Every Update I Can Muster

Sorry this post contains so many plant photos.  You know me.

Today's a little landmark in my list of hobbies.  I finished the p90x program!  13 weeks.  13 pounds dropped this time around.  13 million other reasons why I'm a lover of all things Tony Horton.  I'm ready to start another round on Monday!

For the record, I don't think these capris have fit for quite some time, BUT at some point I tried these on in a store and bought them because they fit.  Just call me Jared, the Subway guy (actually please don't).
I think these pants are from 2005.  I've come a long way...but obviously I still have issues hoarding clothes from 2005.

Spring is starting to get beautiful in the neighborhood.

We're just about there with our year supply of food storage (more stuff not pictured of course).  We also decided that we're never moving again until after the end of the world when we've eaten all this.  And at that point, I may need those capris from 2005 again, so I guess they're staying in the closet.

The garden is growing!

I'm still thinking about meal planning every second of my life.  It's a disease I tell you, and Pinterest is only an enabler.  Does everyone need to know what they're having for dinner next November?  Ok, good, just checking.  Anyway we've been eating some pretty delicious things lately.  However, despite all the OCD planning, sometimes you still forget crucial ingredients like butter in your muffins.  They don't turn out so well when you do that, in case you're wondering. 

These are probably the worst looking things I've ever made, and yet they tasted pretty good.  So who needs butter!?

Triumph

Today is a day that will live on in Foley family history.

Drumroll, please.

I can do pull-ups!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

I've been working out like a maniac this year, and I'm so excited to finally be able to do something I haven't been able to do since the 5th grade (and I could only do them then because our gym teacher made us do pull-ups in front of the entire class and I had pure nervous adrenaline coursing through my veins).

Since no one was home to share this victory, I was literally prancing through the house dancing and cheering for myself.  I'm still not even sure how many I can do in a row yet because I wore myself out celebrating.  Haha.

So anyway, now onto bigger and better things.  Like watching Frozen (yes we're the last people on earth to see this movie), eating mini vanilla wafers, and praying that Michigan State wins tomorrow.

Oh, and I have three trees in my backyard with these all over them.  Today is a good day.

Gardening 101

This weekend we took the plunge and built our garden!  It took a lot of planning (and weeping and wailing and gnashing of teeth when we found out how much money we had to spend on dirt), but we're happy it's done.

First we measured and headed to Lowes to buy some pretty redwood planks.

Then the Lowes saw broke so we couldn't purchase anything... (we're still sedan people, so it's not like we could even take these home).  So fast forward another week and we finally had the wood, broken down in manageable pieces at the house.

Scott spent Saturday morning building the box while I worked out (can't miss a day, and let's be honest I am not much help when it comes to using a drill).

And voila!

You thought this story was over didn't you?  If only.  Next came the worst part of the process--ripping up the grass.  This was emotionally traumatic for us because grass is a very precious thing after you've lived in a weed rainforest for several years, but we wiped our tears and dug it up anyway so we had a clean slate under the box.

Then we filled it up with a sixty-five thousand dollars worth of dirt! (Slight exaggeration perhaps.)

Please note that despite photo documentation, I did actually help with this.  Surprisingly all the photos of me make me appear dirty, so I didn't want to post them.  Go figure.

Starting tomorrow we get to do the fun stuff: