The Kitchen is DONE!

Right after we bought our house


Before Paint

The Culprit

For the last several weeks we have noticed a cat walking by our house tormenting our cats that are inside. All our cats start growling and freaking out. It's really nice when your sleeping too. This cat has also been fighting with our cats. Anyway. We have also noticed some cat has been spraying urine around our house and in our shop. We know its not our cats they are all fixed (from what I hear fixed cats don't spray). Last weekend we were painting cabinets and came down to the garage to find one of the cabinet doors we were painting had been sprayed GREAT! Thank you. Then a few days later our bedroom window (it is close to the ground) and then the TOPPER our sliding glass door. So I got out my handy Windex Outdoor window washer and cleaned all the windows. All we could think of is how do we get rid of this cat we are pretty sure it is a stray.

Chris came up with the idea to trap the cat he said he would work on it over the weekend. Well, I decided to take it into my own hands called the Humane Society and told them our situation. They had me pick up a trap and guess what last night we caught us a cat!



Oh and let me tell you this cat was PISSED! Growling, hissing and making every noise a cat makes. Today the Humane Society is going to come pick up the cat. I feel a little bad but its not right that a cat is ruining our stuff and causing such a problem.

Cabinet update.... They are all painted we will be hanging the doors tomorrow!!!! Pictures to follow!

KItchen Cabinets

I decided to use my long weekend to paint our kitchen cabinets white. Here are some of the photo's so far. I didn't realize it would be such a huge job. Please note the time on the clock on the final photo!







OK so maybe you can't see the time but it was 1 something AM!

Camping at Silver Lake Group Camp

My family has been camping at the Silver Lake Group camp one weekend every year since I was in the 5th grade (that has been a while). There are about 15 families that go every year. Last weekend was Silver Lake Group camp camping trip. Chris's favorite part about camping at Silver Lake is there are great area's to drive his RC cars. I will post those pictures later. Everyone had a great time, only complaint was it was very cold trying to sleep in a tent. Almost everyone else was sleep in RV's.....someday! Here are some of the pictures I took.


These pictures crack me up! Austin is getting so smart and almost has his get away mastered!


I was trying to get a good photo of Austin and Grandma for Grandma's new mothers day frame. Austin wasn't having it!


Cutie Pie!


Every year for lunch my dad cooks a few salmon over the fire. They were very yummy!


There are paragliders that jump off a mountain edge near our camp and land a hour later or so right in front of our campground.

I won!

Well, sorta I didn't acutally win anything, except for a whole month people will see my photo with my name right under it. I entered a photo into the Whatcom Educational Credit Union 2010 calendar contest and they selected my photo! This is the photo they chose!

Taji-Fur

A lot of you have asked me how Taji is doing so I thought I should give everyone a update! She had her drains taken out yesterday. She was happy about that. She had started taking her own drains out the night before. Which was not good. She does still have big wide open wounds on her hind leg. They don't bandage them because the air is good for them and they want them to heal from the inside out. She can now be around the other cats and doesn't have to be locked in the bathroom. As long as she doesn't lick her leg raw again she doesn't have to wear her cone! She is so much happier and you can tell she feels better.

Chris and I are leaving to go camping tonight after work and we will come home and give Taji her medicine tomorrow and check on her. She is on the road to recovery!

Sick Kitty

Some of you know this already last week we took Taji to the vet because she wasn't feeling well. They looked her over she was dehydrated but really couldn't find much else wrong with her. They drew some blood and decided she had an infection somewhere so we started her on antibiotics. She was doing fine just kind of staying away from the other cats and sleeping.

On Sunday we noticed her hind leg was very swollen. We called the vet on Monday morning and of course they wanted to see her. Turns out she has several abscessed wounds on her hind leg. We couldn't see them cause she is a very furry cat. All the wounds were drained and drains were put in. I will spare you the photo of what her leg looks like now. She is at home and we have quite the list of daily care items for taking care of her. For now though she is living in our bathroom which she is pretty happy with. Nobody bugging her. We should find out more information today on how she is doing. For anyone who cares here are a couple pictures of Taji with a cone!


Taji with her cone! She hates it.


Taji in her little cozy cardboard house Chris made her. She looks worse in this pic that she really looks.