Weirdness and More

Adorable Ainsley

ok, i've taken way too long to post these.. but here are the latest cute pics her Aunt Anna took back at the beginning of March.

December 22nd, 2008

This is the most recent picture i have that actually contains Tom, me and Ainsley. This is sad. Why is it so hard to get pictures that we're all in, lol.

For your viewing pleasure, the most recent picture I have, lol

Bonus Points

for anyone who can tell me where Fred's full name comes from
(be honest, don't google it!)

FredBaby (aka Paul Varjack) Christensen 9/15/03-4/24/09

As some of you may know, our funny little kitty Fred went missing about a week ago. The search for him ended sadly this afternoon when we discovered that, as we feared, he had been killed the Friday night he went for his evening romp and never came back.

I know some of you will not understand all that he meant to me, but I know that some of you will. In the last two years Fred's place has been somewhat, and rightly, pushed to the back to make room for our darling Ainsley, but he was still a loved member of our home. Most of the time he tolerated the loves she tried to give him, when he didn't just avoid the grabby girl. But she was learning to pet him gently and he was warming up to her. However, he would still find me during naptime with unerring accuracy. He seemed to always know when she was occupied and I was free. He would follow me around the house, laying next to or on me whenever I would settle down. He was my friend.

Fred joined our family almost as soon as it was formed. We got him just a couple months after we got married. We visited the humane society to give a loving home to someone, and Fred was the first kitty we picked up. We put him back and went on to visit with a couple more, taking each of them out one at a time and playing with them trying to decide. While the other kitties just went back to doing what they had been before Fred kept stalking back and forth in his cage and meowing at us. It was like he was saying 'pick me! pick me!' and it just won us over. In the years to come Fred would keep me company while Tom would be gone for 1 and sometimes 2 weeks working in Vegas, or even just shutting himself up working like crazy at home. And for all the many months of wanting so much to be a mother without success, my warm furry friend was there for me to care about and take care of.

He was a silly, zany kitty who fit in great with our family. In his youth he wasn't always the friendliest to people outside our family, but we secretly kinda liked that too. We were his favorites. :) And as the years went by he calmed and became more and more loving.

I probably went a little overboard, but I wanted to give you a glimpse of our wonderful kitty, and what a fun life we had together.

silly fred

Thinks He's a Baby

No matter what he says,
Tom loved him too

Worker Fred

Playing in the Snow with Ains

Goodbye... love you, miss you.