New babies have arrived!

We have 6 new (seven, counting the mom) additions to our house as of Saturday afternoon. Petunia, our newest foster kitty, had her adorable litter of kittens! 3 of them are solid Black, just like mommy cat, and the other 3 are solid grey...so far. They are just so cute and Nick and Kayla just love them to death.

Let's see...all that I have been talking about lately is animals, animals, animals. Oh yeah, and Nick. Not too much is new here other than what I have been blogging about. We are falling nicely in to the routine of taking Nick to school and picking him up. I am still working 2-3 nights a week. Oh, some BIG news (in effect to our family anyways) ...Mike and Brian have decided to sell their stores. Not exactly sure what either of them will do instead, but I am sure they will come up with something; whether it be together or individually. Only time will tell. Jetta learned how to go down the inside stairs today... she had the "going up" aced but we were still carrying her down. So this is great other than it only took her 5 seconds to find the cat food down in the basement. And going down the back outside steps will be a whole different lesson for her I am sure- you can see through them to the ground...SCARY! Our new laminate floor is complete in the entrance way- AND LOOKS SO GOOD- and Brian is about 1/3 the way done the basement. Then hopefully he will start on the upstairs. Hmm, what else? Congratulations to my cousin Carolyn and her husband Tracey (and Cadrin and Carrena too) on their New Baby Boy! I can't wait to meet him sometime soon! That's one baby checked off my list of 5 that I am waiting to hear about over the next few months or so. Well I guess that's it for now. Take Care until next time. Bye for now.

First Day of School!

We have now entered into a whole new world.....school! Yesterday was Nicks first day of Kindergarten! He went for 15 minutes last week for a one-on-one with his teacher; Mrs. Burgess. She showed him around the class and did a little assessment to see how much he knows. Then he had his full day (2 and 1/2 hours for him) yesterday.....no school today....and then starts regular afternoons tomorrow. I wasn't as sad as I thought I would be. Maybe because we were in such a rush to get him there because I decided to let the girls walk - BIG mistake. I was so wound up by the time we got there. The door was already open so in Nick went. He never looked back and I didn't see him again until 2:30 when I picked him up! Congratulations Nick! This is going to be so exciting for you.

Welcome the new Zoo member.....

...her name is Jetta (yes, like the car) and actually only so far. We just got her on Saturday afternoon and are still trying names out for the weekend. This is what we are leaning to so far....we may just end up changing the spelling. She is an 8 week-old Border Collie X Lab. Last night went pretty well. After getting her we went out to Brian's Mom and Dad's house for what turned in to the whole evening, so that wore Jetta pretty much right out. She slept until about 1:30am in her crate. I woke up because our bird was having a flying fit in her cage (which I am sure that you all have no idea about how much noise this can make) and Jetta was whinning. I am not sure what happened first; if the puppy woke the bird and scared her, or something spooked the bird (which could be something as little as a fly buzzing around) and scared the puppy. Anyways, outside we went for a pee (Jetta; not me) and then back to bed. I only had to get up two more times after that until 8:30 when the kids got up and remembered we had gotten a puppy! The rest is history, as they say. But it is still only Sunday of the long weekend so wish us luck!

Kody just thinks she's a pest...

...who steals his toys...