A Few of Our Favorite Things

We hope everybuddy had a wonderful weekend!  Once the boomies were over from the 4th, we sure did!  To prolong our enjoyable weekend, we thought we'd list six of our favorite things as per the rules of a beautiful award we received from our friends Simba and Audrey.  Without further ado, here's our list...

1.  Silvervine on the Ess

2.  Sunpuddles

3.  Treats

4.  Window whiffs

5.  Our cat tree

6.  Laps (or legs, we're not picky)

Thank you Simba and Audrey for this lovely award...

We're supposed to pass it on but since we aren't good at that part, we would like to pass it on to all who'd like it.  Please feel free to play along!

We hope you have a fabulous day!

Angel and Isabella

Tortie Tuesday

It's Tortie Tuesday, the bestest day of the week!  Actually, I think every day is a pretty darn good day!  Don't you agree?

Since I am the deep sleeper thinker in the house, I want to take this opportunity to thank Simba and Audrey for giving us the Blooming Brilliant Blog Award...

The rules are to link back to the blog who gave it to us so if you haven't met Simba and Audrey, we certainly suggest you do by clicking here.  You'll be glad you did!

Secondly, we're supposed to give the award to a minimum of four blogs but since we think everybuddy is brilliant, if you'd like this award you are more than welcome to take it!

Lastly we're supposed to answer the question "If you had a brilliant idea, what would it be?"  My brilliant idea would be that every city would have a program to offer spay and neutering of cats and dogs for free to every resident.  The cost of the program would be paid for by the reduced costs of the need for animal shelters so it'd shift the costs to preventing homeless animals instead of dealing with them after the fact.  Any program that would reduce homeless kitties and woofies would be brilliant!

Hope you have a Happy Tortie Tuesday!

Isabella

Our Version of the Oscar...

We're spending the day resting in case we decide to stay up and watch the Oscars tonight. Most likely we'll sleep right through them too...

We recently won an award from a very handsome presenter, our furiend Simba! Along with this award, we're supposed to tell 7 things about ourselves. We thought this would be easy but once we got to thinking about it, it's not so easy! Here's what we came up with though...

1) We won't drink out of our water dish near our bowl so we drink out of the sink, Sadie's water dish or our own glass of water in the living room. Isabella drinks from the side of the glass and flings water all over the table.

2) Angel has a squizzillion nicknames. Daddy calls her "Squirt" but Mommy calls her "Cutie", "Cuteness", "Sweetie Peetie", "Honey Bunny Baby Bunny", "Babes", and on and on and on. It's sickening.

3) Sadie can always figure out when it's time to go for a stroll. Mommy acts normal and doesn't say anything and lets Sadie outside like she does a hundred times a day and then she hurries upstairs to change clothes before letting Sadie back in. As Sadie walks by her she sniffs her pants and heads straight to the closet where her leash is. She's never fooled!

4) Isabella always cries when her daddy leaves for school and she's always at the door to greet him when he comes home again. She's a total Daddy's Girl!

5) Every time Sadie's water dish gets filled up in the sink, Angel runs to the bathtub and wants water dripped in it so she can chase it down to the drain.

6) We all make noises and twitch like we're chasing something when we sleep and Sadie will sometimes bark or howl in her sleep.

7) Angel is a very graceful jumper and seems effortless when she moves but Isabella didn't get that cat gene. She's clumsy and Grandma says it's because her legs are so short.

We hope you enjoyed learning a little more about us! We're supposed to pass this award to 15 furiends but we've seen most of our furiends with it already. If you haven't received it feel free to take it and post 7 things about yourself too!

Enjoy your Sunday!

SUNday Happiness!

My sisfur Isabella and I were recently awarded the Happy Cat award from our furiend Sammy from Germany!

Sammy's mom Duni makes very lovely bags which our mommy always likes to see but our favorite posts are the ones with handsome Sammy! Isn't he just the cutest?

Anyway, along with this award we're supposed to list 5 things that make us happy so here goes...

1) SUN! We love laying in the sun and after weeks of gray days, we finally have a true SUNday today!

2) Treats. Nuf said.

3) Open windows so we can smell the fresh air and watch birdies!

4) All our blog furiends from all over the world!

5) Toys! Especially Casbah Kitten toys!

We're supposed to pass this on to 5 of our furiends but we aren't sure who has or hasn't received it. To avoid duplicating the award, plus we think all our furiends are Happy Cats, we'll just pass it to everyone who hasn't received it yet. We'll even let our dog furiends be honorary cats if they want this award!

