 Good morning girls! The sun is out today. Good morning. Lately when we wake up there's more sun in the room. The sun is out and it's lovely because we wake up and it's bright in here and our eyes shift towards the window to see if it's a gorgeous day. And luckily today it is, which makes us feel like spring is right around the corner. And it is. It's great to wake up the sun. Since we put walls up in here I haven't missed the day making our bed. It brings me so much joy. I didn't realize that making a bed was art. Is spring really here? It feels like it is. It's said that 10 minutes of the sun on your face is better than a cup of coffee. Nothing really says good morning like espresso. Coffee is an absolute essential in this household. We've been drinking drip coffee and we just came back to espresso because it feels like a new season. After years of escaping winter by heading south in our van we are embracing the changing season. With spring around the corner and many renovations later we've almost made it through the harsh Canadian winter. It's negative one today but because we've just endured negative 40, negative 20 that negative one feels like spring. Staying this winter is really going to make us appreciate the spring. When we got back from Mexico last spring I was like it's cold here. I don't like it. And everyone was like oh my gosh it's so beautiful that spring's here. And I was like this is not spring. So I'm very happy to feel this feeling that they were all feeling last year because you really don't take any single moment of the weather for granted this way. We've been stoking the fire so much less now with the warmer weather coming. I have to say I'm going to miss stoking this fire because it's just such a vibe looking at fire. It's a big one. This isn't going to be the only fire we're starting today. I got you cheese. It's all sticky. You're obsessed. There's nothing like rock hard toast because it takes longer to film your meal than make your meal. It's not true. So good. Rock hard. You know what I'm loving so much about this day already? Still my PJs. Feels good to slow down. The best days are full days in PJs. Can you make it that long? No you can't. I can. Like a summer PJs for 365 days out of the year. Alright move over chair. How wide are you thinking? How tall? Or long? Any ideas? Something comfortable for a wall set. Let's do your best wall set. You've been practicing. Go girl, go. Should I mark that? What is your vision? Pollen and skinny or like short? Short and long. Really? So I can sit on it. You want to sit on it? And I got a vision and Crystal don't want to see my vision. Sorry. I thought it would be cute to make something like that. Like you can put stuff on top. Yeah like my butt. Why? Because then I was going to put that basket on top of what we're building and then it was very good. Huh. Into woodworking with Jasmine and Crystal in the woodworking chair. Just kidding. I have no idea what I'm saying right now but we're building something out of wood so it seemed appropriate. And you know we're just winging it and it's going to look good I think. And it's something Jasmine's been talking about for a really long time. So we're going to see it come to life in this lot. It's not only is it functional it's aesthetically cool. And in this project we are going to be learning a new skill. Which is what we're all about here. So win, win, win, win. Win. Win, win, win, win, win, win, win, win, win, win, win. She was a skater boy. She said she liked that. And all this is a little hint of what's to come. This is a project I have been so excited to start. However, I'm starting it on the week of health. Where we don't focus entirely on building but we take it slow and we enjoy the simple things. And show you all a different side of life out here in the woods. Bye bye work pants. And hello shorts. Man, I missed this outfit. This week is about bringing all of you along with us for every little moment. My weights are a little uneven. We made about spaghetti last night. We're focusing on balance which is something that is very important to both Crystal and I. Next is 10 reps of bench dip. For everyone, the longest is 6 minutes. I however was 17 years old. As much as I can't stop thinking about this, this I feel so good that I just started my day with some movement. My legs are honestly jello. I just had a cool down and I stood up. Oh my goodness. Framing nails are no joke. You can make weights out of anything. Good bye my lover. Over winter. I'm going to be completely honest with you all right now. I am over winter. We're fools. That's what you call. It's not even April. It's what you call a fool. Not a cool fool's joke. Nature. Welcome to the Arctic. There's a smile. Having a great time making the best of my life's giving ya. We're trying to make clearing off these panels part of our routine. Because guess what everyone, this system is about to be set up and I cannot wait. Taking care of business on winter day. It's always a little bit intimidating to get started when you're looking out from the warm cabin but then you get out here and you end up having a great time. And before we know it, all these duties are going to be over in a blink of an eye and summer is going to be here. We're going to be sweating our butts all over. Not make shoveling the deck worth it. Oh yeah. Lucky you. That was awesome. Ready? Come on. Move over