Emma and Felix

Check it out! They are practically snuggling!

Herb Cooking Club

For this month's installment of cooking club, we celebrated the wonderful world of herbs! Yumi was our hostess for this delicious event. Nancy started us off with her famous apple thyme martinis. Cheers!



Summer made a little appetizer of prosciutto-wrapped feta and sage.



Valerie made Avgolemono, a chilled greek soup. It had lemon, rice and eggs, and was topped with a delicious heap of fresh dill!



I made spring rolls! They had basil, peaches, avocado and spinach.



I served them with a peanutty dipping sauce, and they paired BEAUTIFULLY with Yumi's delicious green papaya salad with cilantro!!



Nancy made a green bean and grape salad with rosemary, thyme and cilantro dressing. Herbalicious!



Summer made risotto with sage! She brought all the ingredients and made a fresh risotto on the spot.






It takes awhile to make, so we took turns keeping her company!



This was part of a taste test. She had made a batch the night before, and we were curious to see whether or not it was worth it to make it fresh. The answer was YES! While the leftover risotto was totally delicious, the fresh risotto was EXTRA creamy and amazing. I could have eaten a pound of each, though. So good!



Yumi also made red snapper with a cilantro chimichurri.



All together, now!



We played Apples to Apples while we made room for dessert.






Emily made rosemary watermelon sorbet! It was SO light and refreshing. Yum, yum, yum!



And finally, in the true spirit of herbs, Valerie brought us all giant bags of weed!



Haha, just kidding! That's catnip from her garden. Yumi's cat was going bonkers throughout the night trying to get at the stash. We all got a baggie to take home. Here is some footage of Charlie and Emma enjoying the treat. Things started off pleasantly, but then turned kind of vicious!

New Bedspread and Sock Stealer

We got a new bedspread! Here is Charlie modeling it.





Emma has always had a bad habit of stealing my socks and dragging them around. Here are a few of her latest hauls.

Blast from the Past: Baby Charlie and Emma

I found this folder of pictures of Charlie and Emma when they were little baby KITTENS. They are so little and CUTE. This first batch of pictures was from the first time I met them. My mom had informed me that the cutest kitten she had ever seen was up for adoption at the vet. I went to go check him out. She sure was right! Aw, little baby Charlie in a cage.



It turned out there were actually TWO kittens there. Emma, too!



Awww. Obviously I had to get both.



This picture kills me because I feel like Charlie is hoping with all of his might that I will adopt him.



The first time I ever picked him up!



LOOK AT HOW LITTLE HIS PINK NOSE IS!!!!!!!!



And here they are at home, peeking out of the windows!



So fuzzy in the window.



Charlie in the sink!



SO LITTLE IN THE SINK!



Little Emma!



Little BABY Charlie.





Eeeeeeee look how SMALL. And his marshmallows are so big because he hasn't grown into them yet!!!!



Man, I love that cat so much.





And finally, a bunch of cute pictures of them cuddling.

Snuggles

The kitties were in a super snuggly mood after Beth left today.



LOOK AT THOSE BUNNY PAWS.



It's too BRIGHT in here for him!!



Too bright!!!!!!!!!



Nnnngh.






There's nothing like reading a book with your hand buried in a big pile of marshmallow.



BEACHED WHALE!



Thar' she blows!