Bumpdate: Week 16

Hello everrrryone!! Sorry I haven't blogged in forever. I wanted to wait and blog until I would know what we are having.... but I can just blog again right??
Anyways life has been good. An adjustment for sure, especially after 6 weeks of vacation... haha. Tough life right?? ;) Now there is a plus side of living in Sweden! You are required to have 5 weeks of paid vacation ;)
A friend of mine is pregnant right now, and has been doing an awesome question thingy that I am totally going to steal from her! I want to blog about my pregnancy and such... but haven't quite decided how to talk about it really. So here I go :)

Not the best picture, but it is the most recent! Plus I love it because Cheeto is in it of course ;)

How far along?  16 weeks and three days

Size of the baby? An avocado! I hold one in my hands everyday and everything is becoming so much more real to me! It's ridiculous. And fun.

Weight gain/loss?  I think so.... actually I am pretty sure because I feel like an oompa loompa... but don't really know how much.

Sleep?  Eh. I want to invest in a body pillow! Maybe that could help sleeping at night. I wake up every night to go to the bathroom once or twice and that is annoying. Usually the first one is right on the dot at two a.m. Another thing that is hard is we don't let our cat sleep with us since she is super annoying. When I have to open the door to go to the bathroom she tries to bolt into our room. Every. Time. She stresses me out at two a.m. every. time. It's rather tiring trying to keep her out of our room...

Best moment of the week?  Earlier this week I felt the baby move 6 or 7 times in one day. For the past few weeks it has been once a day MAYBE if I pay reeeeally close attention. But one day this past week it was so much! I loved it.

Symptoms? Nothing too much.. except I get super car sick! And I always feel tired... I am growing a human, ok??!

Food cravings/aversions?  The only craving I have kinda had is spicey food. I just want spicey food all the time!! Nothing to do with other cravings yet, which I am a little disappointed in I guess! You hear about all these pregnant woman craving such random things instantly, and I haven't really had that. Before I was pregnant I was already sensitive to eating certain things... Like bananas for example. I really like bananas, but for some reason I can't eat them. Maybe it's the texture?.. So all the things I couldn't eat before I REALLY can't eat now. I gag on certain things. (like bananas)

Labor signs?  Nope. And hopefully not for a while.

What I miss?  Not getting car sick. And feeling skinny, and somewhat in control of my weight, diet, and exercise.

What I am looking forward to?  Feeling the baby move more! And finding out in a couple weeks if it is a boy or girl!! And spending alllll our money on baby things hehe ;)

Nursery? Nothing yet, and this makes me sad!! I haven't bought a single baby thing. AT ALL. I am proud of myself for resisting!! Since coming back from the states we have been tight with money (where we spent plenty of money hehe :) and since Joel wasn't paid during the summer, so we are on one income right now until the end of September!! Then I figured we will both be paid, and we will know what is in there!! We are also moving to a new apartment about 30 min away, so I don't want to buy anything too big because we will just have to move it anyways.

That's all folks!! I hope all of my thoughts that I have attempted to put down make sense :)

Say Whaaaa???

Yep. It is true everyone... we will have a lil one joining us in February!!!! Kinda crazy, and it just became a reality for us last week at my 8 week appointment:

Kinda difficult to see what everything is, but you get the idea that something is in there at least!!!

I wanted to start having kids when we first got married (I am glad we waited eventually, even though it was hard!!) but because of the Swedish system, Joel told me he would feel better about having kids once I had a job (because of the way the government works with the maternity leave). It is hard enough for Swedes to get a job.... and now this little American girl that knows ZERO Swedish is trying to get a job! Pretty tough, and I didn't have very much hope.

Time passed while I was studying Swedish, and Christmas was on its way after both of our birthdays right in a row. We found out Joel wouldn't have his job after Christmas, (Seriously??? Couldn't they have waited a few more months after the poorest time of the year to pass??) so we were both unemployed for a few months until March! Looking back on it, I have no idea how we survived. We were blessed, and somehow managed to eat and pay for our rent... and if I was pregnant during that time on top of everything else.... oh goodness I can't even imagine. Hence the reason why I am glad we waited until we were more settled :)

I was blessed to find a job working for my father-in-law!! Which also means once I started working, I qualified for paid maternity leave! FINALLY.
Finding out I could work for him happened a few hours after we found out BYU wouldn't accept Joels college grades, and that we weren't moving to Utah. When Per came over and told us about this job opportunity, it felt so right and comforting.
People kept on asking me how I was doing after it didn't work out with BYU, and I honestly felt fine!! I can honestly say I felt comforted instantly as soon as Per mentioned this opportunity... it just felt so right.

