Winston, our 23 year old

I can't post about the furry kids without posting about our oldest and biggest kid, Winston. Winston is our quarter horse and he is my "therapy". when I have bad days I go out to Winston and feel so much better afterward. He is a very sweet, very large, retired quarter horse.

He has this thing he does that I think is so adorable. When he gets excited he does this little dance with his front feet. I wanted to capture it because I am a dork and I think it is cute. Humor me :-).

So here is Winston and his impatient treat dance, sorry it is sideways, I can't get it to flip back up. Grr...

Our Kooky Cats

Okay, so I realize that we are the crazy cat people for posting this, but I have some pretty cute pictures of our crazy cats and what they do.

For starters, Let me introduce you. First came Jinx, she's a Norweigian Forest Cat that we got shortly after we lost Lily. She had followed one of the primary presidency's kids home and she was a really cute kitten so I brought her home and Eric said I could keep her, actualy he just never told me to give her back so..... here she is! She is a large breed cat and so she is perfectly healthy at 15 - 20 pounds.

Maybe not her most flattering picture, but you get the idea...

Well after awhile we realized that Jinx was not a cuddle cat, she sits across the room and stares at you, that's her form of cuddling. I somehow convinced Eric last year that he wanted his own cat and it should be a cuddle cat. We found a rescue group and went to see who they had. Eric fell in love with this little white fluffball that was sleeping in his litterbox. Eric decided any cat that liked his litter box that much would be a good cat. Here's Caesar....

As you may have figured out, they are really active.

They typically play well together, though in the beginning it was a little rough. Jinx used to sit on baby Caesar and she's so big that he would disapear except for one twitching leg or a little bit of tail. We rescued him a lot.

Lately with halloween coming I have been sewing costumes for me and for family. My cats love to sew. It is cute for the first five minutes, but they after lining up the pattern for the fifteenth time to cut it out, Caesar comes flying out of nowhere skidding across the material and eats the pattern. It's cute, but very annoying!

Jinx is typically content to sit and watch. Unfortunately that is usually on top of whatever you are trying to cut out. She thinks she is helping. Nice eh?

Well the cosutmes come out fine so I don't mind the extra paws to "help" out. Practice for kids maybe.

We have a kitty jungle gym that we inheirited from Maggie, and the cats love to climb up to the top, but the other day while I was working in the kitchen I heard some growling so I went to investigate and this is what I had found.

We had our very own kitty totem pole. Jinx had somehow wedged herself into the little hole and was growling because Casesar had jumped on top and was smacking her on the head while she was stuck. How rude right? I love how she is spilling out the front of the hole, so cute.

Finally just a picture of Caesar and I doing homework. He loves to "help" me with my homework all the time. He prefers math to pychology because there are more papers and books to lay on.

After all how can you say no to a face like this?

From Garden Patrol to homework our cats are kooky, but they are family.

Our visit to Idaho

Okay, so I am a little behind in posts, but I didn't want to write about a visit to the Curtis side without a blog about a visit to the Neves side. Over the summer we went to Idaho to visit Eric's family as well and did an early first birthday for Westley since we knew we wouldn't be able to get away for his ture birthday. We got to run into Paul and Suzy and thier twins while we were there, Lizzy and Lucy (isn't that cute?). After a really long trip getting there, the car decided to have issues in Reno and we had to turn around, we were happy to be with family finally. We played a lot of hand an foot, a really fun game Eric likes to call goofy other names like Ankle and Elbow, or Fingers and Toes. We also played Rummicube which is Lori's new favorite and was pretty fun. It was great to see everyone and be around family, especially nice to Eric to be with family. Westley is getting so big and Eric spent most of his time with his nephew. We both think that Carson actually grew, and Dalton is dating girls now! When do these boys have time to grow up? We can't wait for thanksgiving when we'll go up again!

Happy Birthday Lily!

It was our daughter's three year birthday today. What do you get an angel for her birthday? We went to the temple and spent our evening were we could get closest to her. We also found out an interesting fact. October 15th is our Lily's birthday and we also found out that it is also the official day of "Pregnancy and Infant Loss Day" and has been since 1988, who knew? Had to laugh that our little angel had me in labor for 11 hours before she came which put her right over the line of midnight. She just had to be born on her very own national remembrance day. She's as bad as her grandma Neves who says that because she was born on July 4th, people shoot fireworks for in her honor. Well anyway, I'll list a link for those of you who may be interested, or just plain think I'm making it up. :-). http://www.october15th.com/. Anyway, another year passed and we're still here. We miss her, love her and mostly are very proud of her.

Love to all!
Neves Family