Holidays with the Hunts

You'd think with how festive I am at Christmastime that I'd have a ton of holiday photos. Oddly enough, I have barely any, and most of them were taken as cat pictures. But here are the few I do have. These were our decorations in 2007 at our Bothell apartment. This was the first year that Oscar insisted our Christmas be blue and silver. I was a bit hesitant at first, but then when I saw how gorgeous the tree was, I was happy to continue this tradition.



This was the little lamb (that Hana named Lammie) that Grandma Hatch gave me in Christmas 2008.



And here's Fry on the placements she gave us that year. How cute!



We actually had one of Seattle's few white Christmases. I love this shot of Leela with the snow in the background.



This year we had Thanksgiving at my sister's house. Here's Chang and Tim with the turkey.



Nick and Liz hung out with us that day too.



I finally watched "White Christmas" this year. The cats joined me.



We're not sure how, but we managed to lose the ornament Oscar's grandparents gave us to celebrate our first Christmas together. I decided to replace it with this Mickey/Minnie wedding ornament. I figured it was appropriate since we spent our honeymoon at Disneyland.




This year we decided to have a Christmas pizza party. How can you go wrong with homemade pizza and homemade eggnog. Here's Oscar making the dough.




We cleaned up before the party, and our normally fearless kitten was terrified by the vacuum cleaner that day. We couldn't find him for hours afterward. I eventually did find him here - curled up on top of the books on the bottom shelf of the bookcase. So cute!



This was 2009's Christmas tree. I even bought cat stockings!





Nibbler was a huge hassle to my tree decorating, but watching him climb it and play with the ornaments was just irresistably cute. He continued climbing it even though he managed to get himself wound up in the lights and had to be rescued.








We had an early Christmas with my sister and family since Hana was having her tonsils out on the 23rd.



On Christmas eve, Oscar and I drove to see a highly decorated house in Milcreek.



We fed our cats their favorite treat for Christmas day - Tuna!



Nibbler played with our Christmas candy, but he was more interested in the milk tie.



Here are our adorable Christmas kitties.




Here's one of Oscar's gifts to me. Hmmm...what could it be?

Nibbler!

In October 2009, Oscar surprised me with a trip to the Kent animal shelter to get another kitten! We already knew its name would be Nibbler (named after the above pictured Futurama character), and we picked this particular animal shelter since they had a large amount of kittens. Interestingly enough, the kitten we picked ended up being the first one we saw. He was just soooo cute, he looked a lot like our cat Leela, and he was very sweet when we held him. Here's how he looked in the little carrier box they give you to take home.



I LOVE this shot of him inside the box



We tried giving him kitten food, but he was much more interested in the adult food. Our adult cats, however, loved his kitten food.



Here's an adorable shot of him curled up in the sink



It took awhile for the other cats to warm up to Nibbler. They didn't seem to bother him much, but both Fry and Leela (especially Fry) were not happy about this new animal invading their territory. Fry got really grumpy and would even snap at Leela if she got too close. But after about a week they began accepting him and cuddling with him.








Fortunately for us, he's a very affectionate little guy.







He loves to be up high, and when he would often sit on our shoulders just like a little parrot.




He loves to sit in front of our TV/Computer and paw at the mouse.





Both he and Leela love being on the bed.



He puts up with a bath much better than either Fry or Leela. He didn't enjoy it, but he didn't freak out either.



We discovered very quickly that he is EXTREMELY playful.



I miss when he was this small. He's still cute, but here he's irresistable.



He's just so cute here on the blanket




He looks adorable on the perch






Both he and Leela like to curl up on the warm DVR. I snapped this adorable shot of them.



I tried getting the 3 of them to all cuddle together, but it didn't happen for the first 2 and 1/2 months. This was the closest I got.