Rain and Coffee

The only thing better then rain and coffee is having Josh with me enjoying it!

This past week Josh and I have been through a roller coaster of feelings...

Thankfully, our Family and Friends have been amazing.

Thank you - Everyone who has been there for us.

We know everything will heal in its own time, and we are awaiting that with open arms.

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We would also like to say Congratulations to our very great friends Nicole and Justin on the arrival of their beautiful baby girl Hannah Mae. We are so very happy for you.

No Longer...

Josh and I are no longer children.

Over the past few years we have repeatidly said, "When did we become adults, and how do we stop it?" to each other. I believe this is also a line Meredith said in one episode of Grey's Anatomy.

I graduate from my undergrad 5 years ago this month. 5 years.

That seems crazy to me. After I graduated, Josh and I moved into our first apartment. This lasted about a year and a half, low rent and a ton of social time. We loved it. After a short period of time we bought our first house, the one that we are still in. We closed December 29th, 2006.

We realized that this was going to be a large responsibility, and we thought we were ready for it. Then we got to the point where we had lawn envy... If you have had lawn envy, you most likely thought, I never thought that this would be something that we would have ever considered. Part of becoming an adult, and responsible for taking care of your own things.

We love our house, we love our neighborhood. We have become adults.

We have been through the ringer, battles coming whenever we felt 'safe'. Random things, that right now seem so trivial.

Yesterday, the world got taken out from under our feet.

We are coping, yet I for sure, and most likely Josh too, are realizing that we are adults and we can make it through anything.

I am now proud that I am an adult. Josh and I are able to survive.

Great Sunday Time

Yesterday Josh and I had a wonderful day! We were lucky to both have the day off of work and were able to enjoy a whole day doing what we wanted to!

We started off the morning with some coffee, Josh regular, me decaf. A bit of cereal and discussion on what we wanted to do for the day.. then we went to the St. Paul Farmers Market!

I prefer the St. Paul Farmers Market in terms of size, and amount of people that attend. The isle's are larger and the vendors less. It makes it much more simple to navigate.

And I am not one for crowds.

Two new cups of coffee, and some wonderful brown farm eggs and thick cut bacon from my Mother's side Family Farm (Bar 5), and then some Foccocia bread rolls, were were ready to go home. I fell off the Vegan wagon. Shoot.

Josh went to town and made wonderful Egg, Bacon, and Cheese foccocia breakfast sandwiches!

Part of the Vegan lifestyle that I am choosing to live is from the treatment or lack of treatment of the farm animals. I decided that if I were to fall off the wagon every now and again, I would be okay with it if the product came from a more appropriate farm, versus a huge production farm.

The remainder of the day Josh and I did a whole lot of nothing, along with a whole lot of hanging out. We just enjoyed the day we had, and enjoyed the weather! I hope we have a lot more of these Sundays over these summer months!

(Back to the Vegan lifestyle as of today!)

Vegan Red Velvet Cake with Buttercream Frosting

Since I have become vegan, I realized that I haven't had any sweets. While this is good and fine for the most part, after a good two months I am really craving something sweet! I am not the best baker, definitely a better cook... so I needed something simple.

Since I have never baked a cake from scratch before I thought 'No Problem' what is so hard when it comes to baking from scratch?! Well, I discovered that it really wasn't that hard at all and the ingredients were pretty common.

I found the recipe online and went to town. One change I made was to make this cake into cupcakes... they turned out great! This recipe is amazing!

Vegan Red Velvet Cake with Buttercream Frosting

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Baking...

Vegan Baking is something I haven't attempted until now... hopefully the Vegan Red Velvet Cake with Buttercream frosting will turn out amazing and give me that sweet fix I am craving!

Updates to come when it is completed!

Chi Chi

Our neighborhood cat, Chi Chi, is annoying me.

Everyday for the past couple of weeks he has woken me up too early in the morning begging our neighbors to let him in the house. Mind you, he has never been 'let it' - he has snuck in on one or two occasions, but never 'let in'. I don't understand why he thinks he can go in?!?

The hard part is I feel bad for this stray cat and I can't bring myself to call animal control to pick him up. I believe he is a fairly young cat as he seems small for being a male, so it would be best to give him a chance to be with a family. But what if he doesn't get picked and they run out of room?

I can't sentence a cat to that. I may have to have Josh step in and make the call tonight. Especially since it is supposed to snow over night tonight. I just don't want to be the one to make the call.

The other problem is that he is the one picking fights with other neighborhood cats (the ones who have a home at night) so it is hard, because I feel like when I am home I am constantly separating him from the other cats. And the two a.m. wake up calls where all the cats are fighting are not pleasant at all... I have to remember that when I am getting emotional.

Update: Chi Chi went to the vet and then Humane Society Saturday morning at 6:45am.

M-T-W---only?

This week is taking forever to be over. I don't need it to be done, but it just feels as if everyday could be broken into two normal days...

Yesterday at Lacrosse practice the young ladies asked if they could do Yoga for practice. I finally gave in. They made their yoga session last only 10 minutes when I told them they could do it for the rest of practice.

So then they ran.

I am looking forward to tonight where Josh and I can hang out, make an awesome dinner and consider going to the gym. I love when we have time to hang out!

Happy Hump Day!