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I just want to start off by thanking you all for the condolences on this post. We really appreciate all the thoughts, prayers and hugs. It hasn't been easy but it gets better each day. We definitely still miss our Stanky boy though. But in other good news, we've still got our silly Seabass to keep us company and to keep us entertained. Man he's so much fun!

Cindy

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This past weekend Collin and I went camping in Fredericksburg, VA. We had a delightful weekend! It got to be really chilly at night (down to the low 40's!!) so sleeping in a tent was not necessarily the most fun, but the rest of the weekend was great!! And we made the best of the chilly nights. We spent so much time outside in nature this weekend and we were up close and personal with the cicadas! They were everywhere and so loud. We loved it!! On Sunday one even landed on my foot and wouldn't move! It just stayed there until we physically had to pick it off. =)

Hope you had a lovely Memorial Day weekend! One of the neat things we did was visit a Civil War battlefield. It was a sort of tribute to those soldiers that fought and gave their lives for our country.

Cindy

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What a beautiful weekend we had! It was so nice on Saturday and most of Sunday, too! We had an outdoor concert with our praise team on Saturday morning, then we frisbee golfed in the afternoon! Then on Sunday we celebrated Collin's birthday with my family and it was just so beautiful out. The guys even did a little bit of uni-cycling! I hope it was as beautiful a weekend for you as it was for us. Even if that beauty came from what you did and not necessarily from the weather!

Cindy

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Today I want to share with you guys some cards I made recently. I've got to hunker down and make a few more this evening because I've got a bunch of birthdays coming up!

An Engagement Card

An Anniversary Card

A Thinking of You Card

A Thinking of You Card

A Thinking Of You Card

A Birthday Card

What fun craft things do you like to do? Do you find it as relaxing as I do?

Cindy

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3 years ago today I married my best friend. It hasn't been the easiest three years but it has been the BEST three years. We've had so much fun and I just keep falling more and more in love every day! Thank you Collin for being such a wonderful husband!
And like you said, if people get a chuckle out of our old married couple squabbles now, we'll definitely be touring comedy clubs when we ARE an old married couple. :) I look forward to the journey that will get us there. Because with you by my side it's going to be a fabulous journey!

Love, Cindy

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It's interesting how moving affects not just us people but it also really affects our pets. Our kitties began acting out as soon as we started packing. They knew something was up and I do believe that pets, especially cats, dislike change more than we do.

Once we moved them into the new apartment, Stank began freaking out. The person who lived there before us very obviously had a cat; you could smell it. I hate that! But I suppose that's the price you pay for living in apartments; you have to deal with issues from the prior tenants. Anyway, Stank was NOT happy about the move at first. He was very, very nervous and he wouldn't stop sniffing around (which is normal) but I know he smelled the previous cat. And since there wasn't that cat to show his dominance to, he began to hiss and growl at Seabass! And poor little Seabass didn't know what was going on. He and Stank have become buddies so I'm sure it was upsetting to him that his big brother was being mean again. =(

Fortunately Stank has calmed down and I think our smells are beginning to permeate and dominate the smells from the other cat and prior tenant. Thank goodness! We were really concerned about Stank there for a little while! I knew it would be normal for the cats to want to sniff around and that it would take a day or two for them to be comfortable enough to be themselves in the new place, but we didn't expect behavior like that from Stank!

Seabass taking advantage of the extra space that packing boxes provides. He also loved jumping into the empty boxes!

Stank on moving day. He didn't want to get out of bed because he knew something was going on.

If you have pets, how do they react when you move? Do they freak out like my cats did?

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This is the main drag into our neighborhood right now. It's so, so gorgeous. I especially love it at night because the lights behind the trees illuminate them just so they look like they are snow covered! It's just unfortunate that those trees stink to high heaven. =(

Cindy

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Today is one of those days where I both love my cats very much and am very aggravated with them at the same time. It's not that they really did anything wrong, it's just that they're annoying! We feed our kitties twice a day, once in the morning and again after getting home from work. If we fed them anymore, they would get so, so fat. Anyway, we sleep with our door closed at night and every morning at about 5-5:30 they start meowing and scratching at the door. We still want to sleep until 6. But it's pretty much impossible. Most mornings we eventually have to get up and put Seabass in his cage temporarily because he's going to destroy the carpet clawing at it.

