 good morning welcome back to another vlog i want to start off by saying thank you so much to everyone who commented on the last vlog and just left the kindest comments i got dms from people i knew messages like so much love and support and it truly means the freaking world to me so thank you i'm feeling a lot better i'm feeling like pretty much back to myself thanks to this one and to just like you know taking some time feeling what i'm feeling instead of trying to like rush through it or whatever and just letting myself be sad letting myself feel all the emotions you know and we took some time and like went out to eat with friends like went on cute little rooftop double dates and last night we had like a little love island viewing party with our friends it was like the recoupling for kasa more which i mean drew and i are watching it on the vpn on the laptop now so we're like currently caught up so we just rewatched it but played some board games and my friend made like an entire presentation to bring a couple of the guys that like hadn't seen it up to speed and it was just so much fun and so yeah i'm just feeling a lot better my mom's actually coming to town next weekend so today is saturday she'll be here on friday so that'll be really fun but this morning what we're doing now that we're back up to the current day we are going to lows right now and we're going to get some stuff to like redo the backyard so we've kind of like done a little bit of stuff this morning but basically we're getting like some river rocks to put in and we're just gonna like make over the space we've kind of started but hopefully by the end of this we'll have like a finished product if not we'll be well on our way so let's go to the hardware store we go where i am never a more useless version of myself me too okay do you want to let me drop all this stuff off but we got 18 things so a bunch of bags of river rocks some privacy screening i'll show you everything when we get home and it was 147 dollars so that's pretty good for like a renter friendly you know we're not going to get that money back but it's pretty good for like a patio makeover ate it back home and here is a quick haul of what we got we got some river rocks this is definitely not enough these were only five dollars a bag though and we got six bags so that's as comfortable as we feel with that we got some soil because all of these plant pots actually came with the place like they were like buried in this like little area over here and so we decided to just empty them all out because they were all like discussing so we're plant some new things in here and we got some new plants to go in them we got a couple plants couple flowers couple vegetables and then we might also try to find some strawberry seeds we also got a little watering can we got a citronella candle for bugs i got some gloves and we got some ties to tie up the privacy screen so that's what we have so far it's hard to tell and i wish i had gotten some more before shots but to be honest i kind of didn't think of it but it already looks so much better and those bags of rocks were only 30 dollars like that's pretty great so i'm happy with that we're gonna rinse these off because they're just like absolutely covered in dirt but nice start before after that is crazy this is so satisfying much satisfaction doing this yeah it looks a million times better jeez louise it looks so good taking a quick lunch break before we get back out there and start like repotting our plants and stuff but i wanted to freaking tell you guys about this place that we've been discovering so if you're ever like visiting la or if you live in la there's a place called zoom zoom and we just discovered it on postmates one day it's like a Mediterranean place and it is so good this bowl is absolutely massive so or we got like a plate but you can get like wraps pitas all sorts of stuff i get mine with falafel and this time i tried something new i tried mediterranean salad and i got cucumber salad but the mediterranean salad has cucumber so it's just like a lot of cucumbers it also has um like deep fried eggplant their homemade hummus which is like so smooth and creamy the falafel and then underneath it it has israeli couscous and like a turmeric rice and then we get like different sauces to go with it i think this is like a spicy tahini or something this is a tahini drew gets like a garlic paste and he gets um the chicken breast and it's Israeli pickle oh yeah marinated onion yeah looks really good and my new um spicy water obsession that drew and i have been fighting over is called aha and it's the flavor lime and watermelon and drew said it reminds him of like um capri sun kind of like that sort of taste i mean obviously like one tenth of that taste because it's sparkling water but i'm dirty i just realized i have like dirt all over me anyways i just wanted to tell you about this food because it's so delicious so if you ever get the chance definitely try it you know layla's crying because we have a little while later we've eaten lunch and uh we've got a wild hair up our ass decided to come to Ikea where it definitely feels like it with this parking lot i mean pretty much yeah we're heading into Ikea we're gonna look for some things for the patio because we just figured we're on