A lovely day for a GIVEAWAY!

Heyyyyyyy! I am so overwhelmed with warm fuzzies from your incredible comments regarding the pilot’s return. You all helped this deployment go by so much faster and I hope you know how much I truly appreciate your support! As you can probably imagine, I am ECSTATIC for him to be home!!!! He’s been sleeping a TON (6 months of flying and sleep deprivation caught up to him) but knowing he’s here is absolutely amazing.

I don’t want to bore you with every morsel to cross my face for the last 3 days, but here’s some of the more exciting stuff:

Whole Foods meal before leaving O-town:

The BEAUTIFUL meal Megan made for us when I got home Sunday night:

Raw zucchini pasta with raw pesto sauce, bell peppers, tomatoes and eggplant bacon:

Raw vegan lavender ice cream with blueberries!!!!!! (yes, my best friend spoils me with her amazing cooking)

Something NEW: Sweet potato hash with eggs!

Serves 2

-1/2 yellow onion

-1/2 red bell pepper, 1/2 yellow bell pepper (diced)

-2 cloves garlic, minced

-salt, pepper, paprika, chili powder

-1 medium sweet potato

1. Sweat the onions and garlic out for 3 minutes over medium high heat (with a little splash of EVOO)

2. Reduce the heat to medium and add the bell peppers and sweet potato

3. Season with salt, pepper, 1/2 tsp of paprika and 1/2 tsp of chili powder

4. Cook over medium heat for 7-10 minutes

The pilot’s request for his first dinner back home was red enchiladas:

I used Tyler Florence’s recipe – not to toot my own horn (toot toot?) but I’m thinking they were amazing. Couldn’t taste them because of the chicken, but they smelled GLORIOUS.

We also had homemade guacamole, brown rice chips, Amy’s vegetarian beans and I had a Mexican salad:

Last night I was feeling “bakey”, so I made some vegan spelt cookies from Eat, Drink and Be Vegan:

So gooooooood. I’m way excited to make some more dishes from that cookbook!

This morning I woke up to some delicious Eggplant Bacon that was “cooking” in the dehydrator (from Matthew Kenney’s Everyday Raw):

And also had 1/4 cup oat bran, 1/4 cup multigrain oats, brown rice protein, almond butter, mashed nanner, cinnamon, vanilla, sea salt and a crumbled cookie:

Next, I took the babies to the base trail for their walk:

Here’s a picture of the little angels:

As far as the workout portion of my life, it’s been pretty nonexistent lately. My legs hurt like the dickens. Seriously. Walking down the stairs in our house is a major production and I have to hold onto both sides and hop down. I’ve been doing a little yoga and tons of stretching every day, but I was wondering is it ever going to go away?!?!

I’ve had to cancel almost all of my aerobics classes this week (which I hate doing but my body would hate me even more if I tried), except for spin because I can teach that without actually having to do it. Tonight I’m going to *try* to teach Zumba…. we’ll see how it goes!!!!!!!

And now,

It’s GIVEAWAY TIME!!!

I’ve seen this *prize* on a few blogs out there, but the Quaker Fairy has made me the next chosen one to give away the following:

“All Natural Gift Bag,” which includes a robe and slippers that are made with organic, earth-friendly materials, and a few boxes of all natural Quaker Simple Harvest Chewy Granola Bars Trail Mix (You can see Jenna modeling the goodies here and can read all about the bars here)

You have two ways to win:

1. Leave a comment on this post with your favorite oatmeal addition (mine is protein powder!)
2. Link back to this post on your blog and send me an email (fitnessista at gmail dot com) to let me know

*The giveaway will end Thursday night at midnight and I’ll announce the winner Friday morning

I hope you all have a very happy humpday!

See you tomorrow

xoxo,

G