One thing Jeff will tell you about me is that I may be the cheapest person on the face of the earth.

Granted I’ve come a long way since he first met me, I’m still someone who would rather put money into savings than spend it on, well, stuff.

That being said, this weekend, cheap Katie went missing.

And you know what?  It was worth it.

We. Are. Done.

We went from this:

To this:

And from this:

To this:

And though I’m going to have a heart attack when I login to my online banking after posting this, I’m absolutely content.

For the first time since buying this house 6 years ago, we have a space where we can go to relax or entertain, and it feels absolutely wonderful.

Our morning started out with breakfast:

Followed by filling planter boxes with more flowers, sowing for carrot seeds and hanging the last of our doodles.

We worked until our bodies were telling us it was lunch time…

Broccoli, grapes (too sour for my liking!!) and half of a leftover veggie burger from Montanas.  I love their veggie burger BUT it’s not made in house.  In fact it’s from a box or a vacuum sealed package.  If I had a restaurant…Oh if I had a restaurant….The veggie burgers would be made fresh in house to order!

Franklin the frog was eyeing up my chocolate chip vegan cookie…

But I beat him to it

We invited my folks over for a BBQ supper…

They too were blown away by our final touches on the house and it made us feel really proud.

Grilled asparagus, portabello mushroom and red pepper for the ladies…

Potatoes, carrots and onions for da boys…

Homemade turkey burgers, Janet and Greta’s chicken burgers and some chicken and turkey italian sausage (spicy!!!)  We wanted to try out these sausages from Costco because they are all natural with no preservatives or fillers.  Love it!

I enjoyed some veg and a sausage!

And for dessert…

I was feeling blue…

Now it’s time to tackle that online banking

Goodnight.

Tags: Asparagus, Cereal, Mushrooms, Peppers, Sandwiches

We need to go back to work.

Why?

Because we’ve spent more money in 2 days than we did in the entire past 2 months

It’s all for the house though!

I guess you could say we are…nesting.

My passport has been applied for.  The woman who assisted me was far less than helpful. BUT we were in an out in 15 minutes so I don’t have much to complain about.

The rest of the day was spent shopping for flowers!!

We ended up at a store Jeff never lets me go into (because it’s a nick back shop where we can EASILY leave spending a mortgage payment).

…And we almost did

We found some fantastic iron art to hang on our shed and fence outside!

Some futterblies (aka butterflies):

Playing leapfrog…

And for our herb pots:

We saw the “I’ve Soiled Myself” and knew immediately that was US.  That’s just our humour!

We also picked up some annuals which I will photograph tomorrow once they are planted!

After our shopping frenzy we went to a little movie called THE AVENGERS!  In 3D of course!

I enjoyed a chocolate banana yogen fruz! My favourite!

The movie was absolutely incredible!  Super action packed and very funny in some parts.

What the Hulk did to Thor, I could have done to the woman at the passport office this morning EASILY.

Very fashionable don’t you think?

After the movie we got home and I started making pizza!

It was 9:00pm before we finally ate supper but it was worth the wait!

Asparagus, portabello mushroom and goat cheese pizza! Recipe to come!

Well now it’s 9:54 pm and we are watching Bill Mahar!  The scent of freshly made whole grain banana bread is wafting into my nostrils

Goodnight dear friends.

What. A. Day.

We are pooped.

My day started just before 4:00 AM (yes, 4:00 AM) when I made dining reservations for our trip to Disney World in November!  Boo ya!  We got every reservation for every restaurant we wanted at every time we wanted!  It helps to be organized

After that we ate breakfast…

Bees Knees peanut butter and banana flax toast!

After that, at about 7:00am it was time to get to work!

4 yards of soil was delivered…APPARENTLY my husband thought he was ordering enough soil to cover the White House’s yard.  We had WAY too much soil!!!

Far too many wheelbarrow loads later we headed out to Rona, Princess Auto, Costco (TWICE) and Home Depot!

Before we left though I had a quick snack which was a few spoonfuls of greek yogurt!

We were both starving about an hour into our shopping trip so we stopped at Subway for a crappy sub.  I say it was a crappy sub because it was a crappy sub.  Subway’s got nothin’ on QUIZNOS let me tell you right now

I had a veggie sub.  Mediocre at very best people.  Photo courtesy of crappy iPhone.

When we got home we got to work immediately for another 4 hours.

More wheel barrow loads, planting grass seed, filling our new planter boxes, hanging an address sign made for us last year, building platforms for planter boxes, painting platforms for planter boxes, laying mulch, more wheel barrow loads AND feeding the grass and “our babies.”

Well folks, it was ugly at times but we are still married and in love It’s true what they say you know.  If you can make it through long days filled with renos, you can make it through just about anything.

After we showered away 9.5 hours of fifth it was time to BBQ some homemade thai chili turkey burgers.

I love that face more than I will ever be able to explain to you.

I ate half of this huge burger and some fries.  Other than that I didn’t have much of an appetite.  Perhaps too much sun.

That takes me to now.

I’m off to fill out a passport application!

It was a long, long day.

Goodnight.

Tags: Sandwiches, Toast, turkey burger