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Reader’s request: getting started or back in the game

Morning, friends! Hope you had a wonderful weekend <3 Hereโ€™s what went down over here if youโ€™re catching up on blogs this morning: –Dia de los Muertos parade –Baby shower (so beautiful!) –Shopping + Blanco Itโ€™s dark, cloudy, cold and rainy todayโ€ฆ.. Perfect hot cocoa and moccasin weather. [Still obsessed with the dark chocolate almond…

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Dia de los Muertos

What a great night   to paint our faces like skeletons and walk around downtown Tucson. Check out how creeptastic the Pilot looked! *shudders* His first time wearing guyliner ๐Ÿ˜‰ Hayley and I were painted up, too: Tonight was the Dia de los Muertos (Day of the Dead) celebration and parade downtown, so we definitely…

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Showered with love

We changed our MySpace status to โ€œin a relationship,โ€ exactly 6 years ago, and today we celebrated our baby shower together.   It was a beautiful day surrounded by family and friends. Tom, the little lady and I are so very blessed <3

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Midnight cookies

Hi friends! Happy Sunday <3 Hope youโ€™re having a wonderful and relaxing day. Last night, after Kellyโ€™s baby shower (which was beautiful and a lot of fun)   we shopped grilled at the casa [sweet potatoes, steaks asparagus and chicken] baked midnight cookies and ended up chilling here since the shenanigans I had planned are…

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11/5: Notes from the week

[She loves to lay on the belly and feel baby kick] 1. The little lady is a moving machine. Sheโ€™s been punching and kicking me all day, and when I walk around with my hand on my belly, feeling her move, people will ask โ€œare you ok?โ€ Are you kidding? I love it. 2. I…

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A peach in the desert

Look whoโ€™s here ๐Ÿ™‚ My good friend Hayley from Hotlanta, in town for baby shower weekend! I was so excited that she said sheโ€™d be able to make it and spend the weekend with us. In Valdosta, she and her husband were our neighbors, and Hayley and I spent many days out by the pool,…

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So tight

Tights and I have a weird relationship. Whenever I wear them, I have flashbacks to middle school dances where my mom would say โ€œmake sure you wear hosiery with that dress!โ€ I hated nylons. So I would listen to her, take them off when I got to the dance, and put them back on before…

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Schweaty November Workout

Hey friends! Itโ€™s THE WEEKEND ๐Ÿ™‚ What are you up to? My friend Hayley gets in from Atlanta later this morning and besides baby shower adventures, we have a few shenanigans planned. It should be a lot of fun. For dinner last night, I had my heart set on a new type of pizza- I…

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Now or never

It was a lovely Thursday over here. Lots of Bella-snuggling, errand-running and getting things ready for the busy weekend ahead. After I tested out the Schweaty November Workout โ€“should be up tomorrow am!- I snacked on many Popchips (I used to not like the texture of them, but they’ve grown on me. kettle chips are…

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New Kinda Class

Last night, Tom and I got the chance to attend a different type of class at a local hospital: all about breastfeeding. Tom was really stoked to learn about boobies ๐Ÿ˜‰ [That picture melts my heart a little bit] I really need to give him props because his work schedule has been INSANE since we…

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Still not quite there

Instead of my usual Thursday of teaching and Zumba, I spent the morning testing out the Schweaty November Workout, so it will be ready to go tomorrow! It was certainly schweaty, and please let me know if you have any current workout song faves to add to the playlist. I took today and Saturday off…

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Stuffed bell peppers

I got to see the sunrise this morning.   While Iโ€™m not a morning person in the least โ€“I usually wake up around 6:45 or 7, but donโ€™t turn into a human until at least 8- it was surprising to discover that I actually liked waking up so early today. Iโ€™m not going to make…

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