rolling in the deep.

so work on the yard and everything else is still in high gear. many many many flowers have been planted over the last week. and work on the pathway to the porch has started... i don't know if we have enough brick to make it the whole way... but... we'll go as far as we can. so far so good. i had to start it WITH tyler so he knew what i meant. he was stuck in the brick laying mindset that austin got him stuck in. that is not what we wanted in the first place. oh well. the big part looks great... and the pathway will be like a mosaic leading up to it. so far i think it looks great. i think i got about 2 feet of it done. haha. tyler is supposed to continue working on that today.

he thought my idea of how to do it was going to look awful... and then he filled in all the cracks of our first little bit with sand and even he had to admit it looked pretty cool. i am excited for it to be done.

my mom and i have been spending small fortunes on flowers lately. but we have several hanging baskets filled with lovely purples and pinks and whites. and i filled the 4 big flower pots that were painted last week. they look awesome.

the dresses have been less of a success. my mom helped me come to the conclusion that they can't be finished till the last minute. the patterns SUCK and i need them here so i can make the dresses fit. so... i am going to get them all started, and pieced together to the point where i can alter them and do the final assembly of the dresses when the girls are finally here. in the meantime, i can do rhiannon and megan's dresses. i am HOPING that dessy will help with my sewing endeaver. i feel pretty confident that she will.

also... my house has FILLED up. haha. the week before the wedding there will be 4 or 5 people staying with tyler and i. for those of you who haven't seen our place (well... probably everyone reading this minus my mother) it is SMALL. well laid out (aside from the much too small kitchen) and it has two levels, which i really enjoy... but it is small nonetheless. we will have dessy in the spare room with the sewing stuff. and then the living room will be 2 people sleeping on the couch, and two people on an air mattress... it will be one giant slumber party. tyler and 6 girls. HAHA.

i made a pretty delicious quinoa salad. really easy too. i cooked red quinoa, let it cool completely, cut up some cucumber and red pepper and avocado, and mixed it all in with some little creek dressing. SO GOOD. it would be just a little bit better if i could have found some fresh basil to cut up and add. but... i couldn't. and it was a last minute shopping thing when i got the veggies. i am trying to really watch what i eat for the next couple of weeks and snack on good things. basically i am going to eat soooo much quinoa. haha. but its cool because you can eat it with so many things, and its so good for you. there are endless delicious quinoa options. have i mentioned i love quinoa?

i went back to bootcamp this week on wednesday and friday. it was really hard. after being sick all the week before... my body just hasn't fully recovered. i am SO sore. and everything was so hard. i am hoping that this week will be easier... and i maybe i can even make enough time to throw a couple of runs in this week too. that would be AWESOME. i am finding that all my yardwork has contributed to sore body too though... brick lifting, and weed pulling.

bike to work week this week! i'm excited! if only it was a possibility to bike to work in kelowna... haha... but that would take me like all day... and i would NEVER want to bike home.