9/7: Friday Faves + Your Pics
-Rose, in the form of my all-time favorite tea
(Tulsi sweet rose- try it, you’ll love it)
and this little bracelet from H&M- $6!
-Girls’ night. I took two of the lovely ladies in my life (madre and nana!) and also met up with some girls from work to see our friend Susan perform in “Motherhood Out Loud.” I talk a little bit about it in this post, but it was even more touching, hilarious and beautiful than I expected.
It was the kind of show where you’re covering your mouth with laughter one second and giving yourself the “do not ugly cry” pep talk the next. For my ugly cry, I look (and kind of sound) like a dinosaur. I’m afraid of dinosaurs. Anyway, if you’re in Tucson and are looking for a fun girls’ night event, check it out at the Invisible Theatre.
-Baby sunglasses. No words needed.
-Chocolate. About to finish my second bar of the week…
and while yoga is always a great choice to bring me back to center when things get a little crazy, chocolate tastes better sometimes.
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-Your awesome pics. I love seeing what you’re up to, and thank you so much to those of you who have been trying the new workouts I’ve been posting and for your lovely feedback. Here are some of the wonderful photos I received this week: (keep ’em coming! @fitnessista)
@dxbcookie and
@jennmesser beastly salads!
@melissaswanson5 after doing #tabatathursday and the 5-minute ab burner
@hayleytentas
and @legally_healthy after celebrating #tabatathursday!
@sociallysarah after the September HIIT IT workout
Last, but certainly not least, thank you so much for your patience and general awesomeness (as usual) while we got the blog facelift up and running. Cody squashed the small kinks and problems that popped up, and I’m so happy to hear that you like the new layout. As always, if you ever want to see any changes or something different over here, I take everything you say to heart.
Now let’s all do the Friday dance!
See ya later <3
xoxo
Gina
Something to talk about: All-time favorite chocolate bar! If you don’t like chocolate, we can still be friends 😉 What are you looking forward to this weekend?
NEW on the Fashion page: What’s in the bag?
Family page: Our review of the BOB Revolution SE jogging stroller
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Omg I love that song! It makes me want to dance! Happy Friday!
haha, that yoga picture made me giggle. SO true! There are just some times that nothing but chocolate will do the trick.
I’ve been in love with Vosge’s Goji Berry and Pink Himalayan Sea Salt bar. It’s milk chocolate, but a deep milk chocolate so it’s really rich. One square with a mid afternoon green tea or yerba mate latte and I’m good to go!
love that bar! vosges is the BEST
I love baby sunglasses…so cute :).
Love the new blog layout! It looks so organized and fresh……and girly 🙂
thank you!
Looking forward to some hardcore house hunting! I will be rereading those posts! 😉
ohhh enjoy!
Green & Blacks & sea salt are my fav 🙂 Checking out a veggie food festival.
Liv is so cute in her sunglasses!
I love TJ’s dark chocolate caramel and black sea salt bar, and I always have a bag of dark chocolate Dove Promises on hand…..
my new favorite thing to do though is buy an expensive little box of super fancy chocolates (from a fancy little chocolate shop, not from Walgreens hahaha) and eat one every night after dinner. I was scared I might gorge myself but the price has kept me to 1 little guy per night! It feels so decadent to eat fancy candy out of a cute box 🙂
Bahaha, I laughed out loud at work when you said your ugly cry made you look and sound like a dinosaur. Liv is too cute in those shades
Happy Friday! Sometimes chocolate bars are just necessary to get through the week! My all time favorite bar is green and blacks milk chocolate!
Love the new layout, can someone help me with one thing? I can’t figure out how to get to the previous post when you are reading the current one? I always want to make sure I don’t miss anything 😉
I was also going to ask this! Is there a link on each post to get to the next and previous posts?
there should be a “previous” and “next” button at the end- is it showing up?
Nope, no links anywhere on the page.
I love the workouts but would love to see the monthly calendar come back. It just provides a little motivation for this planner gal! Thanks!
Favorite chocolate: DARK!!! 🙂
My favorite is not really a bar…I love Brooksides Dark Chocolate covered Pomegranate…or the Acai Raspberry. I keep them in the freezer. I am totally addicted.
Kind of silly, but I don’t know what brand my favorite chocolate bar is. I get it at Natural Grocers and it has toffee in it, that’s all I know. =0
My favorite chocolate bar is the Alter Eco Dark Chocolate Quinoa — for realzies. http://shop.alterecofoods.com/Dark-Quinoa-Chocolate–Organic/p/ALT-000042&c=AlterEco@Chocolate It’s crazy, stupid, ridiculously good.
LOL! LOVE the ugly cry description – it literally had me rolling over with laughter 🙂 So good! I’m also a big fan of the endangered species chocolate, though I typically go a bit darker. What can I say, I’m a sucker for the cute animal pics on the packaging + it’s the perfect excuse to have chocolate everyday – I mean, it’s for the animals right? 😉
Oh my goodnes… for something totally unrelated I have had to recently give myself the “don’t ugly cry right now” pep talk! I love your analogy of looking (and sounding) like a dinosaur during an ugly cry session. I am embarassed to say, that is how it is for me too:) And dinosaurs ARE scary
Happy FRIDAY! Enjoy the weekend with your loves 🙂
The Grenada Chocolate Company Organic Dark Chocolate – 82%, and 71% respectively.