Once I had been working for a while, I found out on a Wednesday that I was pregnant!!! I had taken a test earlier that morning, and didn't want to look... just in case it was negative. I was on the bus headed to my in-laws house when I realized I hadn't looked yet! Ohhh my goodness I was nervous. I honestly expected it to be negative, even though I was feeling 99% of the symptoms! After I saw those two solid lines, I was in shock the rest of the bus ride. The first person I saw was my sweet mother-in-love (or so she has me call her) and as soon as she saw my face she knew, and I think almost passed out haha!!

Our anniversary was June 14th, the coming Friday... So I decided to wait THREE WHOLE DAYS to tell Joel, attempting to be slightly romantic. Honestly, I have no idea how I did that! On Thursday he had actually told me he was curious what was going on, since I had immediately stopped talking about babies and pregnancy and such... And I had to lie to his sad face when I told him I wasn't expecting it to be positive (even though I was feeling extremely sick at this point!)

Friday FINALLY came and I was dying to give Joel his "present" that I had "bought" for him. I had been giving him these hints to make him believe I had actually gone out and bought him something! Hehe I was trying to be soooo sneaky. Joel had me go on a little treasure hunt to find my gift, and afterwards I just gave him this little box with the pregnancy test in it with a few binkies!! Lets just say he was excited, but it hadn't really hit him yet. I kept on waiting and waiting for this freak out to happen, and he told me it would probably happen at our first ultrasound.

Last Wednesday the 17th was our first ultrasound... finally. I was suuuuper excited for it... but once we got back in the waiting room, Joel finally had his freak out. I think it was kind of funny, but he probably doesn't! He couldn't sit still or look at any pictures on the wall... in my eyes it was hilarious! I hadn't seen him this nervous in a long time. We finally got to see a little peanut in there! What an amazing miracle it was! I am amazed at technology!! I am even more amazed that my body knows what to do.

After our ultrasound we had a hard time keeping our secret, so I just thought why not tell everyone? :)

So far I have considered myself extremely lucky! I haven't thrown up at all, just nauseous the past week. I rode in the car up to Logan (hour and fifteen min drive... ish) and got super sick. So, car rides have been the worst for me so far! And if I don't eat. And if I eat too much. Or eat bad. Basically I need to eat good and healthy all the time to feel fantastic :) So I feel extremely blessed thus far!!!

If you know me, you know how baby hungry I have been since I was.... probably five years old. While my mom was pregnant with all my little sisters, I would be pregnant too by stuffing pillows down my shirts. While I was dating I was more excited to have a baby than to be married. So, when the time finally came and I found my eternal companion, I had physically only spent 8 weeks with him before we were married. I guess you could say I reeeeally wanted a baby, since I had finally found the man I would spend eternity with! I am glad we waited until the time was right for us :)

Mawwiage... Mawwiage is What Bwings Us Togeva... Tooday.

I don't really have anything at all to blog about... other than what I blogged about last time. Coming to the states basically :) We leave in ten days in case you were wondering, and are a little too excited :) One of my favorite parts about coming home is the scene at the airport. Since we travel for 20+ hours, that refreshing moment of WHY I have been traveling for so long comes true!!! It is zee best.
Side note... when my family flew to Sweden for the wedding last summer, I was late coming to the airport because one car broke down (or something along those lines) and it broke my heart not being there on time for my family!! Because I know how much it means to me I suppose. I still feel so bad about that, haha.

Joel and I celebrated our first anniversary last Friday!! Been married a whole year, quite awesome!! We got some gifts for each other, went out to dinner, and rented some movies! We love spending time together, fo realz.
So.... I know people say the first year of marriage is the hardest. Seriously, I don't know who says that but our first year was amazing. From only spending 8 weeks physically together before we got married, and 10 long months of skype, I would say we have a healthy marriage. But. That does NOT mean it has been easy necessarily. I have been homesick. We have both been unemployed at one point, not knowing how we could eat let alone pay for rent... and there are more instances of course. I look back at the winter season and realize how hard it really was! Trying to help each other out of the darkness (LITERALLY. It was dark here ALL the time. Rare sun rays) and we made it and helped each other through it. Sure we have had disagreements... actually, our first one was if we should get a cat or not. Hehe I won that one ;) Joel has never been a big animal person, but promised me once we moved out of our one room apartment we could get a cat to close the door off to our super nice bed. I thought that was a good compromise!
We look back at our relationship and are grateful for those ten months we had away from each other. All we could do was communicate. Our relationship is really based off of that, I believe... and I will always be grateful for that. We still haven't fought, and any disagreement we have had we have figured out together, respecting each others opinions.
I look back to when we were engaged and it feels like we barely knew each other!!!! Sometimes I think, "How on earth did we get married, we barely knew each other??!" But we must have known a little bit ;)
I also love living with a man. Best. Roommate. Ever.

