Friday Mishmash

I've mentioned a time or two that my cats don't get along, despite having adopted them as kittens from the same cage at the animal shelter over 11 years ago.  Mostly it's Kip who has the issue - while he was best friends with our next door neighbor cat, he can't stand to be near his brother, Henry.  And I'm sure Henry knows this, but he just doesn't care.  Which is why I was laughing so much when I looked out my office window to see this:

Henry casually walked over and SAT IN KIP'S TERRITORY.  The nerve of him - you can see how irritated Kip is at this.

Henry is giving me the innocent "what, I just happened to stroll over here" look while Kip is giving me the "make him move" look.

And now Kip was yelling at Henry, who was pretending that "lala lala I can't hear you" - oh, he knows how to push Kip's buttons.

Well, obviously Henry was not backing down at this point, so Kip had no choice to settle in and wait him out.

These cats!  If they were human, I'd send them to couple's counseling...there's no reason why they shouldn't get along.  But since I can't do that, I'll just continue to observe, mock, and laugh at them.

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From annoyed cats to the cutest picture ever - a throwback to little Allie, who fell asleep on the kitchen floor, with her trusty dog standing guard:

Jackie was the best babysitter - she took her job seriously when it came to our kids.

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Sam, Jeff, me, Kevin, Allie

Last week, when all of the kadults were home, we had an adventure at the Escape Room BCS, which is a place where you get locked in a themed room and have one hour to figure out how to escape.  We had a blast - only Sam had done one previously, and that was with coworkers as a team building exercise.  We booked the entire room, because we didn't want the possibility of having random strangers included in our experience - this was just for us.  We chose the Breakout theme, where one of us was locked in a jail cell (Kevin volunteered) while the rest of us ransacked the sheriff's office for clues to get him out, and then we still had to escape from the office itself.  

Fun with PicMonkey...winter headgear for all!

It was challenging and Jeff and I were impressed at how quick the kadults were at figuring out the clues compared to us, but there were a lot of clues and we all ended up contributing.  We could make a phone call for clues if we got stuck; when we were running out of time, we finally made one call (you have up to five) and made it out, but not before our hour time expired - it took us about 62 minutes to escape.  I don't want to say too much about the room itself so I don't give away the clues, in case any of you end up doing one of these, but it was great fun and we're planning on doing it again next time the entire family is together.   

Have a great weekend!