Moss Rock!

Since I'm so far behind I decided to do another post to get everyone caught up on what's been going on lately. First off, please pray for my Grandpa York as he had surgery on Wednesday and is still recovering. He was hoping to be out of the hospital by Friday and home on Saturday, but complications have kept him in the hospital. He is doing well, but just keep him in your prayers.
Second, my good friend Laura came for a visit about two weeks ago and we had so much fun. It's really nice to have a friend nice enough to drive six hours just to see me for the weekend!! I miss you Laura :) Anyway, Laura brought her puppy, Pogo, with her and that was so much fun. We weren't sure what to expect between Sincola and Pogo, but they just sniffed each other and seemed to be fine. I think Sincola might have swatted once, but only because he scared her. Laura came on Saturday morning and Saturday afternoon we met some friends at a city park called Moss Rock. While we were waiting for everyone to meet up, we decided to go to Krispy Kreme Doughnuts to make it easier for everyone to meet up. Some people (including our car) had troubles figuring out where to go to get to Moss Rock. So obviously, meeting at Krispy Kreme means eating Krispy Kreme and boy was it good. You can see the whole crew out front in the picture to the left. Of course, after eating a half dozen doughnuts, we had to work them off (we saved the rest for later!). They have a bunch of trails for hiking and a little creek and waterfall. It made me miss the beautiful Black Hills, but was fun.Pogo had lots of fun out and about. He was even able to get off the leash for a while! We got to the highest point, found out there were houses up there and decided to turn around. It was a beautiful view. At the bottom, they have two round-a-bouts which are pretty cool and all these cool houses and a big open green. The pine cones there were HUGE! We will definitely visit there again soon when the weather is good. So the next morning, Laura got to experience our new church. We're really excited about it and I was happy that Laura liked it too. We have a lot of fun there and have learned a lot in the little bit of time we have been attending there. After church we decided to go to Cici's Pizza since neither Jeff nor Laura had been there before. Mmm it was good and what made it even better was that I had a coupon for buy one adult buffet get one free. Me, the coupon lady, haha. Told you I was having fun with this. So Jeff and I both ate a buffet for $3.99+tax. Isn't that a great deal? lol. Afterward, we wandered about Books-a-Million for a while just looking at tons of books. Bookstores are such fun. After we got back to the apartment, Laura and I decided to walk off that pizza buffet we had eaten so I took her on a long tour of our neighborhood. I think Pogo really liked tagging along on this one too, especially since he got to play in the park afterward. That night Laura made us some delicious Danish potatoes? I think that's what they were. And she was off to Savannah early the next morning :( I miss her, but we'll meet again soon I'm sure. Jeffery and I have been trying to find a good weekend to go see Savannah, but it hasn't worked out so far. Maybe in the near future when it warms up a bit, we'll visit and be able to go in the ocean!

Sincola the Kitty Kat

Here are a few more videos of Sincola. She is so good at entertaining us!!

A whole new meaning for "Don't let the cat out of the bag."

These last few are just Sincola playing with feathers.




This last one is Sincola playing with Jeffery's contact case. Who knew that could be so fun?

Kitty Kat Videos

Here are a few videos for those of you who have not met our cat yet. Her name is Sincola and she is really cute.

Sincola loves to chase the feathers. No matter how sleepy she is, she knows when someone has picked up the feather toy and she will follow you around until you put it down.

This is Sincola during bathtime. I have never seen a cat that looks so awkward. I mean I knew cats were flexible, but that's ridiculus. I have a feeling that if she had a tail, she wouldn't be able to do that.

Another one of her bathing.

Valentine's Day

So many people celebrate this day by spending money and giving gifts. In the past, I have not had good experiences with Valentine's Day so Jeff and I decided to not do anything special and not give each other gifts. Our day started with us getting up fairly early for a Sunday morning. I cooked some cinnamon rolls that I had bought at an awesome price using coupons since that is my new thing. So breakfast took ten minutes to make and only cost us $1!! We then set out for church. Our church is doing this awesome thing called The Radical Experiment where as a church we are reading through the entire bible in one year. We are given a reading guide to follow that assigns a few chapters a day for six days and we get Sunday's off. So this week we are starting on Exodus. The title of the sermon was Blood that Satisfies which goes along great with it being Valentine's Day. Usually, I would have suggested that we go out to eat for lunch or dinner to celebrate Valentine's Day, but instead we just cooked a pork roast in the crock pot so there wasn't much work for the meal (no work for me :)).When we got home from church, Jeff served us some of that awesome pot roast and since we are a little behind on our daily readings, we read ten chapters from Exodus. I love reading the bible together with Jeff. First off, I have never read the entire bible so I just love this whole experience so far. Second, Jeff has such good understanding and knowledge of the bible that he is so helpful when I don't understand. I really love discussing as we read through the bible. Both of us get so much out of it and it really helps our relationship as a couple as well. Like I said to start, so many people base the success of their Valentine's Day off of how much they got from their significant other or how fancy of a restaurant they went to. This totally goes against the point of the day and that is to spend time with the one you love and show them that you care. I have to say that this simple day of spending time with my husband and just reading the bible has made it the best Valentine's Day I have ever had.