My So Called Life!

Wednesday, May 25, 2011

Roses

I just thought I'd post the surprise flowers from our garden. When we moved into our house in CA we were re-planting our gardens. The plants that were there were not well taken care of and pretty neglected. We decided to replace all of the plants with ones that were well suited for the space that was available for us. Then Ryan saw a stump of this rose bush. He cut it off at the base and decided to let it start from the beginning again. The owner of the house said that it was an old rose bush and probably wouldn't come back. We planted around it, and watered all of the beautiful plants that were already blooming. Little did we know that this rose bush would spring up out of nothing and boast beautiful flowers and flourish... kinda makes you want to take a note from mother nature... it's funny how things like this coincide with life sometimes...

Tuesday, May 17, 2011

The yard project

Well this has been a process. The raised garden used to look like this:

The wall was decaying and it was filled with weeds. Our first step was replanting. Then came the wall. It happened in two steps. Ry helped with the side support walls, then my dad came in and helped with the top. It ended up turing out great!

Baby Shower!

So Stacey and Drew had a baby shower... the girls attended the baby shower, and the men were out back with the "MAN" shower. It was a good time, though I spent more time out with the guys playing mexican horseshoes, and cornhole.

This was her shower cake from CAKE! Hers and his cake below were both chocolate cake, but hers had raspberry and his had orange flavor in the chocolate buttercream icing. Oh! and behind the Coach cake, there were some amazing strawberry cupcakse from a friend of hers :-)

This is Drew showing the guys at the MAN shower the things he's going to need with a new born baby. The tongs for the diaper, the mask and goggles for the projectile things... It was hillarious :-)

Growth!

Woo hoo! My grass is growing! This was the growth at 1 week!

At a week and a half you can actually see it from a distance... not just from the close up pic!

Food with dad

So my dad was in town and we went to a great wholesale fish store and got some great tuna... then the next night we went out to Nobu in the Gaslamp District. Both meals were amazing, so I posted a sample from each night.