME site!!

Fire Store ~ Cool Stuff!

Emmy's HOME!!!

YEA!!! We gots Emmy fur real now! Momma tooked her to the V-E-T this afternoon, and efurrything checked out good. They fink that she's about 3 years old. She gots all of her shots (boosters) and we ALL got treated wif Advantage...just to be on the safe side. We gots to go defend our favrit spots now!

BTW....We just realized that this wuz our 100th post!!! Woohoo!!! Who woulda thunk it when we started out??

The latest

The latest news 'bout Emmy....Momma talked wif the new guy on Tues, a'fore she wented to werk. He was cool wif Momma takin' Emmy. BUt....now we can't find Emmy. Momma hasn't seen her since then. Emmy's supposed to go to the V-E-T tommorrow afternoon, but Momma might have to cancel that....again. Momma is going to go talk wif the naybor that lives next to the new guy and is between him and us (we bof live on the end of our buildings~momma). He had sed somfing a little while ago, before Momma talked wif the ofur naybors, 'bout takin' Emmy to live wif his mom. So...we're not sure what's goin' on right now. Is anycat else as confused as we are right now???

Momma's note~ Sorry for the confusion, but that's pretty much what's going on around here. We'll keep y'all posted.

Whoo Hoo!!!

GREAT NEWS!!!! Mimi finally gotted to go home from the hos-pi-tal!!! She wented home on Tuesday morning. She's still feeling a little weak and tired, but is furry happy to be home!! Fanks efurryone for al of your prayers.

Momma is planning on talking wif Emmy's new bean about us keeping her fur real. We'll let y'all know how that goes.

Momma's sad

Tonight, while Momma and Daddy were watchin' a movie, they heared people calling for Emmy. Daddy tolded Momma that it wuz wrong for her to just bring her in wifout tellin' anyone. He didn't want the people to get mad and call the cops or anyfing like that. So Momma tolded Daddy that he had to put her back out...that she couldn't do it. Momma's eyes were leaking for a little bit after that. So after a little while...Momma wented to talk to the new bean living in the house. He said that he wuz gonna keep Emmy. So....we'll see. Momma sez that if she keeps seeing Emmy outside alot, then she might go talk wif him about us keepin' her. We gots to go snuggle wif Momma hand make her happy again.

Mimi update: Daddy is on the phone wif her right now. She's gettin' bored and is WAY ready to go home. We still don't know when that will be.

Emmy Update!

Well....Emmy is now living in our spare bedroom. Momma sez that Emmy has to stay in there until the V-E-T sez that there is nofing wrong wif Emmy. (Update 9/3- Emmy goes to the V-E-T on Tues morning) Momma doesn't want us to get sicky. So...that means that Emmy will be in there until next week sometime. But that's OK, she gots a bed, the 'puter, food, water, toys, NIP, and her own little litter box (which she has already used a few times!!)

Momma's note- 9/3 I let Emmy out for a little while this morning while the girls were still sleeping. She seems quite comfy here. There has been some hissing and spitting going on, but no swinging...yet. Kiara came out and saw her, and let Emmy know that this is Kiara's house. Nobody has really gotten to close to the others. I tried to put up a baby gate that I borrowed, but that just seemed to upset Emmy....she could see out put not get there. I have been visiting her in the room multiple times a day to try to help her get used to me. We'll update more after the vet visit. Wish me luck in getting her there!

Momma gotted to go watch Daddy fly today!!! She sed that he did a GREAT JOB and that she is furry proud of him. She video taped it for Mimi, since she's still in the hospital. But...Mimi is planning on coming out the ferst weekend in October to visit! Yea!

Tomorrow, we get to watch Momma yell at the movie picture box while she's cheering for Notre Dame! Go Irish!!!

Emmy

This am Emmy (short for Esmerelda, like in The Hunchback of Notre Dame). Momma and Daddy decided on that name 'cause she lives like a gypsy. Isn't she cute?? Momma likes her ear. She has a very sweet purr-sonality. She "lives " wif the family 2 doors up....but that don't take furry good care of her. So...Momma's been feeding her and making a warm place to sleep for the past few weeks on our porch.

