the weekend is here!

finally! it's the weekend!
to do list:
friday night walk and house cleaning
manicure
lots of coffee and blog reading on saturday morning
saturday afternoon walk through the park (yay! good weather on the weekend!)
birthday fiesta for a lovely friend's little guy who just turned 1!
relaxing and watching movies in between all this other stuff!

happy weekend!

flowering trees

aren't these just dreamy?

birthday flowers!

my birthday flowers!

I was beyond excited to see a HUGE bouquet filled with purple lisianthus! They are one of my favorite flowers and are so rare and hard to find! I could of sat at the table and looked at them for hours. Nothing compares to a fresh bouquet of flowers. Especially when they were a surprise and delievered by the florist!

birthday roadtrip

My birthday was May 1. Lucky for me, it landed on a Saturday. It was a warm and cloudy day...which was perfect for a random road trip 2.5 hours southeast of Cleveland. My husband surprised me with a trip to The Wilds.

The Wilds is a nature preserve filled with animals such as zebra, giraffes, wild horses, rhinos, and plenty of other wild animals. We drove around in an open air bus through the rolling hills and prairie lands.

Ohio can sometimes be the most random place. Cleveland is very urban. Drive a little south and you find places like this!

spring trees

Although all the flowers have fallen to the ground like confetti, the beauty of flowering trees in springtime is one of my most favorite sights. Why can't the trees always look like this?? I suppose that is what makes them so magical....such a short amount of time to appreciate them make them all the more special.

Another perfect candle...

The perfect candle for warmer weather....Capri Blue Volcano scented candle. Smells like sugared lemons and therefore smells like heaven! I buy mine at Anthropologie because they have the best selection of well, everything.

Lemons get me every time.

French Women Don't Get Fat

I bought French Women Don't Get Fat and read it cover to cover in like 2 days. I ran out to the bookstore when I was finished to pick up the sequel as well, French Women For All Seasons. They both read like a really good fiction novel and not at all like a "diet" book. There were great stories, tons of humor, and lots of recipes that I even managed to make on my own. The book's message (to me at least) was to never deprive yourself, eat healthy fresh foods, and move around! Those are all things that I try to do on a daily basis. I am not one to work out on a treadmill or slave away at a gym. A nice walk in the park? Done!

Unfortunately, I have been on a sugar binge for 2 weeks straight. I am talking strawberry pop tarts for breakfast, lemon bars from any and every bakery that sells them, insane amounts of rice pudding, and cake. I have always been one to eat sweets and to never shy away from a little bite here or there, but I can't stop right now!

I think i need to re-read French Women Don't Get Fat as well as the sequel, French Women For All Seasons!