Half Way to China

Lady has figured out that she can pull up the hard plastic edging... So she is now half-way to China.

On a more positive note I taught her to shake last night. This now means that as soon as she is starting to sit, if not before she is shaking to get her treat. Now, if I can only get her to stop biting me!

Here is her favorite spot in the house:

Lady

It has been awhile, but as Josh and I find every summer, we get busy... and tend to just enjoy the summer weather!

We have had a very nice summer, for the most part. (June was horrible, and July has been great!)

Over the 4th of July weekend we fell in love with a puppy... that next week we took her home! Lady Beaulieu was born May 11th, 2010. She is a Yellow Lab/Golden Retriever mix. She joined our family the week after the 4th, and we have been SUPER busy since then. She is a handful, and I guess she is now an armful! She is 11 wks old this week and she is getting into everything she can. (Usually that means my fingers, hands, arms, and as of last night my thigh. Here are some pictures that my Mother in Law took while Lady and I were visiting them for the first time!

Lady as we are leaving to go home... Sad puppy is already outgrowing her kennel!

She Loves Hastas... if you want to keep them, keep her away!

She was acting up... weird, a puppy that doesn't listen!

She cuddled, then tried to bite my nose... the next week she accomplished that task!

Posing for the camera!

Her favorite spot by their large tree trunk.

She will eat any stick.

This is my favorite picture of that day!

Back to her favorite spot!

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!