summer. Where are you? It's so funny. You're bored. Taking care of business. Soon as you start moving out here. Feel good. Feel good. You have fun. This is my denser way to get through a cold one today. Oh yeah. Look at the door. Bella? Bella, you don't want to come in here. Did you scratch to get in? Hello. When that heats up, it's going to be one special treat. Especially after everything we're doing today. Hello. Thank you. Also, I think I should just comment on the fact that everyone, did I just pull my hat off? There's nothing worse than that. You look funny. I just wanted to say that we are getting a new wheeler all soon. A gorilla car. One we can find them. Because I know this is not ideal. But it's really big and easy to move. It keeps us young. It keeps us young. Let's go. Let's go. Go you little UTV. Not anymore. There's always so much to do. Living in the woods. But the glorious part of it all is you're on your own schedule. You can do it whenever you want. Until you have no kindling left. Then you better get going. I have to say, this year we've really become experts at starting fires. Off-Gridder 101, we've gotten really good at this process. You know? There's no joke out here. We're real woods women. I love it. It's so fun. It's all such a process. It's really nice to understand it all and have it all down. I know some of you might be thinking, oh it's so simple, but a lot of people don't actually know how to do all this stuff. It's true. Alright, I did more than that. We're bringing you along on our workouts today. Where ever the wind blows we won't get over the wind but that's where I'll be. You go girl. You go girl. We have completely different personalized workouts that were created just for us. By our coaches at Co-Pilot. Come on, lift that arm higher. Hold it a little longer. Come on, lady. Leslie has me doing push-ups again this week. We're talking accountability. And support. That's how I stay consistent. I believe in you. Breathe. When I started, I could hardly do one. When we met our coaches, we had an onboarding call where we got to know each other. I let her know about all the sports I used to play and how I want high intensity workouts. However, I told her that my job was very labor intensive and therefore we decided to settle on working out three times a week to make a tangible goal that we can achieve. We talked about past injuries. My ankle's still pretty weak. What exercise equipment we had available. For us, that's spaghetti sauce. Workout number one. Let's hope I don't drop them because they are glass jars. Honestly, I've been getting very crafty with my exercise equipment lately. Co-Pilot is designed to make you consistent. That's the focus. And guess what? For the first time in forever, I am. I used to love going to the gym. I used to love going to yoga classes. I incorporated stretching into my routine and for the first time ever, I'm doing Pilates. I'm super proud of myself. Growing up, I was an athlete. I even played college ball. So I guess when I was in my 20s, I was very athletic and I could pick up my athletic abilities at any given moment. The other day, I ran to the mailbox and it was challenging. I honestly didn't make it all the way there without a break or five. Which made my heart really sad and that's why I'm so happy to be working out again. Coming up, after reflecting, I realized that part of my athletic abilities came from having a coach. And that's why when I'm at Hadi for the first time, I told her I wanted her to be tough on me just like my coaches were back in the day. Co-Pilot's clients are nine times more successful at sticking to their goals and I'm one of them and you can be too. We've left a link in the description for you. Go.mycopilot.com forward slash fan wise for you to give it a shot. You'll have a free trial with your own expert fitness and health coach. Damn, I love the butterfly stretch. Ten seconds left, I totally understand that. I think it's so great that you're listening to your body. That's my coach, Hadi. So if you followed along a couple weeks ago, we laid drywall on this ceiling. Drywall is very heavy. So I told my coach, I can only get one workout in this week, not three because my body honestly needed a break and that's just how flexible co-pilot is. You communicate with your coach what's going on in your life because we all have things going on all the time. That easy. How amazing is that? A real person. This, she's real. Good work. Good work. Team, getting strong. Thank you to co-pilot for sponsoring this video. So cold out. I'm going to get in here. Come in. There's no better way to enjoy winter day than in a pipe and hot sauna. Welcome. It really does feel good to slow down and put our self first instead of the build always first. It's hard to do that because obviously we have tunnel vision and we just want to build, build, build but you need to refill your cup. That's what we're doing. It feels so good. I wish I could share this heat with you and if you're in a sunny place in the world share it with all of us. There's literally a blanket of snow out there everyone and we're warm in here in a barrel. Luxury. It feels so good to take the time to do these things. Feels really good to rest and just sometimes your body's just asking for it and you just got to say, hey body I hear ya. Yeah, I think drywall really put us out of commission for a midday. Still another Saturday. That's a Canadian girl. How does that feel? How does water make you feel? Amazing. Your own banana. Bella wants a bite too. Good girl. You eat banana from that? You bite it. Have some banana. Good bite. Why are you using something else? Okay, back to the video. Good morning everyone. We're starting with lots of water. We're in different outfits for a few reasons. We're going to do a runway. I was thinking you're going to model. You're going to high five because you're doing it. You're a runner baby. Who loves to run with me? You're running shoes this time. I went to the garage to dig them up. These aren't too new. Hey Leslie, going for a run. Santa race. You know that? Is that a race? No. I was getting a nice shot of you. Just do my best out here. We're going to run into those little shoes on a wintery day. When the ground is covered in snow. Well, we're going to show you. It's cold. Jasmine's made me a beautiful runway to get my runners on. And it makes me so happy to be doing these things again. And to be doing care of ourselves. This week just is a complete reflection. Time to slow down, relax, eat well, drink water, exercise and move our body. Because all these things make us so happy. It happens to get into as spring is around the corner. These runs will get better. My younger self, and the runner I used to be, is happy I'm picking it back up. To be honest, if I didn't have my lovely coach Leslie at co-pilot, I probably wouldn't be going out for my run this morning. But I'm being held accountable. And a little bit of encouragement goes a long way. Izzy is also adorably happy to be running with her mom. I have never climbed this amount of snow before in my life. Whoo! Good work, good work. Proudie. Good job, line. You crushed it. You made a damn good path, girl. Good run. I'm so happy. So happy right now. This is going to be a life changing. It's about time and we're so excited. Over a year ago, we had a drilled well drilled here at the cabin. And now we finally got our water tested. It turns out that we have very high iron and even arsenic. Both arsenic and iron are elements that are found in the earth. They are completely natural. However, they can be harmful to humans. Arsenic is a metal that's naturally prevalent in the earth's crust. And it's more concentrated around these areas. Water will naturally dissolve the arsenic that's in the ground. And then it basically comes in through the water supply. Tyler, Tyler, the science guy. Tyler, Tyler. After a year of sourcing our water from a spring an hour away, we are moments from clean and reliable drinking water at the cabin. And we couldn't be more excited. Doing that thing we do, you know. Every day. Time to power the water filters. Start the well pump with the generator. Turn the water on. Attach the makeshift drain pipe. We'll fix that in the summer. With the help of our new friend Tyler, we've installed the necessary filters that have brought one step closer to a sustainable homestead. Thank you. Can we just take into consideration that in a couple cycles we have iron free, arsenic free water and it's purified, clean, ready to wash, drink and everything else that we want to do with the water. Water dance. Just peace of mind. So much peace of mind. It's such a great feeling. I've been wanting this for so long. I'm so grateful to have this. Step by step everyone. Step by step. The time has finally come. My favorite project is starting now. Let's hope I still like it. Because the wife has made a couple modifications to my vision. And you're all probably wondering are you just building a plywood box? It's going to get a lot better. It gets bigger than herself. All like this. I actually like that. I just don't like the width. It's not wide if it was low. It's wide and tall. We didn't make it too small. Much more of a vibe. You might be right. I think Crystal has a point of what it looks like. I thought I was going to abstract a view being taller but it's more of the space. I'm catching the drift now. You ready to go get this stuff in the garage? I'm so excited for this. We have the components to make a paint on cement. Look at this everyone. We got science. Science. Everything's science. Let's see how it goes. This is our test project because we're going to be using this on a larger scale. Nice wing. This is about micro cement from MAV. I was floored. It is so amazing. It's crack proof, waterproof. I'm sure it's going to go a little bit like from the beginning. I think the fun in micro cement is the fact that you learn and you get good at it. I don't think everyone's just an original good at things. Who does that? No one. But that's the fun of this. I have to say I'm very glad that we're getting to know the products that we're going to be using more in depth very soon and getting a hand at what it's going to be like working with this material. Damn. It doesn't smell, eh? Wow, this is amazing. I think you're in the hang of it. It's looking good. I'm so excited to use this more. Can I try? When can I go? Crystal, give me a chance. A scrap piece of plywood and some micro cement. This thing was $800 online. My Pinterest dreams come into life. Look at it. It's so cute. And now all we have to do is sand it, do it again and maybe do it a third time and for being that much perfectionist and then we seal it. And it looks a little like this. Concrete baby. I'm obsessed. It's beautiful. See you Sunday.