Story of my cats

(The following in brackets was originally part of and email to my well known cousin K8.)

Hey peoples and persons! [I have to tell you a story about what the cats did last night.

So we got the cats these little rolls of fabric with cat nip inside them for Christmas. When we got back from buying them from Target we put the bag in the living room. When we got up the day after the cats had went into the bag opened up the tube with the catnip inside and started playing with their present! So I found all of them and put them in their stocking. Then for our Christmas photo we bought them a cat costume of an elf and a reindeer. Mona was the elf and Lisa was the reindeer. So last night we did our Christmas photo and you could tell they didn't enjoy it so I took out their cat nip toys and put two on every level. After the next bit of information I'm about to give you my dad told me that the cats had been running around chasing eachother all night long probably because of the cat nip. Now anyways, I went downstairs and our tree had fallen over! I discovered two broken ornaments; My Pooh ornament and one with a Snoopy on top that was given to my mom as a present back when she taught Jr. High. (The plastic Snoopy was fine so I geuss we might put him back on the tree next year.) Also our Green Bay Packer hat ornament was chipped but it is very fixable. It was amazing how many things survived though. Especiallly our star; This year we put up this beutiful glass star. It isn't really the shape of a star but it is suppose to be put on the top. It has a little part on the bottom where it's kind of like a little tube and that's where you stick the top branch into. So it's glass and really fragile and we saw that the top the the tree was leaning against a chair so we could tell that somehow the star fell of but miraculously it doesn't even have the slightest chip. So I went up stairs and told my parents. My mom came down and she apparently thought that the tree fell out of the stand but she was astonished that it wasn't. She said the only way that it could have fallen down is that some one jumped into the tree. But If you really think about it we don't know which one it was. Mona would be the one most likely to jump but Lisa would have been the one most likeyly tho have the weight to knock it over but I still think it was Mona. I took all of their cat nip back. It was obviously too much for them to handle with a tree with fragile ornaments on it. Lisa is sitting with me and probably just sucking up to me and Mona seems afraid of me at the moment so I haven't seen her for a while. (They're probably doing that because I yelled at them in my room about doing what they did.) Now I'm down here in the basement and we recently descovered all of the water from the tree sunk through the floorboards and soaked the middle of one of our lights down here and there's a big weird smelling puddle on our couch. I'm not giving them their cat nip back till Christmas. may be even wait till we get the tree out of the house just to be safe.]