The Fence

We’ve been meaning to post this for over two months now but sometimes life happens and you completely forget. Do you know what we mean?

PJ built a fence around our backyard a few months ago so our big dogs could freely run around without getting out and bothering the neighbors. It’s been such a game changer and they’ve really loved it. BUT, our grass was suffering from it. Badly. Like, there’s almost none left back there. A far cry from what it looked like a year ago (already!!!) when we moved in:

So, in an effort to get it back to its former glory, PJ began fencing in part of the side yard that runs the whole length of our house for the big girls to stay in during the majority of the day. This, plus planting some grass seed should do the trick in making our back yard welcoming again. We also plan to remove the brick patio some time soon and just do grass there. It's beautiful, for sure, but our yard is small as is, so this will at least give us some more grass to walk on. We'll relocate the bricks somewhere else. They are bricks we saved and cleaned from the chimney we took down in our kitchen while renovating, so we won't be getting rid of them anytime soon :).

You can't tell from this picture, but they're SO EXCITED!! See the dirt with all of the little footprints in it? That's almost what our entire back yard looks like, but with little patches of green scattered throughout. We aren't even gonna show you. Maybe one day when we have a really nice "after" shot haha. 

Until then :)

Wine Night + Dancing

Last night we enjoyed a glass of wine on the back deck while finishing up something we’ve been working on the last couple of days. We usually only drink red wine (okay read: always) but last night we decided to finish a bottle of white we opened and man. It was delicious. The weather was perfect, the wine was chill, and life was good.

Once it got dark, we moved inside and poured A red cab we picked up that night. Then we turned on Usher Pandora radio and proceeded to dance for the next couple of hours. Have you ever had a random dance party with your love? It’s actually really fun to dance like crazy people to old bops that were popular when you were in middle school. You should try it!

We normally listen to Bossa Nova radio at night/when we drink wine, but it was nice to switch it up last night for something different and unexpected. Like one of our favorite quotes says: “You have to be the kind of person who can make the best out of a Tuesday.”  

The Handmaid’s Tale

You’d never know it from this photo (PJ has his eyes open, but Jolie is passed out), but we started season 2 of The Handmaid’s Tale tonight and are, once again, completely hooked! Have you seen it yet? It’s hard to watch at times but we can’t get enough of it!

We hope you’ve had a wonderful week, and we’ll see you tomorrow morning for Feature Friday! Oh, and yes, PJ is wearing shorts :).  

Rainy Day At Home

Sometimes there’s nothing better than being home during a stormy, windy day, don’t you think? We’re naturally homebodies anyway but when it’s so dreary outside, we want to stay in even more and just putz around the house. Maybe fold some clothes, maybe do some sweeping, maybe some Netflix. That was the case yesterday, though we did manage to get out of the house to go on a little walk with the girls when it quit raining for a bit. The leftovers of the rain made for some nice scenery. Hope you enjoyed it wherever you are, too. 😊

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When Things Don’t Go According to Plan

Yesterday morning was absolutely beautiful. It was the first sunny morning we've had in forever and the light was pouring into the living room while the girls sun bathed. If it sounds idyllic, that's because it was.

We spent the day working on some exciting things and seeing our niece and nephews at PJ's mom's house. It was a good day. That night we decided we wanted to go to a movie since it's Stimulus Tuesday and each movie is only $5 and we are cheap as hell. But you knew that, right?

Everyone has been raving about A Quiet Place so we agreed on that film and headed to the theater. It was the 9 o'clock showing so we figured it wouldn't be that packed, but when we got there, there were only two seats available and they were four rows apart. We were, for a hot second, furious. Why were there so many people at the 9 o'clock movie?! Didn't they know we wanted to see it too? Begrudgingly, we headed home and turned on Ozark on Netflix. 

Later, just as we were getting into bed and under the covers, PJ discovered a giant pee stain on our sheets that had soaked through into the comforter, duvet cover, and mattress pad. We were beyond frustrated. We immediately knew it was Bean (Meryl) because she's the only one who can jump on the bed without our help. But we didn't see her on the bed all day and it was made since the morning, which means she must have peed the bed early in the morning and it just sat there all day. Lovely. 

After we changed the sheets and got in bed with just a thin top sheet (since we had to wash our comforter) to keep us covered, we cuddled close together to stay warm. We stayed close all night, wrapped up in each other which we don't normally do actually. We start off cuddling and then eventually break off and get super comfy; it's the only way we can fall asleep. 

We woke up this morning and thought about the day/night before. We thought about how things didn't go as planned and how annoyed we were that they didn't. But then we thought about how if we didn't miss the movie, we might not have discovered Ozark and binged the first three episodes. And if our dog hadn't peed on our bed that caused us to wash our comforter which left us with only a thin top sheet to sleep on, we wouldn't have cuddled so close together all night to keep us warm. So even though these are so minor in the grand scheme of life and we won't even remember them in a year, they serve as a good reminder to us that when things don't go as planned and it seems like the end of the world at the time, there's always a silver lining, no matter how small. Sometimes you just have to look hard enough.

It's kind of comforting and empowering to think that, while we don't always have control over the bad things that happen in life, we have complete control in how we seek out the good.