We hope you have a Happy SUNday!

PeeS: We're also happy to announce that Mommy is offering Free Shipping in her BeadedTail Etsy shop from today through next Saturday. All shipping charges will be refunded back to your PayPal account. Be sure to check it out!

Catching Up on Sunday...

Since today is daylight savings time, we have to nap an extra hour in order to stay caught up on our beauty sleep.

It's a tough job but we think we can handle it!

Speaking of jobs, our Pawsistant is way, way, WAY behind on her job of acknowledging some awards so she needs to do some catching up too. Here's some awards we've won in the past month or so. We're sorry for them being so late!

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Grampy from Grampy's World, Pam from Magdalene Jewels, and Rose from The Beadings and Buttons of Randomcreative gave us the Sunshine Award!
The Sunshine Award is awarded to bloggers whose positivity and creativity inspires others in the blog world. We certainly love Sunshine so really appreciate this award! Thank you so much Grampy, Pam and Rose!

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Duni from Lovely Purses, Kristi from My Pet Savings and Cissy from Thoughts of a Mother, Wife and Daughter gave us the Beautiful Blogger Award!

We are very grateful to receive the Beautiful Blogger award! Thank you so much Duni, Kristi and Cissy!

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Teri and the cats of Furrydance and Smudge, Spider and their mom Kas gave us the Sweet Friends Award!

We're honored to be considered sweet and very happy to be their friends so thanks so much for this award!

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And last but certainly not least, Sparkle the Designer Cat gave us the Superior Scribbler award!

This award has been going around since 2008. If you wish to read more about this award, please visit Scholastic Scribe. We're really honored to receive this award from Sparkle! Sparkle is very beautiful and she has a Tortie sisfur named Binga!

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We're caught up on acknowledging our awards now! Thanks again to everyone who gave us an award! We've seen others who've received these awards but if you haven't, please feel free to take the ones you'd like.

We're going to get back to our nap now...

Lazy Sunday...

While I'm enjoying a lazy day today...

I'll be dreaming of a handsome mancat named Banjo!

Banjo's mom, Catherine, gave us an award on her blog Corner of Cat's Mind! Thank you so much Catherine, we're very honored! We love your blog cause your posts are always fun and inspiring, your photos are beautiful and Banjo is so adorable!

The rules we must follow in accepting this award are:

1) Thank the person giving the award
2) Copy award to your blog
3) Place a link to their blog
4) Name 7 things people don't know about you
5) Nominate 7 bloggers
6) Place a link to those bloggers
7) Leave a comment on the blog letting them know about the awards

Okay, now for the 7 things people don't know about us. Hmmm, this is tough but here goes:

Me (Angel)
1) I wish I was tall. I love to be picked up so I can see what is on the shelves, on the cabinets, on the top of the closet - everything that is up high is what I want to see.
2) I like to lay on Mommy and Daddy's lap but on my terms. If it's not my idea, it ain't happening.

Isabella
1) I like to lay on Mommy and especially Daddy's lap on any terms. I stay wherever I'm put and can get comfortable and fall asleep in 20 seconds.
2) I'm a "wet noodle" cat. When someone picks me up, my body goes limp so it's like picking up a big wet noodle.

Sadie
1) I am Mommy's shadow. I follow her around the house all the time.
2) I can do what I want to my sisfurs but I don't like them doing the same to me. If they sniff me, I growl. If they touch me, I growl. For some reason they ignore me though.
3) Recently I was told I might have Cushings Disease. I went in to the v-e-t for a blood test before getting my teefs cleaned and the test showed my liver enzymes are high. I have no other symptoms so am under no treatment since the v-e-t says it'd make me sicker. I feel fine and don't act any differently but it upsets my mommy cause she's worried about me.

We can't pick just 7 blogs so consider it given to all of our readers if you'd like to accept!

Hope you enjoyed learning more about us! Thanks again to Catherine for the award!

Have a great Sunday!

Sisfurly Love

My sisfur and I may not look like we have much in common but there is one thing that brings us together - napping!

We both love to nap and it's the only time I'll let either of my sisfurs get very close to me.

It helps to have a bed barrier in between us.

I admit, I love both my little sisfurs and you can tell that Isabella loves me too.

The reason I allowed a photo shoot of me being close to my sisfur is that we got the "Showing Some Love Award" from Dave, Zim, Ammy and Storm at The Army of Four! Their house is full of love like ours so we appreciate them giving us this award! Thank you very much!