The ofur day, the road got re-paved in front of our house...Emmy walked through it and now has tar on her paw fur and belly. Momma wented and talked wif the people about Emmy. She wuz kinda rude she said...heehee, go Momma!! But she offered to take Emmy if they didn't want her. The people sed that Emmy "doesn't like to be in the house" and that's why she's always outside. But, she keeps tryin' to come in our house!! Those people are moving too. Their 5 year old came to get Emmy, but she ran from him. Momma finks that that is why Emmy doesn't like to be inside! They also used to have a Pit Bull woofie!! Eeek! So Momma tol them "I don't want to take your pet from you, but.... and I don't mind looking after her while you move and decide what to do with Emmy. Just let me know." So.....it sounds like Emmy might be moving in wif us shortly. She camed into the house this morning and Momma held her and snuggled wif her and Emmy just purred and purred. But, 'afore she comes in to live, Momma's gotta take her to the V-E-T to have her checked out. Wish us luck.....we're not sure about each ofur...let alone a new poodin!







BTW.....Mimi is still in the hospital (as far as we know). Momma is gonna call her in a little while and will update more then. (Update: Mimi feels sorta OK...pretty sore from efurrything. They still don't know when she'll get to go home. She's been there for a week now!) Thanks efurryone for your prayers and well wishes!

Mimi Update

Momma talked wif Mimi this morning. The procedure wented well and the Dr's gotted all of the icky stuff out. But....now she has pneumonia!!! Mimi wuz feeling OK though. We still don't know when she's gonna get to go home.

Rainbow Bridge

Sadly...Miss Trixie of the Meezers wented to the Rainbow Bridge this morning about 5:15. She is now playing wif her brofurs Norton and Ralphie. We're sure that Tink, Shadow, and Cleo (Momma's cats-that-came-before) were there to greet and welcome her as well. Our thoughts are wif the Meezer family.

More Updates

Mimi (Daddy's mom for those who don't know) is still in the hospital. She is still having pain and migranes. They have her on morphine for now. The doctors are going to do a scope and try to get the stone fragments out on Tuesday once some of the pain and swelling have subsided. Momma talked wif Mimi for a little while tonight. She sez that Mimi sounded good, but she (Mimi) wuz VERY SAD that she won't be coming out this week to visit. Momma told her that there are more important things to be here for than just this weekend.

We also gotted this email from Beau and his Mom:

I wish I had better news, but Luna is still missing. Today her human posted pictures of where she's lost and it's downright disturbing and scary. EVERYONE needs to go see those pictures. Looking at those pictures, we REALLY need to step up the prayer power in a big way. So, at 9 pm tonight (your time) I want everyone to pray hard she is found soon (and you might also say a prayer for Trixie and Mimi, and others, as well). It doesn't matter if prayers are said at the same time. An ongoing prayer vigil is just as good. Also, I would like to suggest you say a prayer for her at your meal times and around 8 pm each night. She needs to be found. At this point she is in real danger. Thanks!

We're gonna head off to bed and say our prayers wif Momma now. G'night efurryone!!

URGENT!!!

Help efurryone!!! Mimi wuz taken back in to the hospital this morning! They think that she has pancreatitis (Momma helped spell it). That's all we know right now, but Daddy is on the phone wif his brofur trying to find out more. If y'all could, PLEASE say a prayer for Mimi. We love her. She wuz supposed to come visit us on Thurs....not sure that she'll be able to now.

Also....Luna needs our prayers too! She got out while at the evil V-E-T and ran off into the forest. That happened on Tuesday and as far as we know, she still hasn't been found.

Poor Momma

Heehee! Poor Momma! When she gotted home from werk this morning...she found kitty turds on the front porch! We fink that it's from Emmy, the cat that Momma has been feeding (more on her in anofur post). Then, when Momma gotted inside....one of us had frown up on the living room carpet!!! Heehee! Momma wuzn't too happy wif any of us today! Our tummy is all better now.

Fanks Shadow! I loves my new octy-pus...it's cool! And it's got NIP!!! Momma tried to get the pictures up using blogger...but couldn't because of the way the pictures are saved on the 'puter. So, sorry that they're spread out like this.

These are all of our Secret Paws Goodies!!!! 

Stoopid blogger!! It's not letting us upload pictures.....and Momma wasn't too happy 'bout that. She wuz saying sum bad werds, too. We won't repeat them, 'cause we'd get into trouble! Maybe, eventually, we'll get our pictures posted. We're crossing our paws.

