23 Weeks!

It was a whirlwind of a week and weekend! As you know from my other posts, my parents are in town visiting. Blogging while they're here has been difficult, but I've still managed to post every day! We have accomplished so much this weekend, the nursery is looking awesome but still isn't fully completed. You guys will have to wait a little while longer before I share :) My mom is superwoman though, I swear. She completed every sewing project we planned for the whole space, we never thought it would all get done this soon!

I am off work today but my husband had to go in. This is a typical scene once he leaves for work if I am still in bed. The white bit is my husband's pillow. Leroy and I had some major snuggles this morning! He's so spoiled... he's probably in for quite a rude awakening once baby arrives and he's no longer the complete centre of attention...

This coming week is going to be brutal. It's back to work tomorrow, and we're having a big Christmas party at our house on Saturday, and I am so behind on the baking and planning for that! Every evening this week will probably be very busy. On top of that, my dad is here all week for work, so I'll probably see him some evenings too! Yikes. Oh, and did I mention I am also behind on Christmas shopping??? I am a big ball of stress right now...

And in other pregnancy news, I finally weighed myself. At 23 weeks I am up about 22 pounds. That's higher than I initially planned, but I am feeling pretty good about it. It seems to be evening out too. My weight gain seems to come in spurts, I am in a slow one now, probably about 0.5 pounds/week. With 17 weeks left, my new goal is to stay under a 40 pound gain.

Here's your photographic evidence of my pregnancy for this week! 1 more week to viability!

Weekend Recap, Vol. 4

This weekend was awesome. Absolutely awesome. We just got back from our very first camping trip together! It was a complete success, we had a few moody moments, but our relationship came out unscathed. Leroy even made it back in one piece (he was an excellent camper by the way). I'll be back on Wednesday with a full recap post, but first I will leave you with this little instagram sneak peak:

Hope you all had a lovely weekend! What did you get up to?

Adventures at the dog park...

Is anyone else super glad it's almost the weekend? That's a ridiculous question, who wouldn't be glad for the weekend? Especially this one! Up here in Canada it's a 3-day-er. One of the many things to love about summer is the abundance of long weekends, there's pretty much one every month! Anyways, today I am not here to talk weekends, I am here to talk dog park!

Sometimes when we're feeling brave we like to take Leroy to the off-leash dog park in our area. It's so much better than any dog parks I typically hear about, because it's essentially a big nature trail through the woods, that's completely fenced in and dog friendly. It's so nice to walk through. The only problem? I usually spend the whole time a completely anxious nutball because Leroy is so god-awful off leash. He has no recall to speak of. What's the problem, you might ask, since it's fenced in... well, it's also HUGE, so he could definitely get lost. And it's very wooded.

My husband doesn't freak out like me, so he's responsible for chasing Leroy down every time he strays away from us. This makes me feel a bit better. What is it about laying blame on someone else that makes me feel better about a bad situation? Like, if he gets lost I can feel like it's my husbands fault, and somehow that will make me feel ok about losing our dog? Haha. The mind works in mysterious ways, friends!

After the walk through the woods, there is a wide open area for silly doggy play. Leroy is energetic and loves other dogs, but he's pretty shy and submissive at first. It always leaves me wondering if something happened to him we don't know about? He wasn't like this a year ago. Anyway, it works out ok, he just wants to sniff the other dog before committing to play!!

The best thing about the dog park is the exhausted dog at the end. It makes all of the anxiety worth it. The only downfall to this park is the whole no water for swimming thing. Ottawa SUCKS for this. Any land that's city owned has a very strict NO DOGS in the water policy! We are still looking for somewhere nearby to take him... Even without the swimming though, he's one tired puppy. Success!

Weekend Recap, Vol. 3...