a roll let's like get it done today you know we're so adults we went to Lowe's and now we're at Ikea and i'm gonna get an icy as soon as possible one hour later did we really get anything we came here for no did we get a bunch of things we really don't need yes do i want to run as far away from this place as possible oh we need to get icy yeah we gotta get icies first morning it's actually the next day now um i have since showered and fallen asleep on wet hair so that's what we're dealing with today but we actually just finished like around a four or five mile walk we walked up and got some coffee we walked around we stopped by Whole Foods on the way home brought some groceries home and now we are going to repot all the plants that we were going to do yesterday um we just ended up coming home and like relaxing napping you know typical saturday things the saga continues we didn't end up finding anything at Ikea that we really wanted we got like some brand of stuff like we got like wooden bowls and like vases like flower vases oh we got a lamp for our room i can show that it's like a typical Ikea lamp but to me it gives very like 80s post-modern vibes and i'm really into it so here she is there's the lamp we love her it was actually fantastic to have in here last night and also i was reading my Kindle until like 11 30 and i'm like how many percent i think i'm like 93% done with Verdi by Colleen Hoover scandalous 94% done so definitely going to finish that today i would have finished it last night but i was literally like falling asleep so anyways okay we're gonna go outside and do some more work because we didn't find the furniture that we were looking for or like the umbrella or anything like that but it's a slow progress this isn't going to be like a black patio reveal it's just sort of like a documentation so let's keep going we're chipping away at okay these are absolutely not gonna work they're completely see-through like trash i'm gonna have to i don't know right through the packaging away so don't buy these okay while the sun's coming out we're taking a quick break to give Layla a bath which is always like a dramatic time for her but i just need to show what she actually looks like without like her hair being fluffed up because she looks like a normal sized dog are you ready this is how skinny she is okay she is a little skinny mini so for everyone who thinks she's so fat this is what she actually looks like okay i'm gonna get back to my poor poor wet dog morning everybody it's a couple days later and at like a halt like we need still need to get more stuff we did manage to plant all the flowers and all the plants they look amazing like the veggies and stuff and i'm so excited to like watch them grow and add more things we definitely want to add like a ton more plants back there the privacy fencing we bought didn't end up working out so we might get like a different one and then we got the string lights hung up they look really really cute it's going to be so cozy out there for like night time we only hung up one strand because we used to have two in our backyard at our old house and like the backyard was obviously way bigger so that'll like come later on and then we just planted like all of our little flowers and stuff and they just look so cute we're so excited like it's just like a little wildflower patch moment in our backyard and our little back patio and yet it's definitely like a work in progress but the biggest difference to me anyway is like the rocks that we put back there the river rocks it looks so good i don't even think i showed this but like after we planted all that stuff we gave leila a bath and then we like took her to the park and we laid out a big blanket for all of us so she could like dry off at the park like air dry and we read our books i finished verity it was very intense i'm excited to like you know continue doing patio stuff and i'm just feeling so much better overall this week is going to be really busy but next week i'm really excited because alexa and i are going back to lagoona beach we were supposed to stay there back in may if you remember that vlog and then like a fire happened and we were kind of like unsure whether or not it was going to be safe to stay there so we decided to like postpone the trip even though we went for the day because we had to like film some content anyways now that postpone trip is here and it's going to be like a couple days before her birthday too and then we'll be there on the morning of her actual birthday so it's gonna be really fun so i'm just feeling so i'm feeling like almost a hundred percent better like i'm just feeling so grateful for you all for offering me so many words of love and support like i said before into my friends like you know i went to alexa's house and we went swimming for the day and had so many calls with my best friend and my mom and my dad and drew and like you know so many chats with just amazing people who love and support me and i feel so so lucky like i feel like the luckiest girl in the world actually maybe not the luckiest because moo here even though he is a boy um he's truly living his best life anyways i'm gonna go jump in the shower thank you so much for being here and for watching this vlog and i will see you very soon in the next one bye