the following pictures should speak for themselves...
i have beautiful lilies blooming in front of our apartment. we walked/hiked down to the lake on campus today and took the dogs for a swim.
we live in a beautiful place and are so lucky to be surrounded by the beauty of nature. enjoy!
our sweet girl's room is by no means even close to being finished. it isn't even started yet! i have plans over the next two weeks (spring break!) to rearrange our office and guest room and get extra stuff either hauled to the dumpster, goodwill, or storage. i hope i am as successful as i want to be!
anyway, i thought i would share what we have planned for her room. i found bedding that i liked well before we knew that she was in fact a she. however, the pink version of the same bedding looked like someone dumped pepto bismol and mylicon all over the bedding. and i like pink- but i don't love it. and this pink bedding would have dominated the entire room. so i decided on the blue and green version instead. those are my two favorite colors. the walls are green (and not something we can easily change due to paint/color restrictions on campus). so instead of a bright bubble gum pink room, we'll have a calm and serene room with just a touch of whimsy, thanks to the elephants. mom and dad bought the bedding for us and have it at their house. even better- it was on clearance!
hey there, readers. thanks for keeping up with the blog even though it's been ages since i've posted anything. okay. so really just 3 weeks, but that is a pretty big lull in activity. truthfully, not much has been going on around here. just the same old stuff. work. sleep. clean. cook. play with dogs. exercise. speaking of exercise, i had been stuck at the same weight for about 3 weeks. this is called "hitting a plateau." well, i definitely did that. so, finally, this week, i lost a total of -1.6 lbs. yeah! moving on past that weight feels great. now i just need to keep on that trend and find some good workout dvd's for winter (or today when it has rained all day- thanks, ida). i'll take your suggestions anytime on those.
next week i am going to tackle painting our bedroom. i have also found some very cute and fabulously inexpensive bedding to give us an updated look, too. i love finding something i can just toss into my washer instead of having to have it dry cleaned or take it to a laundromat. surprisingly enough, i found it at kmart. it'll be great having our room look like, well, a bedroom instead of a mix and match of what it is now. the paint color is in the eddie bauer collection. it is called "beach." our room is pretty big and i think the darker, warm brown will make the room feel more cozy. i will definitely post pictures as it all comes together. (i think painting our room will serve as my indoor workout for next week...)
i spent a good bit of monday and tuesday getting some new plants for our front landscaping. it has been bare for awhile and i decided it was time to add some green (and hopefully soon, some purple, too). i headed out to home depot and found some plants to my liking and then brought them back and went to work. if our yard was not composed of fill dirt (i.e. red clay), i am sure the digging would have gone a bit more quickly. but alas, i got a great workout digging my holes (and found some "gifts" leftover from the construction crew- a diet sunkist can, a paint roller- the handle part, extra concrete, and a burger king ketchup packet). anyway, i digress.
i bought some hostas, english lavender, and a few dwarf yaupon holly bushes to finish out the front. i would like to add some bulbs this fall, and hopefully by then i will have forgotton how hard it is to dig in that dirt and will be ready for the occasion! here's a view of what i have added:
hostas for the border (then we can eventually remove the rocks)
english lavender (it already smells fantastic)
holly bush
added to the boxwoods we left from moving in, it should fill in quite nicely
a full view, including the new flag pole :)