Hands down the best chocolate in the universe. Found these gems while studying abroad in Grenada.
OMG. I will never be the same.
http://www.grenadachocolate.com/
~Tina
Fave choc bar: Lindt Dark Chocolate and Sea Salt – I’ve been known to buy them all when I see them (they’re rare around here) and stock pile them!
What I’m looking forward to this weekend: Girl’s night out and CrossFit!
I am open to all chocolate 🙂 but one of my favorites is Divine Dark Chocolate with Mint. It comes in a black and green wrapper, and it is so so good, especially cold!
Trader Joes dark chocolate covered almonds with sea salt. TRY to eat just one. Impossible! The dinosaur comment made me lol. I get so mad when people don’t have an ugly cry face, cause mine is awful!!
omg i’ve had them. i had to take the bucket away from myself.
The bracelet is so pretty and chocolate bars – I wish I had one of those right about now!
My favorite chocolate bar is Lindt Dark Chocolate 80% cocoa. It’s so rich that it makes it easier for me to not want to eat the entire bar in a sitting. That’s definitely a bonus. Ohh and I love chocolate from England! I was just in London and I don’t know what they do to their chocolate but it is delicious!
I love your comment regarding yoga and chocolate 🙂 it definitely tastes better! your bracelet is way cute too!!!
My faves:
The new blog layout!!! It makes your blog so much easier to use as a reference! It’s fun to read what you’re doing from day-to-day, but this makes it great to refer back 🙂
Liv in sunglasses – adorable!
That little saying about living in the moment or eating cookies 🙂
Weekend! Have a great one!
Dark chocolate with blueberries, I want me some of that!
Haha! Love the cookie meme 🙂 So cute. And umm… I need to get me some dark chocolate with blueberries. That’s cray.
I love chocolate in ALL forms! Especially dark chocolate! I like to have the organic dark chocolates from Whole Foods because they are small enough so I can “usually” control myself. Otherwise, nothing beats a classic hershey’s bar for me 🙂
Honestly, my favorite chocolate bar is the one that’s right in front of me! I don’t discriminate if I need a fix 🙂 Otherwise we have a local company that makes a m a z i n g chocolate meltaway bars that literally melt in your mouth.
same. i love all chocolate 🙂
Such a cute bracelet from H&M! I’m hoping to get a little shopping done this weekend, need some cute fall clothes! That dark chocolate looks heavenly…having such a craving for it today! I need to go buy some 🙂
hi! i was reading one of your old posts the other day about your post-workout hair routine and was wondering what kind of dry shampoo you use? i’ve bought a few from sally’s but don’t have great luck with them (they’re sticky, leave residue, or just make my hair flat).
i love the ojon brand 🙂
I love Salazon dark chocolate with sea salt, I order it online, it’s hard to get in the stores by me.
Just did your jump rope workout this AM. (3xs thru) Awesome calorie burn. Thank you!
I made your baked zucchini sticks twice this week (and told enough people about them that I now know the word zucchini has double Cs, not double Ns) because they are SO DELICIOUS! I served them with marinara both times and even my brother who hates basically anything but McDonalds said they were good. So thanks for that!
One question though… is there any special trick to helping the rice crumbs stick? Or keeping the rice crumbs from forming big sticky blobs while you’re making them? I ended up making about 3x as much of the mixture as I needed because the egg kept making it stick together in my little breading pan. It helped a little to sprinkle the crumbs on instead of just dipping the egg coated zucchini in it but that was slightly more labor intensive. Hopefully that makes sense…
I love the new blog design! Its so easy to find the workouts and playlists and everything really.
Tried the Amazeballs and they are AMAZEBALLS!
Thanks for the awesome workouts and daily entertainment!
xoxo
yayay i’m glad you liked them 🙂
Chocolove 52% dark with cherries and chili!!!
I’m looking forward to some sun and relaxation… I live in Vancouver, BC and it rains here A LOT! this weekend looks amazing so i’m hoping to take advantage of it before its gone for the winter 🙁
Something else to add to the list…. have you seen the new lara bar flavors yet (I’ve only seen them at Whole Foods)? Pineapple upside-down cake and orange float! Both are amazing, but I think the pineapple one might be my new favorite!
Those sunglasses are so cute on her! Love it. And I need a coconut chocolate bar right about now 🙂
I bought Endangered Species with espresso beans. OHHHH GOSH!
Baby sunglasses are too cute!
let’s be honest…it doesn’t get any better than Hershey’s! gotta keep it simple!
Not like chocolate? Heh.
Choco Love!
Not sure that I have a favorite chocolate bar…but, I definitely LOVE dark chocolate best. I also think I have spread my love of dark chocolate to my 3 year old son… 🙂
My favorite chocolate is Cabury milk chocolate from England. They make it a bit different over there and it is sooooo good!
When my family visited last spring, all they brought me back was literally the largest chocolate bar you have ever seen, it’s literally three feet! What a great fam 🙂
Liv is adorable in her new shades. My all time favorite chocolate bar is the salted almond taza chocolate.
Oh, just clicked to your website from google reader for the first time since the redesign– its looks soo good! My fair chocolate is Theo’s 85%. I love super dark, but sometimes it’s chalky. This one is sooo creamy…and it’s organic and fair trade!
thank you, i’m so happy you like it!