Hi Friends! Happy Saturday.

I couldn’t wait to show you a sneak peek of the amazing engagement photos my friend Rebekah took of us last week. She did such a good job and we had so much fun taking them. I am so, so glad I asked her to do this!

Ahhhh! I can’t wait to see the rest. She did such an amazing job!

I am also popping in to to say that I may be a little absent around the blogging world (commenting and posting) for the next two weeks. I think I was in denial about how busy my schedule was going to be until I started mapping things out in my planner yesterday. Between the 25K trail race tomorrow, making a 2,000-km roundtrip (yes, we’re driving!) to FSJ this week for my little brothers high school graduation and then going on a work-related trip for 5-days the week following I will only sleep in my bed three times between today and July 9 and will travel a total of 3,400 km (by car and plane).

Hold me.

I’m a homebody at heart and would be lying if I said I was looking forward to these two weeks of craziness – most of it is fun stuff (trail race, trip home), just wish it wasn’t all happening at once.

Anyways, I’m off to Kelowna for that race! Back soon with a recap.

How do you remain calm/grounded when life gets a little CA-RA-ZY?!

One of my favourite things about Twitter (are you on it? Follow me!) is twitpics! I loveee when people send pictures to Twitter and I love sharing some of my own.

This weekend I shared more twitpics than normal so I thought I’d share them with you on the blog as well. These are all taken on my blackberry so please disregard the poor quality of the photos

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I’m participating in The Many Thoughts of a Reader book club for the first time ever this month. So fun!

I started reading “In The Woods” this weekend and really like it so far. I love the mystery/crime genre.

I headed out for our group run on Saturday morning despite it being -16 C (3 F) outside. I bundled up a lot for it and, I won’t lie, it was COLD but by the end of 7 miles I was warmed right up and glad I went!

Once I got back from my run I made us smoothies. Eric is trying to eat a little healthier after seeing Brendan Brazier speak with me so he’s been having smoothies every day – I even got him to try a green smoothie!

Sunday morning he wanted orange juice in his smoothie (FYI orange does NOT go well with spinach!) so it was green for her and purple for him! I’ve started adding soft tofu to my smoothies for extra protein and it works great – you can’t even taste it but it gives it some more staying power.

We don’t have cable, but in today’s internet world – who needs it anyways? Last night I streamed the Oscars on Eric’s laptop (thank you watch-oscar-online.com!) and tweeted/blogged/facebooked/video chatted on mine.

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How was your weekend? If you could share ONE image from your weekend what would it be?

Despite the fact that I live in a shoebox there are a few things about my teeny, tiny basement suite that I kind of love.

It’s not the family upstairs that are SO LOUD – especially on Sunday afternoons when I am attempting to nap – that I could kill them

No, it’s my patio, and the gorgeous roses that surround it. I snapped some pictures last week and thought I’d share.

Of course, all these beautiful roses means you have to watch out for thorns when you’re coming to visit me.

Unfortunately all the petals are slowly starting to fall off. It makes me sad. I was hoping they would last all summer. They are so beautiful to look at!

Well, I’m literally walking out the door right now to go meet a friend for a trail run and then I need to get my butt cracking and get some freelance articles written. Have a fabulous Wednesday!

What’s your favourite thing about your apartment or house?