The Following Took Place Between 4:00AM and 5:00AM . . .

4:00AM - I lay peacefully asleep.
4:01 AM - I spring into a sitting position as my cat, Jinx, sneezes RIGHT in my face. I mean literally, my face got wet from it. Gross. I say "Jinx!" - and lightly toss her off the bed.
4:14 AM - Finally get back to sleep.
4:15 AM - Jinx jumps back on bed, on me, and starts kneading me, as she purrs like a freight train right in my face. She then continues on and starts kneading my hair and basically lays right on my head. I say "Jinx! That's enough." - and lightly toss her off the bed.
4:29 AM - Finally back to sleep.
4:30 AM - Tag Team! Nina (other kitty) jumps on bed and jumps on me. Starts kneading me. Then comes over to the side right in my face and rubs her head on mine (while she also is purring like a freight train). She then tries to stick her head under my hand so that I pet her. I say "Nina! That's enough." - and throw her all the way across the room! Kidding! I lightly toss her off the bed.
4:44 AM - Finally back to sleep (kinda).
4:45 AM - Nina jumps back on the bed. Starts purring and sitting on my head. At this point, I'm just starting to get extremely frustrated. Why can't our kitties let us sleep!? This happens EVERY night. Except usually not for an hour straight. So I let her just lay on my head thinking maybe she'll stop purring and I can just go back to sleep.
5:00 AM - Motor mouth is still purring away. Me - "Shaneeeeeeeeee. The cats won't leave me alone. I've been up since 4 AM. I'm going to cry." Shane then picks up Nina off my head, goes and finds Jinx, and puts them in our computer room for the remainder of the morning so I can get some sleep.

My Babies!

Can't believe our babies will be three years old.

I love that they still love each other after all these years!

I'm So Excited!!

And I just can't hide it . . . so I'm going to tell you all about it!! (but not really cause some of it is a secret) . . .

• Mase's TOP SECRET bachelorette party is this weekend!! KINDA freaking out about this. Should be good.
• My kitties turn 3 this weekend (holy cow time flies!)!! Makes me want to go out and get them each a kitty for their birthday!
• Shaney's finally coming home from a 4 day work trip that was 4 days too long! I really missed him.
• Excited that (I think) we finally came to a conclusion on our house . . . we were going to completely redo the entire downstairs layout, but I think we will just drywall some things and wait a couple years to see if we really like where we are and then maybe do an addition upstairs. We are getting our septic redone this summer, and I just want to enjoy what we have right now.
  
• Excited for one of my BFFs, who just bought her own house! Can't wait to go see it and help her out with it!
• My sister-in-law and brother-in-law also got a new house! They are amazing at decorating and making homes look awesome, so I'm excited to see what they do with it!

Yikes!

My Little Helpers!

My little helpers! I don't know what I would do without them (except get my wrapping done a lot faster)! And they just make it so much more fun (and frustrating)! But really. It is fun (for a couple of minutes until they will not stop climbing in the bags, laying on the wrapping paper that I have rolled out to cut, chasing the scissors as I cut the paper, finding their toys, and dragging them out, and ripping the feathers out of them, . . . but then . . they give you those cute little kitty eyes and you can't help but laugh and love them even more)!

Kitties Getting Ready for Christmas . .

Took out some of our Christmas stuff . . . .
Nina picked the blanket.
Jinx picked the wrapping paper.

Even they are getting excited too! :-)

Nina & Jinx's 2nd Birthday!

We celebrated the kitties 2nd birthday a couple weekends ago (I'm so far behind . . ugh) . . . I feel bad we didn't really have time to celebrate like I wanted to, but the kitties hardly ever get wet food (I heard it's worse for their teeth and such), but they LOOOVEEE it!! Like, seriously. They FREAK out when I get some out. . . . So for special occasions (when they are being good or are being really cute or it's their birthday) they get some!! They were super excited!! I really can't believe it's been 2 years already since we got them! Time flies when you have kitties, I can't even imagine how time flies when you have kids!!

My Desk Worker.

Jinx always helps me when I am on the computer.


She is the best.

Random!

Random. Ready. . . . Go.

Flowers from my wonderful hubby for valentine's day!! He got these for me because he knows I love the color pink and I told him my new favorite color is yellow (although light blue is also my favorite color)! How sweet! I absolutely love them and absolutely love him! Really, he helps me get through so much and I ALWAYS laugh when I am around him. We don't really celebrate Valentine's day very big . . no big dinner for us . . we actually had left over sloppy joes!! But we exchange some candy and cards! It's too close to my birthday to celebrate that big.
My handsome pup, Behren! We had to take him to the vet to get his ears checked out, and get his leg checked out. . . . he keeps limping :-(. . . his ear is a lot better now, and his leg is off and on ok. They said if it's not better in 10 days to go back and they will take an x-ray.
My kitty Jinx & Nina sleeping all cuddled up again. They are just the cutest!! I know I always say this, but I am SOOOOOOOOOOO glad we got two kitties and not just one!! I love to watch them interact with each other, and I love having two kitties snuggle up to you!! I would actually probably get even more kitties, but Shane says two is enough.
And of course, my beautiful niece, BRYCE!! She is getting so big! Sitting in her high chair! She celebrated her 6 month birthday last weekend!!

And . . . . her mommy and daddy and Shane and I got tickets to go see Kenny Chesney, Miranda Lambert, Montgomery Gentry, Sugarland, and Lady Antebellum . . . all at once!!! My first REAL concert!! So excited!! :-)

Random. Ready. . . aaaaaaannnnndd. . . . Done.

Christmas Trees & My Animals, Of Course.

My daddy made two beautiful trees to take to the cemetery for my Grandpa and Aunt Cheryl. He glued all the bows and bulbs on himself, and got a candy cane for the top . . . . one that says "Dad" and the other "Cheryl". Not a day goes by that I don't think of my grandpa and aunt. It's so sad without them. My grandpa always made jokes and always put a smile on anybody's face. I miss him saying "yellooooowwww" when he answered the phone . . . especially when I would call his number from his house and hang up the phone real quick so it rang and then nobody was there. He loved that! I always did my aunt's nails at every family get together, and I just knew she appreciated it so much. I guess I laugh like her and I play with my earrings like her. It has been over a year since they have been gone, but I know they are in great hands right now, and that brings comfort to my heart.


And because I just love my animals (boy is it going to bad when Shane and I have real kids . . . ), here is a cute pic of Behren and Jinx snuggling in the cube in the back!

p.s. - cruise in less than 4 days!! ahhH!!