BTW....Mimi gotted to go home, and is feeling better efurryday.

Update

Just a quick update...Mimi is doing well after her surgery. She's going to haf to stay ofur night at the hospital. Fanks efurrycat (and bean) for your prayers and well wishes!

Hi efurryone!

We just founded out that Mimi has to have her gall-blad-er out. That dosen't sound like much fun to us. Uncle Brian hadded to drive her to the bean V-E-T at 2:30 this morning. Mimi must not have been feeling good at all if she let him drive!! She's having her surgery tomorrow (Tues) at 10:30 in Texas.

Momma and Daddy's niece is doing well and getting bigger efurry day.

That's all for now...we're still trying to find the pictures we took.

Tagged!?!!

We gots tagged by Smeagol & Strider!!!!

Here are the rules: The player starts with "5 weird things/habits about yourself ". Then you need to choose 5 kitties/people to be tagged and list their names. The kitties/people who get tagged need to write a blog about their 5 weird things/habits, as well as state this rule clearly, then tag 5 more victims. Don't forget to leave your victim a comment that says "you're tagged!" in their comments and tell them to read your blog.

So here goes...

Meeko:
1) I have to sit on Momma's lap any time she's is on the 'puter. I don't care if she's just on "real quick".
2) I don't really meow.... I chirp & sqiuck. (sp?)
3) I drool when I purr a whole lot.
4) I only weighed 1.8 lbs when Momma 'dopted me.
5) I LOVE to slide across the floor on my tummy! momma calls it my army crawl.

Kiara:
1) I have to get a drink out of the bafroom sink any time someone is in there. But...I drink if that person is petting me.
2) I' m a talker. If you say somfing to me...I will respond.
3) I usually come when called.
4) I have a HUGE fluffy tail.
5) I like to stand on my hind legs, with front paws on the door, and look outside. If Momma's out there wifout me, I stand there and cry.

Momma:
1) Werks the night shift. That alone makes her weird. Never mind that she werks in sugery.
2) LOVES hockey and college football. Go Stars!! And yells at the moving picture box when these things are on.
3) Reads...alot!
4) Loves to plant flowers....efen though we don't really have a yard.
5) Skis black diamonds (whatever those are) wif Daddy and the guys. Efen though she only really started skiing last fall.

So there ya go...that's us. We fink most effuryone, that we know, has been tagged. If you're reading this and haven't been tagged...consider yourself tagged!!

News!!

Oh WOW!

Momma & Daddy's niece wuz borned today!!!! Hannah wuz 9lbs, 6 oz and gotted here at 5:37 am. Her Daddy is our Daddy's older brother. They live in Texas. Mimi wuz all the way a'cited, 'cause this is the firstest grandbaby!!! Yea! Congrats to Chris & Jen!!!

Millie gotted a fur-ever home AND her own bloggie!!! Go check it out here.

We gotted our Secret Paws pressie on Friday!!!!! It wuz from Shadow, all the way from Hawaii!!
We gots stinky goodness and lots of toys wif catnip! Momma took pitures with the flashy box, but is still having problems finding the pictures on the 'puter. We haven't posted 'bout it yet, cause Momma werked lots of ofur time this weekend and hadded the 'puter off. We fink that means more money for more stinky goodness??

Hope efurrycat is doing well and staying cool! It's finally starting to cool off some here and rain a little too! Hurry up fall!!

Update

Well...Momma did her bestest at the interview, but they called to say that they chose the ofur person. :-( So Momma wuz a little sad 'bout that. But....she (and lots of her friends) sed that it wasn't meant to be, and that God has a better plan for her. We still love you Momma!!
Note from Momma- Thanks everyone for all of your prayers and good wishes. I like the job that I have now, but I'm looking for something a little closer to home (I drive up to Denver from C. Springs 3 times a week).

We fink that Brandi's momma hadded some good interviews the ofur day too!!! We're keepin' up the prayers and purrs for her.

Our Secret Paw, Sky, gotted our pressies in the mail. Whoohoo!! We're waitin' for her Momma to post pictures. We hadded a blast shoppin'! We're watchin' the mail for ours.....wonder who our pal is??? Hhmmm....