We tried to use a timed feeder, but Seabass figured out how to get into it. If we were to use an auto feeder, I have no doubt that they would eat all the food by the end of the day and would get really, really fat. Anyway, it's just really frustrating. I'm tired of losing sleep because the cats want food. Shouldn't they have learned by now that their obnoxious behavior doesn't get us to feed them any sooner? Ha. I wish.

At least they're so beautiful and lovey, most of the time.

Anyway, any suggestions on how we can get a full night's sleep without the cats driving us crazy?

Cindy

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Guys, it snowed on Monday. SNOWED. Today is the first day of spring and it snowed on Monday. I was so disappointed when I got up Monday morning and there was snow on the ground. And it was still snowing! It kept snowing until about noon or so and then it was dreary and rained the rest of the day. But the snow actually stuck and stayed on the grass and vehicles until the rain came. Fortunately it was too warm for it to stick to the roads.

The light dusting before work. It was even more covered later in the morning!

It may have not been the weather I wanted, but it was pretty.

So yesterday and today it's in the high 50's. Tomorrow barely 40 with a chance of snow. UGH. Now that it's officially spring, can't we just have all spring-like weather??

Cindy

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Stank has actually been snuggling with me lately. I've missed it.

Seabass really enjoys sitting on the toilet. No idea why.

While eating dinner on my parent's porch, their cat Jake fell asleep with his head on the candle holder and behind the digital photo frame. Ha!

Cindy

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This is my original baby boy. In 2004 this guy wandered into our garage just a tiny little fluff ball. He could fit comfortably in the palm of my dad's hand. Now he weighs 16 or 17 lbs and has SO MUCH FUR. I had just graduated high school and was getting ready to go off to college, but I wanted this kitten so bad. My parents weren't going to keep him, there were already three cats living in the house. However, I made them a deal; if I paid for his vet bills and took care of him, he could stay with my parents until I could have a pet in a place of my own. He was too little though to be tested for the kitty diseases and we didn't want to infect the other cats if he did have an illness so he lived in the garage until he was old enough to find out if he was healthy. Unfortunately living in the garage gave him this extreme devotion to my father. As much as I love Jake, when I got married and moved out of my parent's house, I couldn't separate Jake from my dad. At least now I have two baby boys of my own!

Cindy

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Hello friends! I didn't forget about you yesterday, I promise! I left you all hanging though on Tuesday with my Two Truths and a Lie game. Oops... I just was unexpectedly busy yesterday and didn't have a moment to blog! I do hope you'll forgive me.

But since I missed giving you the answer to which one was my lie yesterday, I have to share today! In case you missed my post, before you find out the answer go here and take a guess at which fact you think isn't the truth!

Filler photo so you can't cheat... ;)

Alright, now that we're all caught up.... #2 was the lie!
2. When I was younger I hated the way my name was spelled. "Cindy" was too normal and I wanted to have it spelled "Cyndi". I tried for months to get my parents to spell it the way I wanted it but they just kept telling me "We spelled "Cindy" the way we did on purpose, we're not going to change it now." Eventually I conceded and started liking "Cindy".

I said that there was some truth to it, and there is! I did at one point in time wish my name could be spelled "Cyndi". However, I didn't try to convince my parents to change it. And it didn't even really last that long (the me wanting it spelled different thing), maybe like a month or so. I will say though that when my sister turned 18 she insisted everyone start spelling her name Kaity instead of Katie. I refused for about a year because I thought she was just being silly and rebellious. But it stuck and I think finally everyone spells it Kaity now. It did take a while for people to actually do it though!

So, did you guess correctly? Of the responses I got most of you did guess number 2 was the lie. Maybe I'm not that good at this game...

Now, because I love them, here's a few more pictures of the tulips Collin bought me for Valentine's Day!

Hope you all have a lovely Thursday!

Cindy