You know this picture? Yep. I laugh at all his farts. I don't know why, but I find them so comical. Usually when he farts in the morning he has to look over at my face to see how I react... Oh the joys of living with a man :)

Also, this is one of my new favorite pictures!! We are completely obsessed and in love with this little cat... who woulda thought?? We had some friends taking Cheeto while we are in the states, and they wanted  to test out their allergies one night, and have her stay at their house! She was away from us for maaaaybe six hours, and we were dying. We missed her like CRAZY. It was ridiculous. We are way too obsessed... I don't know what we are going to do for six weeks. Joel started making cat noises pretending she was here.

Well. That is all I can think about... See ya in 10 days Utah!!!! :)

3.5 Weeks Until??...

WE COME TO THE UNITED STATES!!!!!! For 6 whole weeks. You can say I am beyond excited. My cute lil sis is getting married July 27th, so we will be there a whole month before the wedding! SO STOKED. I thank her everyday for getting married this summer, so I have a (legit) reason to come home!! We leave Sweden June 27th... Right after all the holidays here! Perfect timing that we didn't even think about haha. I have slowly been compiling a list of things we need to bring over, and things we need to buy! Thank goodness for google drive :) I would say my #1 thing that I would just love to buy is a niiiice camera. Sure, we take pictures with our phones.. but I want to really document our lives. One of my favorite bloggers (who is a professional photographer, but still) really inspired me. She is CONSTANTLY putting up pictures of her kids, and I just love it. Sure, it might seem over the top to some (and me sometimes haha) but I love how she captures moments. So. That is my new goal- learning about all that fun stuff :) Even when I sit on the bus I am thinking and looking how I could take different pictures! Possible new obsession?
Yesterday was my year mark of living in Sweden! Crazy, eh?? For your enjoyment, here are some pictures of us meeting at the airport, and me meeting my in-laws for the first time... two weeks before we got married ;)

We were SO NERVOUS to meet again!! We hadn't seen each other since January, and this picture was taken June 1st!! 6 whole months of being engaged and not being able to hold each other when the other was having a hard day.. the worst and hardest thing about long distance for sure.

Meeting my sweet mother-in-"love" for the first time! Yes we had "met" over skype, but this was the first face to face meeting :)

After leaving the airport, we really wanted to be together. Thus resulting in Joel taking me on a walk, and I guess showing me some horses?..

He thinks he is funny..

Gratefulness and Blessings

I just got done reading a blog post about The Disease Called "Perfection". It was interesting, and I believe had a good point to it. By the time I was done reading it, I had such a weird feeling... a mixture of gratefulness and also sadness. I felt grateful, realizing all that I have and seeing what other people struggle with (from what the commenters said on the blog)... from over eating, being lazy, not feeling good enough to take care of their kids, and cheating on a spouse... to depression, being over weight, and addictions. I felt so much sadness, realizing how much everyone is going through in the world today attempting to be 'perfect' on the outside. What I have come to realize is that most people that look 'perfect' on the outside, are struggling on the inside.

If you wish to read this blog post, you can read it HERE.

Thinking about this post, and after reading the comments on his blog post.. I have been trying to decide how I feel about it. Like I said, it made me feel grateful and sad. I made the decision to look at the positive side of this and not focus on the negatives, which was what everyone that commented on this post was doing. Sure I could list the negatives that I struggle with on the inside, but that would be terribly depressing!! Thus resulting in me wanting to look at the positives in my life :)

Here is the list of things I have been reflecting on that I am grateful for:
- my healthy marriage
- my husband loves and respects me
- we have never gone hungry
- we are not in debt
- we help eachother up, not push eachother down
- we communicate well
- we have public transportation to get around, so we didn't have pressure of needing a car right away
- we have such a lovely apartment. the guy that lived here before us was a painter, and redid everything
- we are (mainly, we try haha) healthy
- we have a wonderful support system of family and friends on both continents
- THANK GOODNESS FOR AIRPLANES so we can travel back and forth!!!!
- we have plates to eat on, and silverware to eat with
- we both have jobs
- we live in a clean country
- technology.. geez, where would we be without it??
- good friends


Basically, this list can go on and on... hopefully you get the point ;) What are you grateful for?
Happy Sunday everyone!!