How'd we do showing love Mommy? You don't know how hard that was to do when I really wanted to stick out my tongue. But I didn't, much...

We always appreciate you taking a little time out of your day to visit us so we'd like to show the love by passing this award to any of our readers who'd like to accept it!

Hope you have a wonderful Thursday!

Sadie

Snuggling (and Catching Up) on Sunday!

It's Sunday so since it's the perfect day to snuggle, I'll let my sisfur Angel snuggle up with me in my bed.

She is kinda cute sometimes isn't she?

While we're snuggling, we need to get our mommy to post some awards we've received since she's way far behind. This isn't all of them but it's a start. It's really hard to get good help these days.

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Jane and Alice from The Casbah Kitten gave us this "You make me wanna dance!" award!

Isn't it cute! It's Jane doing her special dance and we just love this award because we just love Jane and Alice! Thank you furry much!

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Ann from Ann's Snap Edit & Scrap gave us this "J'Adore tien Blog" award!

If you haven't visited Ann, we suggest you do so! She's a wonderful blogger and makes you feel like a friend. Thank you so much Ann!

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Kat from Candles, Crafts and Whatnot gave the Friends award!

It's always so special to receive this award especially from such fabulous bloggers like Kat! We appreciate it and thank you so much Kat!

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Meghann from Little Studio Photography and Jewellery gave us this "Over the Top" award!

Meghann and her dog Arwen are very special to us and we appreciate them very much! Thank you Meghann!

Along with this award we are to answer the following questions - we'll let Mommy answer them though. Here goes:

1. Where is your cell phone? On my desk

2. Your hair? Long, wavy and brown

3. Your mother? In Las Vegas, NV

4. Your father? In Kansas

5. Your favorite food? Tacos

6. Your dream last night? Don't remember

7. Your favorite drink? Strawberry lemonade (dreaming of summer!)

8. Your dream/goal? To help animals in some way.

9. What room are you in? Living room

10. Your hobby? Reading, making jewelry, playing with my furbabies

11. Your fear? Creatures in the night and basements

12. Where do you want to be in 6 years? Still in Oregon, happy and healthy.

13. Where were you last night? Out on a late night stroll with Sadie

14. Something that you aren’t? Tall and blonde

15. Muffins? Oh yeah!

16. Wish list item? A house on acreage with lots of animals

17. Where did you grow up? In and around Topeka, KS

18. Last thing you did? Went to the grocery store

19. What are you wearing? Warm, comfy clothes

20. Your TV? On - watching football

21. Your pets? Angel, Isabella and Sadie

22. Friends? yep

23. Your life? Busy but happy

24. Your mood? Sleepy

25. Missing someone? yes

26. Vehicle? SUV

27. Something you’re not wearing? Shoes

28. Your favorite store? Bead stores

29. Your favorite color? Purple

30. When was the last time you laughed? A little bit ago

31. Last time you cried? When I heard about the kitties from Texas missing

32. Your best friend? My hubby

33. One place that I go to over and over? On strolls with Sadie!

34. One person who emails me regularly? A friend from Tucson, AZ

35. Favorite place to eat? Home since my hubby cooks and it's all yummy!

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Consider these awards passed to everyone! Take any or all of them since all of our readers deserve them!

Have a great Sunday!

Easy Like Sunday Morning...

We are just hanging out today enjoying a beautiful summer day.

And sniffing the fresh air!

We hope you have a beautiful summer day!

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We also want to acknowledge an award that our Mommy is really late in posting. (It's hard to get good help these days!)

Patricia at Subjective Soup gave us The Humane Award.

This award is described as one that "honors certain bloggers who are kindhearted individuals." We truly appreciate receiving this award. Thank you Patricia! We certainly strive to be kindhearted and will continue to do the same!

Back In Time...

Our Mommy got tagged twice last week, by Lynn from Lynn's Musing and Mumblings and by Katie from Mishkat. Both say she is to give 7 facts about herself but Katie's adds that she is to include a photo of when she was younger.

*Hey Isabella, did they have cameras way back then?*

Anyway, we'll let Mommy take over and post her picture and facts!

1. Although Katie was brave enough to post current pictures, I'm not that brave so we'll stick to old photos like this one! It's of me and our dog Sally. I'm not even sure how old I am in this picture but I'd guess 3? Pretty cute outfit huh?

