We recently were nominated for the Shine On Award by Astrid’s boyfriend Sampson and his fursibs from the Kitty Cat Chronicles. Thank you so much. We have always admired this award and are tickled that you passed it on to us.

The award does come with a few rules:
1. Visit and thank the blogger who nominated you.
2. Acknowledge that blogger on your blog and link back.
3. Share 7 random facts about yourself.
4. Nominate up to 15 bloggers for the Shine On award, provide a link to their blog in your post, and notify them on their blog.

So we have taken care of the first two on the list. Now for the seven random facts (which we are turning into eight for obvious reasons).

Lily Olivia: Leo (Critters in the Cottage) and I keep trying to get together for a date, but our humans stay so busy they can’t seem to help us make it happen.

Mauricio: I am in love with my girlfriend Allie (Friends Furever), but she says that we haven’t been together long enough for me to say it.

Misty May: I won’t come in the house for breakfast or dinner until I see one of the humans at the door with a filled food bowl in hand.

Giulietta: If I am shut out of a room I want in, I will scratch the door continuously until it is opened.

Fiona: Sometimes I get to go out in the yard with Mom when she works in the garden, so I often think it is okay to go out on my own and sneak out if I can. I always come right back when I am called ’cause I know what I am doing is naughty and not allowed.

Astrid: I chased Lisbeth a couple nights ago. She took off and ran right through our cat drinking fountain throwing water all over the kitchen and knocking the top off the fountain. Fun times!

Lisbeth: My very favorite thing to do is eat the fresh flowers we always have in the kitchen.

Calista Jo: I have two sisters, Ellie and DeeDee, who are “failed” fosters ’cause they needed to be adopted as a bonded pair. It never happened. I can attest that they have one of the best moms ever. You can read about them here.

Blogs we are nominating for this award:

♥ Critters in the Cottage (link above) ♥ on a more personal note  ♥ Lone Star Cats ♥ Sushi’s Diary ♥ Random Felines ♥ Bailey Boat Cat ♥ Colehaus Cats ♥ Fur Everywhere ♥ Clooney’s Num Num Fund ♥

This award has been around before and we know it is making the rounds again, so we are going to stop here with nominations. We know so many of our other furiends we would normally nominate have received it recently. If you already have it, please forgive our duplication.

We’ll be back tomorrow with Calista Jo and “Doozy of a Snoozy.” And please don’t forget to join us for our 2nd Blogoversary this coming Monday, July 21.

Purrs and paw-pats, Lily Olivia, Mauricio, Misty May, Giulietta, Fiona, Astrid, Lisbeth and Calista Jo

We all are so super thankful today. We have dates for the Queen of Hearts Dance! We will not reveal ourselves dressed in our ball gowns or our dates in their tuxes*, but we do want to introduce y’all to our dates.

Misty May will be accompanied by Mau’s very handsome friend and fellow Cat Scout, Wally, from The Island Cats.

The stately Leopold from Critters in the Cottage will accompany Lily Olivia to the Dance. Though he is still recovering from recent surgery, he has promised they can have a few dances and not spend all their time chaperoning the youngsters.

Lisbeth was so tickled to hear from her Howl-o-ween Ball date, Texas, from Texas, A Cat on New York Austin and find out that he wanted to accompany her to the Dance.

Astrid will be on the arm of the green-eyed Tuxie, Sampson, from Kitty Cat Chronicles. Wait until you see them. They make the cutest couple!

Our very young lady, Calista Jo, will be on the arm of Zorro from Swiss Cat Blog. Mom expects they will be having more of a play date than a dance date.

We bet most of you recognize this handsome man-cat and self-proclaimed King, Spitty from Spitty Speaks.  Our inseparable sisfurs, Giulietta and Fiona, are honored that he will be their date for the evening. They are still pinching themselves as he could have asked any of the many gorgeous girl/lady-cats who have dated him.

Of course, Mauricio is attending with his girlfriend, the most lovely and sweet Birman beauty, Allie, from Friends Furever.

Please don’t forget to check back on February 14 to see all the couples dressed and bejeweled for the Queen of Hearts Dance and then pop over to the Dance at Madi and Mom to see all the attendees.

* For several days, Mom wasn’t sure that she was happy that our plea for dates had turned out so well. She was up to her eyeballs in ball gowns and tuxedos trying to get us all dressed and our photos made to submit to the Dance committee. We girls sure had fun picking out dresses and even changing our minds a couple of times.

We also have an award for which we are thankful today.

We received this most pawsome award from our dear friends the Florida Furkids from Friends Furever and thank them from the bottom of our furry little hearts. Mau’s lovely girlfriend Allie is a Florida Furkid. We have linked to them above.

Under Mau’s Rules we must pass this award to his Worldwide Wildcats Troop Leader, Sammy at onespoiledcat, but he’s the one who gave it to Friends Furever. And we must pass it to Allie, but she gave it to us.

Next it should go to our honorary sisfur and brofur, Nylablue from Nylablue and Sherri-Ellen’s Purrfect Pad, and Bailey from Bailey Boat Cat. To or knowledge neither have this and so we are passing it on.

Additionally, the girls want to pass it on to all their Queen of Hearts Dance dates:

♥ Wally – The Island Cats ♥ Leopold – Critters in the Cottage ♥ Texas – Texas, A Cat in New York Austin ♥  Sampson – Kitty Cat Chronicles ♥ Zorro – Swiss Cat Blog ♥ Spitty – Spitty Speaks ♥

We do have a couple of other things for which we are thankful, but we don’t want them to get lost in the shuffle, and we don’t want them to detract from what we are listing here, so we will save them until next week.

Purrs and paw-pats, Lily Olivia, Mauricio, Misty May, Giulietta, Fiona, Astrid, Lisbeth and Calista Jo