What's On My Mind??

ever get that feeling when you want to blog, but have nothing really to say? yup. that is me right about now.  lets see.. where to start.......

- i love our kitty. she is the most idealistic cat you would ever want
- Joel got me some red roses, and i am looooving them
- i love our apartment, it finally feels like a home, and complete
- i love free/cheap things
- Joel is working late. not a fan
- i hate facebook. despise it actually. i am so close to deleting my account
- i love instagram and wish more people used it so i could stalk more people
- i love technology, and that i can call/text my family anytime i want
- i love staying in contact with people
- i get really sad when i get out of touch with people
- i love that my sister is getting married, so we have a good reason to come home
- i miss coldstone
- speaking of ice cream... i ate too much today... BUT IT WAS SOOOO GOOD, OK??
- i want to paint more, and i get sad that i don't
- http://sethadamsmith.com/2012/05/17/the-empty-jar-temple-sealings/
- i love weeding
- every time i need to feel better, i watch Tangled. Joel and i laugh and giggle through it every time
- i wish i was a good photographer
- every time i call my mom, someone calls her and ends our call
- i love living in Gothenburg, but miss the comfort of Utah. a lot.
- Cheetos favorite place to sleep is my underwear drawer. in fact, she is there now. uhhh.......
- i want to go on a bunch of hikes this summer
- my husband is so dedicated to his work, and i am incredibly proud of him
- in the 11.5 months i have lived in Sweden, i can count on one hand how many times i have straightened and curled my hair
- i wish Android had the Vine app
- we leave for Utah in 5.5 weeks. exciting? yes.
- Joel and i LOVE meat, especially bacon

Ok. That's all for now... Bye :)

Hello there long lost friends.

Well, I don't really know where to start haha.

Life has been the busiest it has been in a long time. Not that I don't like it, I just wish I could spend more time with Joel! I guess a good term to call us would be "workaholics". We literally come home from our activities every night and just crash because we are exhausted.

When I first moved to Sweden with no job and nothing to do while Joel was at work, this was my thought process, "Life will only get busier and busier so I need to take advantage of this time now!"

Now that I look back on it, I wish I was busier. I would lay in bed until noon or one because I didn't have anything else better to do. Eventually I would get up, move to the computer, get on the world wide web and rotate between facebook, instagram, and pinterest of course. In my mind I knew I should make the bed, do the dishes, workout/shower, and get the apartment all cute before Joel got home around 5... because I didn't have a job or anything yet, I felt like that was my "job".

Then came study time. I started studying Swedish For Immigrants, or SFI in September. So, from July-September I had nothing to do. Thankfully I started studying Swedish to meet other immigrants and to realize we are all going through the same thing. But. I hated Swedish. Then I didn't want to go to class. I didn't understand a single thing. My teachers would ask me questions in Swedish, and I felt like a deer in the headlights because I didn't know the answer. I kept pushing myself to go.. that was the right thing to do, right?? Sometimes I was lucky to go to class once a week.

THANKFULLY Christmas time came, and saved me. Sure it was dark and cold... This was the time when people would put up lights in their windows. The Christmas spirit was there, AND I had a two week vacation from school. Finally I didn't feel guilty for missing school because it was vacation time :)

I feel like that was the changing time for me, when I started liking Swedish more. That first Monday back to class.. amazing. I sat there in class, and I could understand at least 50% what was going on, versus the 5% before the holidays. Something cool switched in my brain over Christmas break, and I felt 100% better. I have no idea how it happened, but my brain had finally reached the first step of learning a language.

Another thing I have a hard time with... comparing myself to others. Believe it or not, I am really hard on myself on the inside. A whole lot of guilty thoughts like this for example, "They learned Swedish so much faster than me. I wish I studied as much as them. They just got into the class, and already picked up Swedish faster than me." Aaaaand, my negative thoughts haven't made learning Swedish any easier. I still have a hard time in class, knowing how hard learning Swedish has been for me. I feel like when I first arrived in Sweden, a lot of people had high expectations of me. I had people tell me, "Oh! You will learn Swedish in no time." "I bet you will have it down in months!" etc.... Lets just say, it has been a lot harder than I thought!



