Tuesday, January 7, 2014

Dashy Cat

This is how we rang in the new year...with this little kitty checking everything out!  We were leaving our house to head to a friend's for the evening when a little cat ran out from under our car. I told Josh and Alex to get in the car while I tried to guide the cat to the side yard and leave it. The little sucker was fast and every time I tried to run away she was right there with me. We ended up taking her to our friends house with us. 
We sent an email to our neighborhood and no one claimed her. She was very clean and calm so she clearly wasn't a wild cat. The next morning we decided to put it back outside hoping she would go back home. She stayed on our porch for a while then disappeared. It was around the same time Alex noticed the kitty was not around. We had huge tears when we told we what we did so Josh walked the neighborhood looking for her. He never found her. I went out a bit later and heard rustling in the lot beside us and out came kitty. I went inside and showed Josh. He told me to get her and call our friends to see if they could watch "our cat" until we got back in town!!!

We picked her back up Saturday evening and have been getting her adjusted to our house. Cooper adores her and loves to try and play with her tiny little bell balls we bought her. We have been calling her Dashy. Sweet little Dashy went to the vet today and they confirmed she is in fact a she, is not micro chipped and is 5-6 months old.  So it looks like we have a new family member. She is fitting in quite well! We all already love our little Dashy Pie Stafin!

Thursday, January 2, 2014

Happy 2014

This year will be my year to be a better blogger. My post may not be lengthy, but they will be more frequent! I find myself with at least 45 minutes to an hour in the carpool line every single day. Why not use some of that time to blog?

We had a fantastic, American Girl filled Christmas! 2 days after Christmas we had a trip to the AG store, saw Shin Yun in Houston, then took Alexandra to see Pirate and Princess with another sweet family!

We rang in 2014 with the James family...and also grew our family by one.
Meet Dashy Pie Stafin, the lucky little kitten who found us on New Year's Eve. 
We are currently celebrating our 3rd Christmas with Josh's family and I'm savouring the last few days of time off with the family. Josh took off the 2 weeks Alex was out of school.