Happy Monday friends! Not much to write about following this weekend. I was off on Friday, and spent a lot of time reading through many new blogs. I also cleaned the house (not exactly any blogging material there...). While I did all of those things, Leroy laid around:

On Saturday we got up early to play golf, and then we did a bit of shopping. We're going camping this coming weekend, so we bought ourselves a tent, and then practiced putting it up in the backyard. We also bought some paint for a little furniture project that I'll hopefully be sharing next week!

I know I've shown so many tomato photos, but look at the redness of the garden tomatoes. They are so much prettier than any tomatoes I have ever bought in the store. This weekend we went ultra classy and used them in our grilled cheese sandwiches.

On Sunday we got up really early. I made french toast and it was delicious! It made 5 slices, and consisted of 2 eggs, 2/3 cup of milk, 1 teaspoon of cinnamon, and 1/4 teaspoon of nutmeg. It really reminded me of egg nog! I ate it with a banana and table syrup. Weird fact about me: I hate real maple syrup. Yep, it's true. I'm told this makes me crazy...

Later, we took Leroy on a long walk along the river here. The weather was great and we had a great time! I didn't take any photos for some reason, I really need to get better with that! My husband headed to football. I missed it this week because of a recurrent back injury :(. We lost, I think it's because I wasn't there :P As per usual, we had supper at the in-laws and I ate too much!

That's about it. I told you it would be boring!!! How was your weekend?

Buttons, buttons, buttons!

Happy Friday to all!! I am home today, one of the benefits of my job is the option to work a compressed work week. Basically I work and extra 30 mins a day, and have every third Friday off! This is especially awesome because I am paid based on a 37.5 hour work week, but in my last job worked a 40 hour work week. This means that when I started my new job I worked the same number of hours, but had a day off every 3 weeks! Awesome perk, if you ask me.

Anyway, you may have noticed I recently put up some lovely social media buttons above my lovely mug over there on the right sidebar. Please click on them and follow me, I promise I can be entertaining! Although, if you don't want endless photos of my ridicilous dog, I wouldn't suggest following me on Instagram...

Although come to mention it, I do talk a lot about Leroy on twitter too...

Sarah‏@EatBakeSewLove

Oh the joys of dog ownership! Waiting for the bus, reach into my pocket and what do I find? Poop bags of course! #lovemydog

But I swear, I say other funny and awesome things too!!!

Also, Emily has also designed a blog button for me!! I am definitely interested in a button swap, so if you'd like me to display your button here in exchange for you displaying mine over on your blog, contact me!

I'll be back later today with a possible weekly Friday post, my favorite new blogs of the week! Stay tuned!

Bow down to the vacuum gods...

Leroy worships the vacuum. He must know how awesome Dyson is.

Leroy...

Bad bad Leroy Brown...

We certainly think our little guy is the baddest dog in the whole damn town!! He's got a serious attitude problem, but we love him anyways. I think it's because he's cute. If he were an ugly dog we would dislike him a lot more... Just joking of course. He has a ton of energy and personality though. He can be a handful.

I've mentioned him a lot already, but haven't really talked about him. He's 2 years old and he's a Welsh terrier! Here he is in all his glory...

And here's one of my favorites of me with him, celebrating Canada Day!! He was freshly groomed.

Annnnnnd finally, here's a few of him being super silly. Can't wait to share more amusing stories in the future!

Doggie Shenanigans...

We are not great at taking care of our front lawn. Every year we try, we lay dirt and seed, and it never works. Maybe we don’t water it enough? This year we are at it again, only this time we’ve been watering it every morning for about 30 minutes before we go to work. All the weeds were pulled out from the root, and sprayed with weed killer for good measure. We’re optimistic that this year we will not have the most awful lawn on our street. Fingers crossed.

Anyway, we are also trying to revive our backyard this year, since we now have a fence and want it to look pretty. We’re using one of those firing sprinklers, you know the ones, there’s a dance inspired by them??? This morning we turned it on and Leroy got out. Chaos ensued. Enjoy my friends, enjoy.