My new Office Assistant

So Chloe has decided she wants to help me work, although I don't know that you could classify it as help. It's kind of like when she wants to "help" fold the laundry.

In the morning, she will follow me into my office, jumps up on my lap, then climbs right onto my desk. After some desk checks to make sure there is nothing new on my desk, she plops right down in front of my monitor. Sometimes she tries to catch my mouse as it moves around the screen - funny kitty.

Not sure how much longer she will fit though, she's growing noticeably everyday. And wrapping us all tighter and tighter around her little paw.

New Member of the Family

They finally talked me into a cat. The neighbors had kittens and posted a sign out front of their house this weekend. We went over last night and they had one left. Chloe is joining our family today and I have to admit she is very cute. Bruce wanted to name her kitty, but we all vetoed that. This morning Bruce, Courtney and Darin went to the pet store and got a litter box, toys, food, a bed and feeding dishes and now we're clearing out a space in the laundry room for the litter box. Darin is very excited, keeps asking if we can go get the cat (we left her at the neighbors until we could get the house ready) and Courtney has been begging for a cat for awhile now. Hopefully she'll box train quickly and not tear up all the furnture!

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Summer Vacation 2009

So we took our annual summer vacation to California right after the kids got out of school. We left June 6th and returned June 14th. Courtney took her friend Christina, and Gavin took his friend Cody, which made for a large group so Gavin followed in his car while the rest of us took the van. We went to Disneyland (of course), Medieval Times, Uncle Ian's and shopping. The girls spent a day at Knott's Berry Farm as well. I think everyone had a good time. Here are the photos from our trip.

Soccer

So Darin has decided to play soccer this year. He is my first kid to express any real interest in sports. Yesterday was his first practice. He cried for part of it and then complained when he got home how the shin guards hurt and that he was very tired. But at least he looks good in the uniform!

6th Picture Tag

Rules: Go to the pictures folder on your computer
Choose your 6th file
Choose your 6th pictureBlog about it.
Tag 6 more people!

This is a picture of Courtney in our backyard in Chino Hills. It must have been a Sunday because she is wearing a dress. She must be about 8 or 9 years old. Hard to believe just how much she has grown. She really is turning into quite a young woman, attitude and all! Thanks for the blog tag Carol! That was fun to reminesce and also see how many bazillion pictures I have now accumulated.

Never a dull moment with teenagers in the house

So I am coming to find that there's never a dull moment when you have teenagers. Gavin called Saturday night, "Mom, I have a problem, a deer ran into my car and now I can't open the drivers side door". Just what I wanted to hear. Luckily no one was hurt, and I'm pretty sure the deer won't be filing any claims. But he ran off without providing his insurance so I guess we'll have to pay for this one.