April is Ready to POP! Surprise Baby Shower

 Can you tell I am still slowly catching up?  Last week Kayla and I threw our friend, April, a surprise baby shower.  She was SO very surprised and very appreciative.  The look on her face was priceless.  The theme was "Ready to Pop".  Thankfully our friend, Whitney, had just thrown a baby shower with that theme, so we were able to borrow a lot of her stuff.  

I made green cake pops :)!! I thought the green turned out so pretty... so you know me.  I had to get a picture.

I froze them over night and that seemed to be the trick that I hadn't done before.  Made decorating them so much easier.

Of course I had a helper :)....

We had Cake POPS, POP tarts, Blow POPS, Soda POP and I think that was all that "Popped" lol!

These ham & cheese sliders were so good.....

Her little present helpers.....

I am sure you may be wondering how she got there :).  She thought she was going to a pampered chef party at Kayla's so she never suspected anything.  It was a lot of fun.  It was small, so all of us ladies had many laughs :)!  Fun Night!!!

Baby Danner should be here next month :)!!!

Karter & The Cats....

PLEASE keep in mind all of these stories are true, but the cats are fine.  I keep a close watch on my children and our animals.  So before anyone leaves me another nasty comment, this is strictly MY blog and MY stories and MY life.  We do not torture our animals. The kids begged for months... maybe even a year or longer for a cat.  They are treated like royalty.... & like my mom said, she has never taken a cat to the vet.  So if you ever feel the urge to leave me a very ugly comment, at least have the courage to sign it. The caps you will see throughout are the updated version for the person that left me the unidentified & uncalled for comment.

 Karter really is such a sweet little boy.  He makes me smile and laugh so much.  A lot of the times I am laughing because he will say or do things that completely are not his normal demeanor, but it just reminds me that he is still all  boy.  Kyle LOVES hearing stories of what Karter does to the cats on almost a daily basis...... there was only one thing that happened that was REALLY bad, but he got really upset over it. He didn't realize what it would do.  Seems there is always a story.  It's like he has to do things just to see what Sissy & Lovey will do.

Okay like one day last week Heidi happened to hear 1 of the kittens meowing.  By this time Karter was inside watching the iPad and had no care in the World.  She kept following the sound and finally located her in the DRYER!!!  Thankfully he didn't crawl on top and turn it on, because he does know how to do that.  Of course Heidi freaked.  Karter laughed.  Like it bothered him NONE! 

Remember me talking about all the rain we got the first of the month? Well it was filling up EVERYTHING we had outside.  Apparently seeing all the full buckets gave Karter the idea to see if Sissy the cat could swim.  I happened to walk by the door in the kitchen and noticed she was soaking wet and trying to dry herself off.  As soon as I looked at him, I got the "I didn't do noffin'" with that little mischievous grin he has.  You know I had to get a picture of her drying herself....

 Lovey is the one that we have had the most trouble with.  She was the one that almost died, so had to really comfort her.  Then last week she started acting the same way and had a bad spot that came up on her nose.  I loaded the kids up & the cat and off to the vet we went.  What else was I going to do? I have a tender heart for anything hurting & the kids would be devastated right? Kyle being the cat lover he is..... NOT..... said, "I'll cut that thing off"..... so glad he was at work hehe. SIMPLY A JOKE!!! HE WOULD NEVER HURT THE CATS PURPOSELY. 

So we get to the Vet and she says it could be 2 things... some type of cyst growth that won't go away and is preventing her from smelling her food to eat it, causing her to be too skinny.  OR a type of fungal growth they can get and it can be treated and usually healed within 6 months.  They wanted to put her to sleep and send a sample off to see.... which would cost $150!!! Yep you saw that right.  IMMEDIATELY Kyle popped up like that tiny figure you see on T.V. that stands on your shoulder and was making faces and had like devil horns hehe..... and I knew I better not do that.  I asked if there was another option and so she "gave" us an antibiotic that cost like $51.  Long story short, Lovey is back good as new and the place on her nose is so much better.

So before Kyle left, Kman  drilled Lovey's stomach... not with the drill bit (because it was off), but with the end of the drill. It got tangled in her stomach hair and was drilling her stomach. Thankfully the actual drill bit was not on.  Just made her really sore for a few days & completely petrified Karter.  I was getting clothes together to wash and Kyle was trying to unstop the hall bathroom sink... hence the drill thing even being out.  He was letting Kman play with it (the drill.... not the drill & the cat), but never dreamed he would do that.  We heard Karter screaming & crying and could hear Lovey yelping sooo loud.... we both took off running.  Karter couldn't let the drill loose and as he kept trying to undo what he did, it just got tighter and tighter. So kyle had to do a reverse direction to free it.  Poor kitty and Kman.  It really upset him.. AND ME..... 

