Kittens

We had some excitement Monday when John discovered the location of the missing kittens. Our cat Pearl had been obviously expecting and when she dramatically lost weight, we went searching for her kittens. We managed to find them not to long after under a big thorny bush. We didn't touch them, but I guess she didn't like us knowing because she proceeded to move them to an extremely secret hiding place. We weren't even sure she knew where they were :)
But, John found them while cleaning up in the jeep garage inside a box on the top shelf that contained some fake ivy that I probably need to get rid of. John said Pearl shot out of the box and almost made him fall over before he realized what was going on. So we kidnapped them and put mom & babies on the porch where we can watch over them and make sure that the kittens like us :) Pearl was a little leery about this at first, but after getting fed milk and getting lots of attention, I think she realizes she has a pretty good spot. Any way she has four cute little ones (3 mostly black & 1 orange) that the kids already named. Hopefully we can keep them around awhile. We were down to 3 cats from the 5 we had at the beginning of the year.

In other news, Ashlyn went to the district 4-H livestock judging contest yesterday and her team got 4th place for one of the contests... great job! And, today Colten's class is going on a field trip to Sea World. Busy, busy! This week Colten has two games and then Saturday the kids & I will be participating in the Mason County Cancer Relay (basically a Relay for Life but not exactly the same). Should be a fun time!