Spring has sprung!

It is sooooo Spring now, and I'm sooooo excited. The temperature has been feeling really great, and we've been getting tons of rain (SO much better than snow!). Our stupid backyard is still not in good enough shape for us to use it and let Guinness run around, but we get weekly email from our landlord telling us not to worry, and that he's "on it". Yeah... We're annoyed. We have so many trees (and these are enormous trees) with limbs falling down - it's ridiculous.

Anyways, back to good stuff. Yesterday evening we had a nice break in the rain, so we decided it would be a great time to use our new grill for the first time! We made some delicious grilled burgers with a recipe I found on Pinterest. It has BBQ sauce and shredded cheese in it - SO good!  They turned out really great. We also grilled up some zucchini to have as a side dish. It was quite an amazing dinner, and I'm so excited for the many grilled meals in our future! Here's what the burgers look like before they're grilled, but I forgot to take a picture so I'm borrowing this picture from the website that had the recipe!

Tonight we're going to a historical movie theater not too far from our house to see The Grand Budapest Hotel. The movie theater looks really cool, and it's 100 years old! And Wes Anderson's movies always crack me up, so I'm excited to see The Grand Budapest Hotel! It should be a fun evening. Here's the movie theater:

And tomorrow night, McGee is taking me to a nice dinner for my birthday! We're going to one of Jose Garces' restaurants (he's an Iron Chef, in case you haven't heard of him). I'm so excited! McGee also already gave me a birthday present: some new running shoes! They were waiting for me this morning, so I already wore them on my walk with Guinness today, and I'm going to wear them for my run later today! Speaking of running, I've been doing pretty good at sticking with it! I run 3 times per week. I suppose "run" is a very loose term considering how slow I am, but it still feels good, and I'm noticing small improvements every week in what I'm capable of doing. One thing though: I desperately need some suggestions for running music for my Ipod! If any of you have any suggestions for songs I should download, please let me know. 

I hope everyone is having a great week so far! We've almost made it to the weekend!!