On a Sunny Sunday

On this sunny sunday, I did some gardening in my new garden:

And then my pup went for a ride:

We explored the grand forest:

And had a delicious nutritious lunch in the sun:

The sun creates motivation in me. I love it.

What motivates you?

Have a wonderful week!

I have babies!!!

Check out my little baby lettuce sprout! Yesterday I came home and went to water my growing veggie garden and discovered that my babies have sprouted. I started jumping up and down and yelling for Kellen that we have babies! WOOHOO!Last night I tried Sweet Potato Fries again- except this time I actually got sweet potatoes and not YAMS! haha. I drizzle them with olive oil and sprinkled them with Johnny's Seasoning Salt (so yummy, if you haven't tried this spice- we use it on EVERYTHING including most veggies!)

To be honest with you all... I liked the YAM FRIES better! They are just a little less sweet than the sweet potatoes.

Has anyone else had yam fries before?! Thoughts?

This is my pup Chloe's new thing: staring out the window. Literally she will sit here for hours and just watch....nothing?! The squirrels? The trees? Cars? Who knows. But it's pretty cute. (and anything to distract her from destroying things is good in my books!)
I snapped this picture after our 3 mile run on Tuesday. We used to have nice grass in our backyard until we got an extremely excitable husky who likes to destroy all. I thought it was funny because she looks absolutely wiped out! SUCCESS!

Unfortunately it is about a week before my TOM and thanks to all my blogger friends that helped me pinpoint that I become an EATING MACHINE during this time. I literally can't stay full! It's so frustrating.

Right now, I'm pretty wiped out. I've had to get up early the last two days for work and haven't gotten a chance to work out. I'm hoping I will have energy when I get home today to go for a run.

Have a healthy day everyone!

How Does Your Garden Grow?

I want to start by saying thank you to all the supporting comments from my "God and Weight Loss" post. I was especially happy to see that even people who do not share my same beliefs could encourage me in that way. That really moved me!! Thank you all!

I have a BIG dream for this summer....to grow a vegetable garden. Now, for a normal person maybe this wouldn't seem like such a big, unattainable dream. But for me, it is. Why? Because I am a plant killer. I have literally killed every plant I've come in contact with. GRR!

But I am determined. I would be SO happy to be able to just have one salad from my dedication!

So yesterday I took a little trip to the library and checked out a bunch of books on vegtable gardening:Then Kellen and I took a trip to home depot and picked up these babies:
I am going to be reading up in the next couple of weeks until it's the proper time to start planting. I'm nervous everyone!!

Does anyone have some good tips on vegetable/fruit gardening they could share?