Cobalt: Today daddy went to work and mommy went to a friends house so we had the whole house to ourselves. We decided to get stoned but unfortunately, we made a HUGE mess in the process. We escaped the mess before daddy got home from work so he had NO idea who made it.


Our lesson - Be careful with the kitty crack.

Mommy and daddies lesson - Do NOT leave a bag of cat nip on the counter when you are not going to be home to look after it.

Howdy!

I got nudged to post, so here I am!! Sorry we haven't been around much lately. The year got off to a stressful start but hopefully it will get better.

I'm going to begin with our precious Wolfie. He was our family cat "growing up". We got him around my sophomore year of high school when our neighbor found him as a stray and couldn't keep him. My dad HATES cats, but my mom and I persisted and he finally let us keep him. Okay, we didn't ask, we just brought him home!! Anyways, on January 31, Wolfie made his journey to the Rainbow Bridge. My dad couldn't find him and searched the entire house. He finally looked in the basement and found him passed away in a back corner. We think he was heartbroken by the death of my mom in July and just couldn't stand being alone. I miss him SO much. He was around 8 or 9 years old.

RIP Wolfie

Secondly, the day after Wolfie died I suffered a miscarriage. Chris and I found out two days after Christmas that I was expecting our first child in early September. However, things didn't progress as planned and we lost our little baby. I'm still in shock over everything, but I know God has something great planned for us, and our time to be parents will come soon enough.

Finally, earlier this month Miss Penelope had her lady bits removed. She was NOT a happy camper and many funny pictures ensued.
Not her most flattering pose, but I think it was HILARIOUS. She was attempting to get at her incision.

Oh, and here are some other pictures of the little lady. Here she is sitting in a funny pose, and you can really see how much shes grown. She's not nearly as big as either of the boys, but when we adopted her they said she would be a tiny cat.

And her Valentines Day dress. She really is darling.

Finally I have our Christmas picture. Thankfully everyone was pretty cooperative and I think we got a pretty decent one.

Sorry again for not posting too much!! We're in Connecticut right now visiting Chris' family but we head back to Virginia tomorrow so I will do my best to get into a regular posting routine! I hope you all are doing well.

Happy Gotcha Day!!

Today is our boys Gotcha Day!!! I can't believe we have had them for a whole year already. Time sure flies.

This photo was taken at their foster home right before we brought them home.

Here are two of my favorite pictures from once we got them. They were so tiny!!


And here they are nearly a year later. They have grown up quite nicely I think. This is Cobalt.

And here is Wrigley.

My New Years Resolution was to post more, and obviously that isn't happening!! We've had some stuff going on, and hopefully sometime in the next 2 weeks I'll be able to say more, and start posting more as well!!

Our Christmas Card Photo!

Merry Christmas

Love Stephanie, Christopher, Penelope, Wrigley & Cobalt

Poor Wrigley

Oh poor Wrigley!! Penelope seems to think that Wrigley is her mommy and enjoys suckling from him. Obviously no milk comes out, but Penelope gets endless amounts of pleasure from it. She spends several hours a day doing this, and Wrigley just lays there and takes it. What a trooper!!

Sorry it's pretty dark. But you can hear Penelope and see her little white paws. You can see a little bit more towards the end. Even though you can't see much, it's still really cute!

Happy Birthday!!!

Today is our very first birthday!!! Instead of mancats-in-training...we are now real live mancats!! This is such a happy day for us. :-)

This is us on the day our beans adopted us. Wrigley is on the left and Cobalt is on the right.
I think this is also on the day that we were adopted.
Here is soon after we were adopted.
Here is Wrigley in his Halloween costume a few days ago.
And here is the both of us along with Penelope. She's too small for a costume.
Wrigley and Penelope.
And finally, all three of us.

We really have grown over the past year!!

I just can't stop looking at Penelope. She is so cute and I just want to scoop her up and kiss her every chance I get. She is so dang tiny and that just makes her all the more loveable.

Penelope with my cousin Connor who is 8 months old.




Penelope modeling her cute new sweater. It's size XS and still ENORMOUS on her!!


Penelope trying to show her "scardy cat" pose. So tiny and intimidating...not!!




Her head shot. Isn't she gorgeous?!?!

Hi Everybody!

Hello everyone! My name is Penelope and I'm new here. My mommy and daddy met me at a Pet Fair today and from what they say, it was love at first sight. I guess they were right because they brought me home with them. I have two big brothers called Wrigley and Cobalt but they hiss at me so I'm not sure about them. I hope they like me soon, because I'm not scared of them. I'm not even scared of the woofie they are dog sitting that they were so terrified of. I am a big brave girl cat, even though I'm a runt and I'm super tiny for my 9 weeks of age. I'm so excited to finally have a forever home, and I hope you all will grow to like me.

Sorry I haven't been around lately. As you know, I mentioned in my last post my mom was recently diagnosed with cancer. She was really improving but unfortunately, she unexpectedly passed away last week. I'm feeling very lost right now, and just well...I don't really know. I never thought I'd lose my mom when I am only 24 years old. I'm still in a state of disbelief really.

My husband Chris and I are with my dad here in Chicago and will be returning to Virginia tomorrow. Wrigley and Cobalt are with a pet sitter for the time being so I hope they are okay. Hopefully I'll regain some sort of normalcy once we return and I can get back into the habit of posting regularly.

My aunt wrote a really nice post on her blog today about my mom, which can be found here.

We've Moved!

Wrigley: Guess what? We moved!! We are nearly all moved into our new place and we love it. There are 3 floors for us to run around in opposed to the 3 ROOMS we had in the apartment!! There is so much space and it is so much fun. Our favorite are the hardwood floors on the main level. If you run really fast...your legs will give out and you can slide all the way across the room. It's lots of fun and every cat should try it. It is also fun running up and down the stairs. We had never seen stairs before, but we like them.

Our mommy says the lease at our old place is over tomorrow so they have been busy moving the last of our things over and cleaning at the old place so that it is ready for when they give the keys back. After tomorrow they will get to spend all of their not work time playing with us. So overall, we are very happy with our new home.

Lastly, our mommy wants to ask you all for some purrrayers. Last week we found out our grand-mommy (our mommies mommy) has cancer. So we are very scared for her and want her to get better real soon. So please send some healing purrayers and purrs her way!! Thank you.