Tonight we were invited over to our friends Meredith + Garrick’s for dinner! And what a fun surprise – they just became parents to two adorable little kittens!!!
Check out the shelf I can create by pushing out the bump!
Is it weird that holding these kittens made me really excited to hold my little baby!?
Do we flock to orange cats or what!? Even Mr. Allergic couldn’t resist holding them at arm’s reach : )
Sweet kitty mewing:
And a hilarious clip of Cubby playing with the plant!
Meredith + Garrick just re-did their kitchen and cooked up quite the impressive dinner –
Homemade mussels in a cream sauce
A gorgeous chicken and pasta bake
And a green salad!
Totally delicious!
And for dessert….a special cheesecake from our new pastry bakery in town! Matt and I shared this honkin’ slice.
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Those kittens are SO adorable! And seriously, what’s with you guys and orange cats?
Lol orange cats do love you guys
I always held my beagle like a baby on my hip! Hahaha
Aww those kittens are adorable! They remind me of my kitten! I miss him so much!
Mussels!! I’ve been cuh-raving mussels for the longest time. I am NOT a cat person (super allergic), but I have to admit those kittens are adorable.
Awww! I just adopted an orange and white kitty this past weekend. So sweet!!
Oh my gosh!! I don’t think anyone would be able to resist those kittens!! And definitely not that cheesecake either
Any chance we could get that pasta bake recipe? Looks amazing!
It’s from here: http://www.howsweeteats.com/2011/05/creamy-caprese-pasta/ I’ve been making it for a while and it’s delish. Although I add more sauce and mozzarella, ~1 jar for the whole recipe and 8 oz mozz for the inside and 8 oz for the top!
Those are the sweetest little kitties! Orange or grey ones are my favorite, but I’m allergic like Matt, so I just have an outside cat.
The mewing! So CUTE! I’m not much of a cat person… but mewing gets me every time
Too cute! I love orange tabby cats
WHAT an adorable post! my 5 year old just saw this…and wants a kitten
Those kittens are adorable!!! Orange kittens love y’all!!! Those mussels looks fantastic! I’ve never tried to make mussels at home, but I think I need to. Glad you had fun!!
Those are some of the cutest kittens I’ve ever seen! Love the pictures!!
i’m not really a cat person, but those little guys are adorable! Love the huge eyes!
Not a cat person at all but they are so cute!
Great Pictures! Super cute kittens!! Makes me want to get another kitten again but I think three cats would be a bit much.
When I saw the first picture with you holding the two kittens, I thought Pumpkin became a parent! LOL
the kittens are so cute!!!! love them!
Awww, kitties!!! So cute. I’ve been craving mussels lately, now I really want some!
The kitties are adorable! They look like the may be Maine coon cats, do you know if they are?
Those kittens are too adorable!! And I love that they got two, so they have each other!
I’m not a cat person but they are adorable!!! Btw, mussels..yum!!! Love them! With my first I was craving them and ended up eating about 4 times that amount in one sitting!! Lol!
Those are some precious kitten pics. I ALWAYS look for pics of Pumpkin in your posts. Does she love her family as much as she loves you?
Darling kitties. Love the videos!
Kitties!! That poor plant, haha…
Orange cats are my favorite and I’ve NEVER had a kitten. So an orange kitten is on the top of my wish list. But with 2 Maine Coon Cats, it will have to wait a while.
1) That video of the kitty in the contained grassy knoll was hilarious. I especially love how the other cat’s head pops into frame like “dude, you’ve had way too much catnip!”
2) I want friends like yours who make dinners like that! Yum!
Those kittens are so incredibly cute!!
Dinner looks amazing!
You can’t go wrong with posting pictures of cute kittens how sweet! Fun videos too.
Kittens, pasta, and cheesecake…sounds like a perfect night to me
What’s the new bakery in town?
