Oh the Joys of Summer!!!

Hey there lovely ladies!!!  I sure hope you are enjoying your Monday!  I sure am:):)  I wanted to share with you some different things that the hubby and I have done lately and what I have been accomplishing.  First of all the hubby and I had a great weekend, we did some outside work and I had my grandma's 70th birthday on Sunday to celebrate!  Happy birthday Grandma!!!  I will definitely dedicate a post just to my grandma's b-day here really soon, I promise:)

This is my 2nd week for my weight loss journey and I have to say it's been easier than what I thought it would be, in the aspect of not craving so many different things!!  I owe a HUGE "thank you" to one of my best friend's, Dana because she is the one who is my workout buddy!!!  Thank-you soo much, Dana!!  I don't think I could have started this without you!!  I have been staying strong and following my diet.  I have been working my butt off, that's for sure!  I lift weights 3x's a week, do at least 3 cardio activities per day during the week, and watching what I eat:)  It has started off as a success, now I just need to keep my fingers crossed that I will continue down this path!  My plan is to loose a total of 30 pounds by the end of August and 50 pounds by December!  I think I can, I think I can...LOL!!!

Enough of that, I wanted to share with you all our landscaping that the hubby and I did over Memorial Day weekend!  It really is quite a change from what it was before.  I don't have any before pictures, but just close your eyes and think of a lilac bush with dirt around it with a sprinkling of twigs scattered around it.  That is the before picture.  Now here are the new and improved pictures:)

I love it!

Fresh, Pretty, Potted Herbs!

It's been a loooonnggg while since I posted anything on my blog!  I was busy with getting things all wrapped up for the end of the school year and then I've been trying to organize things around the house.  On top of that, I've started my very first Master's class!!!  Go me:)  I'm taking this class as an online class, so it is accelerated!  It's about a month long, so on my free time I've been working on the class and trying to get my butt into shape and eat healthier.  I have to say I'm on a great start!  I just started dieting this week and a great friend of mine and I have just started working out together.  We are doing a combo of Zumba classes and weight lifting at the gym.  Needless, to say this past week, I have been pretty sore!  Like they say though, no pain, no gain, right!?!?!    My goal is to loose 30 pounds before I go back to school and so the weight loss journey begins!!!  Wish me luck:)

Since it's been absolutely gorgeous outside with very little rain, we have accomplished TONS of outside things that I wanted to share with you all!  One of my little projects that I wanted to share with you was my potted herbs that I planted and have been giving them a little TLC to get them to look like this!!

Growing into Something Special!

This week has seriously just flew by!  I don't know where it went...   It seems like I never have enough time to do everything that I would like to do at night after work!  I'm behind on blogging and things at school, oh well.  I'm sure I'll eventually get caught up.

Once the hubby came home tonight, he helped me (scratch that) planted our Robinson Crabapple tree:):):)  I don't know why I'm super duper excited about this!  Maybe it's because of the beautiful flowers that we'll have during the Spring time!    I call it our Easter tree because we bought shortly after Easter.

It will be neat being able to see our tree grow throughout the years that we are at our house.  I think, it will  symbolize the growth our family. We got married July of last year, and hopefully(soon), crossing our fingers and toes, we will be trying for a baby!

Anywho, I wanted to share with you some pics of what it will look like in probably 20 years or so...LOL!

~Our Future Tree~

 Our tree, as of today:)

It has a LONG way to go!