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What is Tabata Training?

I’ve received quite a few questions about Tabata training, so I created this post to answer them all in one place. It’s one of my favorite formats to teach because Tabata is such a quick and effective form of exercise. Scroll down to find out: What is Tabata? Get all your questions answered! A Grilled…

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Mental health day

I think itโ€™s pretty apparent from reading the blog that the Pilot works a lot, and works extremely hard. Even when heโ€™s home on the weekends, heโ€™s been working on house stuff (lots of master bedroom, office and nursery furniture assembly lately) since we moved in. He had a couple of extra days off work…

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10 days before my due date

my pregnancy gave to meโ€ฆ 10 pairs of lululemon pants that are suddenly all too snug 9 days of wondering 8 days of walking 7 fierce contractions 6 warm baths to take 5 unexplained cravings (anchovies!) 4 hospital outfits 3 cups of daily tea 2 acupuncture appointments and 1 precious sunny-side up babbbyyyyyyyy.

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Inspiration time

To cap off an incredible weekend of festivities, –Christmas Eve dinner at my dadooโ€™s house –Christmas brunch at our house we all took naps and relaxed yesterday afternoon โ€“I watched Christmas Story twice. Once with my eyes open, and once with them closed- and then went over to my momโ€™s house for Christmas dinner and…

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“May your days be merry and bright”

No matter where you are, or what youโ€™re up to today I hope itโ€™s a day filled with health, happiness and the gift of spending it with those you love <3   Merry Christmas! Love, Gina, The Pilot, Baby and Bella

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Holly Jolly

Quite a beautiful and festive evening over here <3 After Zumba, I came home to make the cinnamon roll dough (which I just discovered was exploding out of the mixing bowl- a few TurboFire punches took care of that) and we got ready to head to my dadooโ€™s house for Christmas Eve dinner. Prom picture:…

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Moving and shaking

Happy Saturday, and a very Merry Christmas Eve to those of you who are celebrating <3 (My very favorite Christmas ornament from the โ€œmeeting placeโ€ ) Lots of moving and shaking over hereโ€ฆ after breakfast, we finally finished putting together the master bedroom (So much better than it was, and Bella gave it the seal…

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If you wait until the last minute….

it only takes a minute. We did SO much today! We were all over Tucson, running from doc appointments, elf errands, BX, grocery store, PetSmartโ€ฆ and I only took a few pics throughout the day :/ My lunch from Reneeโ€™s Organic Oven:   Tonightโ€™s dinner: (rotisserie chicken, Alexia fries and salad with beets, arugula, goat…

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Like an egg

Today we had our last โ€“wishful thinking, haha- midwife appointment. It went really well as usual, and the midwife talked with us about some concerns. We were asking about skipping the eye gel, which she okโ€™ed as she skipped it with both of her children, and her thoughts on the vitamin K shot, which weโ€™ll…

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Sugar buzz

Iโ€™m still sugar-buzzed from last night.   (GF ones in the middle, regular on the sides) Of course, the ones we messed up were dubbed โ€œeatersโ€ ๐Ÿ˜‰ Everyone came over here to decorate the sugar cookies that mom, nana and I made the other night. Before our friends came over, I rolled out the dough…

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She’s a little belly dancer

By far, one of the most amazing things about blogging through this time in our life has been the support, knowledge and tips weโ€™ve received along the way. Iโ€™m so fortunate to have many blog world resources whom I can learn from and soak in as much information as possible. I was really excited to…

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