A Birthday and the haps 'round here

Don't ask me how I decided which of those words up there to capitalize and which ones not to. So today is my 24th and currently I'm celebrating by doing this:

Laying in bed, eating activia and reading online.

And I plan on staying right here until I have to leave for class at 3:00.


Other than that excitement our life has been pretty busy.  But I think we are now taking a swing toward more relaxation. We traveled to NoVa this weekend to work a wine festival which was quite the experience.

I will use this space to tell you the positives: we stayed for free in a nice hotel (I'm such a kid when it comes to hotels they excite me like nothing else can) we bonded with some friends over the experience and I got to eat out of a food truck for the first time.

The negatives include: having a panic attack, getting chewed out as a volunteer, not actually getting to sample any wines, and leaving my puppy.

This is the only picture I took all weekend:

In other news my blogger friend Colleen wrote about emeals a while back and I did some research and quickly became a believer.  I'm sure you all remember this post I wrote a while back so I'm hoping this cures me of that or at least makes life a little easier. We began yesterday and this was dinner last night, so far I'm very impressed. And to make it even better we grew the spinach ourselves!!! Our first garden food this year!

 

Emeals delivered a store list and meal plan to my e-mail yesterday and had every ingredient separated out to it's location in the store. It is a God send and made meal planning easy peasy. I chose crock-pot meals because they are easier but there are tons of other options. If you are a meal planner, I strongly recommend it.

 

And speaking of our garden it has come into it's own lately.

 



The lovely bags are to scare away deer because some got into our lettuce while we were away and Ike wasn't here to chase them off. I'm quite proud of our little patch of heaven on earth.

So that's the haps here in the Burg. Hope your summer so far is sunny and full of fresh garden foods too!