A Dream Come True

After years of begging, a letter and then follow-up conversation with our landlords (who live next door) Whitney finally is the proud mama to a kitten she named Junie Rose Stuart.

Whitney combed KSL for free kittens and found "the" perfect kitten (gray stripes). She bought the food, kitty litter, and other necessities and made arrangements for us to pick her up on Friday May 31st (the last day of school).

We kept her in the kids' room for the first 4 days so she could get used to us (she was scared for the first day but warmed up). Then we moved her to the recently cleaned garage.

She is acclimating beautifully and shows jungle cat tendencies (stalking, pouncing, running up trees and so on).

There are so many birds around here that she spends a lot of time looking up.

She's mighty cute.

Dream Come True

It's all about the jersey! This is what he's been wanting and a big part of why he wanted to play football in the first place. It's pretty cool to think about this dream of his literally coming true today, how often does that happen for any of us?! (By the way, he requested the zero.)

A Dream Come True

For several years now, Whitney has been wanting to have a water party of some sort. I think she gets jealous of Landon because his August birthday almost always involves a pool party or outside party that her October birthday doesn't allow. I'm not sure why we haven't done this before, but I finally gave the go-ahead on her "party".

The invitation, which only went to the 3 friends she invited because Bella and Tess were invited by me making a phone call to Amy.

These .94 cent squirt bottles from Wal-Mart are the best squirt guns around.

One of the the friend's couldn't come, so it was just Payton, Madison, Tess, Whitney and Bella (all her favorite friends).

Whitney's menu requests were Powerade, popcorn (with M&Ms in it of course), strawberries (I added watermelon) and ice cream cones.

These 5 played outside for 5 hours and only came inside to use the bathroom!

I was rather pleased with my fruit display, though disappointed in the watermelon because it was rather bland.

I wish it was this easy to make every dream come true!