Well, enough of the vent session and back to being busy. Since I have started working, I go to my SFI class once a week, and I feel great. I enjoy going to class, I LOVE going to work, and I am enjoying life. I have found I like to be busy (to a point of course haha!), unlike what I had imagined in my head when we were first married. Joel has this saying, "If you want something to get done, give it to a busy person." Oh boy, is that true!! When I had nothing to do when we were first married, I hardly got anything done. How weird is that?? You would think I would with all that time on my hands! Funny how it turns out to be the opposite.

Happy Friday everyone :)

Recent Distractions

Today I was on the bus just like any other day. When I go to work, I ride a bus for about 22 minutes, then hop off at the central station and jump on a train for 25 minutes. I then find another bus that will take me to my in-laws house, but thankfully that bus ride is only 10 minutes long. Door to door.. it takes about an hour and a half. Because there is a looot of walking involved. I use to hate it. Now that my body has adjusted to walking everywhere, I love it. If I were to drive to my in-laws it would only take 30 minutes! So crazy.

Anyways, as I was sitting on the bus home I was trying to relax after the busy day I had, by listening to music and looking at my phone. Like every other Swede does. I am not a Swede of course, but that part has definitely rubbed off on me. NO ONE talks to each other on the bus/train/tram. Unless you are with a friend of course! When Joel and I are together I feel so loud even whispering.

Sorry, that was another tangent.. I was on the bus just trying to get home, because who likes public transportation? When I suddenly realized how absorbed I was in technology. I was literally going back and forth between facebook, instagram, the blogs I follow, and the game Draw Something (thanks goes out to my sisters and my mom for always drawing something for me!)... and repeating the process. Does anyone else get so caught up in technology?? It kills me sometimes how addicted I am... how I can't go to bed without checking instagram. Joel makes fun of me aaall the time. Isn't that sad though? I don't know what I would do without my phone. I wonder how much happier I would be if we had less technology and distractions? If we had to pay for less, and how much stress that would release.

While I was sitting on the bus I realized all of this.. because I was so absorbed in technology I didn't realize there was an old and frail lady standing up, and everyone was too distracted to notice how unstable and frail she was. No one had given up a seat for this poor lady! By the time this all registered in my mind, a girl moved and offered her seat thankfully. It really stressed me out realizing how everyone was so into their phones, and myself included. Me... A healthy 22 year old girl too distracted by dumb technology to help an old lady out.

So, I stood up anyways because I didn't feel like sitting anymore, and I started to look at the people surrounding me. I saw a girl looking straight ahead and was smiling to herself, and I was so impressed because everyone else was frowning looking down at their phones.. and it really got me thinking, "I wonder what she is thinking about that makes her look so happy!" Then I started thinking about trials and hardships that everyone has in their lives. For some it might be death, money, drugs.. whatever the reason, everyone has something tough going on in their lives, as well as good things. Maybe this girl just got kissed by the man she loves? Who knows! All I know is we don't know what people are going through, and maybe that old lady was having a hard day! Then someone gave her their seat, and life got a bit better! Maybe that move made her day, because she really could have fallen at any moment and broken something.. she was that frail. So, maybe that person saved a life today?? ;) All I know is how determined I will be to pay more attention to others, because you never know what others are going through in their life.

That Awkward Moment When Your Cat Shoves Her Nose Up Your Nasal Passage

I am in the middle of attempting to watch Vampire Diaries, and it is taking foreverrrr to load. So, I thought why not write a blog post??

Now after the whole BYU application is done (for now hehe), our lives have slowed down a whole lot! Not too much going on that I can blog about, so sorry if I ramble or go off on random thoughts :)

So, I don't know if any of you know this... but I don't really cook haha. Joel usually does, because he likes it! Plus I get overwhelmed with everything in Swedish, so I let him work his magic. I LOVE everything Joel cooks! Well, except for one thing. Not too bad, eh? Only one thing I haven't liked, and we have been married almost 9 months! It works out great. He cooks, then I do dishes and clean up after everything! I am usually not in the mood to do dishes (who is, haha!) but it keeps me going knowing I have a loving husband that likes to cook. How many women can say that??!

