5-minute booty burner

 Hi friends! Howโ€™s the day going?? DONโ€™T FORGET to enter the Owlet giveaway on the Family page and check in with your workout here. This week is flying by and Iโ€™m not complaining. Iโ€™ve been having the usual fun and adventures with the girls, writing like crazy, enjoying dinners here at home, and taught two…

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1 hour, $60, 5 days of daytime eats

Thatโ€™s breakfast, lunch and a snack each day! PLUS, everything is gluten-free. So last time I did a similar post to this one, I counted a lot of pantry essentials. I later realized that a few items may not commonly be on hand , and for that reason the title was skewed. Fail to meeeeee.…

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12 Days of Fitness Workout

On the first day of Christmas, my trainer gave to meeeeee… a set of 10 sumo burpees. ๐Ÿ˜‰ Hi friends! Howโ€™s the morning treating you? Itโ€™s been chilly and blustery over here. Definitely feels like winter. ๐Ÿ™‚ It was a pretty low-key evening last night, with a super simple dinner: chicken, sweet potatoes, sautรฉed carrots…

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Pumpkin Banana Oat Blender Pancakes

Who’s stoked for Thanksgiving?! *raises pie fork in the air* I have a Thanksgiving-friendly pumpkin breakfast recipe for you today. The morning of a holiday, I like to have a protein-heavy breakfast. I feel more satisfied, and also prefer enjoying a healthy meal before the avalanche of sweets and heavy foods occurs.  Healthy Pumpkin Pancakes These pumpkin…

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back in the sun

Hi friends! How was the weekend? Hope you had a great one. ๐Ÿ™‚ Part 2 of Pโ€™s birth story is up on the Family page here. Iโ€™m so sorry about the blog down time last week, and thankfully, it was switched to a new host and server this weekend. The blog just got so excited…

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back in the sun

Hi friends! How was the weekend? Hope you had a great one. ๐Ÿ™‚ Part 2 of Pโ€™s birth story is up on the Family page here. Iโ€™m so sorry about the blog down time last week, and thankfully, it was switched to a new host and server this weekend. The blog just got so excited…

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What to do about knee pain?

Hi friends! Thank you so much for all of the kind comments and love surrounding baby Pโ€™s arrival, and for sharing in our joy during such a special time. Weโ€™re still getting settled, and I have some very special posts going up this week. Iโ€™m excited about todayโ€™s post because it was written by my…

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Breakfast Salad

This can be a thing, right? ๐Ÿ™‚ For breakfast, I recreated one of these little gems I had in PB at Crown Point Coffee after teaching 3 barre classes in a row (<โ€” not recently haha.): breakfast salad! Iโ€™ve been thinking about it ever since I had it, and thought it would be a fun way…

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the nanas are here + Friday Faves

Hi friends! Happy Friday! Hope you are having a lovely morning. What are you up to this weekend? Everyone at our house is happy because the nanas made a surprise visit yesterday. Iโ€™ve been in a little bit of a funk lately, so when they said they were driving up from Tucson, I started crying…

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One-pan chicken with tomatoes, basil and feta

Dinner yesterday was one of those impromptu gems that turned out quite well: one-pan chicken with tomatoes, fresh basil and feta. I’ve got the recipe for you below, but first a little about our day because it felt more like a summery weekend day than a fall weekday. The Pilot was home since he has a lot of…

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Banana Flour Chocolate Chip Cookies

Hellooooo. How was the long weekend? Anyone else moving in slow motion this morning? ๐Ÿ˜‰ How about a banana flour chocolate chip cookie to perk you up? Behold, the latest and greatest on the gluten-free, dairy-free, Paleo-friendly front: Banana Flour. (<โ€” got it for $13 on Amazon) When I first heard about it, I was…

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