geoff’s birthday was last wednesday and kate bought him how to deal with a neurotic cat because, let’s face it, our cats are pretty neurotic. recently we’ve taken to this little button dealy that emits this high-pitched sound in order to keep dolfy and buckles at bay in the morning. they usually wake up around 4:00am and bug us until we feed them. then bug us after we feed them until we wake up. awesome. the button dealy has been helping tremendously with that and other behavior issues, but they’re still pretty neurotic.

while we were making our save the date wedding invitations the other evening, geoff was doing some fancy photoshop maneuver while i sat on my office futon with how to deal with a neurotic cat. as if on cue, buckles jumped up and started scratching, biting, and clawing at the inside cover of the book for no apparent reason. after he managed to totally wipe himself out, this is how we found him, book and all:

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pretty much priceless. oh, buckles. we’ve got a lot of reading to do.

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happy birthday laura!

today is my sister laura’s 27th birthday. happy birthday chica!! she is a speech therapist in pittsburgh, pa but i haven’t given up on her moving down to raleigh. :) because when we both lived in pittsburgh we used to do things like this!:

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geoff and i like to go to a lot of haunted attractions during the halloween season and the best part was bringing laura because she would get hit on by a bunch of costumed ghouls (pictured above). he followed laura around the outside grounds for the better part of our visit. of course he didn’t say anything, how could he? but he’d stumble around awkwardly and put his arm around her. i’m not sure if he was stumbling around awkwardly because he was costumed or because he was probably a  14 year-old boy whose only method of picking up women was to dress up like a 7’5 skeleton man. either way, it was awesome. could i have picked a better picture of us for your birthday, laura? of course! but when you have gems like these lying around they must be shared with the blogging world. happy birthday!!! :)

the rest are courtesy of dolfy (who loves laura):

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fender bender.

rockin’ the acoustic look during this shoot. geoff really doesn’t like emo, but always said that if he had an emo band he’d name it death cry ex-girlfriend (inspired by death cab for cutie), so i guess this is his fake death cry ex-girlfriend shoot. maybe they’ll be big someday. “it’s the best band name ever!” – geoff.

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and, as usual, buckles was there to take in all the action. and by “take in all the action” i mean sit there simultaniously terrified and fascinated, but always hopeful that there might be treats involved.

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