Poco and Tink

On Thanksgiving Day this past year, a calico cat showed up on our front porch and she hasn't left since. We did not feed her for the first 3 weeks she was there, but she continued to stay anyway. I think she just wanted some attention, which Dana and Jordan lavished on her everytime we went out the front door.

One day a couple of months ago we noticed we had 5 cats in our driveway, which led us to believe we would soon have kittens. Sure enough 4 weeks ago "Poco"(we named her pocohantus because she showed up on Thanksgiving)had a litter of 4 kitten in a chiminea in our backyard. Dana was thrilled!!! We didn't handle the kittens and only peeked at them when Poco was eating. On Sunday morning, 2 weeks ago, we woke up to find that she had moved them all. Dana was devastated!!! We were pretty sure she moved them to a hole in between the neighbors 1st and 2nd floor. Poco was still hanging around, but no kittens to be seen. Today we looked out our front door and there was Poco and one little black kitten. It looks like she may be the only one left. Dana named them all the day they were born, and she is sure that this one is "Tink". So that is the story of how the Long family sort-of got a cat, which they never thought would happen in a million years.

Memorial Day 2008

We spent the morning at Grandpa and Grandma Long's. One of our favorite places to be! Dana & Jordan got to play in the little swimming pool next door with their cousins. Don flew to Mexico today to prep for the church missions trip in July, he only went for the day, but we missed having him home on a holiday.

Our recent Adventures in Odyssey episodes

For those who wanted to hear these episodes, I meant to remind you when they would be on, but never got around to it:) These episodes aired April 19th and 26th.

You can hear them if you go to Oneplace.com. The episode titles were The Triangled Web Parts 1 & 2. These should be on oneplace.com for the next few weeks.

We also did a small podcast interview which you can hear at Whitsend.org. This podcast is also available on Itunes.

Dana enjoying the swingset

Jordan enjoying the swingset

I love the fact that the kids are playing outside and getting more exercise. They don't know it's good for them---It's just fun:)

More pictures of the same home

Here are some more so you can get a better idea of the layout.

Interior pictures of the same house

Some views of the kitchen area

Another House Finished

This is a house that Don was contracted to build that is finishing up this week. The owners were already moving in when Don was taking these pictures:)

New Swingset

We bought the kids a swingset from Costco. We figured we would enjoy putting it together during the nice Spring Weather! It took us 20 hours working non-stop----real teamwork:) They love it---this was a GREAT investment:)