it’s a zoo

Hi friends <3 Hows the day going so far? Thank you for your awesome comments on the banana pudding post! Let me know if you try it ๐Ÿ™‚ I may need to make another batch since ours lasted less than 24 hoursโ€ฆ. Also, thank you again for your wonderful comments on the Pilot’s fini flight.…

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Spa day at Canyon Ranch

Hi guys! I’m so happy you enjoyed today’s workout ๐Ÿ™‚ I’m always excited to hear that you had an awesome sweat sesh. Today, I was off on a relaxing and lovely spa day with Meg at Canyon Ranch. The Pilot surprised me with a spa day as a gift for finishing the first draft of…

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3/23: Some weekend pics

(Late-night blogging tonight. I was sucked into the b-ball game!!) Some pics from the weekend + short captions: Brunch with cousins: Lifting weights: (it was very serious haha) Street fair! kettle corn = the best part Triple date night: Going to miss these girls so much ๐Ÿ™ We had an amazing dinner at Poca Cosa:…

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3/9: Some weekend pics

Clear blue skies <3 Filling ingredients for perfect roast chicken: Starbucks snacks: (I usually get a grande Americano with lots of snacks to go with it) Fueling the bath habit: The Pilot’s famous ‘cakes: (he makes pancakes for Livi every Saturday morning) 90% of my photos look like this: Blurry. Why is she growing so…

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3/2: Some weekend pics

Run gear: Drenched, and so happy it was over: Post-run feast: (fave restaurant EVER) New fave dessert, too: (rocky road, brownie with raspberries and chocolate peanut butter) One more pic of the gorgeous double rainbow: Girls’ night: dinner and painting + wine at Creative Juice (More “closet art” haha) Madre had these waiting at the…

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Friday Faves

Lovebug feeding the ducks. New study shows yoga has healing powers.  This letter from a working mom to a SAHM.  10 good reasons to save the A-10. Pretty coffee. (Word on the street is that you can get pretty coffee pretty much anywhere in SD. Any awesome spots?!) 37 life lessons in 37 years. Mister…

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coffee and cats

Hi guys! How was your day? Sorry I’m still backwards over here. I anticipate that the rest of the week will be more sporadic blogging, resuming my normal(ish) schedule on Monday. Thanks for hanging in there with me ๐Ÿ™‚ It’s been crazy with night weeks, finishing draft one of the book (wahoo!) and gearing up…

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2/23: Some weekend pics

+ short captions Appetizers at The Abbey and Ra, too Savaya coffee (which I surprisingly didn’t love. It was sour?) New Stitch Fix! (will post the goods on the Fashion page this week) Dessert testing day ๐Ÿ™‚ How did my hair grow?! (It didn’t. Got some extensions and love them) Yoga words of wisdom: See…

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My favorite workout bras

(sorry to the dudes out there) The birds are baaaaack. Every spring, we have turtle doves nesting a condo that the Pilot built. The condo was initially built out of empathetic frustration for the poor birds -they’d try to add nest supplies to the top of the pillar and they’d fall off, landing in a…

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Friday Faves

  -The best Amazon satire reviews.  -THIS ICED COFFEE. I’ve been making my own lately, but was tempted at Whole Foods to give the store-bought stuff a whirl. It is amaze, even warmed up for a couple of minutes. -A shout out in Good Housekeeping! I was so excited to be included. Thank you again…

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