Who's a birthday girl?!

Today is LaVaughn's birthday, so I thought I needed to say a little something about here. Well, I'm actually not going to say too much, because she NEVER reads my blog, lol. She knows how much I love her and that she's my other half.

We had planned on going out today, but she preferred to stay in. So wanna know what we're up to today? We're playing The Sims baby! Oh brother, aren't we wild cards. But her, we did just get City Living, so take that as you will.

Anyways, I did SO well on gifts this year. I got her an AMAZING pair of Jessica Simpson shoes that are to die for! I also got them at an amazing price instead of their normal $100 price tag. I also got her some Batman gloves that match her Batman jacket to a T. And aside from her amazingly perfect birthday card, I also got her the Rock Nude pallet that she's been wanting for weeks.

Last year I got her stuff that she wanted (including more eye shadow), but they were just like "meh". I was on point this year.

Happy Birthday, my precious sister. I love you more than you'll ever know!

Her cake that my amazing aunt made:

Random Zoe picture:

And the gifts:

Post-Cape blog, plus birthday gifts and mall finds!

LaVaughn had to go to the pain clinic Wednesday for her quarterly injection, so we decided to go up on Tuesday, stay the night at the hotel and do some shopping. We stayed at our favorite hotel; Auburn Place Hotel & Suites and even got our favorite room this time! I'm going to leave out what room number it is due to the fact that I have a stalker now, but we'll leave that for another blog.

After we got checked into the room, we did our usually mall run where we were able to find some AMAZING deals -- who doesn't love out of season clearance items? Maurice's and Old Navy are our go-to store when it comes to hitting the clearance. Especially if you're looking for style and comfort. We snagged a few Christmas gifts as well -- I also got LaVaughn's other birthday gift that I've wanted desperately to get her from Hot Topic!

After we spent a couple hours exploring nearly every single store in the mall, we called it quits for the day and headed back to our room before 7 PM. We had planned on hitting up Target and Petco, but decided to go there after the injection.

We ordered take-out from Olive Garden again, only because we've been dying to try the Tour of Italy and the Northern Tour of Italy (this one was mine). Of course, it was amazing. I'm a huge fan of their Alfredo and Tortellini. The salads are mediocre, in my opinion. They're overrated $1 bags of Dole salad mix that you get from the market. Where are the baby greens?? The salads are free, so I'm not complaining.

Luckily LaVaughn's appointment went well and we were able to hit up Target (more Christmas items), Petco and Walmart for household items and more groceries than I care to admit.

Of course, we were homesick all night last night and badly missed our cats and other furry critters. It was nice to get away for a day, though, but I still prefer to be home. I'm a homebody -- nearly a shut-in!

I've stolen pictures from my Instagram to share, but they're really nothing special. Hope you enjoy!

Our room and a couple pics of the hotel:

The mall and their giant wreath:

Maurices:

And lastly, our amazing takeout from Olive Garden:

Biker Daryl and one amazing view...

So I got my last (old) installment of my Walking Dead POPS!. Now I only need the three expensive non-bloody variants to complete my collection. I believe I've mentioned those already, but for those that don't know and those that may want to get me something for Christmas 🙂, I need HEADLESS Hershel, PONCHO Daryl and ZOMBIE Merle. I also need the rest of the new ones that were released last month, but hopefully I'll be able to get the rest of those soon.

So yeah, he arrived today.

I also have a picture to share with you post-Daryl. It's a picture that I took on the way to Cape last Tuesday. It's noting like breathtakingly gorgeous, just a pretty shot that I got while driving through Sam A. Baker park. It's on my Instagram account, but I wanted it to be here as well. So yeah, I guess that's all.

Biker Daryl!! Isn't he cuuuute??

Love this view of Sam A. Baker park - so gorgeous.

Halloween joey pics, my blogger "latergram"...

I took some new joey pics on Halloween, but since Louie started going downhill that night, I obviously didn't want to mess with shorting through pics, let alone blogging about them. Since I've been staying moderately caught up on my blog, I wanted to continue the trend and go ahead and post these pics.

They're nothing special, just normal outdoor pics. I also have some pictures of Clementine at the bottom for your enjoyment.

Douglas

Roman

Zelena

Regina

Arya

Sansa

And now for the unbelievably adorable, Clementine:

Just look at those gorgeous eyes! 😻

My sweet Louie...

My little man lost his battle at 11:05 last night due to a pituitary tumor. I held him in my arms after I got home up until he took his last breath. It's killing me. I miss him so, so much. He and his brother Leo that passed earlier this year were honestly the sweetest rats I've ever met in my entire life. I've never been as close to rats as I was to them, and because of that my sister and I will probably never own rats again. We get too attached and they just don't live long enough. We're going to spend as much time with Merle as we can to keep him happy. I'm just done with rats. Their short lives bring endless love and happiness, but too much pain in the end. 

I love you so much Louie, I will probably never love a rat the way I loved you.

2014-2016