friday

i don't know where time goes?  may is almost over.  what the?  it's been a busy week.

we had a play date and picnic at the peace gardens this week.  noble and micah loved playing with little harper and pushing her around in the stroller.  pretty cute kiddos.

guess what!?  i went back to swim team last night.  felt a little like drowning, but i just went right for it!

we finally hired someone to rip out our upstairs bathroom and redo it!  i have been talking about it for what seems like a decade.  we picked out tile and are purchasing it tomorrow.  we bought the sink and toilet and are picking out hardware.  we are using white subway tile and i am trying to decide if i want to do white or charcoal colored grout?  and i am not sure what tile i want on the floor.  i am a fan of the classic hexagons.  then we can think a bout lighting and such.  i know i know.  boooriiinggg!  i will post before and afters.

i got my hair cut last weekend.  i went to someone new that was recommended to me by my friend.  she was funny and very matter of fact about what she would do to my hair.  i told her i was thinking i might want to cut bangs and maybe lighten up the hair around my face.  she told me no.  she told me no bangs.  to many cowlicks in the front.  sure she could cut them, but i would hate them and she didn't want to do it.  ok.  and then she said, "why on earth would you color your hair!?"  she told me my hair color is beautiful and has so many natural high lights and colors it would be stupid to color. fine.  then she told me how she thought i should cut it and i said ok. let's do that.  she is quite fabulous.  and get this, she is a chemical engineer.  smarty pants.

o and i started watching arrested development on netflix.  we laugh our heads off the whole time.  i never knew it existed until last week.  \funny.  never nude.  cut offs.  good stuff.

last sunday at church i took a couple of notes because i liked what the speaker was saying so much.  here is
what the note said i put on my notepad on my phone:

let go of the past
start where you are
choose to be happy
you are where you are because the Lord placed you there

oh man, this person had no freaking idea how bad i needed to hear this.  ahhh.

i am super ready for the long weekend to start!  and ecstatic that the weather will be warm!  have lots to do at home.  we are getting together with o's family tonight for some home made romanian food.  o was supposed to make his famous flour less chocolate cake, but he forgot.  oops.  thank goodness for city cakes!  i am looking forward to seeing the movie mud this weekend.  looks so good.  i will be doing some painting, yardwork, cooking, riding, trail runnig...the usual. i want to make a gluten free version of this coconut bread.  who am i kidding?  i want to make every recipe that is on smitten kitchen! i also want to come up with a recipe for my own for energy bars.  oh food.  i hate you and love you.  mostly i hate you.

and i am feeling like maybe some new lingerie to spice it up a bit.  yep.

have a most fantastic weekend lovers and don't forget to spice it up!  xo.

toodles,

cyr

ps full moon!  booyay!

a few scenes from the weekend

gosh! this little ole blog has been neglected lately.  boo.

baked oatmeal for dinner on friday night.  besides what the recipe calls for i threw in a couple of bananas, some blueberries and chia seeds and left out the sugar.  we ate it warm out of the oven with a little coconut milk poured on top.
had a fantastic road run
had a pretty darn good trail run that started out sunny, but quickly turned to me getting very wet and windblown!  no worries
had very sexy early morning sex
went with lehua for my first mani/pedi ever!
gus
barbecued with the good folks on our street.  emmett slow cooked ribs in his smoker all day and they were superb!  i made my well loved white chocolate brownies and they were devoured. marissa made vegetarian baked beans with molasses and they were killer.  she also made dates stuffed with blue cheese wrapped in bacon.  what the what!  too much goodness.
went with mel and justin to hear nathan sing with his men's choir.  we had late dinner at zest. it was fantastic and fun! everything gluten free!  they have both vegan and vegetarian choices and it is delicious.

truth is though,  i am quite miserable my friends.  everything i eat makes me very sick and causes me great pain and problems.  which really blows because i love to cook and eat.  i survive on rice cooked in coconut milk because i need the fat.  i eat small portions of these other delicious things, but it without fail kills me every single time.  i am having a bunch of biopsies a week from today and that same day after 12 hours of fasting i start the elemental diet.   for two weeks y'all.  two weeks.  i will drink it and ingest nothing else.  nothing else.  i am hoping it is the answer.  i am hoping that i feel so much better not eating, that i don't even care that i can't eat.  i am hoping that the pain goes away and the inflammation in my stomach and intestines goes away and i get my never ending supply of energy back.  and then at the end of those two weeks i have all of the biopsies again.  i tell ya... carry on.

xo,

cyr

what's been happening...

yard work
motorcycle rides
brain freeze
dog naps
countless trail runs
lots of road biking
a flat tire i wasn't prepared for
spring storms and rainbows
a blooming winter cactus

among many many other things.  some good.  some bad...

hope all is well lovers.

xo,

cyr

friday

some etsy goodness...

m. robin - cake design so amazing.  i love it! watch the video.

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revolution design house  i ordered these and these.  so excited for them to arrive.

artemer studio    goodness! solid gold. simple. pretty. 

i want this ring

and oh how i love this black onyx triangle! 

drool.

if you you want to try a litlte vegan joint this weekend, try frisch.  i have only eaten there once because somehow i didn't realize it even existed.  it was yummy. they have lots of gf options too.

i bought these plants to plant in my little white hanging planters on my back porch.  must make time to plant them this weekend.

 this poor guy flew into our front window and killed over last night.  poor guy. i need to clean my window.  it has a big dirty blob of feather on it now.

well,  i am off to have a treatment and start my weekend.  hope your weekend is warm and sunny and that you get to see a unicorn.

xo.

toodles,

cyr