2. I've posted this photo before but it's been awhile so I'll post it again. It's of me and my first cat Sugar. You can read more about me finding him by clicking here.

3. Okay, here's a fact. There is a way, somewhere on this blog, to see a more current picture of me. That's all I'm saying!

4. I grew up in Kansas but after seeing a family friend's house leveled by a tornado and then having a tornado take the roof off a building near where I was working during college, I knew I needed to live in a tornado free zone! We moved to Loveland, CO right as soon as I graduated.

5. I never mailed a package on my own until after I got married. My dad was a Postmaster so I sent all my mail and packages to work with him. And now that I have to stand in the lines I realize what a perk that was!

6. I'm not on Facebook and it seems like I'm the only one who's not!

7. I'm shy - really! This could be the reason for #6!

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I also want to thank Eileen from Dorset Hill Beads for giving me the Lovely Blog Award!

If you like "mysteries" and can figure out things from clues, you should check out her Theme for Thursday posts! I'm not good at figuring things out but I enjoy reading them and then seeing how far off I was! Thanks again for the award Eileen!

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We hope you have a wonderful Sunday!

Whew! What A Week!

Since I was in Las Vegas all week, I'm really behind on acknowledging awards and a tag we received so I'll catch up today. First of all, I'd like to thank Meghann from Little Studio Photography and Jewellery for featuring me on her blog Friday. If you'd like to learn a little more about me - please visit her Fabulous Friday Features.

Meghann also tagged me to show the 10th picture in my 10th folder. The 10th folder is called "House" which means it's house stuff. And wouldn't you know it, the 10th photo is this:

That was the photo sent to me by my husband of the house he bought here in Oregon while I was in Colorado trying to sell our house there. Since I couldn't be out here while he looked for a house, I had to see them by photos. Imagine my "joy" in seeing that kitchen! Notice the 1978 appliances - the dish rack they had on the counter should have been a big clue that the dishwasher would flood the floor when we used it, which it did, so it was replaced soon after we moved in. Followed by a new stove when we got down to one working burner. The lovely fruit wallpaper and white knobs were removed rather quickly too.

We finally remodeled the kitchen last summer so here's the updated version.

During the process Angel snoopervised to make sure everything was put together correctly! (The cabinets look lighter in this photo because it's natural cherry wood so darkens with sunlight)And Sadie kept an eye on me while I took photos of the finished work. Isabella was more concerned with watching birdies out the window!

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Now to acknowledge some wonderful folks who passed awards to us this week. Stacy Hurt gave us the Kreativ Blogger award!

Stacy is very creative, talented and an animal lover so this is an honor to receive this award from her! Thank you so much Stacy!

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Yours Truli gave us the Honest Scrap award. I'm really glad she did because it gave me the opportunity to get to know her blog and it's wonderful! Thank you very much!

Along with this award we're supposed to list 10 facts about us. I'm not good at figuring out what to list that is something I haven't listed in the past so I'll have to pass on this.

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Laura from The Cat in the Clover gave us the Premio Meme Award. She makes cute kitty pillows and accessories and also has a wonderful blog so check her out too!

We're supposed to list 7 facts with this award but again, I have a hard time thinking of some so will have to pass but thanks anyway!

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Kerrilee from Lazy Bear Blogs awarded us the Best Blog Award! We appreciate it!

She has a great blog and I've enjoyed getting to know her and I bet you would too! Be sure to pay her a visit!

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The lovely Reese from A Kitty Named Reese gave us this award that she says is Spanish for "your blog doesn't stink"!

Our daddy speaks Spanish and doesn't think it's Spanish so we have no idea what it says but it's a pretty award anyway! Thank you so much Miss Reese!

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Duni from Lovely Purses gave us the Best Blog Award

and also the Humane Award!

The Humane Award is in order to honor certain bloggers that I feel are kindhearted individuals. They regularly take part in my blog and always leave the sweetest comments. If it wasn’t for them, my site would just be an ordinary blog. Their blogs are also amazing and are tastefully done on a daily basis. I thank them and look forward to our growing friendships through the blog world.

I will pass this to the following bloggers in no particular order:

Okay, there are no names listed here because I started writing down everyone's names! So that means I'm passing it on to all my commenters! There's no way to single anyone out since I want you all to have it!

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Phew! That'll teach me to go out of town and get so far behind! We received one other award but it'll be posted later this week. After all that, we're going to relax the rest of the weekend and we hope you do too! Have a great Sunday!