Busy Saturday

After losing a mature tree in our yard from "lack of water" and being told we, the renters, would have to pay 1/2 the costs of removal and replacement, I took my anger our on the yard this morning.   I'm sorry, but NOTHING else on our hill died, and you think some little flowers and ivy would survive better than a mature tree?  Ugh.  Anyways, I replaced the little fences B had build around the side gardens (Mackie likes to eat the yard spot light wires) because let's face it, they look really ghetto.  Then I trimmed back the lavender bushes, which had overtaken way too much space, and replaced the hoses of the drip system since Mackie likes to eat those, too.

After all that I really needed to stop working for the day and relax!

I went to the pool and laid out, and then did some laps.  Swimming felt SO amazing.  I haven't done laps for fun since college and had forgotten how great it feels to stretch out your entire body.  I swam the 500 free and various lengths of butterfly in high school, and while I wasn't the best on the team, I wasn't bad  either.  The freedom of movement felt especially great since I'm pregnant, and I loved how my abs felt such a good stretch.  I will be doing a LOT more swimming in these upcoming months!

This evening has been really low key.  A friend brought her lab-mix over to play with Mackie, and the boys wore themselves out!  I love seeing how happy Mackie gets when he has a "friend" over.  I also baked a few dozen cookies and a cookie cake to mail to B on Monday.  I know he'll love the ton of sprinkles I put on the cake, too.

I finally remembered to open a wooden print I had ordered off of HauteLook in May.  It arrived right after I left for Chicago, and I had totally forgotten that my gf had put in the garage for me.  Not a great picture, but it's a white lab holding beer...what could be better?

The rest of my night calls for catching up on 16 and Pregnant and making dinner (exciting, I know).