So I guess if we do the math.... Cats have 9 lives? That right? HA.... so that was 1 she survived, another was when she got soooo sick and we really thought she was dying, and then when I took her to the vet.  SO good news for Kyle is we are down to 6 lives left.... hehe! KIDDING!!!

Usually if he goes outside and I can't peak out the door and see him playing in the dirt or riding his bike, then I am about 99.9% sure he and the kitties are somewhere together.  He locked them in their cage several times yesterday.  I saw him grab Lovey by her tail once (I am sure Sissy is glad she is bob-tailed).  AND he colored their water purple with chalk. 

Needless to say.... the kitties seem to be pretty stinking tough to survive living at The Colquett Residence. 

Playing Catch Up

 Maybe I can start blogging regularly now.  Just kind of got out of the groove with everything that was going on.  The pictures from this post are going to be over the past several weeks.

Okay, as you know we got chickens.  I love our chickens hehe!  Well starting it seems July 1st, it has decided to rain every single day.  There for about a week (week of the 4th) it was an all day every day kind of rain.  Well I was so afraid that our chickens would drown, (but they are getting bigger, so the smell is worse) so I still kept them in their bin and had the baby gate over it.  Well Sissy the cat found that to be an easy access.  She was standing on the gate and tipping it in the bin.  SO Dad came up with the idea to put the kitties original cage on top of the gate to hold it down.  That worked!!  As you can see, Sissy was still trying to figure out a way to get in....

 And then finally I moved their coupe to the same spot.  That was so much better :)!! It had to stay there for several days because of the rain.

 Oh and look at my newest Painted Memories PRIZE POSSESSION :)..... salt and pepper shakers. 

 Okay, so July 4th was so wet!  I still dressed the kids in red, white, and blue.  I try to always dress them according to the occasion :)!  The girls rode with Papa & Nana to Gantt and Kman and I went up later.  Danielle passed on the 3rd, so the 4th was not much of a celebration for me except the fact that she was celebrating in Heaven :)!! Still makes me miss her physically on Earth.  Which is why I wore a green pocket tee.  Her favorite color was green :)!!

Anyway..... July 4th this year consisted of working on my ironing pile and working on Sophie's party stuff, but here are some pictures of my beautiful kiddos from that day....

 It was so wet that most of the Firework Shows were canceled and some were continued onto July 5th which was also a wet day.  We still watched some fireworks from the lake on the 5th.  We actually stood out in the rain to watch them. 

Danielle's funeral was on the Saturday after the 4th... so the 6th.  I had a splitting headache.  After the funeral, Dad & Yana got the kiddos from MeMe's house and they all went to Gantt.  It was still raining on and off, so I didn't feel like they would get to ride the boat.  Boy was I surprised.  They not only rode the boat, but Kman Intertubed.  And I  missed it :(..... His first time and I missed it.  Thankfully Dad sent me several pictures.  It is hard to see, but that's Karter and KyKy on the tube....

 That Sunday afternoon of course it was still rainy, so we did finger nails and tattoos. 

 And at some point, Bubba Sophie made an appearance at Papa & Nana's...

 Last week we took my nephew, Charlie, to get all groomed and cleaned :)....

 The same day I had to borrow lawn mowers.... and look at this Mama.... getting better and better :).... backed that trailer right on up like it was nothing.

 I later found this note on the fridge that Heidi had made.  I asked her to get me off the mower at 3:30 LOL.... this was her way to remember.  Made me smile :)!!

 Last Thursday we went with Amanda and her sweet niece, Tenley, to a convenient store/ice cream parlor called, Ugwee's.  It was WAY out in the boon docks, but still a neat experience....

 Love this picture of them....

 Boys will be boys.... playing in the puddles....

 Such a cutie.....

 Look how neat.... we were sitting outside at Ugwee's and noticed a little birds nest by the security camera.  The kids and I just sat there watching the Mom and Dad bring them food and steadily check on them...

 I still keep a close check on Heidi and her ipod activity :)!  I found a few selfies that made me smile so had to share with you...

Anyway, I hope to be back on track with blogging.  Hope you all have a fabulous day!