New addition to the family...

Well, we had seen him a few times about 3-4 months ago around the laundry room at our apartment complex and Matt thought he was the coolest cat because after Matt pet him he would follow Matt around like a dog. We haven't seen him for a long while but Saturday morning we went to leave the house around 6:45am and he was asleep on our welcome mat. We got home around 11am and he was still there asleep, so Matt let him inside and he wandered around exploring for a while then stretched out on our living room floor and fell asleep. We put him out a little while later when we left to take some boxes over to the new apartment but when we got home around 11pm he was waiting at the top of our stairs for us. We let him in for a little while then put him out when we went to bed. Sunday morning we asked around church if anyone might want a cat if we found out he was abandoned and we couldn't keep him at our new apartment. We were under the impression that pets weren't allowed at the new apartment but Matt wanted me to call and make sure. When we got home from church Sunday he was on our balcony again so I let him in. Matt decided to feed him some cat food and he gobbled it. We left again that day to take boxes to our new apartment and noticed a cat in the apartment below us, so Matt got hopeful :) Monday I took some pictures down to the management office and they said that most of the pets here at the complex will have collars and the maintenance lady didn't think it belonged to anyone here. Then I called our landlord and said that we had just rescued a cat and had thought that we weren't allowed to have pets but had seen a cat in the apartment below us. He said that they had paid a large deposit and if we were willing to do that we could have it. So we have a cat...and his name is Bagheera (as in Jungle Book). *sigh* He's a pretty good cat, as far as cats go :) He doesn't get up on the furniture except when he sits next to us on the couch. He does get up on the bed to be with us but he doesn't fight us when we kick him off. He seems to have been a pet previously because he doesn't have fleas, has been fixed, wants to stay indoors, and knows how to use the liter box. He doesn't scratch anything and he seems to not shed that much.

MOVING!!!!

Yep, that's right! We're moving! We found an apartment in uptown Whittier that's $300 less/mo. plus pays for utilities (except electricity). It's very 60's/70's but it's worth the money! We sign the rental agreement tonight and start moving in Friday. Unfortuntely, because our current apartment requires 30 days notice and the new apartment won't be held for us, we're having to pay for both apartments for the month of September. The one benefit from that is that we have all of September to move!

I'm sad to be leaving this apartment for a few reasons, the main one being it's where Matt proposed and where we came home to from our honeymoon. But aside from that, there's alot of memories...our Christmas party, sisters sleepover the night Matt got in his accident, Michael leaving for Liberia, our Guitar Hero parties with way too many of us in the place, decorating my first home...but the money we're saving will mean a more permanent house sooner hopefully.

Once we've officially made the transition I'll send everyone our new address. And if you want to help us move, just let us know when you're available!