Yardwork!!!

It's funny that we are excited about doing yard work, but having a house again has reinvigorated us to work outside, even when it's 110°F! Friday night we hit AZR since we have been neglecting our climbing gym! It felt good, and we both were checking out some new routes they put up and doing pretty good on them too! :) One of our friends from AZR came over and helped us un-install a stubborn faucet we had. The faucet was very corroded and was unusable, so we haven't used our kitchen sink since we moved in! We could not get ONE bolt undone since it was so rusted, but Chris came over with his tools and got it taken care of. We installed our new faucet, and have been LOVING the opportunity to use our sink! Saturday we borrowed another friends truck and hauled A TON of yard waste from our yard. When we moved in 3 weeks ago we took down a HUGE vine that was taking over our back yard, as well as trimmed some palms that hadn't been trimmed in probably a year, and also removed some thorny shrubs we hated. We also got rid of the old gas stove from the previous owners...all in 2 trips! It all made the yard look SO much better though. Mara had to cross cover in the ER that night until 2am, so she was one tired girl! Good think she has a week off now! Sunday was more of the same, but this time it was our anniversary! :) We started off with some tee-ball with Rohan at the school park by our house. We got out super early so we could beat most of the heat. Afterwards we walked to our coffee shop, Matador for some iced coffees and bagels. While Rohan napped we did some more yard work in the front yard, pulling weeds, removing more vines, and cleaning up after our cactus. The cactus is HUGE and has some really big, pretty white flowers that bloom every night. Unfortunately they die that next day, fall off, and rot on our lawn. It does this every night... The cactus is due for a hacking, but that will probably wait until later this week... We spent the rest of the night celebrating our anniversary. We went swimming for a while with Rohan, then hit our new favorite sushi place, Sushi Brokers. After filling up on sushi, we went to the batting cages at Crackerjax to prep for our upcoming softball league. After thoroughly wearing Rohan out, he crashed and we had our dessert. Mara had made some tofu chocolate/espresso mousse earlier, and it was AMAZING! Highly recommend this recipe...i'ts from a chocolate company (SCHARFFEN BERGER), so you KNOW it's good!! :) Hope everyone had a great week! We are looking forward to our open house party this weekend! Can't wait to break the house in! :)


Rohan Rar-ing...Be ready for a good "RAR!" to start and end the video: