(nothing but selfies under the cut)

(also there’s a monkey for some reason) 🐒

I had a lot of fun, but also got news while halfway home that our kitty suddenly passed 😢

a lot of emotional whiplash on top of a 14 hour drive and a solid 25 hours of being awake.

I looked cute today.

And as everyone else got bored with them people started gifting her the ones they didn’t want to keep, and her collection grew.

after moving into a new house with her husband recently, she decided to unpack the storage bin full of them to take stock of what she had, and she even sorted them into categories:

This tree lasted over a week this year!

Usually a storm rolls in and demolishes it within two days of blossoming.

Like so: