Christmas Party & Spending Time with my Sweet Grand Kids...

Friday night was Mikes Company Christmas Party. It was a fun night. The food was so good. About 10 of us continued the party downtown. It was fun laughing and joking around. I can't believe he's been working for the company for 24 yrs... Where does the time go...

Saturday Mike and I went down to Tri-Cities to take Aura and Aden shopping. They needed coats, hats, boots, and clothes. They were so happy about getting new stuff. Char said Aden was so excited that he slept with his new shoes on... Aura had been wanting this red pea coat for a while. She was so excited about getting it she took the tags off as soon as we got in the van; so she could wear it. We went to dinner at Cousins. The food is so good there. The kids enjoyed peppermint ice cream after dinner. It was a fun day spent with them. At dinner Aura says she was so grateful for all the stuff we bought her that she feels she don't deserve anything for Christmas. She's such a thoughtful and sweet girl. She always has others ahead of herself. We would of have waited to give it to them at Christmas, but they didn't have coats or hats for the winter. I couldn't stand it anymore knowing they didn't have what they needed for winter. And they were in need of clothes.

I have a coffee date, a lunch date, and a dinner date this week planned with three friends. I have some more closet cleaning, and some rearranging of furniture to do this week.

I'm hoping to get some pictures uploaded this week. I think I'm going to get it figured out.

Thanksgiving and the trapped cat....

It was Mikes day off on Wednesday so he went down to Tri-Cities to pick up Char & her kids to come and spend Thanksgiving with us. We had a really good visit for the weekend. It was one of the best Thanksgivings I've ever had. Char needed to go home on Sat. So we took her and the kids home and while we were down there we went to dinner for our Anniversary it was nice. We also went to Best Buy and bought a big screen TV. Mike has wanted one of those for a while. He loved watching the Seahawks game on it at lunch time last Sunday.

On Sat. when we were getting ready to go to Tri-Cities I noticed a cat sitting in the window in the house next door. The house has been empty for almost 3 yrs. I called the police and told them it was trapped in there. The officer came and he saw the cat when he looked in the living room window. He tells me to keep an eye on the cat and if it looks distressed in a few days for me to call them back...really! The next day I went and checked on the cat and there it was looking at me through the window meowing at me. I went to the neighbors house and asked them if they were missing their cat, she said no. I told her that a cat was trapped in the house. She tells her husband so we went over there. We were trying doors and windows to see of we could get them to open. The back door of the house had a small square hole cut out like a doggie door and that's where I thought the cat probably got in, but wondered why it wouldn't get out. The guy laid down on the ground reach up through the hole and unlocked the door. There was a bench along the back wall and just above it was hole cut out of the wall like for a A/C unit. The cat had to of jump up there and got in, but then couldn't jump back out from the floor level. I put a long board in there for it to climb out. I now know tho that this cat has been in there for 24 plus hrs with no food or water. Shaylei and I fed the cat some turkey and I rigged up a bowl with string for Shaylei to lower it down with water. The next day we went and checked on it and it was gone. If it wasn't gone I wasn't going to wait any longer to call police like the officer said, I was going to call animal control. I don't like cats but it bothered me to know the cat was trapped in there with no food and water.