It’s been so long since we’ve updated the site. So many things (good & bad) have happened.

We finally bought our first house and moved in June 2008. It’s my dream home, Drew isnt so sure. We both agree that the drive sucks big time. Our new house is in Eagle Mountain.

2 days after we moved in, the newest member of our family moved in. His name is Maxwell. He is a 17 lb Norwegian Forest Cat. He is the sweetest cat I have ever met.

A couple weeks after we moved in, Nikita got horribly sick and was diagnosed with IBD (inflammatory bowel diease) and must be on a hypo-allergenic diet. That in itself is a struggle. With meds & good food she recovered fairly quickly. We still have barf issues but nothing terrible. (It still freaks me out)

Everyone has settled in nicely into our new house and we’re trying to make it a home slowly. Except Drew, he hasnt unpacked his office completely. Maybe he’s secretly hoping we’ll move again soon.

The week of Halloween I came home to find Nikita curled up in a cozy and wouldnt move or open her eyes. We called the vet and made an appointment for the next day. I put her in her cozy next to our bed and laid with her trying to keep things calm & quiet. She didnt budge for 13 hours. The next day her eyes were very cloudy and that concerned her vet greatly. That means her eyes are actually inflammed and there may be an underlying cause. So, blood, urine & inter-ocular pressures were taken. We were sent home with steroid eye drops and were told to watch her like a hawk until the test results came back. Needless to say I have been beyond a wreck over this. 2 days later the vet called us with the best news ever… all of her test results were normal and we were to take her in for a follow-up the next afternoon to re-check her pressures. At her follow-up her vet said she had very minimal inflammation and her pressures were normal. Her guess was that she sustained some sort of head trauma while wrestling with Maxwell. We were to continue the eye drops for a full week and continue to watch her like a hawk. Well, that was on Halloween day. It’s almost Thanksgiving and I am just now feeling that she is back to her normal self. I, on the other hand, am just starting to feel better about it. This has been horrible. She is so much better.

We are looking forward to an uneventful Thanksgiving.