Busy Bee

Get ready guys - lots of activities and pictures coming your way as I give you the "weekend update."

Friday after work I stuck to my word and went to yoga! Kristin joined too, which definitely made it better. Honestly the class was really good... my knee was able to handle "most" of the moves (or the teacher was able to help me modify). Sometimes I get bored in yoga because it doesn't feel like we do anything, and other times I get frustrated because everyone is doing hand stands and I'm still struggling to touch my toes... this was the perfect balance and gave me a good workout.

Babs and Kristin = zen yogis

When I got home from class there was a package waiting for me...

I love presents!!

THANK YOU NICHI!!!! Nichi was so nice and mailed me a housewarming/one year until wedding present. Can you believe that? Here she is growing a baby, going to work, walking her dogs, oh yeah... and still finding time to be incredibly thoughtful and caring. :-) I am so lucky to have her as a friend.

That night, Andy and I celebrated our future one year wedding anniversary with a romantic dinner at Chipotle and dessert at Yotality (frozen yogurt). Doesn't get much better than that, haha.

Now for some reason Andy and I have both been getting up naturally much earlier at our new place than our old, which meant on Saturday morning we were able to go to the public market before I had to go to work. And of course, we rode our bikes there!

See Mom... he got a helmet!

Now the problem with biking to the public market is that you can't buy tons of stuff (we only have one backpack). We got coffees, stocked up on veggies, and then biked back. Fast forward through a super quick shower and an annoying shift at Job #2, and Andy and I were on the road to get to the Hasting's Family Reunion on a farm in the middle of nowhere.

Andy's Grandma Joyce passed away earlier this year, so it was pretty touching when we saw this had been built on the farm...

Swings in memory of Joyce

The reunion was nice... the weather was great, there was a TON of food (including an entire roasted giant pig), and I met many of Andy's dad's relatives. Andy's Grandma Joyce was the oldest of 15 siblings, so there were a lot of people.

After a long drive back, we went to Rita's Water Ice (a new strange dessert place) briefly to say hi to Bipul (he was only in town one day, unfortunately the same day as work and the reunion so we weren't able to see him much at all). To say I was tired by the time we got home would be a serious understatement.

Now onto Sunday! Again... woke up super early... put some laundry away and then got my daily exercise taken care of. I ran to the gym (1 mile... holy cow it felt hard), did a little elliptical and some crunches, and then ran back. Then Andy and I decided to bike to a different farmer's market... this time to stock up on fruits. All of the produce looks amazing this time of year!

Giant Zucchini!

Andy and future pickles

Andy's turned into quite the kitchen scientist lately, which is sort of fitting considering he refers to that room as the "kitchen laboratory" thanks to all of my measuring devices and food scales. Anyway, he's been making water kefir, and while we were at the market on Sunday, he also decided he would make his own pickles. I find this somewhat interesting because whenever we go out to eat and they put a pickle spear on his plate, he never eats them, and I always end up eating them. I just assumed he didn't like them! Maybe he doesn't, but just wants to make them?? I'm not sure. They're still in their bag in the fridge, so we'll see what actually happens with them, haha.

Moving on, we biked home (with a quick stop at the bike shop because my handle bars were twisiting) and went on an unpacking/cleaning spree. Room reveal time!

Front Room/Entry Room

Tada! As you can imagine a lot of things were dumped in that space when we moved in. Now it is home to our bikes, shoes (in the box, but I just bought a shoe rack for them so they'll have a real home soon), a chair (I'm standing behind it so you can't see it), and... the box spring that won't fit upstairs. Hopefully we'll find a new home for that as well...On top of clearing the space of boxes and clutter, Andy also deep cleaned it, which sent him on a deep cleaning spree throughout the first floor. Things are look much better!

Around 4:00 I needed a break from looking at our mess, so I went over to Anna's new house to look at her mess instead, lol. I painted a wall while catching up with her and Lisa, and then headed to the grocery store to pick up a few things that weren't at the farmers' markets.

The rest of the evening was spent in the kitchen. I made dinner, which involved boiling fresh beets and making sausage stuffed zucchini boats.

Very proud of this dinner!

Once we were done eating I got back to work and made banana oat muffins from a recipe I found on Pinterest. By the time I crawled in bed, my entire body hurt. It was a long, but very productive, day! Overall - a solid weekend.