Anyways, my mom and I are starting up this thing where we will cook together on skype! We tried once, and it was really fun actually. From going back and forth to, "Is this a small onion??" and trying to awkwardly show her over skype... and then comparing our bouillon sizes. Since this is an american recipe, it was also hard to convert everything to the wonderful metric system. In the past when my mom tried teaching me something about cooking, I always tried to avoid it because I wanted to procrastinate learning how to cook as long as possible, and now I am regretting it. (you were right mom!)
She taught me how to make Sweet Potato Soup. And it was DELICIOUS. I did burn the onions the first time I tried, but hey! I learned from my mistake.. Which my mom said, "Is sometimes the hardest way to learn!" This is the recipe, if anyone is interested :)

It took me a LOT longer to prep the food, just because I am so new at this! So it took me an hour and a half...

I also only had curry powder at home, so I didn't use cumin and it turned out just fine!

Sjuk

Ya know that morning where you wake up and your head says, "Don't get up or I will hurt you." Because you wake up sick. And your head still decides to hurt you no matter what, even if you lay still.

Yep. That was me this morning. Waking up sick is the worst.. or being sick at all! I was so looking forward to having a nice weekend, but my brain won't let me concentrate on more than one thing. If it lets me think of one thing at all. 

So we don't let Cheeto sleep in our room for obvious reasons.. Hair, noise, discomfort etc... And every morning she can sense when we are awake, even if we don't make any noise at all. She cries. And cries. And cries. Oh, did I mention she cries? And it kills me for two reasons: 1) because it is cute to hear her little half cries/meows and 2) it is kind of hilarious. How in the crap does she know we are awake??! But she loves us, and loves being with us. I think she misses us a lot during the night! Joel decided if Cheeto were to have a "love language", hers would be physical touch. She HAS to be touching us when she is asleep and when she wants to sit and relax. It is nice feeling loved by a sweet little kitty that can't really meow yet! Her poor little face when we have to close the door on her when saying goodnight... So sad :(

Video of cute Cheeto crying for us!

I have been reading a friend of mine's blog today, and she is good at keeping it updated about her family, house, baby etc... So, that got me in the mood to blog. And since I don't have a baby yet, I thought I would share those updates on Cheeto, since she is the closest thing to a baby right now haha!

Also, another fact about Cheeto. She is a girl kitty, and an orange tabby which is super rare! Usually a male is orange. A lady in church told me she told her mom that we had a girl orange tabby, and her mom said, "No way. That is impossible. She can't be a girl cat, that is absolutely impossible." I guess her mom works on a farm and knows her cats really well? Buuuut Cheeto is a girl, we promise. And can send pictures if she wants proof, haha!!

I looked it up on the internet... and it says this, "Orange tabbies are far more likely to be male, with an average ratio of 80 males to 20 females. The gene for red is carried on the X chromosome. Males have one X chromosome, while females have two. A male needs only one red gene to be an orange tabby. A female must inherit two red genes, one for each of her two X chromosomes."

Soooo I guess Cheeto is a rare kitty! Kinda cool :)

Also, one last thing I love that Cheeto does. Usually Joel gets home a little after me, and I have noticed she can tell when we are coming home. In our apartment building we have the outside door, then we walk up the stairs and our apartment is right there on the second floor. When she hears that door open downstairs, she freaks out because she knows someone is coming home. She sits up, and waits to hear for the key to open the door to our apartment. If she doesn't hear that key within a few minutes, she plops back down, usually on my Chest or lap. 
Now for a billion pictures, if you'd like to see our cute kitty.

Our first picture of baby Cheeto!

Watching us play Lego Star Wars ON Joel's foot

Her normal seat

My stalker

The time Cheeto was obsessed with the toilet. She jumped in before Joel could flush or close the toilet seat. Joel yells to me, "MOLLIE!!!! CHEETO JUMPED IN THE TOILET! And I didn't flush..." She only got her legs wet, so this pic was taken after we gave her a bath...

How most of my skype conversations go.

Caught in the act!!

Cheeto learned the hard way about playing with fire by burning off a bunch of her whiskers!

Curious lil buggar 

My stalker.. the usual

We call this stance the "creeper walk" where she arches her back like this and hops or runs toward us. 

She does THIS once in a while too.

Oh hello.

Joel making sure she gets strong. 

Creepin

And that everyone (who actually looked through all the pictures) is our cat in a nutshell.