Category — everyday fun

Tropical green smoothie success today. Some days I don’t get the ingredient ratios right, today I did!

Update: here is what is in it!
About a cup of orange juice
2 heaping spoonfuls of vanilla greek yogurt
About a half scoop of vanilla protein powder (I get mine from Trader Joe’s)
About half of a banana, sliced and frozen
A handful of frozen pineapple
Four or five frozen mango chunks
A handful of spinach
A splash of water

I found that a whole scoop of protein powder makes it too grainy, and that the extra splash of water makes it a bit smoother, allowing for usage of the straw!

Hello! I hope you all had a nice weekend! We are starting to feel winter here with cold weather and a little rain on Saturday. Once it cleared up I took Declan to an antique store and then for a quick trip inside the San Juan Capistrano Mission. On Sunday Bryan took Declan out for a few hours, giving me some much needed alone time with my sewing machine! I finished a lot of cards and once I photograph them I will be restocking my etsy shop! To top it off the Giants won, which makes Bryan happy. All in all it was a good weekend!

I’m participating in a photo a day challenge! Here are my images from the first eight days.

Me

Breakfast

Something I adore

Letter box

Something I wore

Made me smile

Favorite

My sky

Happy New Year!

Declan and I spent the last day of 2011 down at San Elijo State Beach where my parents were camping for the weekend. Bryan had had the last two weeks off with the baby and I wanted to give him some time to himself. Declan napped on the way there (it is about an hour drive), we enjoyed some sushi for lunch and crawling in the dirt, and then he slept on the way home too. Yay! Bryan made us a delicious chicken dinner, topped off with a little champagne and then I called it a night! I tried to watch the ball drop to celebrate the New York new year but couldn’t find a live showing of it on our channels. Maybe next year we will do something a little more crazy, but this year all I wanted was some rest. We spent the rest of the weekend being lazy. I came down with a bad migraine Sunday night and it lasted well into Monday, but Declan was a trooper and even napped with me on the couch. We spent some time at the park and made our first cardboard house, much to Declan’s excitement. Tomorrow it is back to work with a new schedule of 7am – 4pm for me so that I can pick up Declan from daycare while Bryan coaches lacrosse. It should be an interesting few months, with our normal routine completely thrown off by practice and games. Here is to hoping that we all get used to it quickly!

I am not one for resolutions. I always make them but never follow them, life just always seems to get in the way. It just so happens that this change falls at the end of the year, but it isn’t a resolution, just a change. I need to switch out my morning latte for something healthier. I need your help to get excited about this change. Please send me your recipes for delicious, healthy, easy morning shakes! Something to start my morning off right while providing a good amount of calories that don’t come in the form of vanilla syrup…

Merry Christmas from our family to yours!

2010

2009

It’s beginning to look a lot like Christmas around here…

I am prepping my table set up for my first ever holiday bazarre! My mom and I will have a table at Fitness Elite for Women in San Clemente tomorrow night from 7 pm-9 pm. If you are local you should stop by! I don’t know many details about the event but there will be food and drinks, a raffle with proceeds going towards a local woman in need and lots of local vendors (like me!) selling their goods. Come on by!

A few images from our walk on the High Line in New York. Pictures by me or by my sister… yay for finally having pictures of myself on a trip!

taking the elevator up

modern birdhouses

I loved pushing an empty stroller (notice Bryan with the Ergo)

track remnants

Gave blood for the first time today. Currently enjoying some cheez-its and looking forward to lunch! It wasn’t so bad.