the kittens turn 1! – turtle + mole

for those of you on facebook, this post and the wedding post may seem redundant. but in case you missed it, the kittens had a birthday party!

their evite card.

i hand-knit their favorite balls and bones as favors. most of the guests were cat-people so they went home with toys and tuna. but for the non-cat-people there were other options. 🙂

our first guests were marisa, arthur, their three kids and marisa’s parents, lynn and philip. the kittens are still not good with small children. they both hissed at trevor when he arrived! and sadly this is the only photo i got of marisa’s family! arthur on the lower left, lynn at the upper right and one of the kids on the lower right. my parents are on the other side of the table.

i wasn’t very good at taking photos of the humans at the party. 🙁 i missed some really cute photos of kyle with arwen downstairs, and my dad having a quiet visit upstairs with arwen and bella.

marisa did me a HUGE favor and picked up the cake at prolific oven in palo alto. this is THE BEST cake and kind of the whole reason for throwing a party… originally i was going to have them draw two little cat heads on the cake, but i chickened out when i placed the order.

even though i said “the kittens like paper bags, gifts are not necessary” people brought gifts! here is bella with a lovely bag from uncle larry.

bags!

more bags! and fun gifts!

while bella was loving all the gifts and attention, arwen was upstairs (passed out from too much catnip) completely oblivious that there was a party happening downstairs.