Paradox Bakery in the Glass Building
That’s what I was thinking. I’m looking forward to checking them out. I believe it is owned by a current or maybe former trainer at ACAC.
You’re right- orange cats just flock to the two of you!
It’s cute!
This post made me smile this morning. From the first picture, I thought maybe you and Matt had decided you needed Pumpkin (or two) of your own. Do you guys ever think about having a pet? Once again you are looking fabulous.
I want a cat (he’s allergic) and he wants a dog (I used to be terrified of dogs…still overcoming) but neither of us feel so strongly that we are going to get one in the near future. Maybe when our kid (kids) are older
Plus we have our neighbor cats to play with!
I thought that you had said Matt was allergic to cats. We currently don’t have any pets and our kids are 5 and 6, although they have a few ideas about what kind of pet they would like… dalmation, fish, snake, rabbit just to name a few. We had both a dog and a cat at one point, the cat died before kids and our beagle died about 3 years ago. I grew up in the country with outside animals, so indoor pets and the hair and other messes were hard for me to get used to. Having neighbor cats to plus with sounds like it works perfectly for you right now.
He is!
They look just like my orange kitty when she was a kitten! So cute!
Ginger cats remind me of my grandmother…they migrated to her too! Dinner looks awesome! Cheesecake with fresh berries…yum! Nice evening!
Where did ou get your maternity shirts? I only have te really wide at the bottom kind and would love some like you have!! ( I’m 25 weeks — with a boy!)
They are almost all from Motherhood or Old Navy
I don’t really like cats but those kittens are so adorable!
They are such cute kittens!
Great dinner! Baby Younger-Monson is probably still enjoying good eats
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The pasta bake looks great. Adorable kitties.
So cute! We love cats. I hope when he have a kid, he/she isn’t allergic! We have FOUR, and two dogs that think they’re cats, hehe. Mmm, that dinner looks delightful.
Those are the cutest kittens! Maybe I’m just partial to orange cats since ours is as well but they sure are cute!
What cuties!
Haha they’re like miniature Pumpkins! And that pasta looks great! What kind of pasta did you use?
Oh my gosh those kittens are SO adorable!!
And that chicken and pasta bake doesn’t look half bad either
What a fun night!
I would imagine that everything you do makes you look forward to holding your own sweet little one. I still love babies.
Awww, your pics of our babies are so awesome! Come play anytime
I’m glad you enjoyed dinner, thanks for bringing the bread and scuffins!
Those kittens are simply wonderful!! I love orange cats so much and they really seem to love you too. What a wonderful evening.
omg those kittens are adorable!
I love orange cats! LOVE THEM! But my son is allergic (to all of them not just orange ones) so we had to give ours away.
kittens + mussels = best post ever.
Those kittens are so cute and the food looks amazing. I was just thinking that it might be a little more stressful to have a food blogger over for dinner, knowing my food would be posted.
Any chance you can get us the recipe for that chicken & pasta bake? Because it looks fantastic!
She pasted it in another comment!
Oh, wow, how did I miss that? Thanks!!
Oh my god! Those kittens are adorable! My friend adopted a teeny tiny orange and white kitten–so small he fit in my palm–and he grew up to be the biggest cat I have ever seen. We think he’s got some Manecoon in him.
“Come sit on my shelf!” So adorable! You’re going to be a great mom
Wonder if the kitties are related to Pumpkin?
They both are so adorable and I really like Pumpkin too.
Do you know the sex of the two new kitties? A female orange cat is quite rare, only about 20% of newborn orange kitties are female.
One was a boy and one was a girl
Awww, too cute! I love orange and white cats! I have one (he is my second orange and white cat) and I have found them to be the most sweet and loving cats. Also, I always look forward to your posts with Pumpkin in them!
What kind of camera are you using for the videos here? I love the range of depth it gives to video! Looks very artsy
I just got a Canon 5D! The video is incredible.
Oh they are just the cutest kitties! I want!