garden boxes

The hubster is making me some garden boxes. We had some leftover wood from the shelves he and his dad made a few months ago for me so I wanted to use up the wood. We have terrible soil here and some things grow, but not very well. This way I can control it and hopefully have a slammin' garden. I'm having them built up to waist level so I don't have to bend over and weed and so critters don't get into them which is also a big problem.

Strawberry Juice

Time flies when you're laid up on your back like a potato bug for weeks. Not fun. I've been making shakes and smoothies lately for a special diet I'm on. Monkey loves to help. She doesn't like the sound of the blender, but gobbles up the "strawberry juice" as fast as she can.

This is a great simple go-to smoothie! Try it, you'll love it.

6 frozen strawberries
1 cup apple juice
1/2 of a banana

Blend it all up, top with whipped cream for that Starbucks aesthetic.

Enchanted Snowfall

I don't know how these pictures got past me, but I just discovered them on the camera. I love to blog everyday. It's therapeutic, but recently I've been literally laid up on my back for a week. My back will all of the sudden go out and I'm on the ground and usually in tears. I've got in managed, I think. The recommendation from the chiropractor is to get massages often to keep the muscles in my back from spasming and sending me to the floor pleading for mercy.

Every Christmas time at the rich mall they have a bubble machine in the courtyard that gives the appearance that snow is falling. Everywhere else this time of year it's actually real snow falling without a machine creating it. Here we love it and appreciate someone doing this for us. It's actually really fun and special. We took our friends with us that just moved here and have kids the same age as mine. We love looking at the window displays while waiting for the snow.