Happy Happy Birthday!

Today is Mom's birthday. Happy Birthday, Mom!!!! Michael and I baked her a yellow cake and we all gave her a digital picture frame. The frame is really interesting, just plug in a memory card or other digital storage device and the frame cycles through the pictures or video clips. I would tell you how old Mom is, but I'll let her tell it instead (and I'm not exactly sure how old she is myself). Yesterday night I couldn't sleep so I came down stairs and made this picture on Microsoft paint. I have seen some cool drawings on the Internet that had been made on paint(example-http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uk2sPl_Z7ZU)so I wanted to give it a try. Oh, I almost forgot...we got 2 new rabbits, Cricket(male with black fur) and Brownie(female with brown fur). Now our original rabbit Miss Bunny has company.

Sad News

We have been having problems with our Internet for a few weeks which accounts for my lack of blogging. No, that wasn't the sad news. The sad news is that Michael's cat Boots is dead. It is a mystery as to how she died, since we found her lying on the side walk dead one morning with no apparent injuries. Charity and I were heading off to work (later I will digress on my wonderful new job) and we saw her lying there. Boots looked peacefully asleep, I guess we should have wondered why she didn't wake up when we drove by. We'll miss you Boots!

The Newbies

Boots: Thusly named because of her four white paws, Boots is the smallest of all the kittens. She is incredibly cute of course and has astonishingly blue eyes, for now. All of the trio had blue eyes at first but they eventually changed. Boots has a white throat and paws, big ears, grey and black stripes, and a small white mark on her nose.



Houdini: Houdini is an escape artist. While being transported to our farm a tool box was required to hold the lid of her box down. This Kitten has a brand of cute all her own. With those sad golden(previously blue)eyes and bend tipped ears it is hard not to pick her up. Houdini is grey and black striped with rusty colored splotches, and the M-shape on her forehead is half orange and half black instead of all black like the others.

The Original Trio

Squeaks AKA Stripes:
As well as being my cat and the name of my blog, Squeaks is the cutest of all the kittens. He was defaulted to me when Charity and Rebecca chose Tiger and Sweet Pea. Squeaks isn't a real people cat but he is a good cat cat. At first Squeaks would squeak a lot when he was held and was so named. He reminds me a lot of a striped cat we once had named Stripes, so occasionally I call him that. He is a typical grey and black striped kitten with golden eyes(previously blue), a M shape on his forehead, and all black pads on his paws.

Tiger formerly known as Teddy:
Tiger is the friendliest and nicest cat of all our cats. He was named Teddy at first but his unique(to our cats at least) orange color prompted a name change. Tiger's claim to fame is that he enjoys jumping on people's shoulders when they are sitting on the ground. He has white and orange stripes, hazel(once teal blue) eyes, and pink pads on her paws.

Sweet Pea, Cutie Pie, etc... :

Sweet Pea is the sweetest of our cats. She really enjoys being petted. She is growing into a fine cat, but is usually always the first of all of the kittens to curl up in your lap and fall asleep purring. Sweet Pea has grey and black stripes with patches of orangish fur, eyes the same color as Squeaks, with three paws with black pads, and one paw with pink pads. Basically Sweet pea is who you would get if you merged Tiger and Squeaks.

A Fresh Start

Well, here goes my first attempt at blogging. I can not guarantee that this entry will be very entertaining, or even correctly spelled, but I'll try. This week has been very eventful so far. On Tuesday dad, Charity, a guy named Stan, and I set up a giant 60 x 60 (feet of course!) tent to cover a plane so it could be fixed in relative shelter. OK, I simplified the process a bit, but it worked in the end. The airplane in question was very fascinating, it was a refurbished WWII navy sea plane of some kind. The pilot had made an emergency landing in Sioux City and its snappy new blue paint job was melted of in places where smoke had escaped from the engine.

Yesterday Mom, Charity (again), Aunt Brenda, my cousin Heather and Holly, and I picked Strawberries. So after much camaraderie and sore backs copious amounts of jelly were made. Midway through making this jelly we discovered, via my Grandma Sandbulte, that we really didn't need to be boiling the sugar gelatin mixture after all and in fact the a stove wasn't even necessary.

Today James and Michael each got a kitten. Charity, Rebeecca, and I already had some that were slightly bigger, but the new kittens seemed to get on well with the others. Later I think I'll do a section on them.