Italian Kale salad

You need this Italian kale salad in your life. Before you groan and think “another kale salad?” I promise this one is different. It’s everything, really. It’s also a total copycat recipe from the new pizza place in Tucson: Falora. One night this weekend, Livi and I picked up a couple of pizzas and salad…

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Tucson Adventures + early Thanksgiving

Hi from Tucson! It’s our last day here before heading back to SD, and it’s been an amazing long weekend with the fam. It was Kyle’s last weekend in Tucson before moving out to Massachusetts for his new job -I will definitely post the details of the new restaurant when I can!- and it was…

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Fitness Halloween Costumes

 Hi guys! How’s the morning going? Hope you’re enjoying the day so far <3 Halloween week is always pretty exciting, huh? I love having all of our decor up:  and Liv can’t wait to wear her costume. Every year, I’m asked what I’m going to be for Halloween, but usually don’t dress up. In my…

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Ocean Spray #evenbetter Beach Bash!

Last week’s Ocean Spray event at Hermosa Beach was such a blast. I was so thankful to have been invited to participate in the day’s events, which included a chat from a NYT-bestselling Registered Dietitian (Frances Largeman-Roth), Maria Menonous (one of my personal fitspirations), the new PACt™ cranberry extract water, and the glorious giant inflatable cranberry.…

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Fair Trade Month (+ an awesome giveaway!)

When Fair Trade USA, a nonprofit, reached out to me about spreading awareness for Fair Trade Month, I knew it was something I wanted to be a part of. They sent an incredible gift package and offered to send the same gift package to a lucky reader. I’m excited to spread the word about this important organization.…

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Favorite compound exercises

Hi 🙂 Happy Wednesday! Hope you’re enjoying the day so far. I had every intention of blogging last night, but then got sucked into Gravity. If you’ve seen it, you know what happened: I couldn’t look away! Such a great movie, and very intense! It seemed like it was only 40 minutes long because it was…

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fear the froyo suit

Hi! Happy Tuesday! I’m stoked you guys enjoyed the first IDEA post. My second one will be up later today; so many pictures and adventures to share! Since the Pilot worked late last night, Livi and I had a date together. We had dinner, went to Home Goods  (check out ALL THAT HALLOWEEN) and Menchie’s.…

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Shake it like a…

Hi! Happy Monday!  YOU GUYS. I finally did it. I went ahead and ordered Shakeology… and P90X3 to go along with it. After trying Shakeology a couple of weeks ago, I couldn’t stop thinking about the Vegan Chocolate. While I prefer to get my nutrients from whole foods for the most part, I’m pretty passionate…

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Friday Faves

Hi! Happy Friday! Hope you’re having a wonderful morning. What are you up to this weekend? I’m enjoying an off day from the gym today -legs are sore from teaching back-to-back barre and hot barre last night- and excited for a weekend date night with that certain handsome Pilot 🙂 Some faves from the week…

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DIY brown sugar body scrub

Friends, we have a bit of a Sephora problem. While I’m pretty sure it’s the basis behind all things Sephora, I go in for new mascara and well, you know how it goes. (photo source) I shared some of my latest beauty faves here, but (collective sigh of relief) failed to mention the hundreds of…

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Week in workouts + Hi from AZ

Hi! Happy Sunday 🙂 Hope you’re all enjoying a beautiful and relaxing weekend. I can’t believe we’re heading into Week 3 of Summer Shape Up already! Don’t forget to enter this week’s giveaway. New workout + the Week 3 giveaway details will all be up in the am. Right now I’m phone blogging (with my…

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Weekend adventures + when to take it easy

Hi guys! How’s your weekend going so far? Ours has been a lot of fun. We hung out with my aunt, uncle and cousins who were in town, (cousins playing in the waves!) caught up with a friend and her hubby (thanks again for the Tiki Port date, Erica!) and enjoyed an awesome Mexican dinner…

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